What pictures do you have in your family albums that everybody else has as well?

Father in full pink and tan uniform (without trousers) standing at parade rest with a mop and a broad grin.

Mother and bunch of high school friends in what appears to be a brand new Model A Ford.

Daughter standing beside car loaded to go off to college.

Mother and child, child a few hours old.

Does everybody else have “incomprehensible ultrasound”?

Kids in a parade, boy scout, girl scout etc.

New bike, car and house.

Kids on elephant or camel at the zoo.

I have one in my sons baby book.

  • First day of school - waiting at the bus stop, getting on the bus, or standing at the front door with backpack
  • Family members sleeping in strange positions
  • Kids dressed up in adult clothing doing cute things
  • Baby or kids playing with pumpkins at Halloween

Everyone I know has a picture of a bald baby in a pumpkin patch.

Here’sour bald baby in a pumpkin patch.

Everyone I know seems to have at least one baby-trying-to-eat-Dad’s-nose photo.

Others:

  • Toddler in a Halloween costume with chocolate smeared on their face
  • Young child running around in nothing but a diaper
  • Someone (usually parents or grandparents in their 20’s) proudly posing in front of a new car

My mother swears that thing is me as a fetus. I think she just tuned the TV to a blank channel (heh, remember that? Snow?) and took a picture.

My god, those things have improved! A lady was printing out the ultrasound her daughter had e-mailed her at the library a few months ago and I was all prepared to pretend to see the baby, but holy crap it actually looked like a baby!

Tourist standing in front of a world-famous landmark, holding their hand in front of it so the landmark looks like it’s tiny. (Unless the landmark is the Leaning Tower of Pisa, in which case they are in a pose where it looks like they’re holding it up.)

In my family album we have a lot of pictures of people smiling in front of landmarks that nobody wanted to take a picture in front of, but Dad insists that we prove we were there or something. Everybody’s family has somebody who just doesn’t see the point of taking pictures without your family in them. My favorite is “family standing in front of the Dachau sign”. We had a big family fight when everybody refused to do it on the USS Arizona monument.

“I’m taking a photo of you taking a photo of me! Ha-ha!

Not everyone but Official Basic Training/Boot Camp Pissed Off What the Hell Happened To My Hair picture is pretty popular.

Or minutes. I’ve got one of my Uncle Steve at age 16 or so all smiles and ego with his first car. He’s the oldest child of that generation, so he was the first to get a car. He let next-oldest uncle take it for a ride down the driveway (into the back porch, into Grandpa who was drinking his morning coffee) and had his picture taken again minutes later, all sour-pussed, front end squished.

*Picture of kid after she’s done something naughty-lipstick smeared on her face, completely wrapped in toilet paper, drinking mud puddles, etc.

*Kids with suds for hair or beard (or both).

*In Texas, EVERYBODY has a picture of their kids in bluebonnets. My little one is getting her bluebonnet picture taken in a couple of weeks. :wink:

This is the only one we have from the ones you’ve described, only it’s me with feathered hair, velour shirt, glasses, and a rather prominent…blemish. :o I told my mom to not even order a print but she loved me and did it anyway.

We aren’t a normal family so we don’t have the party and dress-up-type ones at all.

Yup. With Mom in a hospital gown, absolutely exhausted and glassy-eyed but smiling.

I’ll also add hours-old baby swaddled in a hospital blanket and hat, with only a tiny red or brown face showing. And the blankets and hats are always, always the same. According to my mom, they’re still the same as they were 30 years ago.

I’ve always wanted to start a thread called Post a Photo of Your Pregnant Mom Smoking, but I figured not enough people would participate. And I don’t have a photo of my pregnant mom smoking. Yet, wouldn’t it make a great thread?

My mom did it. There might even be a picture somewhere.

These seem to be a common theme in my family…
-kid grinning showing off missing tooth/teeth
-middle-age-or-older relative alseep on the sofa/cushy chair after Thanksgiving/Christmas feast.
-teenager and date dressed in prom attire