What did you use to look like? Old photos.

it would have been awesome if your dad had the family friend's plaid pants on as well

yes, sigh, it would have.

atm you look exactly the same!

pretty much! i was wrong about the location/people. that's actually some cousins. and it's probably knoxville.

with the fam, at a wedding in the early '90s:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8064/8224403839_c42d80dea8.jpg

now that's a color palette

sayyyy lookin good gb!

Mum emailed me some old Christmas photos for a project I'm doing, when I saw this one I teared up.

Taken at Christmas, circa 1980
Grandma, my baby sister, and my two cousins, and me in the front in the red dress.

my Grandma died in 1990, I loved her so much. I haven't seen my two cousins since I left Australia, we were really close back then.

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/scan00012.jpg

awww

ye olde scanner, so we have a fourshot here

these would be around 1983, 84ish.

top left: 1983ish, my sister with her new Mister Men drum
top right: Mum, baby sister, me with !PRESENTS!
bottom left: 84ish beardy dad, my sister and me with the giant beanbag snake Mum made for us for Christmas. Dad wrestled us in that thing ALL the time. so fun.
bottom right: 1980ish me and my new doll Suzy, handmade by my crafty mum. As you can tell by my face, Suzy was AWESOME.

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/scan0002.jpg

I think from now on if I ever get asked why I like Christmas so much, I'll show them these photos.

fyi I'm pretty sure mum and dad still have the same Christmas tree, though much worse for wear.

Awesome photos Vegemite!!!!!!!!!!! I was a huge Christmas loving person...sort of waning now.

Those are great photos VG, they make me so happy :)

My sister and I, late '73/early '74.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/208942_1011413923731_3306_n.jpg

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww

Everything about that picture is awesome.

This might be my favorite thread on ILX. At least one of them!

I am pictured in both of these shots with women who are not my mother and other kids who are not my siblings (I don't have any idea who any of them are tbh, the women or the children. I only recognize myself.)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6p225eala1rzge1ho1_500.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6p1xyQNSp1rzge1ho1_500.jpg

smiley happy!

haha awwww

are you the babby on the right in the top one then?

EZ I still can't get over your last pic. WKIW you and your sister without hesitation.

yup, i'm the joker on the right

don't forget to dig the three random 70s women in glasses

ENBB - I've got to post my "dress-up" picture from a few months later. I was STYLING.

your expression in the first picture is killing me

Kiddo VegeGrrl is the cutest little thing I ever did see!

that's my how ya like me now face

everyone is adorable itt -- honestly i love looking at other people's childhood photos almost as much as i like (immodestly) looking at my own. so much information in one tiny glimpse! i am a sentimental fool, now you know.

Me too. It's one of my favorite things to do. Ever. I could look at pictures like this for hours.

I need to track down and scan some real lil' mh photos. I know there are a few existing from my family's original set of furniture -- gold shag carpet and orange couch.

LL - I'm digging the woman in the first pic with smoked lenses...she appears to have a dimple and the kind of overbite that makes me love its owner no questions asked.

I'm guessing this is spring of '74:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-KFuWfMaXNWU/ULjSZ4gAg0I/AAAAAAAAAbo/7_uu1vaY0dU/s581/74-01.JPG

Shiny suit?

nice grimace on your sister
wonder what you're looking at

That's the living room of my grandparents farmhouse; if I remember correctly the tv was in that corner.

I have no idea what fabric that is, but it was a tiny suit that one of my cousins had in the 60s. I was the 13th of 15 cousins, so I got all the boys clothes that survived long enough to be handed down.

What was it with putting toddlers in tiny suits in the 70's? I remember that when I was 2 or 3 (1976-77) I had a suit (beige IIRC, possibly corduroy).

I had a little mint green suit when I was about the same age. I'm certain that photos exist, but I don't have any to share atm.

i remember boys in my kindergarten class wearing little suits on picture day

somewhere there's a photo of me as a toddler wearing a floral print waistcoat. dunno if that's an 80s equivalent to the 70s suit or if my mum was just mental.

Christmas 1974, I would have just turned 2. My sister in the Santa hat, our neighbor (and kindergarten teacher) Peg is the adult.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-NkZXFrRVXEc/ULjSZ0W6d3I/AAAAAAAAAcQ/HUoXog8-Ebk/s400/74-29.jpg

What strikes me when I look at these old photos is that my face is still exactly the same. Shave that kid's head and give him a beard and voila! It's 38 years later. Only the color of my eyes has changed from blue to green-grey.

Me in the shades

http://i49.tinypic.com/35l4wlk.jpg

EZ, you need to rock more western shirts as a 40 year-old. It works for you!

I was thinking the same thing! Especially living in Dallas. I can get some nice ones.

ez you're so stinkin cute. and LL you're such a smiley babby, i love it

onimo yr hair is amazing

^^^Onimo's hair is godlike.

random 70s women in glasses

There are quite a few of them in my baby pictures.

in the 70s, there were osmonds...

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/557765_10152243736430298_903837417_n.jpg

with my sis. r.i.p.

I don't see any country OR any rock & roll.