Blooper Reel

My family had some, now infamous, professional photos taken one year when we were kids. They came to be known, simply as "the family photos." There are six children in our family, so you can imagine it was no small feat to get all of us facing the same direction, let alone to smile for a picture. I can't tell you exactly what made these pictures so funny, 'cause it was no one thing and I don't want to incriminate myself or any of my siblings (we are all grown up now, you see). But, as I remember it, every single photo had something really wrong with it - there may have been some pants on backwards, fingers in eyes, someone staring, mouth agape, off in the wrong direction etc. You get the idea. I don't know if any of those photos turned out good enough to use, but we did get all the proofs in slide form (remember slides? man, I feel old). We would watch those slides every year, literally laughing until it hurt. I know they didn't turn out the way my parents were hoping, but I guarantee, however much they paid for those photos, we got that much enjoyment out of them and more.

These pictures are just some outtakes from my attempt at a photo shoot with the kids a while back. Not nearly as funny, I guess, as the Keeler "family photos." But I do see the value now in the "not so perfect" picture. These make me smile.

A nice moment

Still nice, not so photogenic though

Yeah, that's spit

Where did that ball come from?

How did he get his foot in the shot?

Now inexplicably on the other side?

When Annas attack...

Things have taken a turn for the worse

And magically made better by the presence of a giant caterpillar toy
Anna almost has a hold of it...

But not quick enough

Anna's expression here cracks me up..."whatever"
And this was just with two kids...

BONUS PHOTO!!
A random pic of me and some of my sibs...
This is not from the "family photo" archives...this was just a few years ago at Christmas, but you can see what we're dealing with here!