Our First Baby!

This picture was taken March 13th, 1975 when we brought Jenny home from the hospital. We were so pleased to be parents with a darling new baby girl!

Gene and I have been parents for a long time now, it was Jenn's 34th birthday yesterday. She continues to bring so much pride and joy to us; her earthly parents, and has from the day she was born.

There are several dates that become and remain special to us through the years as they pass. Every birthday of each of our children (and each of our grandchildren) brings tender feelings and moments of deep reflection to me. It always brings memories of the day of their birth, and of their baby years. Oh, the time goes way to fast!

I am so grateful for the blessing of each child that our Heavenly Father blessed us with.

Happy birthday my sweet girl, I love each and every day that we still get to spend together! I love you!

Thirty Five Years Have a Way of Changing You

It was thirty five years ago today, that I became Mrs. Gene Wilson. I can't believe that it has been that long. It's hard to even see ourselves in the images of these two kids. We were so young and unprepared for marriage, and life in general. Luckily with the Lord's help we have been able to make it all work out, and have found joy in the journey. We are very proud of the family we have raised and for the ones who have joined us by marriage and become part of our eternal family unit. We are grateful for our beautiful family who continually bring us so much joy.

We don't have many pictures from that day and the one's that we do have are very poor quality. This was taken just minutes after the "I dos."

I made my own wedding dress and was just as happy as could be with the small ceremony that we enjoyed.


Look at those side-burns! Well, it was the 70s you know, we were stylin'

A few years later

This is Jenny, guest blogging for my mom. I posted this layout on Facebook and she asked me to post it here too. So here they are a few years later with me! This is about 1976, before Julie. I have always loved this picture and I'm glad I was able to create something with it! Thanks Mom for making a copy of the photo for me. Love you!

Where has the time gone? I can't possibly be this old!

Another picture from that day in 1973. How could I help but fall in love with this guy? I didn't even realize how sexy he was then:)
I'm at a stage now that I need to repeat the steps of doing a certain task many times before I forget how to do it. For many years I have needed to scan and digitally save my boxes of pictures to be able to share them with my children. So hopefully this blog will keep me going as I cronicle our life and learn how to blog. It is going to be the modivating factor that I have been needing to help me get my 35 years of snap shots and portraits organized. (I promise I won't post them all.) I could never even begin to scrapbook, because I didn't know were to begin. This blog will be my journal, life story and new hobby. I hope it's not really boring too.

Our First Picture Together ~ 1973

This year Gene and I celebrate 35 years of marriage. This is the first picture that was taken of us together. We were at Lake Elsinore where we had gone with a group of Young Adults on a impromptu waterskiing trip, instead of classes one day in October 1973. Picture taking has come a long way since then, but any picture going back that far is very precious.