Janell as a teenager in the picture below.
It was about this time of her life
when someone tagged the nickname "skinny" on her.
I think it's the "Audrey Hepburn" look.

Janell is one of the few people I know who can truly keep a secret. She has a very caring and thoughtful nature. Therefore, she has many friends. In matters of right and wrong, she is always guided by her deep faith in God. She has a loving husband, Kenneth, a daughter, Suzanne, and two grandsons, Kyle and Tyler. With every passing year I realize more and more how blessed I have always been in the sisterly department, and I'm so thankful for that! I love you, Janell........I hope I have you in my life forever. Thanks for the memories. Your loving sister, Carol

Janell, Lorene (Mama), Jerry, Jack (Brother), and Carol

"Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want,
but the realization of what you already have."

Author Unknown

"There is no Friend like a Sister"

from "There Is No Friend Like A Sister"
by Mary Engelbreit

There's no better friend than a sister -
There's no one more loyal and true . . .
and even when sisters are different . . .
their likeness comes shining through!

Perhaps it's a family resemblance,
that strengthens the bond they share . . .
or maybe it's just that sisters live life with a similar flair!
A sister remembers your collegehood -
She knows more than you will admit,
of times you were Little Miss Perfect . . .
and times you gave others a fit!
She's seen you in some situations
when silence just wouldn't suffice . . .
and managed somehow to get by with those
sisterly words of advice!

And when some encouragement's needed . . .
a sister will always be there . . .
to listen . . .
to laugh . . .
or to lean on . . .
to comfort, or simply to care.

There's no one who's more in your corner . . .
and no one you're more grateful to.
There's no better friend than a sister . . .
and no better sister than you.

SISTERLY QUOTES

Thanks to
Colleen's Corner
for the sisterly quotes below:

"The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams . . ." Elizabeth Fishel Janell, Jack (Brother) and Jerry "My sisters have taught me how to live." George Wasserstein "Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood." Pam Brown "How do people make it through life without a sister?" Sara Corpening "A sister smiles when one tells one's stories... for she knows where the decoration has been added." Chris Montaigne "There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me." Lady Mary Worley Montagu "Sisters are connected throughout their lives by a special bond... whether they try to ignore it or not. For better or for worse, sisters remain sisters, until death do them part." Brigid McConville from "Sisters: Love and Conflict Within The Lifelong Bond" "One's Sister is a part of one's essential self, an eternal presence of one's heart and soul and memory." Susan Cabill "My sister taught me everything I need to know, and she was only in the sixth grade at the time." Linda Sunshine "Chance made us Sisters, hearts made us friends." Unknown "There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!" Oliver Wendell Holmes "No one knows better than a Sister how we grew up, and who our friends, teachers and favorite toys were. No one knows better than she..." Dale V. Atkins "Sisters -- they share the agony and the exhilaration. As youngsters they may share popsicles, chewing gum, hair dryers and bedrooms. When they grow up, they share confidences, careers and children, and some even chat for hours every day." Roxanne Brown "Sisters examine each other so they can have a map for how they should behave." Michael D. Kahn "A sister is both your mirror -- and your opposite." Elizabeth Fishel "Sisterhood is powerful." Robin Morgan "A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost." Marion C. Garretty "Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become." Elizabeth Fishel "Sisters touch your heart in ways no other could. Sisters share... their hopes, their fears, their love, everything they have. Real friendship springs from their special bonds." Carrie Bagwell "There's a special kind of freedom sisters enjoy. Freedom to share innermost thoughts, to ask a favor, to show their true feelings. The freedom to simply be themselves." Anonymous "Only a sister can compare the sleek body that now exists with the chubby body hidden underneath. Only a sister knows about former pimples, failing math, and underwear kicked under the bed." Laura Tracy, from "The Secret Between Us" "Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks...expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs...that can undermine any tale you're telling." Pam Brown "Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister?" Alice Walker "We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song." Elizabeth Fishel "The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend." Cali Rae Turner "Loving a sister is an unconditional, narcissistic, and complicated devotion that approximates a Mother's love....Sisters are inescapably connected, shaped by the same two parents, the same trove of memory and experience." Roxanne Brown "To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confidante -- it is to have a soulmate for life." Victoria Secunda "You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the color goes out of my life." Victoria Woolf -- to her sister "There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship." Iris Murdoch "We are more than just acquaintances...it's as if we are cut from the same fabric. Even though we appear to be sewn in a different pattern, we have a common thread that won't be broken - by people or years or distance." Author Unknown "Like branches on a tree we grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one. Each of our lives will always be a special part of the other." Author Unknown Please sign the guestbook below. We would love to know that you were here. Carol's Collection Home More Photos of our Family MORE FAMILY PAGES Lorene Thomas, My Mother Buddy Thomas, My Father Jack Thomas, My Brother Jerry Thomas, My Brother Thank you, Jennifer, for the backgrounds.