RAEANNE ELIZABETH LONG

Part 2 - The Pictures

Pre #1 This is as far back as I am going to take you right now – RaeAnn is the one in the middle at a Family Reunion in 1994, I think she was barely three, she has beautiful hair – Blond as could be. You can hardly see her Killer smile. Now older Brother Roy is on the right side -and the guy that looks like him above is his dad Jeff – my second eldest child. But you can plainly see the good looks Rae Ann has come from her Mother! And that is a definite Killer smile right from the heart of Texas – you can hardly tell but Beth also had beautiful Long hair and good looking legs – but then if you check out baby Ashlee – she is really showing off the beautiful legs from her mom. Look at Moms beautiful long fingers.

I wanted to have this picture especially here as this shows Ashlee at about the same age As when RaeAnn (and Family) came to live with her Grandparent LONGS Jeffrey had to go to school and Beth had to work

Gramma also had to work and so that Only left Roy , RaeAnn and Grampa home.
Roy had to take care of us three and he was not as big as RaeAnn here. I use to bath Roy and RaeAnn at the same time in our double Kitchen Sink (someday I will add that picture) RaeAnn did not think she needed a daily bath and she let Roy and I know it on a daily basis. Roy loved to wash her back and then pour the water to wash her off. He Loved his baby sister – but she was having none of it! I would carefully dry her of and powder her while she still Protested and even when I dressed her and wrapped her in her blanket she still was not happy and it was not till I mixed up the formula and warmed it a bit and gave it to her that she became more tolerant and appreciative. She then would take one of her naps as she felt she had put in a full days work putting up with us men. (I would say that she missed her mother about as much as her mother missed her.)

Now Roy loved the baths and if he cried at all it was when I made him get out. I think if I could have fit in the other sink I would climb in with Roy and we would have had a great time.

From RaeAnn being the size of Ashlee here until the time of this picture Grampa was depended on to take care of the children till Mom got home. It was tuff on Mama as she would start doing her first in things while Ma and Papa were gone- so sad for Mama. Thus when Ashlee was born Mom said to Jeff I want to move as far away as possible from your Father and family as possible – The best Jeff could do was move 250 miles away to a little town of 3 – 4000 people, (it just so happened to be where his job sent him) and we could not chase after them for almost ten years.

It was like ripping the HEART out of Grampa and feeding my heart to the wolves as they left.

The first one is off her with beautiful long straight hair, Especially meaningful to her Grampa. Check out her fingers, but how could you possibly miss the Killer smile!

This was when Grampa gave her a new name which remains to this day - GORGEIOS!

The second one is of her with Beautiful Curls and look at the Killer smile taken in 2007 with some guy next to her and if I was there I would not have let her out the door. Which is why she is smiling so much

The third is of her Twirling for her Grampa ( a special Meaning to lengthy to explain right now) at aunt Debbie’s Wedding. 6/2008



Check out the hair, and not to embarrass her (Yeh – Right Grampa – you would never do that now would you? ! ) her pretty legs and there is the Killer Smile again.

The fourth is of her relaxing and holding a baby and she so looks like her Gramma Fulgham and her mother. 7/12/08 I am afraid the time is short – 5-8 years and this could be her holding her very own baby She had no idea I was going to take this picture – but still look at the Killer smile Look at her Beautiful hair and the finger and how she is holding and loving this child who has never seen RaeAnn before (The Girl is Hannah - she is a daughter of Scott and Kijerstein Brown - others told RaeAnn that she would not go to her as she did not know her?)

This was taken at the LONG Reunion. RaeAnn was staying close to me like a hawk and doing any little thing I needed so I could stay seated and last longer – before having to be put to bed .

The Fifth one here is her with 3 of my 10 Granddaughters her closest cousins (in the Long Family) – You have Katherine (Katie) next to RaeAnn and she is 6 Then there is Ashlee 14, and then there is Laura (Emily) 12 6/20/08 (they all have Killer smiles)

Now Truthfully - can you even think of any of these four giving their Grampa a bad time.


The 6th and 7th is The Family of Donald and Elberta R Long 6/20/08 This was taken at Debbie and John’s wedding and for some stupid unknown reason the two girls were left out. So the second picture with them and their parents – Count the Killer smiles (Used the big Family picture for the starter family shot to this Blog)

That leaves 6 missing and one of which is close to being born – Pictures of them later If I get this working right I will add the Aussies in a few days – We are waiting on one birth there.




8th June 7, 2007 This is a picture of RaeAnn with each of her Brothers and sisters which include Sister Ashlee Christine 14, Brothers Roy Dean 18, Aaron Craig 12, and last but not least - Timothy Daniel 7 - Hey they all have Killer Smiles








9 The final picture here is Mom Beth, and Dad Jeffrey, and if you want to see more pictures and information about this family then go to their Blog site listed above.


This is the family for which this blog is being set up for. Raeann is the most special and most important person in the whole group, and She is the one her Grampa loves the most! of all the 17 year old granddaughters – it is likely the rest of this family feels the same way about this 17 year old member of the family and it will stay that way till her birthday.

That you are reading this right now is mostly to do with her - and a little to do with Laura - She is Next)