So, to continue on with the graduation of Matthew and Michael, I feel it only fair to pull out the old pics of Matthew, aka Chewby, from earlier years as well. First a few of the boys together again.
Matthew and Michael, age 3
I absolutely LOVE this picture! Michael, Matthew and our Grandma Addie Doernberg in pretty much every piece of her jewelry.
Here are 2 pics of Matthew in first grade!
One of my favorite Matthew memories is when we asked him to get packed to go to Grandma’s house. We checked in the suitcase when he said he was finished: only his animals had made it into the suitcase. There was no room for anything else.
Here are Matt and I out on the bike path.
So I have shown 2 younger pics of myself, so it is only fair that we bring Scott into the action.
Finally, Matthew being the great uncle he is with Sawyer.
Sawyer was able to meet his Great Grandmas on my side of the family while we were home. Unfortunately Sawyer’s Great Grandma on Scott’s side, GG, became ill the day before we were to visit. She is doing much better, however, and we will definitely have them meet when we are home in June!
Several years ago, I found a picture which featured four generations, where my mom was the youngest in the picture. She was no more than 6 months old. In the spirit of this picture, I made sure to recreate it with Sawyer. I marvel at the fact that both of my grandmas were born in 1919 and then married in 1941.
First we visited my Grandma Cross at the beginning of our Ohio visit. This is my mom’s mom, and she lives in Germantown. She is not the fondest of photos being taken of her, so we only were able to get one.
At the end of our week and a half stay in Ohio, we visited my Grandma Doernberg.
Grandma Doernberg was absolutely in love with Sawyer. She was so happy and loved to hold him.
If he could, he would be walking already.
Great Aunt Sally and Great Uncle Jack are very loyal viewers of the Sawyer blog, and we are all so excited that they will get to meet Sawyer in person in about a week and a half! Sawyer is sending out a very “Happy Anniversary” to them today! They will have to write exactly how many years in the comments.
I’m guessing that it about 36 or 37 based on convoluted logic from my younger cousin Justin, Sally and Jack’s eldest son. Justin is 3 years younger than I am (33), and when we were kids he used to say that, “My parents were married before your parents, so if my parents would of had me a year after they were married like yours did, I would be older than you!”
I have added below a few surprises for us all to enjoy.
Sally and my Dad when they were little.
Sally in 1968 - so beautiful!
A picture from my Grandparents Doernberg’s 45th wedding anniversary in 1986. My Grandparents, Addie and Doc (Robert), are seated on the couch. Standing left to right - my cousin Justin, Jack, Sally, my Dad, me, and my cousin Seth.
Years from now Sawyer will laugh at my ‘80’s hair, as perhaps some of you are doing now, so two can play at that game. (I can blame the ‘80’s, but it was just a bad haircut and product “to help bring out the natural beauty of curly hair” hadn’t been invented yet.
