Cathy through the years

Your scrapblog editor never visits any relative without pilfering through their family photos, and her recent trek to Kansas to see Chats and Michael was no exception. Here are some photos of Chats through the years I took from scrapbooks in C&M's "German room":

Newborn Mary Catherine Miller meets older siblings Chris and Pam in August 1960. Chats was born in Baltimore, Md. Note the patches on my pants. Not a privileged childhood, but a happy one, for sure.

Alverna wrote on the back of this December 1960 photo: "Pam, Chris and Bill sing Christmas carols. (Cathy was about to cry!)" The Trapp Family Singers this bunch was not.

Cathy played with button-nosed cousin JoAnn Schmidt during a May 1961 visit to Minnesota.

Chris read to Cathy in the early 1960s, when the family lived in Ansbach, Germany. Alverna recorded this exchange on the back of this photo: "Wead to me, Cwis." "OK, Cathy."

Cathy in Germany. Could Alverna have cut her bangs any shorter??!!

In this photo of delicious food (including rosettes!) and priceless blue plates, you may also notice Chats and Pam, looking awfully serious. The occasion was Cathy's graduation from Lincoln High School in Lake City, Minn., where she was a top student.

Cathy during a 1993 vacation to Key West, Fla.

Bill Miller was always very proud of his beautiful and brilliant daughter. Here he posed with her at her 1995 wedding to Michael Northrup.

The Rev. Chatsies in 2004.