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the december roundup
December, 2017
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the december roundup
December, 2017
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the december roundup
December, 2017
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Brett and I checking out of
the december roundup
December, 2017
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Me, Brett and my cousins Lindsey & Chad with my mom's parents Ann & Bill....guessing 1985?
the december roundup
December, 2017
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Baby me with my dad's parents Hank & Connie. Guessing I'm like 2 here so probably 1978.
the december roundup
December, 2017
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My mom Christmas 1974(?)
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December, 2017
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Me and Chris. Probably Christmas 1986 or 87.
the december roundup
December, 2017
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Came home and digitized a bunch of old photos at my parent's place.
the december roundup
December, 2017
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Made this Baby Maddy vs. Birthday Maddy 9-year time-elapse for Instagram.
the december roundup
December, 2017
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4 of them made by Vin. 2 of them mine.
the december roundup
December, 2017
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This ornament is really cute. Love looking back at old photos. (Who would've guessed that about me, right?)
the november roundup
November, 2017
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Compared to this flashback pic from the late 90s!
the november roundup
November, 2017
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Love these pics of Grandma and her 4 daughters! Clockwise from upper-left: Barbara, Elaine, Stephanie (my mom) and Sue.
the september roundup
September, 2017
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Going through old pics and I found this great pic of my dad's father taken while he was on an island in the Pacific Theater in WWII. Check out the cute pup on his lap.
the august roundup
August, 2016
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...original flyer from 2004 from my 28th birthday party at MisShapes!
the february roundup
February, 2016
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Found a few other random memories, including this photo from when I went to Basking Ridge's senior prom with Jen Perkins....
the february roundup
February, 2016
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Josh's wife reached out to me about scanning some old photos of Josh for his upcoming 40th birthday. I was happy to oblige. Jeans and sandals with a walking flexdown when he sees the camera? Classic Newman.
the january roundup
January, 2016
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And then spend the late afternoon digging up some funny old photos of Doug as requested by Doug's girlfriend who was working on a surprise slideshow to show at his upcoming 40th birthday!
the october roundup
October, 2015
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Some were from college in 96...
the october roundup
October, 2015
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Christmas morning, 1988. (Check those mullets!)
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Christmas 1987! Me and Brett getting ready to open some videogame presents!
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Summer before sixth grade! For my birthday party, my parents took me, Chris, Sean & Keith to NJ's INFAMOUS Action Park. Check out those shirts! Haha.
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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After a long day of swimming and skiing, we'd all pile into the awesome-smelling cedar hot tub!
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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My dad teaching someone how to waterski by pulling them out of the water by hand a few times. After you get the hang of it, you're ready to go behind the boat!
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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My parents got me my own mask, snorkel and fins.
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Ready to dive.
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Skull & Crossbones ice-cream cake for my 12th birthday, August 1988.
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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My mom got to pick out our family dog and we got a giant, apricot Standard Poodle named, Goldie!
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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My dad teaching me how to drive the new riding mower he bought! At first I couldn't drive it because the tractor came with a kill-switch underneath the drivers seat that would stop the engine in case you fell off while mowing. But I didn't weigh enough to keep the switch down! My dad wasn't about to mow the lawn himself and so he went into the kitchen and found a really strong magnet, lifted up the seat and clamped the magnet to the kill switch! Blamo, problem solved!

This brilliant move, however, would come back to haunt him later in the afternoon when he was teaching me how to park the tractor in the shed. I went in to far and started hitting the back wall of the shed, and instead of telling me to hit the brake, my dad just started yelling "STAND UP! STAND UP!" thinking the kill switch would engage and the tractor would stop. But he forgot about the magnet he put on and I drove the tractor right through the back of the shed. Hahaha. Famous family story.
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Me and Brett fishing on a Y Indian Guides camping trip in matching jean jackets.
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Brett & Me, Halloween 1989. I was Freddy Krueger. My brother asked me to help him look like a punk rocker. I dyed his hair pink, gave him Alice Cooper make-up and made him a rock-shirt with a bunch of hand-drawn logos of all the bands I was into! (I can't read them all, but I do see Anthrax, Metallica, Van Halen and TESLA! hahah).
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Here's me tandem-skiing with my dad!
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Uncle Steven driving his sparkly-blue Glastron speed boat, which we all grew up calling THE BLUE BOMB! I grew-up waterskiing behind a tiny boat called a Boston Whaler, but by the summer of 1988, I was a few weeks away from turning 12 and Steven said I was big enough to ski behind THE BIG BOAT!
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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It was also the summer I learned how to drop a ski and get down on ONE SKI! Big news.
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Every summer, my family would drive up to Bow Lake in New Hampshire and spend a week at my Uncle Steven & Aunt Kathy's lakehouse on Beech Island! Here's a shot of Brian Crowell getting ready to waterskii!
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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She had a great personality and my mom used to put t-shirts on her and take her to my brother's soccer games as the team mascot. Haha. Here she is in her trademark, yellow Crazy Eddie t-shirt. Haha.
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Getting ready to play LASER TAG in my backyard with Chris Toscano. (5th Grade, 1986)
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Halloween 1986!
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Supervising bathtime with Brett. Never not a ham.
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Me and Chris getting our Atari on Christmas morning 1983! Concentration face! Haha.
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Fishing with dad! Modesty has never been my strong suite.
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Afghan roof for the win!
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Cuddle buddies, 1983.
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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My little brother was really into building couch-cushion forts.
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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My brother and my cousins with a hired Santa at Pop-Pop's basement Christmas party. Everyone's face in this photo is so funny!
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Playing Go Fish with Grandma. (I guess this shirt was a big hit this year).
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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On Friday morning I went through some of my parents photo albums and took some pics of some choice cuts. Here's my kindergarten class photo! I'm in the 2nd row all the way on the right.
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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Piloting a toy boat with Brett in 1983
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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My 2nd Grade Class photo. I'm on the right in the top row. While looking at this photo, I realized my friend Mary Andrews who I met in NYC in 2000 was IN MY 2ND GRADE CLASS!?! Crazytown! How did we never figure this out! (She's in the 2nd row, 4th from the left!)
visiting florida & old photo nostalgia
February 22, 2015
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...of the house that we lived in from 1977-79. We parked and knocked on the door. The family living there welcomed us in for a look around. Very kind of them!
boulder and red rocks
September 14, 2012
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It's funny that we relate to places we used to live as old friends. I remember my dad's Mustang parked out front of the house. I had night terrors when I was a kid and when I couldn't sleep he'd drive me around the neighborhood.
boulder and red rocks
September 14, 2012
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Thanks for letting me stroll down memory lane, kind strangers!
boulder and red rocks
September 14, 2012
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My earliest memories are from this backyard. I distinctly remember that our neighbors on the other side of that fence had a pumpkin patch and one year a vine came through the fence and a pumpkin grew in our yard. It was exactly as I remembered it over 35 years later. Strange how some scenes are seared into your mind so vividly and others are just not there at all.
boulder and red rocks
September 14, 2012
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Monday clean-up means the discovery of more devices I have known and loved! Clockwise from top-left: 3Com Palm III (1998), Motorola StarTAC (1996), Sony DSC-U40 (one of my favorite cameras ever) 2003, iPod v4 (2003, LG Clamshell VX?? (2005?), Danger Hiptop Sidekick 3 (2006)
the february roundup
February, 2012
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Illin' shorties.
family xmas blizzard
December 24, 2010
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My grandfather, Hank Battjer, with his father Henry and grandfather Diedrich. I'm guessing this was taken after Hank had enlisted as a pilot but before he left for the Pacific.
family xmas blizzard
December 24, 2010
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Speaking of family resemblances, Ann & Walt have a few older photographs from my dad's side of the family hanging on the wall. I remember laughing so hard when I took this photo because if you look closely, the woman sitting on the man's lap looks like my dad in a bonnet! Haha.
family xmas blizzard
December 24, 2010
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I took this photo of an old timey photo at Leigh and Scott's apartment because the guy sitting in the chair smiling looks like Meredith's cousin Hank!
the january roundup
January, 2010
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It's like a photo of Peter Griffin going skiing! (PS - Remember when Fatty and I borrowed all my parents old ski gear to go skiing and it ended up looking like we were going to an 80s party in Williamsburg?)
the november roundup
November, 2008
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And soooo many great photos. Check out my parents posing for this clutch ski photo circa 88.
the november roundup
November, 2008
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Uncle Bruce and my dad back in the day. 1974? 75? Not sure, but it most definitely pre-dates me!
the november roundup
November, 2008
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Me and Brett with our dog Sam.
the november roundup
November, 2008
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My dad's parents, Hank and Connie Battjer, with my cousins Chris and Steve. The one on the bottom is me blowing out birthday candles with my cousin Chris watching (and looking like a bug).
the november roundup
November, 2008
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Also found a bunch of fantastic old photo albums. I snapped a couple of pics of my favorite pics. Here me with my parents and brother. I think this was from my 5th birthday - which would make it August 1981.
the november roundup
November, 2008
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Hahaha. Chris and me are swashbuckling corsairs.
the november roundup
November, 2008
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Before we get on with the fishin', I should prolly give you a little background. You see, we come from a fishing family. That handsome devil up there is my dad's father, Hank Battjer. (Holding up what looks like a fresh-water muskellunge)
fishing with pappi part 2
June 9, 2003
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And that's my Dad's mother, Connie Battjer; who actually caught the sailfish she posing with (Nope, I'm so not kidding).
fishing with pappi part 2
June 9, 2003