Recently I went through our old pictures and realized we have two family pictures that I really like. Unfortunately both of them have gotten badly faded over the years of hanging on the wall. Since they were pre-digital photo days, I had no original digital files or duplicates to work with. I decided to take them both in to a photo shop to have them Photoshop/re-colorize them, not knowing how much this would cost. It ended up costing $200 for the two pictures! Was it worth it? How do you decide what a picture is worth? I ultimately decided it was worth it. Here are the pictures with the faded versions before the Photoshopped versions. The first is from spring 1997 in front of the Washington, DC temple. I just love seeing pictures of our family from those early days. The second is from spring 2002. I was quite pregnant with Talmage and I love the look on Susanna's face.
We enjoyed our Thanksgiving meal as always. We had 29 people at our house, with almost all my children in attendance, grandchildren, spouses, and a few extra guests. The turkey we made was a little dry. I think it was because it was still on the frozen side despite being in the fridge for a week. So the outer meat got cooked way before the inside meat. But all the sides were good. We also served some ham which was popular. And lots of pie. The weather was unseasonably warm. We went over to my brother's house about 4pm to visit with the relatives there. Then a little later we went ice skating at the Peaks. I didn't actually ice skate but I hung around with my 3-year-old grandson who didn't want to ice skate and talked to people. Scott and I hiked the Y earlier in the day so I had gotten some good exercise. Our grandchildren stayed overnight and we did some activities with them today. We raked leaves in our yard then walked to the park in our unseasonably warm weather. Then ...