Tips for the perfect Family Portrait #6 - DADS

Photo: Dads and kids having fun. That's what its all about

MESSAGE TO ALL FATHERS, HUSBANDS AND FUTURE HUSBANDS.

IT'S GOOD TO HAVE YOUR PICTURE MADE!

As a card carrying member of the Dad-Bod Society, I'm here to tell you it will be okay for you to be in the picture.

It’s your portrait too, so knock it off with the grumpy face and lack of participation. This is the documentation of your family, your legacy. So that future generations can say - "...gosh dang, Grandpa sure was handsome and he looked pretty tough. Did he eat scorpions for breakfast?" Of course the answer is always "Yes. Along with the souls of rattlesnakes."

(Author's note: yes, I imagine all my future kin to come from Texas and talk in a tone of early settlers. Words like "Pa," "Jeeze," and "Rightdere")

It really is simple math.

Great Family Portraits = Stellar Holiday Cards = Happy Wife

You’re doing something your wife asked you to do which will cancel out something dumb you're gonna do later. Family portraits will keep you from having to add that second story to the dog house you have as your primary residence...

What is your excuse exactly? We live in a golden age of technology. DVR the game and watch it when you get home, dummy. Then you can fast forward through all those elevendee-hundred GEICO commercials. Don't get me started...

Hell, even Wyatt Earp took family photos.

True story. Look it up.