For Christmas Brad’s mom put together little clips (of much much longer tapes) that they had recorded of the kids growing up. It was a wonderful gift and Brad and I both enjoyed watching the video. We started chatting about how much of our childhoods were video taped and realized that our generations had a lot of recording going on. Every holiday that I can remember we had the video recorder going. My Grandfather would go around and “interview” everyone and we even have hours and hours of the waves at the beach from our vacations. It is amazing that so much was recorded as the video recorders were as large as a cinder block and just as heavy as well if I recall correctly. Both Brad and my videos have someone announcing the date and year so those recording knew that these tapes would be saved for years and years to come. I guess that it is a bit like todays scrapbooking. Our generations were video taped so much that we try to limit our recording of our children. We have a lot of Charis as a baby but it pretty much ends at her first birthday. I admit that I need to breakout the camcorder and tape some (note some) of her chit chat and animal noises etc. as it will be sweet to have someday but after being chased by a video recorder for so many years I will try to stick primarily to pictures that way Charis’s generation will go back to the video recorders. The key to video recording is to limit the recording to maybe a few minutes instead of a few hours!