Scrapbooking

I've been working on Anna's scrapbook for a few days now.  I love to scrapbook, but I really like to do a lot at once.  So I've waited.  All along I've been organizing her pictures into folders on the computer.  All of our pictures are sorted first by year, then by event (or in her case, Anna's name), then sorted appropriately in each category.  Anna's are sorted by her age in months.  This helps me to be able to easily find pictures and know exactly how old she was. 

Now, starting her scrapbook was a daunting task.  As you may have noticed, I've taken a billion pictures of her and continue to do so...  So picking just a few to highlight was hard.  I picked up to 10 from each month as well as her newborn pictures, the day we got her, her baptism, adoption day, and 6 month pics. 

Then came the fun part.  Ordering them.  I signed up for Shut.terfly and got 50 free prints.  So that took care of some (I had a total of 136 to print).  I then looked on Sn.apfish where I already had an account and realized that I had 25 free prints to use.  Ok, over halfway there.  Then they also had a deal where prints ordered to the store were only 9 cents a print!  So in the end, I got 136 prints for $6.  Not too bad! 
My mom had given me a bunch of baby girl paper to use.  Thanks mom!  So I got started!  In just two days, I got all caught up and am current!  I plan on doing the next "batch" just before her birthday so that she has a completed scrapbook to show off!

Here are a few pictures of a few pages I've done...  And stupid auto-correct wants them to be up and down.  It annoys me!

And here are a few current pictures of Anna just because I can't resist sharing!



Rocking out with her guitar.  She was bouncing up and down to the music. 

Reading a few of her saint books on All Saint's Day!