CNN PRODUCER NOTE     Taking a group photo every year, uncgirlbec says she and her friends didn't set out to make a photo tradition, but that it naturally and unexpectedly became one. Always having taken photos together in college, she says it wasn't until they graduated when they started meeting every year around Christmas and taking group photos. "Every year it takes so much planning and maneuvering to get all four of us together. We have to figure out where to meet, how much vacation time we have, how to get there and who can drive, and how to tell our parents and siblings we'll be gone around Christmas," she says. "But we know that once we're finally together, we're going to talk until we're hoarse and laugh until our faces go numb. And the photos capture that. With the self-timer photos, it's just us being us, no one else plays a role, and I think that's neat."

As she looks back on the photos throughout the years, she says she feels grateful every time she looks at them. Sharing that most of their meet ups have been at UNC, where they first met as freshman. "I have them around my apartment and hanging in my office and I never get tired of looking at them," she says. "It's been six years since we graduated, which isn't that long, but given our locations and all the changes in our lives in that time, I just feel very blessed that we're all still such good friends."
- Anika3, CNN iReport producer