Family Photo

Family Photo

Family photo time has arrived. Father’s day is a great time to take a family photo. Sometimes it may seem like getting everyone together for a family photo, will be a miracle. How do you get the little kids to stand still? It can be a fun bonding moment with all the funny noises or faces you do to get the younger family members to smile.

It is a special time to honor your father. He has done so much for you. Do not get him the same gift year after year. Think of something you can give him, that he cannot buy for himself. You could ask your father what he actually wants for Father’s day. He may just want some peace and quiet for one day. Give him something that is sentimental, like an updated family photo along with his favorite candy or a gift card to a hotel suite all to himself.

Something Different for Father’s Day

Make it an adventure and kidnap your father for one day. Start off by going to some of his favorite places, like a restaurant, where he grew up, a golf course, or where he had his first date with his wife. At each location, take a family photo. Also hide a clue at each location about your father’s life growing up, leading to the next clue and where to go to take the next family photo.

It may not have been the Father’s day that he would have planned, but it turned out the be one of the most memorable, heartfelt days of his life. As you keep driving to each location, the story comes closer and closer to what your dad is like today. Start with locations that are his favorite from the beginning of his life (if you can) until his present life. End up at your home for your last clue, saying something like his favorite place is in his recliner chair at home with his family watching his favorite movie, or something like that.

As you are going to each favorite place of your father’s, collect the clues, take a family photo, and pick up a souvenir or memento. It is a great Father’s day when you end at your final location putting these memories, mementos, and other memorabilia in his own Father’s Day Time Capsule. Have each family member write a “Message to the Future” letter to their father. Make predictions about what life will be like for your father, 20 or 30 years from now. Do not let him read these messages now. Put the letters in the time capsule along with other heirloom items.

Then, choose a Father’s day date in the future to have him open the time capsule again in the future, to reminisce about what his life was like when this time capsule was filled. This whole day was about your dad. It will be fun to take an updated family photo again when the time capsule is opened to compare to the ones you saved in the time capsule.

Thank your father now for all the memories he has helped create with you as a family. Make a Father’s Day Time Capsule or Family Time Capsule together using the “Any Occasion” DIY Time Capsule seen here.

What is your favorite memory of your father? Comment below.

Making Milestone Moments Count,

– Marcie