1965

 Easter 1965

I love that little tent.  Did we have that blow-up bunny for a while,

or am I thinking of a different one? 

I think it was blue...

What a good looking family.  Mom, I love the lace around your collar and your sleeves. 

So pretty!  I would love to wear that now. 

Can you see the tiny peach tree?

Handsome Mark at 3 1/2.  Don't you love that vest?

1st Birthday

Stacey enjoying her birthday frosting.  Yum!

I love the chenille pom poms on the curtains.  What color were they?

I don't have a date for this, but this shot is Stacey taking some of her first steps.  Yay!  

You have that table in your bedroom now, right Mom and Dad?

Grandpa and Grandma with Stacey. 

I swear Grandma looked just like that in her 90s! 

A happy mom with her happy kids.

Thistle Dew

Merry Christmas!

That tree is awesome.

Someday I will have better Photoshop skills and I will get rid of things like those scratches. 

Sorry.

Note the big blue bottle in the background!

Postcard from Brasil

Post Marked

December 20, 1965

Dear Jerry, Carlene, and Family-

     Hi, it sure seems good, good to write to you.  I sure think of you a lot and all the help and friendship you have given both me and my family.  We love you.  This is a picture of our district taken in a small park.  They have these parks about every other block.  That's Adam in the background.  Merry Christmas to you and Happy New Year.  I sure miss you and especially Mark.  See you soon and thanks again for all.

      -Skip

Mom and Dad, I know you've told me who Skip is before, but I can't remember.  Can you give us the details?

1963--More Mark!

Is this the back porch before it was the porch I remember?  Or is this grandma and grandpa's house before they had the porch where the stairs went down both ways?

Mark--17 months old

I love this shot of Mark and Uncle Brent. 

Mark looks so cute and Uncle Brent looks so happy. 

I can just hear him laughing!

Made it!

Is that little stick in the first photo the peach tree?  It is so tiny!

Mark--18 months old

Where is this?  And is Mark eating a popcicle or a sucker?

Taking a trip on the River Queen. 

I'm guessing this is on the Great Salt Lake, yes?

Christmas.

Someone got a bowling ball! 

Mom, I remember your pink ball with matching bag and shoes.

Is this it, or is this Dad's?

Mark on his 2nd birthday.

I love the suspenders and the pom poms on the hat!

You rival my own children in cuteness!

1962

1962 included at least two trips.  One was to Uncle Scott's cabin with Grandma and probably Grandpa too.

The other was a trip to the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle, Washington.  I bet that was cool.  Do they still do World Fairs?  By the way, this is one of my (LeeAnn's) most favorite photos ever!

1962 also included a whole lot of Mark cuteness, of course!  And Mom, you are so pretty!  Is that the "triangle" end table in the first picture here?  I still have that!  I didn't realize it was that old.  Did you get rid of the slatted coffee table and that chair? Yes, I know these pictures are not in chronological order, but adding photos to blogger gives me grief almost every time, so I'm just happy they are on.  And I know my commentary is random.  I've accepted my randomness and hope you can too.  Just focus on the cuteness of Mark and it will make it all worth it. (Mark, I have always thought I would win a short leg/long body contest, but with your hanging diaper in that last photo of the set--you would give me a run for the money.  Not that we run well with our short legs.  But you are a runner now--maybe our legs continue to grow as we get older.  Or maybe only our upper body shrinks as we age. Hmm.)

Christmas looks like it was lots of fun!  That pull train is now at the cabin and check out the awesome block tower.    Mom and Dad, is this our house on Carolyn Street? 

I know you are smart Mark, but spelling at a year old!  Amazing!

When he turned one, Mark even had his picture in the Deseret News.

It looks like 1962 was a pretty good year.  Mom and Dad, I hope you will add memories of each year if there are significant ones you would like to include. 

PS  Back to the short leg/long body thing.  Check out the first photo of mom and dad.  Their eyes & shoulders totally line up, but how many inches does dad have on mom when standing?  Like, 7 or 8?  Imagine having 7 more inches of LEG Mark.  Just imagine. 

1961

Well. 

If I had been invited to mom and dad's wedding reception I know what gift I would have brought.  A camera.  We basically have no visual documentation of their first year and a half together.

Oh yeah.  Except for this one important event...

Here are some tidbits from Mark's baby book. 

     Daddy took my picture right after I was washed.  (Bribed the nurse)  I was the biggest baby in the hospital while I was there.  At the time I was born, most hospitals had a ruling that only fathers could visit.  I was stubborn and kept mom waiting (The doc thought I should have been born sooner) so they started mom on her due day at 8:00 am.  She only had to wait 4 1/2 hours-1 hr. hard labor. 

**LeeAnn says, "And I do believe mom was knocked out for his delivery.  Right mom?"**

Dad sent mom a dozen long stemmed red roses.

The President was John F. Kennedy.    The Governor was George Dewey Clyde.    The Mayor was J. Bracken Lee.

New inventions and gadgets of my era:  self defrosting refrigerators, self cleaning ovens, vaccines for polio and measles, kidney transplants, electric can openers, and TOP-LESS BATHINGSUITS! 

**LeeAnn says, "And I thought bikinis were bad!"**

Happy Birthday Mark!