I Like Thursday: Family Throwbacks

Another I Like post full of throwbacks.  I hope you don't mind. 

My mother, sister and I continue to sort through boxes of slides this summer in the hopes of keeping the best ones and making digital copies (and documenting when/where/who).  It's been a fun trip down memory lane, with a bunch of OMG-remember-this? plus a few who-the-heck-are-these-people?

It's so great to see Dad beaming.  I remember him as a happy guy.  I have so many cousins from both sides of the family - it's fun to see them so young.  And me with that afro?  I cried when I got that perm because it was so tight - but it makes me laugh, now.

Lots of wedding photos from over the years.  This  pair has such a fun story.  I don't recall if it was because there was something wrong with the buttons on the sleeves or if there wasn't enough time to finish the alterations.  Regardless, my mother stitched my aunt into her wedding dress.  At the end of the wedding reception the groom was formally presented with a pair of scissors so he could cut his bride out of her dress.  I love the look on everyone's face in this picture.  

The Target Ship of Cape Cod Bay.  The sand flats seemed to go on forever; low tide was really low.  As a kid I thought the Target Ship would always be there.  Then in just a few years it broke in half, then sank completely.  

Ice cream!  My mom and aunts cleaning off the dashers after churning ice cream.  I remember jostling with my cousins to clean those dashers before it ended up melting and dripping on the ground.  Currently I'm the only one uncouth enthusiastic enough to clean off the dashers - my cousin's kids aren't quite old enough to dive right in.  Give them another year or two....

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