Saturday, December 29, 2012

Christmas, and then Some

Christmas this year was spent in three households! That's right, one two THREE!!

 Christmas morning smooches at the Fella's Family home

Here is Tommy supervising the spelunking! 

My Bakelite necklace is from my Sister and Brother-in-law

The water main in our apartment building exploded - on Christmas! Leaving us with no water for 2 days.Thankfully we live very close to the family so we brought Scarlett's tub to give her a good baby scrub down.

 
Uncle Ron and Aunt Pat

Vintage family Santa picture

The day after Christmas Scarlett and I headed out to Apple Valley to spend a few days with my Grandmother and Aunt Jamie. My Grandma Bonnie pulled ALL the photos out!

Grandma Bonnie and I

My Grandma Bonnie (the little girl on the far left) and her family

My Great Aunt Betty

Grandma Jan (with the amazing do) and Grandma Bonnie in the early 70's

So, my Grandma Bonnie feeds her outside feral kitties with what I like to call ,"Kitty Feast Extraordinaire". It consists of non-dairy coffee creamer and both dry/wet cat food

Very healthy outdoor kitties!

Kitty cereal? 

We had some playtime on the floor in front of the beautiful Christmas tree while Grandma played us some tunes on her keyboard

 
A little dancing is in order

My Great-Grandfather was the head of Electricians at Warner Brothers for 25 years. Here is a photo of the crew in the 20's working on a C.B. DeMille film!

A personalized Jimmy Stewart autograph 

My Grandfather in the bottom left, working on Flamingo Road starring Joan Crawford (in the middle black costume)


My Great Grandfather with Joan Crawford

 

What an action packed Christmas! What did everyone get?

12 comments:

  1. Wow, how exciting to have your grandfather work with movie stars of the golden era. I would be neat to hear some stories:))

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    1. I couldn't believe my eyes when she brought the pictures out!

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  2. Those family photos are amazing! Loving the Hollywood history :-)

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    1. It's in my blood! Could you imagine hanging out with Joan Crawford?

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  3. Looks like you had a lovely Christmas! Er, should I say lovely Christmases! And I'm amazed at your hair, it always looks so flawless - how many hours you must spend! :D xoxo, Jess

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    1. Thank you Jess. I do have an unfair advantage because I am a hairdresser! I just set my hair every few days, get a few hairdos out of it and then start all over again! I know now why girls had to stay home to "wash their hair" :)

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  4. I know what I want - That Jimmy Stewart photo!

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  5. What an amazing time to be on the Warner Brother's sets!

    HRF

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    1. I like how my Grandmother started with "You may know who some of these people are". 0_0

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