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FamTeam Flashbacks

Image 1997 - Baby Mary-Elizabeth squirming around on the carpet at Dad's office. Image 1997 - Dad surveying the back yard of our old office building on West Main Street in Belleville. Image 1997 - Mark and Luke playing in a baseball game in a Belleville Parks and Recreation league. Image 1994 - Philip on his fourth birthday. Image 2007 - David looks on as Nathan plays a game on the laptop. Image 2007 - More playing on the sand dunes, and Peter is finally declared the King Of Sand. Image 2007 - Mark, John, and the little guys have a blast playing on sand dunes up in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Image 2006 - On a trip with Grandma and Grandpa, Mark, Jude, and Philip visit Lake McDonald at Glacier National Park. Image 1999 - Paul, John, Mark, and Luke visit Seaside, Florida, the filiming site of "The Truman Show." Image 2006 - Philip having trouble competing in a card game against Jude while on an RV trip out west. Image 2006 - In Grandma and Grandpa's RV, Mark, Jude, and Philip talk about the western trip they are about to embark on. Image 1999 - Luke follows Mark as he explores the scenery surrounding a condominium in Destin, Florida. Image 1992 - The family gathers as Mom gives Seth his first-ever haircut. Image October 1997 - A visit to Pleasant Hill Park in Belleville. Image Christmas Day 1993 - The family winds down after enjoying a very full Christmas Day. Image 1993 - Baby Seth struggling to stay awake while munching on some cereal in the kitchen. Image Summer 2000 - A collection of at-bats by Paul, Dad, Mark, and Luke during the 2000 Softball Classic. Image September 1999 - Luke films the Gulf of Mexico while he and the three oldest guys play on the beach during a trip to Destin, Florida. Image Thanksgiving 1997 - The little guys play around in Grandma and Grandpa's back yard. Paul and Luke toss a football around. Image November 1, 1997 - 10-month-old Mary-Elizabeth eagerly crawls across a gymnasium floor towards Dad and the camera. Image 1997 - Seth, Jacob, and Nathan -- or Huey, Dewey, and Louie -- spend some time with Dad at his office. Image June 1997 - Mom and Dad with the kids at a playground in the small town of Valmeyer, Illinois. Image 1994 - While trying to avoid chubby Philip and his plastic bowling pin, Jude and James make a choo-choo train around the first floor. Image 1994 - Philip and Seth play with cousin Joey, as the rest of the family and Aunt Mary celebrate Luke's ninth birthday. Image 1994 - More busyness, as Jude, James, Seth, and Philip move around the living room and dining room. Image 1994 - In a very busy kitchen, Dad tosses a couple of balls around with Jude and James. Image Spring of 1994 - Some more goings-on in the side yard of the old house as Dad films. Image Spring of 1994 - Jude plays a tune on his flutophone while on the platform in our yard, while Philip and Seth play with a toy car. Image Spring of 1994 - In the kitchen, Dad and Mom play with a very happy baby Jacob. Image Spring of 1994 - Luke and Jude playing catch with Paul out in the yard. Image 1994 - Paul and John play with a gleeful baby Jacob in the living room and dining room of the old house. Image 1994 - Part Three of the family's visit to "The Land." Dad tapes as the six oldest play in the creek. Image 1994 - Part Two of the family's 1994 visit to the newly-acquired piece of property outside of Belleville. Image 1994 - Visiting "The Land," the piece of property the family owned for many years before building the current home. Image 1994 - The family visits the Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis. Image 1993 - Jude has trouble making contact with the ball at the batting cages, and then Dad and Mark have a go at it. Image 1998 - The family takes its annual Christmas photo. (Video at 4X speed.) Image 1987 - Grandpa Arndt operates the video camera as Dad plays with Jude and Luke in the living room during a Christmas Eve get-together. Image 1992 - During a brief family trip to Potosi, Missouri, Dad takes the four oldest (Paul, John, Mark, and Luke) to an archery range. Image 1991 - Dad pitching batting practice to James, Luke, and Paul. Image 1991 - At a nearby playground, Mark gives James a push on a tire swing. Image 1991 - Paul, John, and Mark face off in a state-capital quiz in the living room, hosted by Mom and Luke. Image 1991 - For some reason, the older guys dress up in clowns and ski masks and then roam around the back yard. Image 1991 - Mom, expecting Seth, talks with Dad while he mans the video camera in the kitchen. Image 1991 - James wearing some handsome sunglasses. Image 1991 - Toddler James trying to teach baby brother Philip how to say "ball." Image 1991 - Luke mans the camera as Dad holds baby Philip. Image 1991 - Mom putting James to sleep as the other guys play with toys in the bedroom. Image 1988 - At Laderman Park, the site of the then-nonexistant Softball Classic, the five oldest play in the playground. Image 1988 - On a very rainy afternoon, Dad lets the four oldest gleefully run around the side yard during a downpour. Image 1988 - In Paul and John's bedroom, Mom gives the guys an impromptu geography lesson, then reads a book to baby Jude. Image 1988 - Luke spinning around in the foyer as Jude plays near the Nativity scene and John and Mark play a game of Perfection. Image 1988 - Christmastime in the Arndt household, and Mom and Dad are preparing the kids for a family photo. Image 1990 - Baby Jude, wrapped in a towel after a bath, walks around the upstairs hallway. Image 1990 - Returning home from a trip to Pantera's Pizza, Mom, Dad, and the little guys walk up to the house. Image 1990 - The family, along with Aunts Jane and Greta and Uncle Mike, feed the goats at Grant's Farm in St. Louis. Image 1987 - Nine-day-old Jude, on the day of his baptism, is held by Mom. Image 1987 - The family celebrates John's fifth birthday in the living room. Image 1986 - Grandma and Grandpa Arndt take turns videotaping as Dad and the younger guys play around in the yard. Image 1986 - Paul and John wrestle over a toy while on the front porch; Grandma, Grandpa, and Great-Grandma Arndt pay the family a visit. Image 1986 - One-year-old Luke, with his bowlegs, playing with his older brothers at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville. Image 1985 - Mom playing with Paul, John, and Mark in the living room. Image 1985 - While in the bathtub, toddlers Paul and John sing a couple of songs with Mom. Image 1985 - Mom giving John and Paul a little batting practice in the side yard of our old home. Image 1985 - The four oldest in the side yard, playing on the platform that Dad had just built. Image 1985 - Paul, John, Mark, and Luke swimming in a small pool in the yard. Image 1983 - Paul and John feed the ducks at Bellevue Park. Image 1983 - Babies Paul and John have a blast running around the playground at Bellevue Park. Image 1983 - Mom and Dad take Paul and John to Bellevue Park in one of the earliest family videos we have. Image 4/28/79 - Rick and Cathy become husband and wife.
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Over the years, the attic and closets of the Arndt homestead have served as quiet (and often forgotten) vaults of storage into which many a precious eight-millimeter film reel, VHS tape, and photographic image has been carefully entrusted. In the spring of 2009, Paul Arndt began the massive task of delving into and sifting through this treasure trove of family memories, with a view to converting each image (be it moving or still), into a digital format so that it might be stored and preserved (by means of a high-capacity hard drive) for generations to come.

In keeping with the spirit of Paul's ambitious efforts, and as part of Rick and Cathy's 30th anniversary celebration, the Arndts, in the spring of 2009, proudly unveiled the FamTeam Flashbacks section of the FamTeam website!

We hope you will join us for a little stroll into the past!

(Note: The section will be updated each Friday, at which time the previous week's FamTeam Flashbacks installment will be placed into the FamTeam Archives, where it will be stored on a long-term basis. All FamTeam Archives are available to Family Room members. In order to learn more about the Family Room and its many features, please click here.)