Flashback Friday: 3/8/2013

Mama Bear, chillin' like a villain.

She's on my brain today. Love you, Mom!

Flashback Friday: 3/1/2013

Just hanging out with some ducks. 

Flashback Friday: 2/22/2013

Aunt Bubbles,  Uncle Butch
Aunt Shell, Mom

This was taken in my front yard, though obviously at the time it was my Gram's front yard. It's weird because the background view looks exactly the same.

Flashback Friday: 2/15/2013

In honor of my very favorite Valentine, I didn't have to flash back quite so far this time. Here are some pictures of Wes when we first started dating, around 2005ish. He looked like such a hooligan. Lots of metal in the face. I guess he still kind of looks like such a hooligan, even with less metal in the face. He lived in an apartment building that had a playground out front, and we had way too much fun with that on a regular basis. We got the swords and armor from an after-Halloween sale, and it was all down hill from there.

Wes & Sarah, taking over the playground.

Vanquishing Foes. 

Bowling with sunglasses?

End of the Year SCRUFF.

Flashback Friday: 2/8/2013

Field Trippin'

As children we were homeschooled until 8th grade (excluding 3rd grade, when we tried a private school that wasn't a good fit). I know you hear a lot of mixed things about homeschooling, but we had an incredibly positive experience with it. My mom was on top of crap, for real. I toy with the idea of homeschooling Henry, but I'm not sure I could be as driven and structured as my mom was. We will see.

This picture was taken after a field trip to Laurel Caverns. We had stopped for lunch at McDonalds, and this was a giant creepy Grimace that you could crawl inside. Notice the twins dressed like twins. Good times.

Happy Friday!

Flashback Friday: 2/1/2013

Burly Man, Luke, Mom, Eagle

Mom and my youngest brother Luke, around 10 years ago. This made me laugh so hard. "Born to Ride". Enough said.

Happy Friday!

Flashback Friday: 1/25/2013

My dad...

Mike Velickoff, 1986

Stuff I love about this guy...

He's freaking hilarious. 

He's the type of person who, while driving, thinks it's really funny to smile and wave frantically at strangers passing just to see the return half-wave and look of total confusion on their faces..."Did we know that guy?"...

I can't tell you how many times I've had the crap scared out of me by him screaming around corners on some of my childhood midnight bathroom runs.

He will ALWAYS laugh at fart jokes.

He can build anything out of anything. He helped us extensively remodel my great-grandma's house a few years ago. We couldn't have done it without his help. I never would have made it through the bats and the bat crap. Thanks, Dad!!!!

He can act like a big 12 year old. When I was in high school, his response to a smart remark my best friend Autumn made- Dad tackled her, took her SHOE, threw it across the K-Mart parking lot, and tried to throw her in a mud puddle while laughing like a maniac the entire time.

He is a great Dad. Growing up with someone who has such a sense of humor was something I will always appreciate. Even if he did stuff like this...

"You can ride on it! It's just a deer!"

I know. He's a baller. I love you Dad!

Flashback Friday: 1/18/2013

Get ready for lots of twin pictures in the future...

As the first children, and the novelty children, we have buckets of photographs of ourselves doing lots of oddball stuff. Like conquering snowmen.

James & Jen. Snowman Defeated.

Happy Friday!

Flashback Fridays...

I have always loved reading "Flashback Friday" posts. It's awesome to see a family history and random tidbits of their lives. My mom recently scanned and saved hundreds of photographs for us because she is incredibly awesome, so I really have no excuse not to do this. So here's my first flashback photo...

Ohiopyle State Park, 1980-something.

That is my mom climbing the tree and my dad catching her. We grew up (and still reside) near Ohiopyle State Park, which is where this photo was taken. My parents used to hang out there quite a bit.  They were teenagers, dating at this time, not yet married. My mom was (and still is) pretty fearless. One of her stated reasons for dating my dad was that she couldn't beat him up. Love it. Love them.