Chris' sister,  Marianne

(age 10) writes about their 
brother Peter at age 2

Peter is very nice even though he pulls my hair and he also bites and pinches  he is always into mistrif”.  One of the times he through mamas bilfold out the window 2” times he put it in the tolet once with a 10 dollar bill in it.  Onee when you were very small and didnt know how to open the door (at least nobody thought he could) he got out every body was looking for you they look all over in the house but you werent there finily they looked out side in the rain and there you were soking weet sitting down in the sand.  Onee when you just come from the Hospital and were taking your nap Reg and Janet snuck in your room and Reg wasnt spots to but he picked you up and dropp you on the big bed then momey comes in and gets rill mad.  Once you ate a hole bottle of pills and hade to have your stomak pumped ouT.  When you were taking a nap you got up when mama was asleep and ran away, when you were sitting in the street with sand and mud that was black I was riding on my bike and saw you I took you home and boy was mama surprised.  We went to the a&p once and Peter me Chris and Janet stadey in the car you turned on the car and we started baking up and going into this big hiway the people across the street starting yeling and pointing mama finilny came out and stopped the car just in time

Peter is 2” years old He is only a baby we call hem Petey Bo
I love hem vary much I am 10”years old

When Adam was Nine

1995. This is Adam in the middle with his buddies, Jon Martin and Matt Hunt on either side.

Here is what I wrote to my friend, Martha, in Oklahoma at the time this photo was taken: 

"Hi Martha, 

You asked about Adam so here goes.  Adam is nine and in the third grade.  He got a new bike for Christmas and it is red and black, his favorite colors. He has already made big plans for the upstairs since he will be the only one up there when Janet goes off to college next year.  He plans to call his bedroom the 'East Wing' and her bedroom the 'West Wing'. I don't know how to describe Adam except to say that he is kind of a scientific nerdy-wad that everybody likes. He thinks about the speed of light and square roots and adds up big numbers in his head. He jumps up from the dinner table to look things up in the encyclopedia.

Adam is very picky about food, suspicious of any kind of sauces, and doesn't trust anything that comes out of a crockpot.  He likes spaghetti, chili, corn dogs and taco salad. Ketchup is practically a beverage.  If a corn dog weighs 4 ounces, it requires 4 ounces of ketchup. Tomatoes are the only vegetable he likes.  He likes apples and red Jell-O. Basically he likes mostly red stuff.  Frank and I would love to take him to Washington D.C. and just let him pick out the things he would like to see.  We are hoping to do that before he gets to the stage that he will not claim us as parents."

Note: The following summer we did take him to D.C.  When Janet went off to college he told me he was sad and missed her.  I told him she is always with us in our hearts, but he said still, he wished he had a solid molecular structure of her.  He's so mushy.

Fast forward 16 years.  

Here is Adam getting his PhD. in chemistry.

Easter 2014 

The Lord is Risen!

Theo's first Easter
Two months old

Diana's mother, Carmen, gave me 

this beautiful Easter dress from Mexico!

If Frank and I were Rabbits, this would be us.

I don't know... that rabbit doesn't look real to me. 

Or maybe it ate some clover by the nuclear power plant.

This is pretend. A rabbit can't really fit in an egg.

Reading lines for the play, Harvey.

My grandson, Jack Chisholm, wrote this note when he was six.

"After Christmas holiday

there will be a target contest.

You are invited"