First Christmas with all five kids

Merry Christmas (plus 45)!

We're up to the seventh carousel of slides.  This has a few pictures of Christmas, 1963.  All five of us are here (but never all together at the same time in any picture).

Carousels 1 through 6 go from August, 1949, to December, 1963.  That averages two years and four months per carousel of 100 slides.  With this volume Jack has become a picture-taking maniac.  We have only two months of our lives here.

Carousel-07

That was some fur coat our grandmother had.  The last picture in the group has her smiling with teeth showing.  She always seems to have a rather grim expression so that one is a nice surprise.

What happened to cousin Danny's eye?

Here is an article from The New Mexican that tells about the plane ride we took.  The caption for the picture was for another family that also took the ride.  I guess they decided after they laid out the page that ours was a more attactive family so they used our picture.  They just didn't get around to rewriting the caption.
We were the first family to fly and there was some difficulty getting things going.  So they gave us a longer ride than the 20 minutes we were supposed to get to make up for our long wait.