24 Days of Advent - Day 8 - Family

Continuing the Christmas family picture theme, today I'll share some from my husband's childhood.

Christmas, 1954
We still have his Christmas stocking
just like the two you can see here on the mantel.
He's one year old here (with his dad & grandmother)
Christmas, 1957
He's 4 here, with his mom, dad, grandmother, uncle & his 2 year old sister
(along with 4 people I don't recognize)
The quintessential Christmas picture, with every 1950s boy's dream --
a toy train and a tommy gun!

I just love this picture
(and wish we had that chair...)
I'm not sure that the kitty looks very happy

24 Days of Advent - Day 7 - Family

More pictures from Christmas Past. Yes, I know they're all pictures of my sister. Isn't she stylin' in her cowgirl vest and striped shirt? Where am I, you might ask? Not born yet...(but there aren't any pictures of me later on at Christmas, either).

My grandma, Ningle, and her father

Aunt Gene & little Cindy
Great-grandma, both grandmothers, grandfather & little Cindy

Little Cindy with a firetruck & doll I wish we still had!

Little Cindy with Santa Claus

24 Days of Advent - Day 6 - Family

Family! I cherish the pictures taken at Christmases past. I think I'll just focus on these for the next few days...

From one of Uncle Lloyd's rare December visits --
he usually came earlier in the year.


Christmas 1980

Charlie's Angels
(you had to be there to get it!)