Family Videos

I always thought that they were called 'Family Videos' because they were videos of your family. Seemed the logical origin to me. But I have been wrong. Family Videos are videos so random that no one but your family would really want to watch them. For some reason we find satisfaction in watching things on a video that we witnessed in real life. "Let's watch David babble on the counter to a pen for 15 minutes...AGAIN!" It's just addicting. No story lines, no plots, and no script. 

Just weird people. Weird people with cameras.

I give you: Sam the pirate (why Sara fears leaving Sam alone with his Dad sometimes)

This next feature film is evidence of how boring family videos can be. But for a true family member (especially 10 years from now) the joy is going to come from the details. "Oh wow, did I really have bangs like that?" "(*sentimental sigh) There was my old cell phone." "Remember when we didn't have AC? Those were the days." So even though Sam doesn't really do much, look at all the facts one can gather about our lives now in this video:

I give you: Surrounded by toys without really knowing it

The final truth about family videos however, is that no matter how fast you are at the draw, you always miss what you intended to capture. Little did you know that two minutes before this video, Sam was squealing, laughing, and singing to himself. I guess I should just enjoy it now instead of trying to catch it for later.