If you haven’t guessed from the multiple Halloween posts this fall, we are pretty into the holidays. Seattle is a hard place to live in the winter. It rains and the days are short. That is where Christmas festivities come to the rescue. Today I want to share some of my family’s favorite activities and places to go in and around Seattle during the holidays.

What happens when one amazing blogger and one family photographer come together to help parents with a situation that can be absolutely dreadful? One guide full of tips and tricks to survive and, dare we say, love you family photo session WITH a toddler. Ta-da!

If I have said it once, I have said it one hundred times, but I love photographing families as they grow! It is particularly fun to photograph Alyssa’a family because as a wedding planner, she is detail focused and all about the pretty visuals.