Favorite Picture

One of my favorite pictures!  I miss my Grandma & Grandpa Bilow.  This is when Gpa first started not having good health, so he was sitting down.  Gma is holding Melissa.  They were sooo excited about being Great Grandparents!  This is at a family reunion at Priest Point Park in Olympia August of '95.  (Melissa was born in July '95).

Bilow 1983 Family get together

This was one of our funnest family get togethers, it had been a while since we had all been together, ALL of us were there, that is something that doesn't happen very often, so when it does lots of pictures are taken. This was at Aunt Jet's house, it is amazing how much fun you can have with a wig and a plastic pop bottle - dog toy! :) This is when we lived in Rochester still, Aunt Jet & Uncle David, too- I think the addition is just being framed in on their mobile, Uncle Butch lived up in Marysville, Aunt Connie in Oregon, and Grandma & Grandpa in Brinnon. This is when I first started taking pictures of my own - I was 12.

This is one of my favorite pictures of Grandma & Grandpa, getting into the spirit with the wig

Aunt Jet's cake

Grandma & Grandpa with all of the grandkids

Grandma & Grandpa

We had homemade pizzas, Aunt Connie

Jodie

Grandpa & Uncle Butch

Aunt Dodie

Janel

What a stud! Jeff

Jodie

Me ( Donna) and Jodie

Cindy, Janel, & Jodie

Cindy, Janel & me (Donna)

Janel - see what I mean a wig and a plastic pop bottle, what more could you want?!

me (Donna)

Uncle Butch and Aunt Connie, do I dare sare - Look at how young they looked?!

Blair

Family photo time - Uncle Butch, Aunt Dodie, Janel, Jeff, and Jodie

Aunt Connie and her boyfriend (I don't remember his name), Daphne, & Blair

our family at the time - sorry Lloyd is in it, Adam, Lloyd, my mom- Gayle, me, Eric, & Cindy

Uncle David, Aunt Jet, Anita & Carrie

Grandma..... looking like she had a little too much to drink

Just the cousins,

Donna, Blair, Daphne, Carolyn, Anita, Janel,Eric, Jeff, Cindy, Adam, Jodie

In order of age - Daphne, Blair, Donna, Janel, Eric, Jeff, Jodie, Cindy, Anita, Adam, & the baby - Carolyn- at that point I was one of the tallest! :) I think that is about where I stopped growing, too.

The early 1970s- mostly

Donna & Daphne early 1970s
Cousins!
Janel, Blair, Daphne, Geri, Donna, Jeff, & Eric



Eric & Grandpa's boat

Grandpa & Donna

Grandpa & Eric

Aunt Jet

I like this picture because it doesn't seem to change much, year after year, except now we have more store bought food than homemade goodies... :) But this is what a typical table at Christmas time looked like at Grandma's house, the old chairs, too, oh the memories, Don't spin in your chairs!

Christmas at Grandma & Grandpa's house in Lynnwood, Eric in the tent, grandpa Bilow looking on in his chair, he's not asleep yet.... must not be time for the news, yet.... :)

Eric & Donna in our Christmas present

Aunt Connie trying to help me (Donna) swing, Daphne in the red sweater

Aunt Jet

Grandpa Bilow

Grandma and Grandpa Bilow..... a long time ago! Must be in Roseburg...?

Grandma & Grandpa Bilow & me (Donna) 1971

Aunt Jet, Grandpa in the background, Judy Mattson, and Uncle Butch at my mom's first wedding.

I don't know who, Aunt Jet, Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Butch, my dad, my mom

This was taken in the last few years, but it is a picture of the Bilow Road in Lebam WA, I thought it was pretty cool!

4 Generations

Grandma Bilow, Grandma McGiveron, my mom (Gayle), and me(Donna) 1971

Gayle and Jeanette

Awwww, aren't they cute!

before kids