Three Sisters...

I am blessed to be the oldest of 3 sisters. We are each very different. I was born July 30, 1950, Arliss June (Junie was born September 29, 1951, and Laurel Lyneth (Neffie) was born July 29, 1955. So we were close enough in age to enjoy playing together as children. In the black & white picture above (left-to-right) is Sandi, Junie and Neffie. That was taken in 1956 or so. We are wearing dresses that my mother made. They have little pansies on the collars and pansies were also around the bottoms of the skirts. I remember my mother giving her mom some of these to embroider. Then they were cut out and sewn on each dress. We used to have Stake Conference at church every quarter of the year. So 4 times a year we would get a new dress to wear for church. I think these dresses fit the bill for Easter dresses and the new stake conference dress that year. The color picture was taken in March of 2008 at a Mexican restaurant in Georgetown, KY. Pictured (left-to-right) are Junie, Sandi & Neffie. Junie and Neffie made a visit to see Mimi and Papa. We had a great time visiting and practicing music to sing in the nursing home.

The picture on your left was taken in my basement and is Sandi, Neffie & Junie singing, Papa playing the guitar and Mike, Junies youngest son, playing guitar on the right side of the picture. The middle picture is at the nursing home. My mother is on the left, Mike in the middle and Papa on the right. The picture on the right is Papa playing the guitar and Neffie, Sandi & Junie singing. It was really a great moment after all the years to sing together and Mimi just loved it. She clapped and sang along. At this point the sisters are scattered over the United States, I'm in Kentucky, Junie is in Bountiful, Utah and Neffie is in Friendswood, Texas. So to be able to get a moment in time when we could all be together like this and to have Mike join us was a tremendous gift.