Family Portrait
Big Mama’s House
“My mom worked at this photography studio. She made us go for family pics because it counted as one of her sales. And she got to be the star of the portrait.”
(submitted by Carolyn)
The Chug
“This is a picture of my family on Easter sometime in the 90’s. I’m on the right with the stonewashed pink pants, mullet to match my older brother’s. The only thing in this picture that focuses the awkwardness away from me is my Grandpa in the next room slamming what I hope to be his first Easter beer of the day because if memory serves me correctly, we always took our pictures before church.”
(submitted by Phil)
Backstabber
“I was home for the holidays after I joined the navy and completed boot camp. My father thought we should have a family portrait. My brother picked up a knife and held it over my unsuspecting father’s head.”
(submitted by Mark)
Choked Up
“This is an outtake from a family photo we had taken in the late 80s. My brother must’ve been doing something bratty, of course, but it made for a hilarious outtake and my favorite one from the entire day. This was taken in our house in front of a quilt my mom made… classy background, huh?!”
(submitted by Lacey)
Matching Hickeys
“We took family pictures and my parents had hickeys.”
(submitted by IG @j_me.loves.bacon)
MS Paint
“This is a picture of me (in the front) and my family. It was originally taken without my dad, as he was always off being a pilot somewhere. My parents were having problems at the time, and so, in wanting a complete family photo, my mother added my dad – cut out from another picture – to it. In that one, his head was 3x larger than ours, facing the wrong way, and his shirt had been marked in with a sharpie marker. When my parents stopped having problems, she changed the photo of him to the one now there. This was also the time that my mom discovered MS Paint. She thought my sister was being disrespectful by wearing an Arachnophobia shirt, so using her paint skills, she whited it out. She printed this gem and put it up in our family home, where it remained on the wall for over ten years.”
(submitted by Kaytee)
Clowning Around
“This is a pic of my husband and his family. My mother in law is obsessed with clowns. Her house is covered in them. This year they were even included in the family pic.”
(submitted by Seth)
Clown Funeral
“Visiting my Grandfather’s grave in 1997. I’m the one looking in the camera, hoping my Mother’s clown gene is recessive.”
(submitted by Celeste)
Little Nibbler
“Tried to take nice family photos and as the photographer said ‘alright, serious faces for this one’ my daughter turned and bit me on the shoulder.”
(submitted by IG @mmcgill344)
