Roseyland

Around three years ago, my Grandma gave me a cigar box full of old pictures. I’m just now getting around to scanning them into digital form. In the process, I’ve learned a little bit about how to use GIMP, which is totally cool. You should check it out if you haven’t already. This post contains a few of the pictures I have scanned so far.

This first picture is from the summer of 1977 and is the earliest picture of me I have. This would be a great picture of me, if someone’s giant hand wasn’t in the way. Silly Grandpa.

I’m guessing that I’m about 4 years old in this picture. I loved cardboard wrapping paper tubes. Come to think of it, I still do. I’m not sure what is on my head, but I know it was important.

This is my Kermit the frog Halloween picture from 1982. I wore this costume to a Halloween party at the zoo, and this 3 year old girl was fascinated with me. The costume was really hot though, so I took it off my head and the girl ran away screaming. I’m pretty sure I scarred her for life. My bad.

Ahhh, Excellence in parenting. Here I am playing lawn darts with my Dad. That must have been safe. This picture is from around 1983. They banned lawn darts in 1988. What’s freaky about this picture is that my Dad actually looks a lot like me today. Weird.

In second grade I moved from Nebraska to Oklahoma with my Mom and Step dad. About this time I started wearing camouflage and pretending to shoot things. We moved from Oklahoma to Colorado the next year, that’s probably a good thing.

After moving away from Nebraska, I spent a lot of time flying back to visit my Dad and his side of my family. Here is a picture of my Dad, my Grandparents, and me at the airport.

I’m not sure what this picture is all about. This is me and my Dad doing some sort of pose. The consensus seems to be that I’m adorable in this picture. I actually think I look a little gay, not that there is anything wrong with that, but I hope it’s not the look I was going for.

There were a lot of dinosaur fossils where I grew up in Colorado. We also had this museum with animatronic dinosaurs. This is me pretending to be a dinosaur. I think I’m in fifth grade in this picture, which would be around 1987 or 1988.

This is my childhood cat. He was a great cat. See that collar he is wearing? That is a chain dog collar. He would chew through any other collar we put on him. If I had realized how unsafe a collar like that is for a cat, I would have never let him wear it. He never had any problems though, he could slip out of it easily.

Look! It’s me in a speedo. I think this is from my sophomore year in high school. I was a pretty good swimmer, I even had a school record in the 200 yard freestyle. Also, I have to say, I had a nice butt.

Here are the fronts of my high school IDs. Go Wildcats!

Here are the backs of my high school IDs. Notice that the IDs for my Freshman and Sophomore years contained “Rules To Live By”. The first rule was: “Do what is right and proper, avoid what is wrong… If you have any doubt, look it up in the Good Book!”. I’m surprised they got away with that. I bet those guidelines had been on the ID cards since the 60s.

Here is a picture of my Mom, Dad, Step dad, Aunt, and both sets of Grandparents at Pizza Hut after my high school graduation in June 1995. Actually, my Grandpa on my Mom’s side isn’t in the picture. He must be taking the picture.

This is a picture from my first day of college in August of 1995. I’m at some sort of orientation event, and this picture is so weird because I ended up becoming pretty good friends with a few of the people in it, but I had no idea who they were when this picture was taken.

Here is a picture of me and my Dad at my college graduation in May of 1999. Did we change any through the years? It doesn’t feel like it.

In case you are wondering, here is a picture of me today. Today as in May 2008. I know I was cuter as a kid, but weren’t we all?

There are more pictures in my Flickr set. I’ll also be adding pictures to the set as I get them scanned. I have over 100 left. Ugh! I think there will be a few more blog post of these pictures too. I want to do one post of family pictures I have from before my time, as in the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, and most of the 70’s. I also want to post all of my class pictures from elementary school and up. I don’t have them all, but I have a bunch. Stay tuned