John and Tina Plus Three: A Trip Down Memory Lane

Friday, January 2, 2009

A Trip Down Memory Lane

I recently went through all my old photographs. I can't believe all the memories it brought back. I have lots of pictures of people who were so important in my life but somehow slipped away or passed away. This year I want to take pictures of everything and everyone. I want to make sure to keep in touch with friends and family. Thank goodness for blogging and facebook! I found some great pictures, like this one of my Mom. She sent it to my Dad when he was fighting in the Vietnam War.

I found this one of my co-workers from Crossland Mortgage. We had to dress up for Halloween. Our boss was Austin Powers and we were dressed as his groupies. We even did a dance to the theme song. We were a hit, I think we won first place for the costume contest.

Here's a picture of me and my friend Gina who also worked at Crossland Mortgage back in the 1900'S. :) We still keep in touch via blogging. Gina your such a cute girl, I love your blog.

If you follow my blog or my facebook page, you know that we got a puppy for Christmas. She has been a wonderful addition to our family. Olivia has wanted a puppy for so long, it was at the top of her Christmas list. John and I were a little scared to get a dog, we were worried that we would be doing all the work. But, we were wrong. Olivia has been great at taking care of the puppy. She does all of the care-taking herself. All we do is play with it. She has shown so much maturity and has been so responsible with Chloe. I'm really surprised with how well things have been going.

It was a lot of work to get John to agree to a puppy, but I'm so glad he did. Now Olivia can create memories with her puppy like I did when I was her age. I had a Llhasa Apso puppy named Tiffany. Llhasa Apso's are just like Shih Tzu's their basically the same dog. My puppy looked a lot like Chloe.

I remember taking care of my puppy, potty training her, and teaching her to walk on a leash.

I used to dress her up in baby clothes and pretend she was my baby. I had so much fun with that dog. I'm so excited for Olivia to have fun with her new puppy. Someday she will be going through old photographs telling her kids how much fun she had with her puppy.

This picture was taken of me and Tiffany at Liberty Park in 1986.

2 comments:

MandiJanuary 2, 2009 at 7:43 PM
You look just like your mom in that picture! And yes Shannon is just as beautiful in person and she was really nice also!
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Fritzsche'sJanuary 3, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Those pics of me were from so long ago. I actually ran into Jorae at Target just a couple of weeks ago. So crazy to have seen her after all these years. Loved the pics.
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