Flashback Friday - backyard photoshoot

Since the blog is a journal, it seems important to document the past as well as the present. Thus, I'm starting a new thing on the blog here: Flashback Fridays. I can't take any credit for the idea, since our friend Collette has been doing it for months (and she's been at good at keeping up on it). I have so much fun looking at the old pictures she posts, so....I thought I would do it too!

A while back I made a Birthday pictures book for my mom, compiled of the many bday pics taken at each person's party/dinner. Well, looking through all those old photoalbums only brings out the best memories and the best comments on how horrible we looked. So I chose to kick off the flashback fridays with a special little gem. Check out this photoshoot my parents set up in our backyard for us kids. I'm not sure what the occasion was, but there's a nice individual shot of each of us (excpet for Meredith of course since she wasn't born yet. So I've included a funny one of her at the end).

I had to guess a little on our ages, but I think I'm pretty close. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. I present to you (from oldest to youngest) the Suman children :

Saunja (Age 14)

Camille (Age 12)

Me (Age 10)

Eric (Age 7)

Mark (Age 3)

Meredith (Age5)

Um, wow to almost everyone but Mark and Meredith. Eric looked cute too, just funny to see him without any front teeth. Mark was always the cutest kid, even with his brown tooth (from falling off a chair). And I love Meredith in her Hulk Hogan outfit. We often found her wearing that. It fit perfectly and she hammed it up just enough for the camera.
But can I look any scarier? And homely? (When Casey saw these pictures his reaction was "ohh! Can you imagine coming in for the kiss on that?!" haah) At least I have a cute rainbow shirt on. Saunja's hair is dynamite and Camille's Maui and Sons Tee? It doesn't get more 80's than that, except for her rolled up sleeves.
Well, I guess we girls finally learned to style our hair and finished the years of orthodontic attention. So I guess we kind of turned out okay. Here are the final results:

Saunja (Age 36)

Camille (Age 33)

Me (Age 31)
Eric (Age 28)
Mark (Age 25)

Meredith (Age 18)

Can't wait to see all the grandkids with their own horribly wonderful pictures down the road.