Billy Sanford Crenshaw

This is my daddy.

My mama shared this picture on Facebook yesterday.

She said it is the "Youngest known photo of daddy, circa 1936

He was so cute!!

I can't remember the last time I saw this picture.

It's been years!

4 Generations

 And baby girl didn't want to play the game.

Last Year On New Years Eve

Our Family pictures changed forever.

One Angel is missing.
Our Sissy passed away New Years Eve.
10 minutes before the new year started.
One year later, we miss her and it has
been hard not to be sad this weekend.
I hear her laugh in my head, often.
She had a great sense of humor.

I'm trying to look forward to the
new year and all the blessings it will bring.
Wishing you all a wonderful new year too!
Loves!

Southern Snow

It's Cotton Picking Time in the south!

I took this yesterday on the way to the Floyd family reunion.

Leah Quinn

 This is my talented niece, Leah Quinn Jacobs.

She is gorgeous and dramatic.

Leah is a singer, actress, hairstylist and cosmetologist

 who lives in the Salt Lake City area.

You may have seen her a play or two??

 I finally got around to taking her pictures.

We were suppose to take them in March when

she was here but she was way to busy.

We almost missed getting them again this visit.

This is what she looks like after driving home all day from

Disney World.

This is Leah with her mother Sue.

Sue is my SIL, the Sweetheart's older sister.

I love this picture of the both of them.
You would never know that we were getting
 eaten up by bird size Darien, GA. mosquitoes!

Waiting For Fireworks

This year we viewed the fireworks in old downtown Brunswick.

We got there over an hour early to get a good place.

We try and sit right at the edge of the parking lot so that

the Sweetheart can get right out and sit down

and no walking or tripping involved.

Of course it's a good time to take some family pictures.

 My GRAND, Shelby.

The other GRAND, Reagan.

My oldest son, Harrison and his wife Christon.

The parents of my GRAND-daughters.

 The Sweetheart aka Pop Pop and Shela.

 Pop Pop and Rea.

My niece Leah and Shel.

The Sweetheart's sister Sue and her oldest son Aaron.

Family friend, Paige.

Family friend, Claudia

Family friend, Kara Mia.

My GREAT nephew, Jonah, Aaron's son.

GREAT nephew Manny, Aaron's youngest son.

The Sweetheart and his mother, aka, Gma Griffis or Kathleen.

Shelby and GREAT-GRANDma Griffis

and a fake cat.

GREAT-GRANDma and Reagan.

And finally the Sweetheart and yours truly!
The weather was perfect, no smoke from the fires and the best breeze.
Everyone had such a great time.
Half way through the fireworks Shelby yells,
"This is the best day ever"!!
And it really was.

Nanny's Roses

Nanny

Is my Maternal Great Grand Mother.

By Brother and his wife Sheri brought me some clippings

last fall of my Nanny's roses bushes.

They even helped me plant them.

I watched the bush all spring and was so excited when it bloomed

for the fisrt time

I'm wanting more!

He Ain't Right

This brother in law came into my MIL's house

 

and saw these sitting on the counter, except it was the chicken flavor and not the duck.

He opened the pack and started eating them.

He had eaten several when my MIL noticed he was eating the dog treats.

She told him that he was eating dog treats and he held the package out and

 looked at it and said, "well dang, they are pretty good!"

He ate a few more before he closed the package.

He just ain't right.

Spring Break Visitors

This is my GREAT niece Gracie.

Gracie came from Utah to visit her GRAND~parents, Sue and Phil Jacobs.

And her GREAT~GRAND~ma Kathleen Griffis.

She came with her Aunt Leah.

She left her mom Rachael, dad Ryan and baby brother Jude, at home.

This is Gracie's Aunt Leah, my niece.

She came home to thaw out from the frozen Utah winter.

And to visit her mom and dad, Sue and Phil Jacobs and her

GRAND~ma Griffis and GRAND~ma Jacobs.

She is one hot hair stylist in the Salt Lake area.

While here she usually does every cousins head of hair.

She's good and they all look forward to her visits.

Call her and make your appointment.

This is my GREAT~nephew Jonah Jacobs.

This is the only picture I got of Jonah.

I so wish I would have gotten one by himself.

He came with his brother Manny, from Nashville.

He left his dad Aaron my nephew and his mom Molly at home.

This is Emanual Jacobs.

Manny for short.

He and his brother Jonah caught a ride from his other GRAND~parents house

in Birmingham, Al. with his GREAT~Aunt Angie and her boys.

They all had the same destination vacation Spring Break in mind.

GRANDMA Griffis house in coastal sunny Georgia!

This is the youngest Ripley boy, Ammon, my nephew.

He loves those Jacob cousins and has loved being at his GRAND~ma Griffis house.

He is Angie and Tony Ripley's son.

Mr. Senior in high school, Andrew Ripley, my nephew.

He has loved being at the beach for spring break.

He is Travis and Jordan Griffis's shadow.

Where ever they are you will find him.

(Travis is my son)

My Sister in law, Mary Angela Griffis Ripley.

Mother of 4 Ripley boys.

Pre~school teacher, loves the sun and the beach.

Loves her mother and has missed her dad so much.

The hostess of all these spring breakers,

My mother in law, Kathleen aka Mom.

We had a special family dinner to celebrate her

upcoming 80th birthday, April 11.

We will have another celebration on her birthday but they

will not be able to come back so you are never to old to have several birthday parties.

Always fun to have relatives in town!

Our spring break will be the first week in April.

I hope we have more vistitors.

Hope you all have a happy weekend.

Spring has sprung and we have temps in the 80*

A most perfect weekend!

After Lunch With Ryan

After "Lunch With Ryan", I went back to the hotel

where my parents were resting up for the

big flight home the next day.

It wasn't long before they decided that we needed

to go back to the cemetery one last time before going home.

It took a lot of effort because it was so cold and ugly out side.

This was about 4:00 in the afternoon.

The parents.
We met my brother, niece and Nord there also.

They had cleared the snow away for the funeral and they put

this green bench in front of her grave.

It was way to cold to sit on the bench

but we were all glad that we went back over there.

It's a long way from Georgia and Florida to go

and visit Sissy's grave very often.

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We took my parents back to the hotel to get warm

again, can I say bitter, it was some kind of cold!

At 6:00 that evening, The Sweetheart's family had

thrown together a little family pot luck dinner

for my family. It was on short notice and a lot didn't get the message.

I know that they would have been there if they could have.

I was thrilled to get to see as many as I did.

Most of them I haven't seen in about 6 or more years.

I didn't take my camera out until late and

I missed a lot of pictures of those that left early.

I am sorry yall.

I was not happy with the way my pictures turned out.

I so hate my point and shoot camera right now and I am looking for a new one.

Any sugestions?? Please tell me what you have and love.

Aunt Shirley and my brother, Sanford.

Linda Milne and her favorite nephew, Garrett

Aunt Betsy and her grandson Michael and granddaughter Molly

Rob and Josie Farnsworth

(Betsy's son and DIL)

T.J. Thorpe and his daughter Maddie

(Kirk and Sherry's son)

Jessie and his girlfriend

(Kirk and Sherry's grandson)

B.J. Newland and his girlfriend

(Aunt Betsy's oldest grandson)

Boddy (sp?) and my sister Carla

In the back ground is Sherry

Boddy is TJ's son and sherry's grandson

My brother Sanford and his daughter Amelia

This is Nord Anderton, Sissy's husband.

Michael, Uncle Val, Aunt Betsy's husband and half of Rob.

3 generations of Farnsworth men.

We have their ancestor, Philo Farnsworth to thank for inventing the TV!!

Kirk Thorpe, Sherry's husband.

Thank you to Sherry and Kirk for opening up your home

to my family and for inviting a lot of the Griffis family

so that we could visit, even if it was for just a few minutes!

The food was great but he company was even better!!
I l.o.v.e. The Sweetheart's family!!