Gold Mine

I’ll bet you don’t know anybody that actually has a gold mine…But I do. 😀

Grandma Shirley has been decluttering, and giving some of her stuff away. She offered me her cedar ‘hope chest’ AND all the contents therein. YAY! Of course for now I don’t have a way to get the hope chest to Utah, and she wanted to hang onto it for a bit longer (which is fine with me of course). But since Kyle and I were in California I got to bring home a whole box, overflowing with old pictures. A stack of photo albums, AND 4 more bags of pictures! Yes I do believe I have a real gold mine. 😉 My heart just rejoices to have these pictures in my possession. I have been working on scanning pictures for years, and I just hit the jackpot and have LOTS of work ahead of me.

I love looking through the pictures, and seeing the people and thinking ‘hey they are related to me’ and wondering what they were like.

Here is a picture of me in the dutch girl costume (looks like I’ve got some licorice hanging out of my mouth too), Jenny in a Friend bear costume, and Patsy in the 8 ball costume. 🙂

My parents at some dinner party (I have no idea when, maybe when they were first married, or engaged?)

I love this picture of my uncle Frank. He died in 1993 about a year before Timothy died. But I love his face in this picture (he’s the one on the left). He was such a fun guy:

Aw! A family picture of my grandparents, aunt Glenda and my dad as a little boy:

I just love this picture of my grandpa Denzel admiring my grandma Shirley, they eloped when they were almost 25 and almost 19.

Here’s a picture of Great Grandma Zoe holding Grandpa Denzel as a baby

And a picture of Grandma Zoe when she was younger:

And this is a picture of Grandma Shirley’s birth mother Willa Tevis Ballard, as a child, with her brother, Wilbur Harve Ballard

Oh I am so excited. These pictures here aren’t even a tip in the ice burg. They’re more like a shaving of the ice burg. 😉 Yes I have a real gold mine.