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Not to date myself, but I remember the first video camera my dad. It was seriously HUGE, light gray and had a big slot for a VHS tape. It was basically a boom box with a lens. He bought it before I was one year old, taping for hours at a time during our celebrations and special occasions. We had a toy box FULL of VHS tapes as the years rolled on, occasionally popping them into the tape player and watching them back. As my brother and I went into high school, DVDs became popular and our VHS tapes started to collect dust. In a matter of months, we no longer had a way to play them. But we couldn’t get rid of them, either, because they were our moments trapped in time.
I had always wanted to have some tapes transferred, and with the help of YesVideo, finally decided to bite the bullet. When I visited Mom and Dad for Dad’s 60th birthday, I hunkered down in their basement to look through our tape collection. I pulled out not only my first birthday and easter (same month) but also my senior high school musical as well as the winning One Act I was in when I met Hubs. How could I not share this tidbit of pleather-clad amazingness?? I am so sorry that 90s technology isn’t what it should be and this is insanely hard to hear. Pretend that it’s amazing… but seriously… look at the fashions. We thought we were SO HOT.
You know you want that look…. Honestly, that’s what my husband first saw. The very first thing. And he still stuck around 🙂 What I’m loving with this service is that I can embed my favorite clips here on the blog, or on my social networks with YesVideo’s video embed feature. So again with the oversharing, check out just a snippet of my first birthday: smiles dissolve into cries quickly when I don’t get that cake right now. And I don’t think I was a cute baby at all… Red is way cuter than I was!!
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I would transfer kiddo videos of when the hubby and I were bitty! Did I spy Shannon is there?
So many things. My oldest’s baptism is somewhere on some file thingy.
Oh my goodness! I do see Kiki in there too! I love this flashback!
My cousins and I produced our own little play for the whole family at Christmas when we were little and I would love to see that again!
We love shark week. What a great list of activities!!!
I love the watermelon shark! What a cute idea.
Those pleather pants are HOT! They call it “vegan leather” now so its totally chic ! Do people still say “chic”?
These are some cool shark things to make. I’ll have to try some of them.
I love the shark watermelon….it’s too cute! The drinking game looks fun too!
These are such great ideas. I was at a shark themed birthday a few weeks ago and they had the watermelon shark it was so cute and yummy.
Shark week always makes me chuckle!! It is funny that sharks get their own full week!
The Shark Week drinking game is sure to be a classic! My husband brought home Shark Week drinking CUPS! HOORAY!
My boys love sharks, although not old enough to watch Shark Week. I will have to do some fun activities with them.
The drinking game sounds awesome! Those Jaws plates are something that I’m going to have to try for my nephew’s birthday party 🙂
My mom gave me a VHS of our church’s “Night in Old Bethlehem” from back when I was in high school, and I have been afraid to have it transferred by someone who didn’t know what they were doing. Thanks for the recommendation, I’m bookmarking this post and will get in the closet this weekend to see if I have any others to go along with it.
Oh how cute! Yes, I remember those old VHS memories. My parent’s have my old tap dance recitals and my 7th birthday “tea party” on VHS. I’d love to convert those (and I totally had those faux-leather pants too! In fact, I rocked that whole look. Lol!)
In your first video, your look reminds me of Brittney Spears. And awww look at you when you were a baby! I see where Lil Red gets his looks.
You’re so cute! I love old videos, they are so fun to watch and check out all of the old styles etc. I would transfer all of our family’s videos. Alllll of them!
We have tons of things that need to be transferred. I have to see just how far my winning giftcard will go. 🙂
I need to figure out a system to get old videos AND photos handled. #Lazyprobs
My grandmother has a ridiculous amount of videos that need to be transferred. Many of them are family gatherings and lots of things my grandfather had done. He’s no longer with us, so I would welcome getting these VHS tapes transferred to another medium.
I would transfer the videos of my brother and I on our family trips to Hawai’i! We had so much fun, it would be great to show those to our kiddos!
I only have one VHS video I would transfer and that is my oldest son’s 10th Birthday Party…we still remember the fun but can’t watch it anymore…
Omgosh I remember my dad’s huge video recorder too! That thing was giant! I think transferring is a great idea, I love this giveaway!
I kinda love the paper plate jaws. How wicked cool are those?!
That is such a fun tool! I need to dig out my VHS!
How clever you are. I love the shark jaws made from the paper plates and the shark drinking game. I would have never thought of these ideas. And this is a great way to get in some education about sharks.
My daughter birthday, family reunions, and son graduation.