A Tale of Two Licenses

Don't you love to get your photo taken for Sam's Club memberships, driver's licenses, etc.? Few of us enjoy that, and usually the results are not worth sharing. However, for the purpose of this blog, I'll be brave and put mine up here for everyone to see. :-) My license expired in late January, so it was a few days after when I had a chance for James to go with us, so I didn't have to take all 3 kids in the county services building. We were scrambling to get there before they closed, and then got to the parking lot when I realized I didn't have my wallet for some crazy reason. We zipped back home, grabbed it, and made it back with 10 minutes to spare. Abigail went in with me, I smiled quickly for the photo, and got my blurry temporary license, unable to hardly even tell it was my face on there.

When I was paying at Target tonight, I saw the new license in my wallet that just came in the mail the other day, and had to show James. He commented that it was a good picture, and then I pulled out the old one. We both laughed and laughed.

Here is the picture from four years ago. I think it is overall a decent photo.



















Then, here is the new picture.







James and I get so tickled for some reason, comparing the two. The hair, clothing - I don't know. Maybe we are just sleep-deprived, but something about the differences crack us up! He even said I really needed to do this post since we have been so amused by it, and this topic led to a great discussion with the Target cashier about her license photo. She had to have hers redone when she was 9 months pregnant and the county clerk asked her if any info needed to change. She said she told the girl, "Yeah, under Weight, just put 'blimp'." I'm so glad I didn't have that timing...I'd have been tempted to drive with an expired license!