Candace Cameron Bure Celebrates 38 Years Since Full House Premiered with Rare Photos

Candace Cameron Bure will always hold Full House and her costars close to her heart.

In a Monday, Sept. 22, Instagram post, Bure, 49, looked back at her time on Full House in honor of the show’s 38th anniversary. The beloved family series premiered on ABC on Sept. 22, 1987, and ran for eight years, until 1995. On the show, Bure played eldest daughter D.J. Tanner.

“38 years since we first met the Tanners??” Bure captioned her post before referencing one of D.J.’s popular phrases. “Oh, Mylanta!!🤯 What a beautiful journey filled with laughter, lessons, and lots and lots of love…🥹❤️.”

She continued, “#FullHouse was my childhood, my family, my home. Forever grateful.🙏🏼🏡.”

David Coulier, who played Joey Gladstone on the series, commented and wrote, “My family that I will love forever❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️.”

Alongside her words, Bure shared a variety of photos from her time making the show, from when the series first began to when it left the airwaves.

Images of her and the cast at Disneyland, including a photo with on-screen dad Bob Saget (Danny), who died in 2022, were featured in her post.

In another photo, she and Lori Laughlin (Aunt Becky) sat together on a ride. One snap also showed Bure and on-screen sister Jodie Sweetin (Stephanie Tanner) and TV bestie Andrea Barber (Kimmy Gibbler) in a parking lot together, embracing.

Bure is also seen posing with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who shared the role of youngest Tanner sibling, Michelle.

Photos of John Stamos (Uncle Jesse) and Scott Weinger, who played D.J.’s boyfriend Steve Hale, round out the post.

She also shared the video of the cast’s final bows after they filmed the final episode on Feb. 24, 1995. 

Bure, Sweetin and Barber also reunited for the 2016 Netflix series Fuller House, which continued the story of the lives of D.J., Stephanie and Kimmy as adults. It ran until 2020. 

“Full House was our childhood for eight years, eight very formative years,” Barber told PEOPLE in 2023, when she and Sweetin launched their rewatch podcast How Rude, Tanneritos. “And so getting to relive those memories, things that we haven’t thought about in 35 years, I expect it’s going to deepen our bond even more than it already is.”

Sweetin told PEOPLE in July of the show’s impact on her life, “I will be Stephanie Tanner forever. And I’ve come to be really okay with that over the last 20 years.”

The actress, who also performs stand-up, credited Saget and Coulier with inspiring her to pursue a comedy career as an adult. “I have found a confidence, and honestly, it came from Bob and Dave,” Sweetin told PEOPLE in June. “It came from Bob and Dave all my life, encouraging me that I was funny, even when I was a kid.”