Journey to the Manger through the years

I think we have been to this live nativity scene almost every year that we have lived in Texas. It has become a special tradition in our family.

2006 Ages 3 and 1

(Katie is in the center in the pink jacket.) I remember that she was too scared of the soldier for a picture. Lizzy was in the stroller.

2009 Ages 6 and 4

2014 Ages 11 and 9

Mercy Auntie

Found this today as I was looking for another photo. Love it!

Lizzy and Jackie back then

I was looking for an old photo of Katie for her craft project and came across these old photos of Lizzy and Jackie enjoying a snack together. 

Old Photos

Instead of clogging my blog up full of old photos, I decided just to load them to Picasa Web. Here's the link. I'll be updating it with more as I have the time.

Old Pictures 2

 Katie 2008

 Theo in college in the red sweater in the back

 In India in 2004

 Katie October 2004 14 months

 Theo in college

 Katie October 2004

 Theo in college

 Theo and Becky 2001

Theo

Old Pictures

Quite some time ago, I posted that I am working on scanning old pictures into the computer. So that's not going so well. But here are a few more I've gotten done. These are coming out of the box of photos that still requires sorting, so they are pretty random.

 Theo in college - early 90"s

 Grandma Grandpa Katie and Lizzy 2006

 Katie 2004

 Katie 2004

Theo, Becky, Katie October 2004

Theo in College, he is on the far left.

Pictures Pictures everywhere

So, here's the problem. I have eleventy billion pictures from this past year and a half that I have not printed (I need them printed because if the world ends and we're all living in caves with no electricity, I will want my photos). And I have another trillion old pictures in boxes and albums that I want to scan into the computer (you know, in case the house burns down). I've been putting both tasks off because they are so monumental. So tonight, I just grabbed a handful of pictures, chose the ones out of them worth keeping and scanned them. Hopefully, if I do a few a day, eventually I'll get to them all. I'm only posting them because I know some of my family are interested and also because I want to have this blog printed into a book sometime so I want them in there. 

about 1998

1988 - 1990 - Royal Gorge Colorado

Posting this only to annoy my sister with a nerdy old picture. about 1999

Top of the Empire State building when Theo and I were dating - 2002

Times Square March 2002

October 2001 (apparently we were camera happy that day)

My cat Abigail, who Theo wouldn't let me keep when we got married because he swelled up and broke out in hives whenever he visited.

Our old house

I am joining Thrifty Decor Chick's before and after party. Well if I can figure out how to do it anyways. This is our old house a few days after we purchased it, and once we finally finished the remodeling. When we were looking for houses, we found this for 130. Our realtor informed us that with 10K worth of work it could be a beautiful home. Nearly 100k in renovations later, we finally had a fairly nice, but small home. But eventually we moved to Texas because we needed more space, and the neighborhood was starting to scare us. In the end we wound up clearing only 40k when we sold it, which did help us to buy our Texas home, but man, that was the hardest money we've ever made! Click here to see the slideshow. Note the linoleum tiles glued over the original wood floors - and only half of the living room???! When we were looking at it, I pulled up the carpet and saw the wood floors and was happy, til after we bought it and I finished pulling up the carpet to reveal those awful glued on with thick black glue tiles thruout the rest of the house.