Details..

It might be fun simply to jog memories with a random photo.

Identify the details.  Names, Places, Events... Story?

Nova, Sparky and Paige (Megan)

At camp.

Toddler is unmistakable.  Is baby Eden?  The clock in the background is familiar and so is the chair.  The lady has a familiar look but ... 'Nina'?  and no idea on the other child.  

Forty Faces... Reveals...

I didn't post my references initially so that it wouldn't influence others.

I have a slight advantage... since I've had days to pour over photos... other photos as references... I know which ones I cropped to have only Eden in them and therefore I know more of the details than are shown.  

Regardless... these are my recollections.

1. Eden with her namesake at 'Portland'.  Geneva Gathright
2. the stylin' girl.. well accessorized.   I believe in California for a Disney trip.
3. A posed shot after a sporting event??
4. Just another day in dressups for both eden and a cat.
5. the mirror/oven door.  Eden loved reflections
6. WOW.. looks like AVA!... cozy with fur hat and muff on the stage at first ward chapel. 
7. school photo... I believe in Texas?
8. After baptism at restaurant?
9. Birthday.  age.. five?
10. Cleaning off boots at Portland
11. In performance for St. Patrick's day at Quadra chapel.  Adaptation by mum of Finian's Rainbow
12. Same as #2... without the shades.
13. After a wreck on a motor bike with the Bogaerts.  Gravel embedded in upper lip I believe.

14.  Chillin' at Beacon Hill petting zoo, taking a call

15.  Cooking up a storm

16. At Sparky and Valerie's wedding in L.A. 2001

17. A birthday party for ?? Sadie?

18. At graveside for Dad

19. ??  Dreaming of owning a cat?

20. Bowling excitement

21. School picture.  highschool.  Victoria

22. Waxahachie, TX.  Dance performance with Sparky

23. It's baby time.  Sadie 2004

24. Sassy in the galley 

25. Texas and off to a dance. 

26. Hot stuff

27. Cold Stuff.  big snow of 1996? Victoria

28.  Off to work at white spot?

29. Wyoming ranch on horseback.  May 1995

30. At family reunion 1997, Victoria

31. Performing 'I could have danced all night', from My Fair Lady

32. basement in Victoria

33. West Jordan, Utah... playing dressups with the nieces and nephews.

34. Masking up for mum's episode 2019

35. Enjoying the soft luxurious rocking chair of youth

36. Yoga master

37. basement in Victoria.. braiding Bailey's hair and her own hair is on deck

38. Sports.. volleyball? basketball?

39. Earthquake 

40. Ready to party it up for the forties file bash!

Forty faces of Eden

The ever changing hairstyles and clothing styles.  

The constant smile.

The posed, the candid, the caught off guard.

The moments immortalized.

Each photo a nostalgic pull... and each a story.  

Please share.

Some photos tell the story... others only hint at it... others hint that 'there is a story'!

So spill... the stories, or I may just make some up.  And after a while... people will only remember the tale I've spun...  (I'm fairly good at creating believable tales....)

P.S.  Others can tell the stories also... sometimes other perspectives and memories are better!
I hope to hear FORTY stories!

Apparently it is easier to refer to the photos if I add numbers.. so here they are!

1980

We'll call this post 1980.

In case there are those struggling to remember what it was like in 1980... this was 'snapped' to capture us FOREVER!

Does anyone have any memories regarding the photo?  I understand from being told... not from memory... that it was taken in a truck parked on the boulevard at Haultain.

(edited:  not taken in a truck.. but at a studio.. Eden was just days old but coupon was going to expire)

It was the day Eden came home from the hospital or within a few days at least.  Any memories from this day!...  Either the visit to the hospital... meeting Eden for the first time... or perhaps someone had an adventure that day that had nothing to do with hospitals, babies or Eden at all... do tell!