A trip down memory lane

When we lived in Arkansas 12 years ago at the Wal-mart home office, I had the blessing of making some life-time friends, Ms. Christy and Ms. Michelle....the sisters I never had! Moving away from them was hard, but obviously I have adjusted just fine since I LOVE Minnesota...however, the friendship I have with them has not diminished because of distance! I took Jacque and Ben on a long road trip this summer, and one of our stops was back to Bentonville, Arkansas. I had this picture of our 8 kids on my front porch back when they came to visit me for the first time after I had moved to Minnesota. In this picture, the oldest on, Tori was in 3rd grade, Bradley 2nd, Wil 1st....everyone else were ankle bitters :o)....Ben of course was a newborn, so not photographed yet! So, while we were in town, we wanted to take another picture of all the kids together. Unfortunately, Wil couldn't make this trip, he had just started his first week of work at you guessed it, Wal-mart!, as a cashier. So, Ben sat in for him. The kids tried to recreate the picture, but now the kids are: Tori, Freshman in College, Bradley Sr.in High School, Wil Jr. in High School (Ben, as seen, 4th grade) and the ankle biters are all in Junior High now...boy, do I feel old!


Our kids, 12 years ago.......



Our kids in August, 2011.....Wil wasn't with me so Ben sat in for him. We tried to recreate what they were doing in the first picture :o)