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All About Me Task 3 Family


LauraYB
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I have a long way to go to catch up, but here we go . . .

 

Journalling:

Mom and Dad were married early in 1963, and I was born in December, the first born of four girls. My paternal grandparents lived in Colorado Springs until about 1972. My maternal grandparents lived in the country and about 2 hours from us. They played the largest role in our lives. As the story goes, I named my them Mom-Mom and Pop-pop (later Mom and Pop). In the early years, we rode home with Mom and Pop after their visits to our house and stayed a couple days. After we started school, we began the ritual of 1-2 week visits at their house usually two of us at a time. We also stayed with Grams and Gramps after they moved. when Mom and Dad would take vacations by themselves, we loved staying in Denver with Aunt Bonnie. She took us to Elitch Amusement Gardens, picnics in the park, shopping and played games with us. We enjoyed going to Okalahoma to visit Granny’s family. I still remember playing with Uncle Walter at the Sand Dunes and having a picnic with all of the relatives. I vaguely remember waving goodbye to my great grandmother as she sat in her wheelchair speaking something I couldn’t understand (she spoke broken English/ fluent German). As for cousins, three lived in Colorado Springs but all the others lived in other states. Our cousins were our first best friends, and we got together almost every Christmas and/or summer. I’m truly grateful for all the family values passed on to me and showing that the greatest of these is love and respect.Granny's gift of her family stories motivated me to extensively research our family history/genealogy. Now, I plan to travel to those countries!

 

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Gorgeous page and wonderful journaling. Amazing stories and your photos are such a treasure.

Love all the little circles framing the little cutie pie, which has to be You!

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I love that photo of adorable baby you, Laura! The other photos are great as well, and your journaling is so interesting. The background is so pretty -- I especially like the different colored circles.

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Beautiful two-pager, Laura and I so enjoyed reading your journaling and all about your family. It's so lovely when we have grandparents, aunts and cousins around - I think it's a spice of life and so important as you said. Your photos are wonderful and I really liked looking through them. And, seeing baby Laura - you are adorable and your photo is precious! Wonderful work. :)

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I love your journaliing, Laura - such a wonderful collection of family photos memories to share, and its presentation in a notebook is the perfect choice for you pages. I like the way you stacked the group photos, and made your own baby picture a focal point. Great pages!

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AAAAwwww what a little cutie pie! I love the little circles with a the different pastel colors and patterns. It sounds like you have some amazing memories of your loving family. Enjoyed reading about them..

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