Memories...

I've been scanning old family photos this afternoon. Going through my mother-in-law's pictures and copying them to a disk. It's good to look back and remember where we've come from.

This photo is of my husband's Maternal Grandparents and 11 of their 13 children.

My Mother-in-law is the lady standing on the right. Her Father, Bud, was married twice before he married third wife Darkie and all total, he fathered 23 children.

There are only 6 siblings alive today.

This is Grandma Darkie hanging out clothes to dry. Anybody remember days like this? I sure do, we did it when I was growing up as my family didn't have a clothes dryer 'till I was in my early teens.

This is my Father-in-law holding my brother-in-law, JR. My Fred is sitting next to them.

Fred had one sister who died when she was just 18 months old. His Mom was pregnant with him when her baby girl passed away and she's never really gotten over her death. I guess you don't when you've lost a child at such a young age. At any age for that matter.


This is my Fred when he was a little guy. Hard to believe any of us were ever little.

My in-laws right after they got married. Photo taken in Floyd Co., Ky

There are way more pictures to scan than I remembered, so it looks like this project will take a while. Once I finish this one, I'll do my family. That should be fun as my Dad was the youngest of 9; my Mom the oldest of 5 and I'm the oldest of 8. Have mercy!