My family makes family photo of New Year's card every year, but my wife and I use the photo only.
My daughters has made the pictures of the card by themselves since a few years ago.
The reason why my wife and I insist on the photo, is not for a good way to inform our acquaintances the state of our family, but just a chance to make a family photo.
Family photos are very interesting, if being set out .
Though the people who get my cards, might be interested in my daughter's growing-up, I am fun of watching my "aged deterioration".
For me, the family photo is a kind of fixed point observation.
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Unfortunately, the spirit of my family becomes low year after year.
Yesterday, for example, I noticed that it was a routing work that we just went to the pass at a hill nearby and took a photo by a digital camera.
But once we starts the event, they begin to propose new pose ,go crazy and "get high". It is also our annual event.