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Ho-Ho-Holy Moly! Santa Has Gone High Tech!

Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Lakewood Center and we were invited to attend a special media preview of Santa HQ before its Grand Opening earlier this month. Photo credit: Lakewood Center

Santa HQ

This season Lakewood Center and Los Cerritos Center are pleased to introduce a thoroughly modern, extraordinarily high tech visit with Santa – the new Santa HQ, presented by HGTV, which offers an adventure I can guarantee your children have never seen before. I have a Santa HQ photo package *****GIVEAWAY***** to give away to one lucky winner! Please enter below!

Folks, the magic has been kicked up a notch at Santa HQ. Big time.

Please GO.  It’s a hands-on experience they will never forget. Mine sure haven’t.

Best of all, guests can plan ahead by booking a reservation online at www.Santa-HQ.com to make the experience easier than ever to enjoy. No more crazy long lines with impatient, cranky toddlers. Nice. Speaking of “nice”…

‘Naughty O’Nice Meter 

The introduction to Santa HQ includes a scan on the ‘Naughty O’ Nice Meter where an attendant enters in your child’s name (or yours, if you are brave enough) and the results are shown on the light up screen for all to see….

How to Get Great Family Photos by Kristin Eldridge

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This post today is written by Kristin Eldridge of Kristin Eldridge Photography on how to get great family photos. She has photographed hundreds of families over the years and is here to share her tips on how to get great family photos with us.

How to Get Great Family Photos

As parents, our goal in doing a photo session is to get good photos. We don’t go through all the work of picking out clothes, driving to the location and paying a photographer just to go through the motions and get paid back with meltdowns.

We do all that work so we can stop time and have a beautiful piece of art that captures our family.

When kids look at the photo session, they don’t have the same goal…