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Friday April 8, 2005

8th April 2005

Friday April 8, 2005

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Some more old photos

I was a flower girl for my babysitter, Bonnie.  I don’t really remember the wedding itself all that well, but I remember trying on the dress and veil at home and wanting to play with it.  My biggest memory of Bonnie is visiting her after she had kids and playing on a sit and spin toy at her house.  Isn’t that a weird little memory.  lol.  One of the favorite family stories is of me at this wedding.  Evidently at some point in the ceremony I got bored, sat down on the steps in front of the church (facing the congregation) and ate the flowers from my basket.  I think that basket is still around someplace.

 

 

This was taken around Christmas of 1978, so I would have been a month shy of 9 years old.  Got the Farrah Flip thing going on.   I am also wearing a bell bottom red polyester jumpsuit with giant bell sleeves and a front tie that I thought was the greatest thing ever. 

 

My first formal dress.  This was 8th grade graduation.  I still love this dress.  The funny thing that you can’t see is that  the shoes I wore didn’t fit very well.  I couldn’t find shoes that were wide enough in the right length (did not have different widths as available back then), so I got some that were really long and I could barely keep them on when I walked.  (well, that and I wasn’t used to pumps yet, even if they were only an inch high or so).  I felt like a princess that day.  My big gift was a set of luggage that I used later for camp and when I went to Philadelphia for my service work.

 

This photo only got posted because of the building behind my brother and I.  That is the house that Laura actually lived in during “Little House on the Prairie”  (located near Independence, KS if I remember right)  I was thinking the house on TV seemed pretty big from what I was remembering.  This was probably taken the summer of 1985. 

 

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There are currently 2 responses to “Friday April 8, 2005”

  1. 1 On April 9th, 2005, home.aspx?user=midnightowl said:
       

    Great fun! I see Zane in your smile.

     
  2. 2 On April 9th, 2005, home.aspx?user=songanddance said:
       

    WOW, is that a beautiful picture of you in the formal dress or what!!!! This is a riot seeing all these pictures of you Jen. You’re such a natural beauty–still are. (and pretty darn smart too)

     
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