We visited Bridgewater this weekend. The Easter party was in the old gym. This gym is the only thing remaining from the Bridgewater High School. It was built in 1924 and the floor still has the original finish. They gym is so small that the free throw line circle and the center circle overlap. My mom play basketball in this gym back in the day. 
This picture is myself, my sister Lois, and my brother Justin visiting Santa at the Citizen State Bank in Avoca, Iowa. Check out the Aluminum tree in the corner, also don't you just love the plaid pants... so stylish!!
This is a picture of myself , my sister Lois and our Black Lab.. Queenie. 
I grew up on a farm 3 miles from our town of Avoca, Iowa. The school bus would come at 7 am in the morning. We were the first kids on in the morning and luckily one of the first off the the afternoon. Our morning ride was about an hour. It was great memories of sitting with our friends, talking, singing, playing cats cradle, doing homework etc. My bus driver for my entire school experience was Eric Olson. He was more than a bus driver... he was my protector, encourager, and friends. He had such a great sense of humor. I was always forgetting something and he would allow me to run back to the house to retrieve it, but his favorite line to me was...."Nancy if your head wasn't fastened on, you'd probably forget it too!!"
This is a picture of my parents holding me in 1962. 
This is the church where my parents were married in 1961. It's the Bridgewater Iowa Methodist Church. It's has the most beautiful stained glass windows.
The interior looking back from the pulpit area. It still has the original curved pews.
These window are so beautiful with the morning sun shinning through. I remember as a little girl visiting my Grandparents church just how beautiful all the colored glass . 
