Thursday, May 27, 2010

mona and al.

this last christmas me and brad put together a wedding video for my parents because they never had one, or any kind of footage/pictures put together for that matter. i can't tell you how obsessed i became with the project. finding all these treasures in old albums. getting a taste of who they were back then in a snapshot.

i feel like i've become hypnotized with the pictures i found.
the more i look at these pictures of them back then, it makes me so curious who they were.
what i would give to sit those teens down and see what they thought about everything.
the things they loved at the time, the people they thought they were going to become, the kind of life they wanted.

im so grateful they snapped these pictures and kept them. they're gold to me.
its so fun to look through them every once in awhile and remember that they had lives before the kids came along.
before the chaos broke lose.
before life hit them with money and stress.
before the late nights they spent waiting for us to get home.
before family home evenings became essential.
before their entire lives would be devoted to their 6 kids.

sometimes i feel like i get a little piece of those teenagers when we have sunday dances. when we're all joking and laughing together around the table. when my parents plan a trip for the family and they get excited, or when they text us, haha.
i love em both so much.
i thought i would share a little taste of some of these great pictures i get the privilege of looking through.
p.s. both my parents are hotties.

2 comments:

Lindsay said...

Those pictures are beautiful. You do have hotties for parents! What a neat thing, it makes we want to go look through my parent's old scrapbooks! So fun.

the murdocks said...

Oh, I love these treasures!