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School Picture Day

December 10, 2010

I have had my share of beyond awkward years.  I even have my moments these days that I would rather not remember.  And thankfully, I usually don't have a photo to remind me of those moments.  Although, one day I would probably look back and laugh.  That's what I really hope that we can do today: Laugh.  Because I have scanned in some of my school pictures of yesteryear.  Oh my, I was SO gangly and awkward and my hair went through about every phase there is.  I get that there weren't digital cameras back then, but can't you tell when a child isn't smiling or her hair is sticking out?  Couldn't they have taken a redo right then instead of developing the picture and then making your parents pay more for retake picture day?  Which my parents never did.  

Kindergarten
What a  sweetie.  I love your scrunchy little Jules.
First grade
Didn't I look like a young Gaby Hoffmann (Samantha in Now and Then)?
3rd Grade
Yikes.....just, yikes. 
Fifth Grade
Heads up, your hair is sticking out and you are being really serious.
Seventh Grade
Did something happen to the original shirt I was wearing,
or did I really pick this to wear on school picture day?
Tenth Grade
Scanned in from a yearbook, so it looks like half my face is falling off.
This was before I had a straightener, when I just thought I could
straighten my hair with a curling iron.  EEsh.
Eleventh Grade
Also scanned in from a yearbook.
Shell necklace, those were such a fad!
Twelfth Grade
My senior picture was taken on our front stairs
when we moved to Idaho...before we even got grass apparently.
So which is your fav?  Which one had you laughing the hardest?  There is so much hype on school picture day and no matter how I prepped for it, I could NEVER deliver a good picture.  Especially in just one shot.  I mean, who takes just one picture anymore?  *Click* "There's the only picture you're getting of you."  Oh!  I know! The department of transportation!  And you aren't stuck with it for just one year until a new yearbook comes out. 

I just got my Utah license.  I really wish they would back up the camera just a little bit.  Good thing I didn't have a zit or anything, because that pimple would have lasted for 5 years!  Driver's licenses are the school picture days of adulthood.  And you have to show a lot more people than you would like.  Mostly strangers.  
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  1. Julie...this is such a funny post. Creed and I are laughing over here. I think they should make a tag of school pictures. It would be funny. Maybe i'll post mine too. I'm impressed that you had all of those at your finger tips.

  2. 1st grade is the best. 5th grade is second best. Your UT license is gorgeous! They are a liitle close.. but you look so good. My face would have taken up the whole square!!

  3. This made me laugh so hard! Jules these are classic! I love the one with the glasses the most. Or the serious one. It is like you were wanting to be the model in your class or something. My hair was so thin and always plastered to my face that I am jealous of your volume at such young ages.

  4. I think I'm diggin the 7th grade. That shirt is pretty hot. But both of those license pictures are gorgeous?? I however got stuck with a pretty nasty one when I changed my name. its not even close to cute. but at least you got a chi before the school pictures of adulthood right?!

  5. LOVE them ALLLLLLL!!!!

    The one with the big glasses just made me LAUGH OUT LOUD!!! Unfortunately, my hair was STICK straight growing up, but I sure love to see my sister's wild hair do's. Her hair went through EVERY wild curly hair phase!

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