Five Christmases

Would you like to take a trip down memory lane with me.  A bit of  "Christmas Past"?  Last summer I bought a cheapo slide scanner to scan my old slides that we hadn't seen in years and years.  This year will be our 46th Christmas together….and here's our first one back in:

1965 – Our first Christmas together in our first apartment.  We bought all blue and green ornaments to go with our blue couch and blue and green decor.  No – that's not a bong in the corner – it's some sort of beer stein because we were sooo cosmopolitan.

1966 found us with big changes.  We moved back to my home town, bought our first house which I loved – it had all double brick walls and our blue and green furniture and Christmas tree fit just perfectly.  See my nylon net tree on the coffee table?

This is still 1966 and here we are hosting a Christmas Eve dinner party.  I'm eight months pregnant here and felt so huge – haha – I'd like to get back to that weight!

1967 – Oh this was a wonderful Christmas.  Our 11 month old baby Jeff's first Christmas.  I'm adding lots of icicles and a touch of red for the beginning of the babe's collection.

Isn't he darling in his little Santa Mouse that squeeked outfit?  Looks like I put nylon net under the tree, too!

1968 – This was going to be the year of the house without a Christmas tree because we were going to spend Christmas in Ohio with Jeff's family.  Jeffy got a few early gifts at home and even though you can't see it my sister shamed me by setting up a tiny little tree  (real of course) for Jeffy.  I'm sure you've seen the Fisher Price barn in antique stores but now you can see what they looked like brand spankin' new!

Here's the tree we sat by on Christmas morning – at my in-laws house.  It was such a fun Christmas – my mother in law Jane was the Queen of Christmas.  Little did I know that the next Christmas we would be living in Ohio.  

So…1969 found us back in an apartment, in a new state far from home but our fresh cut tree all decorated was as familiar as ever.  Our little guy was growing up getting to know his other grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.

So there you go – our first five Christmases so many years ago.  Add another son in 1972 and 2 wives and 3 grandkids thru the years and that brings us up to 2009!  Not our best picture but we're all together!

God Bless Us One and All!

I believe on each of the Christmases we've been married I always made a fruit salad for Christmas.  The easiest thing in the world to make:

Cut up…lots of bananas, 2 apples, an orange, some chunk pineapple, lots of pecans, and about 1 cup of coconut.  Add about 2/3 cup of sugar and mix with the fruit.  Whip up some real cream, sweeten it and fold it into the fruit. Chill and eat! 

Happy Pink Saturday!  You can see in the picture on the wall I have some pink!!!  Now go see Beverly at How Sweet The Sound!