25. Family Memories in Photos!

It was really fun for me to see how many comments we got about the family picture I posted in the last post.  I'm quite busy for the next 3 days, so I think I'll put a few family photos on, and see how many memories they bring!  This may not be as fun for non family members, but hopefully it will give you a "slice of our lives" at different moments in time!

This is Blaine on the left, Grandma Gladys Eckman in the center, and Wayne, when the twins were around 18 years old, about 1948.  Grandma Eckman was 4 ft. 10 inches high.  Her husband, Grandpa Roy was 5 ft. 10 inches.

This was one of the photos Wayne sent me when he was in the army, 1954, taken in Austria.  Handsome, huh?   I noticed how proud the little boy was to have an "army man" have his arm around his shoulders.  This gave me an idea of how much Wayne loved children!

There are 15 of our 29 grandchildren in this photo, taken in our family room in 2003.  We love having groups of family get together!

Remember Roger's Springs?  We went there often, when Blaine and his family lived in Henderson, Nevada.  It was somewhere between St. George and Henderson.  One memorable visit was when we were going to have hamburgers and we forgot the hamburger!  We put jello in the buns instead!

This is Grandpa Roy Waldamer and Grandma Gladys Eckman holding our first child Wayne M. the day he was blessed in St. George, August 1956.

This was taken the day Delsy was blessed, about July 1958.  Holding Delsy is Pal's mother, Ruth, and her father Pratt Miles, with Wayne M. about 2.

 I'll put a few pictures in each day that I seem to busy to think and write!  Hope this is fun to see for all you dear people.  We do have lots of pictures, and also many stories.  More to come!

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