The Family Tree…
In the backyard of my childhood home stands a ginormous Silver Maple tree.
That gigantic tree has been the backdrop for tons of family pictures during it’s 40 plus years.
I’d always thought of it as “my tree” because I was the one who drug it up from the woods
and had planted it. Up until recently, possibly last year, I found out that it wasn’t my tree.
Dad told me that my tree didn’t make it and he had replaced it with this one. (Sigh!)
One of my favorite pictures was this one taken on Thanksgiving Day 2006.
The guys were out in the yard playing catch with the football and I asked my sister-in-law
to snap a family picture. The guys lifted my youngest up in the tree, football still in hand.
As we get my parents house ready to sell, it dawned on me that I need to get another
family picture by “my tree” while we still have the chance.
This past week-end, we had one last large family get-together at the home
and took one enormous family picture around that old tree. (35 in all with only 3 missing.)
We also took this one of my family…Just as we were, sweaty and all.
It was a beautiful evening spent celebrating family.
It was also a little bittersweet as I know Mom and Dad would have loved it.
For my Xyron Design Team project this week, the team got the opportunity to pick any
collection we wanted from Photoplay Paper.
The moment I saw the Memory Lane Collection I knew it was perfect for my pictures.
I received the collection which included 12 sheets of beautiful double-sided paper and a full
sheet of beautiful cardstock stickers and a package of the ephemera cardstock die cuts.
Everything went together smoothly with the help of my trusty Xyron Mega Runner*
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