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Cars PJs on little sister

Posted on March 18, 2016 @ 7:25 pm by Jen

I got these Cars PJs at a garage sale in Troy. Owen wore them for quite some time and I put them away for Katie. I should have gotten them out before now, but I just found them and they’re a little small for her. 🙂

Throwback Thursday—One of my all-time favorite sibling pics

Posted on March 17, 2016 @ 10:08 pm by Jen

Throwback Thursday—7 years ago

Posted on March 3, 2016 @ 7:30 pm by Jen

3/3/09 and 3/3/16 (Yes I quickly posed him for this shot. I could have gotten it closer but I didn’t want him to lose interest.)

One year ago today. Whoa.

Posted on March 1, 2016 @ 4:56 pm by Jen

Neither Tom nor I thought I looked this big at the time.

Same hat and same kid: 2010 & 2016

Posted on February 16, 2016 @ 9:40 pm by Jen

The old pic popped up on Tom’s “On this day” Facebook timeline and I knew I had to do a side-by-side with a recent pic!

Quick wedding photo reenactment

Posted on February 13, 2016 @ 10:15 pm by Jen

Since we didn’t really get a good selfie before or during the event, we tried a quick one at home.

Tom noticed our wedding photo in the background and suggested we take another and duplicate the wedding photo. It took a bit longer the second to actually get ourselves positioned where we could see the pic between us…and then I suggested I try to also duplicate the position of my hands…except it came out more like I was trying to claw his throat. 🙂

Then I thought “Hey! Wait! We have the flowers from the centerpiece!” Except they were too big.

The last attempt was the winner!

Us: January 16, 2015 & 2016

Posted on January 16, 2016 @ 9:15 pm by Jen

Facebook has a feature that shows you what you posted on this day in past years. So, tonight I learned that one year ago we took a family picture (the day we all went to the Pentagon to see Tom get his award):

So we took a similar one tonight:

I posted this on Facebook:

I liked what my friend said:

Throwback Thursday—One of my all-time favorite Owen pictures.

Posted on January 14, 2016 @ 11:45 am by Jen

From 2010…

Packrat or hoarder‬?

Posted on January 11, 2016 @ 7:47 am by Jen

Never thought I’d be able to wear this again. It’s been about 21 years. It never got donated because it was very college-specific (it was our dorm sweatshirt)!

First grade school picture!

Posted on January 5, 2016 @ 4:45 pm by Jen

Once again, Owen rocked his school picture! I love this kid! (I would have preferred a blue background, but you had to pay extra for that!)

And his first three years (the fall pictures only):

And if you include the spring pictures as well:

Are you sensing a trend in the outfits I pick? 🙂 I can’t wait to see how many years I can do it!

Throwback Thursday—Beginning to End

Posted on December 31, 2015 @ 10:40 pm by Jen

For my last throwback of the year…they aren’t the best Before & After photos, but they are beginning to end: On the lefts, January 2015; on the rights, December 2015…almost 100# lighter. Bring on 2016!

How do they look SO young just one short year ago?!

Posted on December 23, 2015 @ 9:45 pm by Jen

Through the years with Christmas Bear

Posted on December 22, 2015 @ 11:15 am by Jen

This ornament has been around a loooong time… It started on Grauntie Marge’s tree in Grayling.

I’m guessing this was 1974, as I wouldn’t have been standing at three months. 🙂

2009 – Troy, MI

2010 – Troy, MI

2011 – Jacksonville, NC

2012 – Jacksonville, NC

2013 – Jacksonville, NC

(She LOVED the bear!!! And somehow I missed a pic with Owen?!)

2014 – Lorton, VA

(Somehow I completely missed both of them!)

2015 – Lorton, VA

Promise them candy and look what cute faces you get.

Posted on December 19, 2015 @ 5:07 pm by Jen

And the comparison photo from 2012!

Throwback Thursday—This day exactly.

Posted on December 10, 2015 @ 11:31 am by Jen

12-10-2009

12-10-2011 (I was about two months pregnant with Katie and feeling yucky.)

Two in a coat.

Posted on November 28, 2015 @ 10:40 am by Jen

I wore this coat while I was pregnant with Owen so thought it was appropriate that we still fit in it together. 🙂

Sweater then and now

Posted on November 18, 2015 @ 5:25 pm by Jen

When I was cleaning out my closet this week I found this sweater… The last time I wore it was my first Raleigh New Year’s Eve.

I love finding treasures like this in coat pockets.

Posted on November 17, 2015 @ 4:45 pm by Jen

Throwback Thursday—I’ll never forget this.

Posted on November 12, 2015 @ 10:10 pm by Jen

Do you know what it is?

It’s from my grandparent’s screen door in Bay City.

I remember when we were cleaning out the house after my grandpa died I mentioned something to someone about keeping the door or at least the L…but I could only stay for a day or so before I had to head back home to North Carolina so I never knew (or asked) what happened to it.

Until today, when I posted it on Facebook. My mom said that the people who bought the house back then only recently replaced it…so someone in our family could have gotten it. Dang.

Owen’s dream came true!

Posted on October 29, 2015 @ 7:25 pm by Jen

Owen is in heaven with daddy’s old Bear bow (made in Grayling!). Tom found it in his mom’s stuff today.

I didn’t hear it, but Gramma said he shouted “MY DREAM CAME TRUE!” when he saw it!

Throwback Thursday + Brothers

Posted on October 29, 2015 @ 2:30 pm by Jen

We found LOTS of good pictures while cleaning out Marsha’s apartment. I posted a few of the best ones. The Facebook comments were all basically “WOW! That’s Owen!” 🙂

School pics from 1981-1983. Always in blue. Always matching. 🙂

Kind of blue and still matching. #unearthedtreasures #theboyshateme (Rob commented that they probably even had the same underwear.)

The same stage!

Posted on October 27, 2015 @ 10:45 am by Jen

On the same stage where my school pictures were taken cough 30+ cough years ago. I’ve been wanting to visit the school for probably the last 15 years and finally just went and did it! It was a bonus that I was able to take the kids, the gym was empty, and I could take a picture! Funnily enough, I had forgotten my phone in the car so after our brief walk around, I had to go back to the car to get my phone so I could get my picture! I had waited so long to do it that I wasn’t going to miss my opportunity!

Throwback Thursday—In Owen’s jogging suit

Posted on October 15, 2015 @ 8:29 am by Jen

This is a 2T outfit—he was in it under 2 and she’s in it over 3! I’ve been meaning to put her in it for quite some time now and finally did it today; the pants are slightly too short but the jacket is almost too big.

Edited to add: Whoops! Those aren’t the right pants! Now I remember why I haven’t put her in that outfit before now… I couldn’t find the pants that go with that outfit!