Memory Lane - Part 5

This goes back to when my Dad was growing up!

Just a few pictures - from that album...

the other posts were created from...

Last post...smile

 My Dad and his sister Greta

in Dutch Flat, California

 My grandfather - Herbert Peterson, Sr.

holding Greta - 1930's 

My grandfather was in his 30's

 My grandparents with my dad and Greta

1930's 

 My Dad - Have no idea when this was taken

Guessing - latter 1930's

 My dad pulling the wagon...Greta in the middle

Latter 1930's 

 The house my grandparents bought...lived in it

till they left this life...

L to R: Uncle Chris Jensen and his wife Mae

My grandfather is holding Jim Jens (Uncle Chris/Mae's oldest son)

Greta, My Dad, and Uncle Charlie (my grandfather's

oldest brother from Sweden)

My grandparents and their ol' cow...

and Greta

Memory Lane - Part 4

A bit of a Memory Lane for me...

These pictures were, also, in this old album...

"FAMILY HISTORY" 

smile

 My grandfather Herb Peterson is holding

both my brother, Steve and I

Old Al was a friend of my parents...

Before 1955...

 Around 1960

I was about 10 - Steve would be about 9

Scott looks around 3 and a neighbor Pam

with her dog...

 Guessing around 1963-1964

I'm around 13 or 14...

 Picture taken at our OLD HOUSE on Linden Ave.

Sacramento - Spring 1956

almost 6 years old

THE NEXT "4" pictures

I am guessing my grandfather took us 

to William Land Park 

February 1956

My Brother Steve was 4 years 6 mos. old

I was 5 years 7 months old

My grandfather - Wally Heisen - 51 years old

 Back yard at old Linden Avenue house...

with Grandpa Wally Heisen

Next "3" pictures

Spring - 1956

Taken at our OLD HOUSE on Linden Avenue

 Taken in our backyard...

 Spring 1956

Brother Steve and I

 I am guessing this to be around 1953...

I must be around 3 years old

Steve about 2 years old

Grandparents - Peterson

The little old lady...I have no idea...

 Approx. 1952

Steve and I

 Another neighbor boy with 

Steve and I - Approx. 1954-55

 Another neighbor - Kathy Kelley

Steve, Scott, and myself - Spring 1958

House on So. Land Park Drive

Friend of my mother's

Picture taken about 1958-59

Memory Lane - Part 3

The last of our IMMEDIATE Family Pictures

from the same album as Part 1 and 2

There were more pictures...but, they were of

"extended" family...Danes in Denmark...my brother and I

when we were young...I might post those pictures of

my brother and I for FAMILY HISTORY sake...

 Garvin and I taken at my Grandfather's cabin

I am pregnant with Jenny  

Picture taken in Summer 1981

 Mandy Peterson and I - 1981

I am not certain when this picture was taken...

but, I love it! My grandmother and I...

I was pregnant with someone...

1980's

Memory Lane - Part 2

More Pictures from this one

album from my parents' collection...

 Caleb - 7 July 1981

Written on the back of photo:

"Loves to show off...Caleb is wearing that "hat" you made

to cover the toilet paper roll..."

Hmmm...I know my mother didn't sew...

so have no idea...who made the "hat"...smile

 20 June 1981

Caleb - 6 months old

 Garvin and Caleb - April 1981

 Mama and Caleb - April 1981

 10 July 1981

"Caleb's day has arrived in being able to crawl

where he wants to get to..."

26 December 1980 

Caleb - 3 1/2 days old

His Great Grandma - "Boss" Smith

Anna May Gilbreth Smith

Shy of being 89 years old

(Fred Smith's mother)

 Birth Picture

22 December 1980

Caleb - May 1984

 Thanksgiving 1984 - Sacramento, CA.

Jenny with her Great Grandma Dorothy

and her Daddy - Garvin

 Christmas Eve - 1982

Picture Taken in my Grandparent's home

Jenny being doted over by her Great Grandma Dorothy Peterson

One of my very FAVORITE pictures...

This was such a PERSONAL - TENDER moment...Jenny, in many ways...

is a reminder of "Greta" - the daughter who died at 15 years of age...

There is a picture that I have of Jenny when she was around 2 years

of age...that was so SIMILAR to Greta at that same age...

My grandmother...was the one...who noticed the similarities...

 Jenny - May 1984 - 2 years old

"Jenny getting the last drop"

 Jenny - 1982 - About 1 month old

 Jenny - June 1982 - 2 months old

Jenny - August 1983 - Taken in Pasco, Washington

16 months old

 Sarah - December 1984

 Sarah - September 1984 - 1 year old

Taken in our Lynndyl, Utah home...

 Sarah - November 1984

"Busy emptying book shelves"

Lynndyl, Utah home

 Sarah - April 1984 - 8 months old

 Sarah - March 1984

Lynndyl, Utah home

 Sarah - March 1984

 Sarah - March 1984

Lynndyl, Utah home

 Sarah - September 1984

Sarah being held by her Great Grandmother - Dorothy Peterson

My grandmother LOVED holding her great grandbabies...

Grandma was the sweetest...most tender person I know...