Throwback Thursday

I opened up the old pictures folder, and couldn't pick just one.  Both of these are pictures from a family trip to the Tail of the Dragon in June, 2011, where we met up with a bunch of friends (also with families of their own) from a web forum way back when.

First up, we have Maggie and I (and Jack on the inside) by the sign at the bike club. Have you been to the Tail of the Dragon? It's 318 turns in 11 miles on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina. We had met up with the sam peeps a few times before any of us had kids. I remember a trip when Maggie was still on the inside (just a month or so before she was born!).

And here's a great shot of Maggie bumming a ride with our friend Jake, in his Lotus Elise. I still remember her little sweatshirt - it said, "I'm the big sister."







The kids love when we pull out old pictures. They're actually on random as the background screen of our TV. Maybe next week I can come up with some of little Jack.

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I love this picture.

The oldest in the picture is celebrating her birthday. It was at the nursing home where she was then living. She was my Great-Grandma Maynard.

To her right (on the far left in the photo) is her daughter, my grandmother.

Behind Great-Grandma Maynard is my Aunt Janet (my grandmother's daughter; my mom's sister).

To Aunt Janet's left, or the grown woman in the white shirt almost at the center of the picture, is my Aunt Deanna (my mom's other sister).

At the far right in the white shirt is my mom.

The three kids are my cousin (in the white shirt - that's Aunt Deanna's daughter), me (in the green dress) and my little brother.


I wish I could more vividly remember that day and all we did. The half-eaten cake, surely the birthday song.
The three women on the left side of the photo are gone. My Great-Grandma died, then my Aunt, and then my Grandma.
Half the people in this picture are no longer part of my life. That's sad, and makes the photo feel really old, even though my heart doesn't feel that far removed from it.

Throwback Thursday

Well, I had to go back and browse a bit of nostalgia to find it, but here's the first photo I ever posted on this blog:


It's the tattoo on the outside of my right ankle. The post (from August 24, 2003) doesn't say exactly when I got it, but it looks pretty healed there. 

What tattoos do you have? This was actually my third, if I recall correctly. I have two others, which I believe I got before this one.

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Maggie and her 'friends.' 

Maggie used to always want to pose with the mannequins, and have me take their picture together. Umm.. Okay! This is from just after Christmas, 2012.

I want to put up something really old, but my scanner is on the fritz right now. Someday...

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Maggie - July 2009

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Label-maker fun on January 11, 2008.