Guess what I was doing on Saturday?

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Registered: 09-12-2003
Guess what I was doing on Saturday?
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Sun, 01-04-2009 - 2:53am

We used to use a Betamax Video camera, and while ds was growing up we took hours and hours of videos of him...  of course now we have only the cassettes and no machine to play them on...  we also gave a copy of all the videoing to MIL/FIL  .   Way back then, their machine is also obsolete. 


The other day FIL came downstairs with 3 bags for us. He said,, I do not know what to do with all these old videos of my grandson.  Well for a non media minded person of 86, I looked in the bag and just about cried.  He had taken them to a shop and asked them what to do with them all and he made DVD's from them....  amazing.  I have not watched these or been able to in years and it was really sad.   So that's where I was on Saturday,,, watching and crying at all the vidoes now DVDs of my toddler ds...  wonderful....  there are about 190 DVD's to go thru,,, so when you don't see me here , you will know exactly where I am and what I'm doing...    I'm in heaven.


I've gotta go now, (to a brunch)...... 

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Registered: 03-17-2007
Sun, 01-04-2009 - 6:40am

Wow Suzan what a wonderful thing for your FIL to do.

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Registered: 07-29-2002
Sun, 01-04-2009 - 8:15am
Wow - what a great way to spend the day.

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Registered: 12-12-1997
Sun, 01-04-2009 - 8:22am
Wow that's a lot of dvds! Dh is doing that with all our old VHS tapes. He worked on it just about all last week and has a few dvds done now. It is nice to see and relive all the old times and, although we do have VCRs, it's nice to know all the memories won't be lost when the tapes inevitably deteriorate.

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Registered: 10-15-2005
Sun, 01-04-2009 - 9:56am
What a wonderful thing for your FIL to do. I bet you had a great time watching them. DS did that with all the viseo of the DGC and it is so much fun to watch them. I know they will love it as they get older.

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Registered: 09-01-2003
Sun, 01-04-2009 - 10:13am

awww suzan. that was sooo wonderful of your fil to make the dvds for you.i can imagine you have gone through a box or 2 of kleenex while watching ? ENJOY!!!

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Registered: 02-07-2001
Sun, 01-04-2009 - 10:13am

What a sweetie! I'm glad they were converted to DVDs. We have small tapes here that hubby needs to convert to DVDs so we don't lose them to changing technology.

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Sun, 01-04-2009 - 11:16am
How very special Suzan,
We need to do that as well.
So glad you enjoyed & cried .. fun way to spend the day ..
Some awesome memories
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Registered: 03-14-2007
Sun, 01-04-2009 - 12:11pm

Awww..what a thoughtful thing your DFIL did! Kind of makes up for a wee bit of the annoying things he does..LOL!!


I had that done a few years ago


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Registered: 01-18-2003
Sun, 01-04-2009 - 1:42pm

What a wonderful thing for your FIL to do for you....looks like he is starting out the New Year "right"....such a thoughtful thing to do..


We have tapes too that should be put on dvd's....I just never thought about before...


When you go missing, we'll all understand....enjoy:-)

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Registered: 09-12-2003
Sun, 01-04-2009 - 2:26pm
thanks everyone,,, well I have about 180+ more to watch,,,, so much fun,,, actually I am not wathcing every second,, as I have to get them all labelled,,, year, age what is happening on the film,,, then code them back to the cassette,,,,

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