Sunday Stroll Down Memory Lane

Melany called this afternoon needing some pictures of her when she was little for an art project that she is working on for a class that she is taking in her Masters program at Cumberland University in Lebanon, TN.  Well, that got me to looking through files and albums.  All these are from the two years that we lived in California.  We moved from Tullahoma, TN to Sunnyvale, CA when Melany was 18months and then moved back to Tullahoma shortly after she turned three.  Nathan was born in CA.  We moved back to Tullahoma just as he turned one.  So I have had fun looking back over photos which brought back lots of memories.  It seems that just about the whole time that we were there I was either pregnant or sick...and with Nathan pregnant meant feeling sick just about the whole nine months.  Then not long after I had him, I was diagnosed with gall bladder problems and had that surgery just prior to moving back to Tullahoma.  As you can see most of the photos are black and white.  My father took some of these, but I took most of them.  My camera went on the fritz shortly after Nathan was born so there is a bit of a shortage of photos of him early on.  It was fun to see how well the photos scanned especially the black and white ones.  One of our blog readers who lives in Shelbyville needs to look very closely at the photo in the top left corner!  I'll bet she will recognize the outfit that she made for Melany's 2nd birthday present.  The one where Woody has her upside down is what Melany called "upside" when she would ask him to carry her around this way.  The Christmas one was taken at my parents' house...one of the two times that we spent Christmas at their house in all the years that we have been married.  Anyway, these photos range from when Melany was around 20 months old to her turning three and from Nathan as a new born till he was 8 or so months old.  Nathan is in the colored Christmas photo...he's playing in the playpen in the background.  Melany is playing with her Fisher Price barn that is still being enjoyed today...now by Nathan's children.  That barn has survived Melany and Nathan and now eight grandchildren...well, Isaac hasn't really started playing with it yet, but he will! The photo in the lower right hand corner shows Melany's hair blowing...it seemed that the wind was always blowing when we lived there...the trees in the school yard across the street from our house were permanently bent in the direction that the wind blew. These are just a few of the things that went through my mind as I went back over our time living in California...glad that we are back living in small-town Tullahoma.  California was just too big and too busy for me...I like a slower paced life! The photos that Melany chooses to use she will turn into negatives and then do neat things with them that she learned in a photography class. (Be sure to click on the collage so you can see the pictures better.)

Woody got up and needed to wear a jacket on his seven-mile walk this morning.  The low registered on our outside thermometer this morning was 51.4 and Woody said that it was 48 on the bank thermometer down in the valley...a bit chilly!  It felt so good coming out after church this morning...the nice cool air with quite low humidity.  Definitely Fall is in the air!  We went to the early church service and then we both taught our respective Sunday School classes.  We came home and had lunch.  I rested for a little while and then Melany called and then I went on the hunt for photos and then scanned them and emailed them to her.  Kathy called and I had to run next door to get some information that they needed (brought our shared steam mop back to our house...guess I will mop the kitchen floor tomorrow).  Woody went to Deacon's meeting this afternoon.  Then he went to the evening church service.