July 24, 1993: Samantha's fifth birthday. This was taken just three weeks after we moved to Grand Island--we couldn't get Chelsea (who would be 2 a week later) to smile, no matter what we did!
May 2000: Mark & Megan were able to come out in May, so the group picture was taken in the Spring in 2000.
November 1998: Most of the family pictures have been taken when everyone gets together at Thanksgiving.
November 1995--our 25th wedding anniversary. John Lee is sporting a black eye: he had been rough-housing with his sisters the previous evening and ran into a doorknob. (We were not home at the time--they were afraid to tell us when we got home!) His sisters tried to cover it with make-up, but you can still see it a bit on the large picture on the living room wall.
Fall 1995---Everyone lined up in age order!
April 20, 1989 (before Chelsea...)
L-R (top to bottom)
Saffron, John, Rae, Christine
Sharona, Samantha, Erin, Megan
John, Shannon
March 1994--Not the happiest of times: this was at Baby Gene's funeral. That's Phillip in the background. Notice even then, John Lee didn't like to dress up much!
This is January 1997--only seven kids at home by then!
