Documenting during the holidays

Any fellow memory keeping addicts out there know that the holidays are an excellent time to be scrapbooking, journaling, and taking tons of pictures and video! I find that documenting the holidays can be one of the easiest times, and often times it’s very expected. If you’re new to the memory keeping world, now is a great time to start because for some strange reason people are more okay with you take 100000s of pictures during the holidays than they are any other time.

There are tons of fun ways to document the holiday season. Some can be as simple as just snapping those pictures to keep on your phone or post on Instagram. Other people (myself included) participate in Vlogmas—a video capturing trend in which you vlog ever day during the Christmas season. Then there are scrapbooking trends like December Daily by Ali Edwards which I love and admire completely. No matter how you want to document your holidays, there is a large community out there willing to do it with you and help you out.

This year my family got together (all of us together at the same time which is a huge feat now-a-days) and went to pick out our Christmas Tree. For the last few years we’ve had this tradition to pick a smaller tree from a farm, get it balled—which means that they dig out the roots so we can replant it, rather than having it chopped down—and then we keep it in our house for a few weeks, water it, and finally end the season and start the new year with planting a tree.

I wanted to document this moment because 1.) my family was finally all together, haha, and 2.) it’s becoming a pretty consistent tradition now so it’s something special I want to continue to remember. Here are my pictures that I took (as well as a few iPhone quality pictures that my sister took of me), and the Vlogmas video that we filmed to go along with it.