Family photos- love or hate them?
818624
I love family photos.  Even though you always think you look horrible and you hate getting your pic taken, down the road you love them, it makes you remember things from then and for when you have kids they love looking at them and hearing the memories from what is behind them.  Pictures are the beautiful to share and decorate your home with.  It captures you in that moment and makes you remember those little things in the back of your mind and make you smile.
916387
i think black and white photos are overrated. mine is black and white? D'OH!
562421
Thanks! I'll keep this in mind! I just got back from college for the summer and my grandmother missed me something awful! I found this *amazing* picture of her and all the grandkids. :D Thank you!
930615
Take all the family's pictures and put them on a tape along with some of her favorite songs.  Put in movie clips of family events if you have some.  Like weddings, birthday parties, and Christmas morning.  That why all she has to do is push in the tape, and she's got all the people she loves most in the world right there with her.  \n\nIf you can't do a tape, then make her a photograph album.  You could go out and take pictures of her favorite places, her friends, and new members of the family.  I know I would treasure something like this, and it would mean so much because you took a lot of time and effort to make it special.\n\nMy mother made me one of photos of our family while I was growing up.  And I have it on the coffee table.  I will always treasure it, so I think your Mother in law would like this.  I did a large sofa size picture for mine with all her grandkids, and she had it hung in her house till she died.  I now have it hung in mine.\nI hope you find just the right gift for your Mother-in-law, and she's all ready very lucky, to have such a sweet daughter in law like you!\n\nGod bless us all..................
194360
Probably many people will be offended by the picture. However you cannot stop people from taking photos, and posting them. Look away!
272415
Happy memories of the familiar smiling faces of the people I love most in this world. Whether I close my eyes and reflect or aid the process by looking at photos, I am instantly transported to a time and place of great merriment. Postcards in time... I find I enjoy tapping into those bubbles more than any other.\n\nAnd if I want a smile in the here and now, all I have to do is visit my wee 9-month-old niece and watch her face as she studies mine and gradually begins to recognize her favourite uncle... then, when recognition comes, I get the biggest, most beautiful, most enthusiastic, most innocent smile you can possibly imagine. Worth its weight in gold, that. :)
891115
what he did was wrong. A person should never ruin others photos exspecially when it is a relative
485503
cash is always good! For family members, I usually ask the mom or dad if they are  buying a large present -- like a camera or computer, and chip in. \n\nA nice photo frame is good - for their grad pictures and pictures of friends from high school --.\n\nIf they are going to university or college, see if you can order a t-shirt or hoodie from the place they will be attending.
655721
How about a scrapbook or photo album showing their whole lives and their families?? \nIt is something I am sure they would love having, looking at and can show to their friends.\nLets face it after 60yrs of marriage what could they possibly need.
240445
the past is the past...for both of you.  the pictures are in the past and should not matter now, to either of you.  and they should not exist any longer because some things in our past we need not be reminded of.... you did the right thing.
1076335
MAYBE BECAUSE OF THE PICTURES OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE
732734
It's okay to photograph them when they are in a public area, like award shows etc.  But if they are w/ their kids are just trying to have a lunch or having an intimate moment that's not cool.
30451
My family is the perfect family.  We all have our setbacks (some still living at home, divorce, children out of wedlock, some out of work for a while, arguements with husbands/ wives, etc.) BUT- We all are close (including children's children) and we love each otherSO MUCH.  We see each other often.  We still are corrected by our parents.  We live pretty close by to each other.  We all go to church.  God is the center of our lives.  We argue for a few seconds.  We laugh.  We are extremely loyal, giving & kind.  There are lots of us.  We help each other out.  Our children are actually friends and not just cousins.  We treat each other's homes as if it is our own home.  We cook for each other.  We voice for each other.  We defend each other.  We cry to each other.  We talk on the phone.  We go out together.  We vacation together.  We do favors for each other.  We help with each other's businesses.  We borrow each other's stuff.  We are loud & noisy.      \nThis is only a small explanation of my perfect family.  I hope that I raise a family exactly like my parents did.  I always pray for this.
521537
Yes, I hate them!! Everybody looks like they're seventeen!\nThat's why I changed to a real picture.
906745
A PICTURE OF ALL THE FAMILY THAT WILL BE THE BEST PRESENT
1048683
My mom and dad were married 55 years when my mom died of cancer.  I knew the first Christmas without her was going to be rough.  I hired a portrait artist to make a watercolor portrait of my mother from a picture taken at their 50th wedding anniversary for my dad's Christmas gift.  The artist did a fantastic job.  Dad won't part with that portrait for anything...and she sits on the wall in the middle of the living room to this day.  It was worth it.
463268
Not sure who would have a problem with a pic,guess it is their issue to sort out lol\n\nI do however wonder why since you are a MARRIED mom of 4 why it would matter what you look like *shrugs*