The Tractor Photos

One of the tasks of the week prior to the funeral was to gather photos to provide to the funeral home so that they could make a video to be shown during the viewing and put on the mortuary's website.  We had stayed up late on Tuesday night getting stuff together, but then had to leave it with Charon and Vonette to finish up and get to the mortuary.  In the process, they saw these two photos we added:

These photos were part of a family photo shoot that we did in different parts of Grandma and Grandpa's home, yard, and field in July of 2010 right before Scott and Chantel got married.  The tractor was Grandpa's and I loved how these pictures turned out.

Well, it gave Charon and Vonette an idea and they made all of the needed arrangements.  Vonette's daughter is a photographer and she agreed to bring her equipment and take photos on the tractor for anyone who wanted one during the family dinner.  It is not the same tractor as in the original photo, but red tractors remind us of Grandpa Hall.

I wasn't there but I heard it was a huge hit.  I know that I love our photos that Christie printed for us and for our kids.

And then if that wasn't "cool enough" and a touching remembrance of the house and yard, look what I found tucked into one of our boxes of things we brought from Gary's mom's house as part of the cleaning up.

This is a mug that says "we love Grandpa" on the back and has this photo on the front of our four older kids on the tractor with Grandpa.  This would have been taken during our Christmas visit in December of 1992 when Jessica was 9, Scott 8, Ben 4 and Tosha was 2 1/2.  I had forgotten about that photo and the mug, but how great is that--photos from 1992 to 2020 on the red tractor.  

Definitely priceless!  And in times like these, photos and memories soothe your aching heart in a special way. And because I know that we are connected together forever and that those who have gone before us are often close at hand--it makes me think that Mom and Dad Hall were smiling as family members took one last set of pictures in the field on the red tractor--and THAT thought makes me happy.

(I wonder what our grandchildren will want pictures "on" to remember us--a box of books and a computer???)