Albums

Memories...I am making a conscious effort  not only to take pictures of my kids and our life but also have a ritual do put the pictures in print an create photo books. Once I download the pictures to the PC I go through them. They are usually labeled and sorted by month, but I also have a folder called 'to print' and each time I download the pictures and go through them, I add some to the to print folder. 2-3 times per year I then order the pictures online for our albums. I have our family album (usually I end up with one album per calendar year) and each boy has their own album that they can look at all the time.

It's important for me to keep the pictures and memories alive. It's a reminder how quickly things change and how quick the boys are growing up. we frequently look at the pictures and the boys love their own books, especially Jacob can sit for hours and look at the pictures.