The 5 Photographs You Don't Want to Miss Taking This Year During the Holidays!

The 5 Photographs You Don’t Want to Miss Taking This Holiday Season

Ever look at other people’s photos and think, why didn’t I think of getting that one?  Here’s a checklist of the 5 most important photographs you can take this holiday season.

___ Baking with Grandma.  These are some photographs that will be treasured for years to come by your children as they grow older, and have kids of their own some day.  Baking is a huge tradition for many families, and Grandmas have the best cookie recipes!  Perhaps creating a Grandma’s Cookie Recipe book for when your kids are older, complete with these photographs, would be a treasured keepsake.

___ All the cousins playing together.  It’s not often that cousins get together, and so to have fun photographs of these kids together, climbing at the playground, sitting on a retaining wall, cuddled up on Grandma’s couch, building legos together, eating ice cream… These are the sweet photos that they will enjoy so much when they are older.

___ Photos of you with your parents.  It’s great for you to get a photo of you with all of your siblings and your parents, but how about something sweet of you, and your mom and dad?  That’s often overlooked, and to have that kind of snapshot is priceless as you raise your own family.

___ A photograph of your mom and dad under the mistletoe, kissing.  That can never get old.

___ Photographs of you and your kids.  So many moms are the ones taking the photos… and they get cute ones of dad and the kids.  Encourage your partner to take photographs of you with the kids…  or else, 20 years from now, your kids will wonder why there are no photos of them with you in it!  Show your partner some ideas on what you’d like, and then take those photos.  And don’t worry about having those extra 20 pounds, or the roots in your hair, or the wrinkles in your face.  The photos are the important thing.  And, if taking care of those extra 20 lbs, roots, or wrinkles is super-important to you, I know some people who can help you with that.  But that’s another conversation!

Hopefully, this has helped you figure out some photographs you want from this holiday, and inspire you to take even more!  Share your holiday photos on our Facebook page, and show us what you did!  We can't wait to see!