Photos from the Past

      During the past week I received a wonderful gift from one of my awesome cousins.  She is in the process of scanning her mother's photo album and shared some of the photos with me.  My very favorite was a picture of my great-grandfather and great-grandmother, Hubert & Eliza Mower Singleton.  I hadn't ever seen the picture or had a picture of them before so it was a wonderful treasure.  I did have a zerox copy, of a zerox copy, of Eliza Mower but hadn't ever seen Hubert Singleton.

Hubert & Eliza Mower Singleton

  
      My next two favorite ones would be the pictures of my grandma, Ethel Singleton, and my grandfather, John Sigurmunder Hreinson taken in Castle Gate.

John Sigurmunder Hreinson & grand-daughter Christine

Ethel Singleton Hreinson and Grand-daughter Terry

      There was also pictures of my aunts and uncles, my big brother and my favorite sister.

      When my parents were married they moved to Orem, Utah and began to build a home for the family.  While they were building the house they lived in a garage next to the new home.  By the time we moved into the house there was four kids and my mother and father living in the garage.  I'm sure my mother was very happy to finally move in and have a home of their own. My cousin, Chris, and I believe this picture was taken in the garage.  What do you think Terry?  I also believe that is my father in the background on the right side of the picture.

My sister, Terry, and my awesome cousin, Chris, wearing my fathers boots. 

Thank you, Chris, for sharing so many special memories and photographs with me.

      While we are talking about the house, I took the opportunity a couple weeks ago to drive past the house that my father and mother had built and that I had been raised in.   It brought tears to my eyes then and it still does.  There was an old TV sitting in the front yard along with other large cabinets.  There was a sectional from a couch sitting in the corner of the yard.  The garage door was open and it was filled with boxes and junk.  The lawn was dead and dry, the fence around the front yard was gone, the back yard was fenced with a large, ugly fence, windows on the front door and back door had cardboard covering them up.  It was so sad to see the house in total disarray.  The house isn't a total lose though.  It lives on in my memories, good memories, happy memories.  Memories of the Past....