Flashback Friday: So Says the Universe

Lately a lot of old photos have unexpectedly "presented themselves" to me. It's not out of the ordinary for photos from years past to show up in my Facebook memories, but I've also received - seemingly out of the blue - multiple text messages from family members and friends sharing photos of the kids when they were little as well as a handful of emails from Shutterfly reminding me what we were up to 10 years ago and linking back to photographic evidence.

So today, because it feels like the universe wants these photos seen (and because I've been traveling, which makes writing and posting a little more challenging), I'm swapping out my High Five for Friday post in favor of a (my first in years) Flashback Friday post.

Happy weekend, friends!

From an artistic standpoint, one of my favorite photos of Hallie. 

Not sure another toy was ever loved more than this shark tent at the Lodge.

Driving the pontoon on Booth Lake in Wisconsin.

My parents, circa 1980ish?

Proudly handling the mail.

Will with our friend Neal, back when we lived in Ann Arbor.
Grad school was really hard in many ways, but out of it came
lots of great friends who truly helped us raise our babies. We
"returned the favor" by helping them recognize that they
might not want to have babies during grad school. 😂

A favorite of baby Will.

Another favorite. Man, I miss those curls.

Baby Plié!

Disneyland

We were the FIRST people in the park that day.

Summer hair, don't care.

Summer hair, don't care on steroids. Plus our sweet boy Tux,
riding around in his favorite position on his favorite person.

I kind of miss chalk art...except for when they'd sit down on top of their
art and I'd have to was dark colored chalk out of their light colored shorts.

Watching the USWNT play in Houston a few years ago. He seemed
so old then, but now I look at this pic and think he looks like a baby.

Gramps and his four grands.

When Hallie broke her collarbone and they didn't make a sling
small enough for her, Grandma Susie made her one out of pink toule.

That's Popeye! If you zoom in, you can see
his little stump of a leg before it was amputated.

Will's first friends.

Hallie taking a nap on me on the lake.

Aunt Stacey and Fabio.

Hallie drying Tom's freshly
painted toenails by the fan.

You know what they say about Wisconsin ice cream...

AJ and Will 4th of July date!

Always working.

They'd given up on that day's outing... 😂

With our friends Carrie and Jason at our wedding bar crawl.

"I believe that we will win."

With our first babies, Duke and Clementine.

Enjoy your (flashback) Friday, friends! See you next week!