You may be wondering why in the world I have a picture of Fred Flintstone on my blog! Well, first you'd be wondering why it takes me so long to update my blog and then you would probably wonder about Fred...well, that's my uncle Dean! So, it's really not Fred at all, although he told us a really funny story about how his friends tricked him into putting on a tie with that shirt so they could sneakily take a picture of him like that for one of them to put on their cell phone. Why would they want a picture of Dean looking like Fred on their cell phones, you ask? Well, so it could have a "Yabadabado!" ringtone when he called them, of course!
I went to visit my Granny (among other people) in July with my mom (Granny is my mom's mom, so my grandmother). I had a great time catching up with all my mom's siblings (she has 8 of them still living and I think I saw them all while I was there!). Dean actually lives at Granny's house, so I got to see the most of him and actually took a picture of him so he could be the star of this post!
While I was there, I wanted to do a little bit of family history on my mom's family, so one day, she and my Aunt Kay and my Aunt Terry and my Granny took me to see their old high school, which is now an elementary school, and a few other sites from their yesteryears! Here's a few pictures of our outing:
This is a plaque at Drewry Mason High School (now Elementary School) that tells who the school was named after. Dr. Mason just happens to be the doctor who delivered my mom and who knows how many of my aunts and uncles!
Here's Terry, my mom, and Kay outside the school:
Here's Kay pretending to make a basket in the gym while we all cheered from the sidelines. Apparently Kay was a star basketball player in her high school days!
It was fun wandering the halls with them, listening to their stories (and putting on a little show in the auditorium with my cousin Kaylie and Terry). Terry talked about hanging out in the choir room a lot, and Kay in the gym. They talked about how smart my mom was (she was salutatorian of her graduating class).
After visiting the school, we headed out to see the farm, which is a rock house where my mom's family lived for a while. I'd never been there before and it was fun to see it and to hear about how Kay used to have dances and my mom wasn't allowed to participate but she could come and watch.
It's a cool house...a little beat up now, but really sweet.
Then they took me to the cemetery where my mom's dad and step dad are buried, as well as my Uncle Jeff. Here's some of the gravestones we saw.
My mom's dad...
My mom's grandparents...
And my mom's step dad and where my Granny will be buried one day...
I have more stories to add, which I will add in the blog book, about my mom's life growing up. It was fun learning more about her family and it helped me understand her more to see where she came from even though I've heard stories all my life! And I'm so glad my phone has a camera on it because I forgot to bring mine on the trip...so I'm glad I finally got smart and started using the phone...they aren't too bad and definitely better than nothing!
