Something About Nothing

We attended another wedding reception with a photobooth - can I just tell you how excited I am every time I see one? My husband just wanted to visit with people so he missed out on the fun. I think my favorite photo is where E and I are staring at each other and A is pointing at us. I have a couple photos from the wedding reception which were sent to me by one of the Bridesmaids but I wish I had photos of everything there. There were games on every table for the guests to look at or better yet to play with. You can barely see in the background the "booths" with popcorn, snowcones, cotton candy and really good soft serve ice cream. My girls decided that this was "The Best Reception EVER!" One of the things I loved were some movie posters on the wall. A cousin helped to make the posters.  The Bride and Groom were featured in each mock movie poster and you can tell that they had a great time posing for the photos.  I think my favorite was their version of "Tw...

It looks like I won't have to stick the whole family in a closet afterall. One of our good friends was kind enough to have a photobooth at her wedding reception and we all squeezed ourselves in for a picture or two or three. If only my son had been there, then we could have made one of the photos into our Christmas card. Oh well, we all had a great time anyway. We made lots of silly faces, and a few serious faces, very few serious faces actually, because when it comes right down to it, we just can't help but be ourselves in a photo booth.

I want to know why my Mom didn't make me take my hat off. . . Hat hair perhaps? Yes, best that the hat was left on. I probably had a classic Einstein do under there. Althought it was a pretty groovy brown and white hat, and so it is very possible that I insisted on wearing the hat to preserve it's memory for all eternity. . . I'm sure that is why I am wearing the hat. Here is the Lisa shot. Lisa Kay and Lisa Marie. My Mom used our middle names when Lisa came over to play. I remember dancing in her attic singing "The Night Chicago Died" at the top of our lungs. Ah, good times. But then she moved and we lost touch. Very sad. Does she look familiar to anyone? And finally the best photo of all. . . the classic, "Blinked at the flash shot." What would a photo booth be without at least one of these?! P.S. A last minute addition. I took my two youngest to an amusement park on Saturday AND we found a photobooth! However the cost of the photos were $5 each, and...

There is a certain art to pictures taken in a photo booth. A person enters a small booth, adjusts the stool for their height, deposits their quarters then puts on their best smile and waits for the flash hoping to capture how beautiful they are. They are usually in focus, centered and capture a moment in time. And sometimes that flash catches you when you are blinking or looking the other way. It was a great way to take a family portrait as in the above photo of my mother and grandmother, or below in the photo of my mother and her brother. They were always a quick and easy way of remembering your bestest friends, or making a photo to give to a beau. Or to just remember a fun time you had at the mall. Times have changed and photos are taken anytime, anywhere. If you have a group of 10 people, chances are you will have 9 or more cameras whether the camera is in their phone or an actual camera. And although photo booths still exsist the photo booth tradition has been lost in our fam...