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FamTeam Flashbacks

Image 1997 - Nathan receives his first-ever haircut, given by Aunt Mary. Image 1997 - Jacob and Nathan have fun looking at themselves in the camera's screen as Dad records. Image 1997 - Dad holds Mary-Elizabeth on the front porch of our old house. Image 1993 - The guys play with sparklers with cousins during a 4th of July party. Image 1996 - Luke, Jude, James, and Philip on the front porch swing, pretending they're riding a roller coaster. Image 1996 - The family being interviewed by a St. Louis news station just days before Mary-Elizabeth's birth. Image 1993 - Paul and John playing in a city baseball league. Image 1993 - Jude, James, and Philip on a swing ride at Six Flags St. Louis. Image 1993 Image 1993 - A Sunday trip to explore Pere Marquette State Park. Image 1993 - While on a day trip to St. Louis, the family stops at a playground outside of Barnes Hospital. Image 1993 - Baby Seth, with his curly hair, drinking from a water fountain. Image 1993 - A day after participating in a walk-a-thon, the family visits the Jewel Box in St. Louis. Image 1993 - While at a playground in Belleville, Dad gives the five oldest guys a push on some swings. Image 1993 - Mom and Dad take the family to play on a local playground while spending the day with Great Grandma. Image May 6, 1993 - Philip and curly-haired Seth playing in the living room of the old house. Image April 25, 1993 - Paul, Mark, and Luke riding their bikes around the old neighborhood. Image 1995 - Dad giving a tour of the attic of the old house, while it was in the process of being finished off. Image 1995 - After John, Mark, and Luke bounce on the new trampoline, Dad takes a turn. Image 1995 - Mom giving Jude a haircut in the kitchen. Image 1995 - Mom plays with a happy baby Jacob. Image 1995 - The family gathers for prayer time after a busy Christmas Day. Image 1995 - Opening presents on Christmas Day at Grandma and Grandpa Arndt's home. Image 1995 - The kids playing with different Christmas gifts after returning home from a family get-together. Image 1995 - Dad walks around outside on Christmas Eve, and shows the house and fence decorated with Christmas lights. Image 1995 - On Christmas Eve, the family settles in after being out for a few get-togethers. Image 1995 - Dad touring the crammed foyer of the old house, and then chats with James. Image 1995 - Mark tossing a ball around in the foyer as Luke shows Dad a new trophy. Image 1995 - Dad giving a tour of the foyer of our old house. Image 1995 - Christmastime with Mom's side of the family at the "Barn." Image 1993 - More Wiffel-balling, with postgame Popsicles. Image 1993 - Jude and John take some swings at Wiffle balls at Aunt Greta and Uncle Rob's house. Image 1993 - Dad chatting with a shy Luke about baseball. Image 1993 - Dad and Paul talk pitching, and then discuss Paul's recent home run. Image 1993 - Busyness in the house as Mom and Dad get ready to welcome Jacob into the family. Image 1993 - Playing around at Jefferson School while Mom crochets a pink blanket. Image 1993 - The family tossing some baseballs around at Jefferson School in Belleville. Image 1993 - Visiting Aunt Lu's house for a party with the extended family. Image 1993 - Jude playing a game with a rubber ball in the living room. Image 1993 - Dad holding baby Seth after Seth's first-ever haircut. Image 1993 - Part Two of Seth's first haircut. Image 1993 - Seth's first haircut. And Philip is NOT crabby! Image 1993 - Dad pitches to Jude as Luke catches at Pleasant Hill Park in Belleville. Image 1993 - Mark trying out his new catcher's gear at a local ballfield. Image 1993 - Dad talks with James and Philip about their new bunkbeds. Image 1993 - Mom playing the board game "Life" with the five oldest. Image 1993 - Luke videotapes while Dad steps in front of the camera and talks about some recent troubles with the family van. Image 1993 - Luke stacks a tower of blocks for baby Seth to knock down. Image 1993 - Paul and John playing a video game and listening to Cardinals broadcast. Image 1993 - John, Mark, and Luke playing a word search game around the dining room table. Image 1993 - After a baseball game of Paul's and John's, the family winds down at home. Image 1993 - (Part Two) Mom recording as the guys play at Belleville's Bellevue Park. Image 1993 - (Part One) Mom recording as the guys play at Belleville's Bellevue Park. Image 1993 - Luke and Paul take batting practice at the batting cages. Image 1993 - Jude and Mark practice at the batting cages. Image 1997 - Philip and Seth playing on the wooden platform that Dad just finished building. 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.)