You may have heard that Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper and others are starring in a movie called "Hit & Run". My husband and I saw Dax Shepard on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on Wednesday night and watched the clip they showed from the movie….well, at least my husband was watching, I think I was very tired or distracted…I wasn't paying that much attention! Something kind of clicked with my husband, and I was going to check it out yesterday…but forgot…until he reminded me at dinner….so I checked after dinner….and sure enough…mystery solved!!

First, watch this clip about the movie "Hit & Run" from The Tonight Show. They start talking about the movie at 1:18….although his Costco story is pretty funny first!

Now the rest of the story:

A year ago June we were in California visiting our daughter and made a trip with her to Malibu one day.  On the way back, at an intersection, there was a truck selling strawberries.  There was a big pull-out area so my husband pulled over but we decided to wait for strawberries until we got back to my daughter's neighborhood.  As my husband pulled the car back around, this truck and trailer were pulling into the intersection across from us.  On the trailer was a car with passengers and obviously some filming of some sort was going on….we were near Los Angeles, after all!

I took some more photos….the people in the car seemed to be looking at us and maybe even waved while they waited for the light to change at the intersection. Not something we usually see in Houston for sure!

That evening we showed our son-in-law, who is quite the TV and movie buff, and he thought the girl in the back seat might be Kristen Bell! Obviously we didn't know what they were filming, couldn't see the actors very well, and figured we would NEVER know what we had just seen….it could have been a movie, a tv show, a commercial, a documentary, anything…and might never make it out into the world….until we saw Dax Shepard on the Tonight Show Wednesday night!

If you can enlarge any of the photos and zoom in, you can see it is Bradley Cooper as the character driving the car with the big yellow sunglasses and striped shirt. Next to him in the front seat is Joy Bryant. Kristin Bell is in the middle of the back seat of the car next to Dax Shepard on the far side of the car, and I think Michael Rosebaum is behind the driver.

After you look at the photos, go back and look at the clip from the Tonight Show! We think it is SUCH a coincidence that we saw this sight on the road back from Malibu and that it showed up in a clip of the "Hit & Run" movie on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno!

This was so exciting I don't think I can even stamp today! Although….maybe this would be perfect for a scrapbook page made with My Digital Studio, the digital papercrafting software from Stampin' Up!.

Maybe this is the age when we start getting nostalgic. But then I've always loved looking at old photos. I've been having so much fun on Facebook…not so much the regular part of Facebook, but on the group that someone created of where I grew up. I would NEVER remember all the things that the other people mention, the businesses, the places, the schools, the amusement parks…everything that made up our childhood. And recently someone in my exact neighborhood started posting, who lived up the street from me. I knew I had some old photos of our street and some of the girls attending my birthday party when I was 7 and pictures of the kids in the backyard. Other people have taken more recent photos or dug up some old ones of the area outlying out subdivisions, along the main streets, etc.

My point is….in time, you may wish you remembered what businesses were along the main street you traveled to work everyday or what the houses (not just the front of your house) looked like in your neighborhood, the schools, the movie theaters, the mall, your church, etc. etc. etc. In this photo above of two friends and me in a pile of dirt my dad got for the yard…sure, it's great to see the people, but as a bonus I can see some other houses on the street, how little the bushes are, how old the cars are. Sometimes those details are just as fun as seeing the people in the photos. I'm sure my mom (probably) taking this picture never thought about the rest of the street she was capturing…but now it's a great memory!

Here's another "off to school" photo, but look, I can see three houses up the hill from me also! Hmm, I don't see any cars in the carports either, although our old Buick is in the corner of the photo. I remember that most people did not have two cars back then, so perhaps the dads already drove the car to work, and the kids rode the school bus. 

Just something to think about!  Take some pictures of what is around you on your street, in your neighborhood, parts of your house that don't usually get photographed….the things we take for granted because we see them everyday. Whether or not you scrapbook them doesn't matter so much, just take those pictures. Those photos might jog some memories in the future and be as valuable as the "normal" memories you think you are capturing!