OK. Post number one from my video rescue project. Can you guess how old I was when I did this commercial?

Lots of video around these parts these days. Jacob had a cooking project for his math class and he elected to turn it into a video project. This was a couple weekends of work for him (and us). Pretty fun.

P.S. The brownies are… honest truth… the best brownies I have ever had. No joke. We’ve already made a second batch.

I have been threatening for a few years now to buckle down and digitize some of my old VHS tapes before they are irreparably damaged. I knew that I had the technology to do it since the VHS tapes are so bad, I just need to dub them with my MiniDV camera and then dump them to a hard drive for safe-keeping.

Well, recently a small shop for making family videos, wedding videos, etc. opened up on 2nd street. I was walking by the other day and stopped in just to ask what they would charge to digitize a VHS tape. $30. Not bad at all, I thought. I remember the days when that used to be ridiculously expensive. I thought about it for a bit and decided it would be somewhat ridiculous to pay someone to do what I could do myself with just a few hours of effort.

So its back on! I began the project today and digitized a few hours of stuff - some of Christi’s old dance projects from SMU, some crazy video of college days, even the infamous Lola Starr (you know who you are). I have just begun, but I will try to post some snippets here pretty soon. I even have the old LJ Highlights tapes from High School. Those will be fun to restore before they are lost forever.

Stay tuned….

Jacob was in the Rogers Drama Club production of Anne of Green Gables this year. It was his first real experience being in a play and he had a wonderful experience. Rogers has a great Drama Club with a wonderful teacher. We’re looking forward to the next one. Enjoy this quick edit of a few Jacob moments from the play:

Lucas and his friend Olivia sang “A You’re Adorable” at the Lowell Elementary Variety Show this year. Check out the video. They did great!