A Marvelous Early Birthday Present

When Kari came to visit us earlier this month she brought a very special early 80th birthday gift for me. It was something I had never heard of and certainly something I did not know I would enjoy so much.

It is a Digital Photo Frame - pictured here with a picture of her and her husband, Ken - a picture within the picture frame. It came with a lot of photos already installed. 

My smart, wonderful, techno savvy, son-in-law must have spent hours going through the photos on my Facebook page and blog to find and save the photos he saved to the frame.

In addition, he set up an email account then contacted my children and grandchildren and asked them to share photos via email which then shared them to the frame. They can use that email account to share more photos at any time and I certainly hope they do!

While here Kari showed me how to set up my own account so I could also add photos to the frame, which I've been doing.

A favorite photo of Mom.

And one of my Dad and his first grandson, my son Douglas - with a cute kitten thrown in for the aw-w response. 

A favorite photo of my youngest great-grandson, Louis, and youngest great-granddaughter Brynley, shared to the frame by her mother, my oldest granddaughter, Katrina.

A hilarious photo of granddaughter Kathryn and her nephew Ayden.

One that Ken saved and shared from my photos.

Another one uploaded by Ken of me and my grandson, Ki, aka Ayden's father.

An old photo of my daughter Kari and son Preston washing my car. 

And one of me that Ken took on a trip he, Kari and I made to the Oregon coast. 

I think this was at Fort Stevens State Park.

And a really old photo I added to the frame - one of me, Dad, Ron, little sister Betty and Mom taken on a trip to Illinois in 1947.

This was at a spring on or near some land belonging to relatives.

The frame goes dark after awhile if there has been no movement near it. It also shuts off automatically at nine p.m. and turns itself on at seven a.m. It is so interesting to watch just to see what picture pops up next. It is set to change every five seconds, but can be adjusted.

Right now it is in my 'office' because this is where I spend a good share of my time. I plan to take it over to the clubhouse for my 80th birthday party next month.

It will be kind of like the slide shows they have at a funeral except that I will still be present - at least I hope so! 😉