Lost and Found

The other day, my cousin Cara posted some pictures of me and my family that I had never seen before. I find it pretty funny and cool that these photos show up seven or ten years after they are taken, and I don't remember ever seeing them before. It makes me wonder what pictures people might have of me that I don't know exist! And another thing... I don't remember any of these occasions. At all. These photos bring back memories in the sense that I know where they were taken, but I don't remember them being taken - even the ones that were taken when I was a little older. The things that I do remember are the clothes - the bathingsuits, the dresses - I remember their feel and what I loved wearing, as well as what I passed down to my little cousins (they're wearing them in some of the pictures). Also, I am going to post a few of my cousins, even though you won't know them - however, I just love all the facial expressions and that ... well... they pretty much make the same faces today!
My thought process in reviewing these pictures hearkened back to what Kuhn said in "Family Secrets":

"It is possible to take a critical and questioning look at family photographs, and this can generate hitherto unsuspected, sometimes painful, knowledge as well as new understandings about the past and the present, helping to raise critical consciousness not only about our individual lives an dour own families, but about ‘the family’ in general and even, too, about the times and the places we inhabit...… [they] stand as guarantors of the past actuality of some person or event."

Here are a few that I thought were cute/funny:

loved that pink velvet dress ... and will never forget that gate in the background

and we passed my sister's pink and yellow flower dress down through the generations of Nys'

I love this one of me and Cara!

Cara and Ivy still make those faces.