SWEET MEMORIES... (RIGHT OLD PICTURES)

Awww, SWEET MEMORIES.. Me in my rollers, with my NEW HUSBAND (less than 24 hrs) standing behind me.. My PRECIOUS GRANDMA.. "ELLA MAE CLARK" sitting right beside me.. My brother John Arthur Sparks right beside her.. and My "baby sister" Betty Jo Sparks (now Goff) right in front of me.. Grandma and Granddad came in the day after our wedding April 17th 1970 (so this picture was April 18, 1970

The house WAS Grandma and Granddad's for many years (SO WAS THE WHITE SAFE IN THE BACKGROUND) But then they sold the house to Mom and Dad not to long before we got married and they moved to Florida! She lived there and loved it until she passed away March 14, 1974
love and miss that dear sweet lady! 

THIS AGAIN WAS THE TWO OF US.. 1982 WITH OUR PRECIOUS FOSTER CHILD "MICHAEL BRANDON" ASLEEP ON MY LAP.. We were at Mom's house (same house as above) and GRANDMA'S/ MOM'S KITCHEN SAFE HERE IN THE BACK GROUND.. painted a pony brown (don't know WHY I remember that)
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It looks like it's the same color as the knotty pine behind it.. but it's just AN OLD PICTURE!

LOOK AT MICHAEL.. OH HOW WE LOVED THAT CHILD.. (shame they adopted him "out of the area") THEY HAD TOLD US WE COULD ADOPT HIM... SAD DAY, WEEKS, AND MONTHS WHEN THEY TOOK HIM! LOVE YA MICHAEL.. ("IN HEAVEN NOW")

THE SAFE AS OF AUGUST 2013.. AFTER I HAD A NIGHTMARE ABOUT PAINTING IT.. OUR SON NORMAN TOLD ME THAT IT WAS PROBABLY MOM (HE SAID GRANDMA) TELLING ME TO GO AHEAD AND PAINT IT SO IT WILL MATCH EVERYTHING ELSE! AND TO STOP BEING SO SILLY...

THE OUTSIDE WAS A CHOCOLATE BROWN WHEN WE GOT IT.. AND THE INSIDE AT THE TOP A PALE YELLOW AND THE INSIDE AT THE BOTTOM AN OFF WHITE.. 

I ALSO PUT A COUPLE OF SCREWS HERE AND THERE, AND IT'S ACTUALLY IN GOOD SHAPE.. BUT BOY OH BOY, "IT'S OLD!" STILL HAD AND STILL HAS ITS ORIGINAL HANDLES AND HINGES

 MOM AND DAD "BETTY AND TIMOTHY "JOE" SPARKS..  IN THE 70'S AT THE SAME HOUSE (BY THEN THEIR HOUSE) NOW JENNA'S HOUSE.. WITH MANY IMPROVEMENTS THAT OVER TIME NEEDED DONE...THEY AND GRANDMA WOULD LOVE THE HOUSE NOW AND BE SO PROUD OF IT, AND JENNA
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THE PICTURES BELOW ARE EVEN OLDER.. THEY ARE FROM 1955 THE FIRST BEING DAD HOLDING ME FOR MY FIRST BIRTHDAY.. AND THE SECOND, MOM HOLDING ME (NOT SURE WHO'S HOUSE.. BUT MY DAD'S BROTHERS FIRST WIVES THERE WITH US.. (I cant tell by this picture of Dad and I  but the one where I am down walking, same dress, shoes and all .. my 1st birthday.. was taken at a house that they rented in Dry Run! But don't know about these two pictures for sure.. I would guess "probably so" but then it's only a guess!