Flashback Friday 3-8-13

It's Flashback Friday at Seaside Simplicity and I always like to join in with something old and cherished.  This weeks photo is of my silver charm bracelet.....

I got this charm bracelet when I was about 10 years old.  Each birthday and Christmas I got to add a new charm.  It was always so much fun to go to the store and stare at the charms and try to narrow it down to just one. 

• The Bible charm has a small hole in it and when you hold it up to the light and look inside you can read The Lord's Prayer.
• Tinkerbell
• Praying hands
• Dachshund because we had a dachshund
• A painters palette
• The Santa with his sack
• The only gold piece is the face with my name on it
• A pair of ice skates because I loved to skate
• A sign that reads Happy Birthday
• A rabbit from Alice in Wonderland
• A Girl Scout insignia because I was so active in the scouts.

This charm bracelet is a treasured possession and I still wear it once in awhile.  Do you have any jewelry that you cherish?

Linking up with Seaside Simplicity.  I'm also linking up with Claudia over at Mockingbird Hill Cottage for her My Favorite Thing.  Go over and say hi!

Flashback Friday 02-22-13

It's time for Flashback Friday over at Seaside Simplicity.  Flashback Friday is open each week from 6pm Thursday evening until Midnight on Sunday. I hope you will join the fun!


My photo this week is of me and was taken in 1982.  I was visiting my sister in Colorado and we were climbing around in the mountains.  I can see that my habits haven't changed much in 20 years.  LOL!

Flashback Friday 02-15-2013

If it's Friday, then it must be time for Flashback Friday over at Seaside Simplicity.

My flashback photo this week is of my great, great grandparents - Joachim and Augusta Rohwedder.

They bought their home in Joliet, Illinois in 1892 and it stayed in the family continuously until 1961.   Their house is now on the Historic Register...

If you'd like to read more about this historic house and see some more pictures, please read my post about it here.

And don't forget to go join the fun at Seaside Simplicity.

Flashback Friday 2-8-13

It's time for Flashback Friday with Martha over at Seaside Simplicity.  It's quickly turning into a favorite weekly post.

My photos this week are of me when I went sky diving - this was one of the most awesome experiences of my life.  I had to take a day long training class in preparation and then they made us wait a week to do our first jump.  I think they did that because they figured you'd come back only if you really wanted to make the jump.   I really wanted to do it.  The guy friend who took the class with me did not go back.  :-)

That plane behind me is the plane they took us up in - it held the pilot, the instructor and 3 of us who wanted to jump.  Since I was the smallest person, they crammed me in the back of the plane.  It was so cramped in there.  I remember how cold and windy it was as we gained altitude and since I was the furthest back, I was the last to jump.  When I stood in the doorway and looked down, it was a long way down.  But when the instructor hit my leg and shouted "jump" I didn't think twice - out I went.  And for a few brief seconds I was a bird - arms and legs spread out and I could feel the wind rushing against my chest and then "poof" the parachute opened and I was floating on air.  I pulled the strings to maneuver around and just took in the view - you can see for miles from up there.

All too soon I hit the ground, surprisingly close to the landing circle.  Hit the ground, roll and grab the parachute.  Except the wind caught the chute and since I barely weighed 100 pounds, it dragged me down the landing strip on my back until I could flip over and get control of the parachute.  Wow - what an experience!

 

I've only done it once, but I will never forget it.  AWESOMENESS!!  Neither will my mom - she was a little pissed off at me for doing it.  Sorry mom!


Don't forget to go over to Seaside Simplicity and join in on the fun!

Flashback Friday 2-1-13

It's Friday, so that means it's Flashback Friday with my friend Martha over at Seaside Simplicity.

My photo this week is again water themed.  This photo was taken at Lake of the Ozarks and that's me in front with the oars, taking my 2 sisters across the lake to "The Patio" for cheeseburgers and thick chocolate milk shakes.  They had the best cheeseburgers and shakes, so good in fact, that I can still remember how good they tasted. 

We would row over to the dock, tie up the boat and then we had to take a cable car to the top of the hill where the restaurant sat, overlooking the lake - what a great view!  Round trip probably took us an hour and a half and I'll bet my mom and dad loved having some "peace and quiet" time.  LOL!

Head over to Seaside Simplicity for this weeks blast into the past!  Feel free to join in on the fun.

Flashback Friday 1-25-13

It's Friday, so that means it's Flashback Friday with my friend Martha over at Seaside Simplicity.

This weeks flashback photo is of me playing the "Hanging Marshmallow" game at my birthday party.

My mom organized the best birthday parties for us when we were kids.  My birthday is in August, so we usually got to play the party games outside.   Lots of fun games like the hanging marshmallows, walk across the yard with cotton balls on your wooden spoon, drop the wooden clothespins into the glass milk jug, pin the tail on the donkey, pop a confetti filled balloon over your head and the ever popular duck, duck, goose.  Fun times!

I don't know if you can tell, but we're all wearing little party hats, the girls always wore nice dresses and the boys wore dress shorts and shirts.  I can see part of my mom on the right side, and she's definitely wearing a nice dress as well.  Childhood birthday parties were always a huge neighborhood event and much looked forward to.

Hop over to Seaside Simplicity and join in on the fun!

Flashback Friday

Welcome to Seaside Simplicity's Flashback Friday.  Each week feel free to post an old photo on your blog and the link back to Martha's site.  It's really fun to see the old photos and hear the stories behind them.

My photos this week were taken at the same event, just in different years.  When I was in my early twenty's, I was the office manager for a gourmet gift basket company that was a division of the JM Smucker Company.  Every year there was a huge industry convention called the "National Fancy Food and Confection Show."  Each year the convention was in a different city and I'd get to go with the sales team and help work the show.

One year when the convention was in New York City, we planned a spectacular entrance.  The president of the company, the whole sales team and myself all dressed up in tuxedo's and made a grand entrance into the convention hall.  I'll tell you, when we walked into the convention center, jaws dropped and we were the talk of the show.  It was great fun and very theatrical. 

Here I am again in New York at the same annual convention, just a different year.   That year my mom and dad were on vacation driving along the east coast and decided at the last minute to swing into New York and visit me.  So they showed up at the convention center, I got them in, and they spent the day walking the trade show. 

Afterwards we went to dinner at The Old Homestead Steakhouse.  If you're ever in New York City you need to go there for a great steak.  The owner of the restaurant was friends with my boss, so we got treated like royalty.  I will seriously never forget that meal - it was that good!

Don't forget to post a Flashback Friday picture and link back to Seaside Simplicity!

Flashback Friday 1-11-13

I am playing along with Martha at Seaside Simplicity for Flashback Friday.   On Fridays she's posting old photos - how much fun is that?  

A lot of my old photos are centered around water.  That's me sitting on the side of the pool in the blue stars and stripes bathing suit.  Gotta dig that orange bathing cap!  I was 10 years old.

Got any old photos you'd like to share?  Come join in on the fun and link up your old photo.