JandA4: Old Family Pictures

I was digging through my moms cedar chest a few months back and found some old family photo albums with a gold mine of pictures! I took them out of those old, sticky, plastic albums and had them scanned and made a new photo book for her so that they wouldn't get damaged any further.

This is my adorable grandma Norma Cazier Hartvisgsen when she was just a baby. She was born in 1924. She looks about 1 year old so I'm going to guess this picture was taken in 1925.

This is my grandpa Art Hartvigsen Jr. It seems like I was once told that he was around 13 years old in this picture. He was born in 1923 so I'll guess this picture was taken somewhere around 1935 to 1939 time frame.

This is my grandma when she was in the Ute Stanpete Royality.

This picture of my grandpa was taken when he enlisted in the Navy. He enlisted at the young age of 17 and had to have his parents sign papers to let him enlist. He was shipped off to Pearl City, Oahu, Hawaii. He was on Pearl when the Japanese attacked. He was on his ship, the Medusa, which was on the north side of harbor when the bombs came. He was a diver and had to help dive for bodies. He would grab hold of someone to pull them up and their skin would slip right off, it was burned so badly. It was something that he never spoke about. Ever. After much asking, he finally wrote his history of his time in the service. We were all given a copy to read but he still never talked much about it. It was just too traumatic.

There were lots and lots of pictures of my grandparents kissing and lots of pics of my grandma alone. All of them had the most sweet love notes to my grandpa from my grandma written on the back of them. She missed him so much when he was gone.

This is a picture of a band that my great Grandma Zella Park Cazier used to play in. My grandma is on the bottom row, far left.

She used to come stay at our house for sleepovers and us kids slept at her house a time or two. I used to love to dig through her jewelery box. And nothing fascinated me more than to see her false teeth sitting in a cup of cleaner.

This is my mom when she was a darling little baby. She was born in 1946 and this was her one year old picture. So it was taken in 1947.

This is her when she was 5 years old.

1951

And this was her high school graduation picture.

She graduated from Spanish Fork High School in 1964.

This picture of my dad was taken in 1960something. The writing is rubbed off and hard to tell. But he is 30 something years old. He looks good huh!

This is a picture of my grandma holding me and my cousin Jeremy. We were born 2 weeks apart.

My cousin Jeremy and I again at about 1 year old.

Photo taken in late spring of 1977.

My brothers and me:

Glen - Me - Brent - Darren - Brian

Brian holding me and Jeremy.

Halloween 1978 or 1979

I loved my grandma's house! She had a very fancy living room with ivory colored carpet, a gold couch and red chairs. Her lamps were red and gold and all the decor in the room was so pretty. We were not allowed to step foot in there without permission. I loved this room!