Thankful for the memories!

I love this picture...Christmas eve 2004! Thank goodness Teah is a great photographer! Gabe and Leah popped in just in time to surprise us and gratefully we were able to share this past Christmas as a family...together! I have been collecting memories for that tree since each boy was born...Frank, Gabe and Jimmy each have a wonderful collection of ornaments that follow their lives...it's a charm bracelet of sorts...their sports, vacations, artwork, interests, childhood photos...I have Big Bird & Cookie, Bert & Ernie...Mario and Wayne...even Eric from Philly...ET...a Baby carriage...a pre-school photo...a popcorn chain...my paper angel...even the glitter covered pinecone from pre-school (Jimmy and Leah argued over those two pine cones!). A ceramic baby bottle with Me-Me on it. There is Darth Vader that I don't plug in...his voice sounds real...Princess Leah and Luke...A photo of Lukie, Dinosauers in stocking caps...A blue wooden dinosauer from NC...a little yellow school desk...a goalie net...a hang-glider from Nags Head...the Bungie-jumping Santa...a Mouse on skates from Disney...and a silver "time capsule" with the clipping of an accident that nearly took Jim a few Christmas eve's past. Our sparkling tree with nearly a thousand little memories!