Saturday Snapshot - January 7th

Alyce of At Home With Books is the originator of this weekly event.  Feel free to post any photos that you or your family members have taken and then go over to her blog and add your link.

I haven't participated for quite a while and in fact, when I was considering deleting my blog, took out all my personal photos.  So, this is a new beginning in that regard.  Several have posted family photos from time to time and I have always meant to.  Here's a bit of my family life:

This is a picture of the tea cart that sits in my dining room.  It belonged to my maternal grandmother and the dishes that are on the top shelf were hers as well.  When she died, my mother told my sister, brother and I to select any of her things that we wished to have.  I always loved this tea set and the little cart it lived on.  I'm not sure whether she originally had a full set of the dishes, but these were all that were left when she died.  I'm very pleased to have a large dining room in this house and this piece is perfect in one corner by the front window.

And here we have a picture of my maternal grandparents.  The tea set and cart belonged to this grandmother.  I think this was their wedding picture perhaps.  Not positive about that, but I have a picture taken some years later that includes my mother as a little girl.  My grandfather had less hair in it and he had no hair by the time I came along.  Not really sure what the whole pompadour look to his hair is about.  It's kind of funny looking.  My grandmother had quite the stylish hat didn't she?  They married in 1921, I think.  She would have been 19 and he was 21.  They both grew up in Oklahoma and then moved to Texas after they married.  I was lucky enough to have them until they became great-grands and both lived a good long life - he until he was 83 and she until 93.