5 Foolproof Ways to Capture Family Vacation Memories

by Diane

5 Foolproof Ways to Capture Family

We love to travel together as a family and make memories that we will cherish for a long, long time. My memory is not as sharp as it used to be, so I need to make a special effort to document our vacations. In a few weeks we will be traveling to Orlando with Mom it Forward and will be staying at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel. These are some of the ways that we will be capturing our family vacation memories:

How to Capture Family Vacation Memories

1. Keep a journal of all the memorable moments and places you visit on your vacation. Don't wait until the end of the day to update the journal. Write in the journal as the events happen. Spontaneity is the key to making the memories last a lifetime.

DIY Travel journal

2. Take videos while on vacation. Nowadays most cell phones have decent cameras which make it easy to record events as they happen.

Use your cell phone to take vacation videos

3. Collect souvenirs from your vacation. The souvenirs can be simple, such as a post card, or a seashell from the beach. We purchased this sombrero when we visited Mexico and have it hanging in our family room, where we can see it every day.

Mexican sombrero purchased in Cabo San Lucas

4. Create a photo album of your vacation. A picture is worth a thousand words. When you're ready, just relax and open the photo album to refresh the memories of your family vacation.

Our Travel Photo Album

5. Create a family memory jar. Take items from your vacation such as photos, receipts or post cards and put them in a jar. Then place the jar in a place where it can be viewed every day.

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Seashells from the beach in a jar

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”

~Pat Conroy

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Diane

Diane is a Delaware based writer and blogger. She is a wife and the mom of a teenage boy. Through her blog, she wants to inspire moms to find Zen in their lives while offering practical tips and other valuable information to help families deal with everyday issues. Contact her at dianenassy@gmail.com

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23 Comments

  • Great tips! I definitely need to keep a journal because I always think I’ll remember everything and of course I don’t! Love the memory jar too.

  • i’ve been trying to get pics of souveniers also– seems like i don’t even always remember where or why we got things

  • I love the journal idea. This year I am thinking of taking pages from my kids travel journals and transferring them to scrapbooks with pictures from those years. It’s a way for me to move the books from getting lost in boxes.

  • I love the family memory jar of a vacation. I’ve done all of the above except that one but love the idea. I’ll start that tradition next vacation! 🙂

  • Great tips. We are on a road trip now. For us I take a lot of pictures and scrapbook + since we homeschool my kids will write small reports for some of the educational things we a=have visited.

  • Great tips! I especially love the memory jar idea. I’m the person that brings home sand, shells, and other random things and my husband thinks I’m crazy!

  • I actually do most of these. I always collect a snowglobe wherever I go because I love them and I’m always taking photos. Great tips!

  • I always kept a journal when we traveled pre-kids. Then I let it go for too long! We just got back from a weeklong trip and it was fun to do it again and include the kids’ quotes about their favorite parts of each day.

  • These are great ideas for capturing family memories. I giggled about the jar… we have a whole lot of jars lining our windowsills, filled with gemstones, rocks and shells 🙂

  • We often collect special trinkets, souvenirs, and take lots of pics to remember our fun times. I actually need to make a scrap book of our last vacation.

  • That last quote brought tears to my eyes. It is so true. Every journey becomes a part of us. And every family journey seems to be that much more etched into our memories.

    I’m so excited to see you and your family this week at Family Forward.

  • Hi Diane. A lot of people are posting their holiday snaps to Facebook now. Our app makes it super simple to turn all those holiday posts including the captions and comments into a printable memory book in minutes.
    We’d love you and your readers to try it out and give us some feedback! It’s at https://www.tweekaboo.com/tweekabook.
    Thanks!
    Caitriona.