The family all grown up.

Aunt Myretta Aunt Helen and Uncle Jackie. July 2008

Well taking a picture off a picture resulted in this. I shall clean it up later. But here we all are. Its a cute picture.

I am guessing again at the ages here, Bryan looks to be about 3, Pam 6 and me I guess 8.

Not sure what year this was taken, but Steve looks to be about 3 or 4 so Cheryl would have to be around 6, I guess.

In their earlier years, before kids. Not sure where they were. I think this is a good picture of them together. I have very few pics of them in the early years.

Growing up in OP was a great experience. My fondest memories -was getting off the bus at the bus stop and smelling my mom's beans cooking from that far away. I hated beans and contemplated on those days not going home, but walking in the door and hearing the baseball game coming from the television set...or my mom's favorite music playing, was worth it. She was always busy cleaning and repeating over and over "clean up, pick up, that's all I ever do. Some day I'm going to leave this place." My dad would come in from working in Chicago and whistle all the way up the stairs. He loved coming home. Fond memories for me, and these days I like to believe that they are still there where I left them.. on Birch street in Orland Park.