New Topic: 1st Year Book...

Thanks, y'all.  I'm still processing and praying about my next step in the treatment process.  So blessed to have folks praying with me!

For our first Christmas after we were married, Chris got me a scrapbook.  It was a limited edition Creative Memories scrapbook with embossed baby shoes on the cover.  I loved it.  We knew we wanted kids someday and I had mentioned to Chris I should go ahead and buy it since it wouldn't be around when we actually had kids.  

At the time, "someday" was like five years.  

We almost doubled that.

So yes, this particular scrapbook was no longer available.

But then, truthfully, I kinda sorta forgot about it.  

By the time Aubrey Kate arrived, we had lived in three apartments, three houses and three states.  Let's just say it'd been packed, unpacked, repacked and just plain pushed it to the back of the guest bedroom closet.  Linda had given me a precious pink scrapbook for Pumpkin so I ended up using that for her first year photos.  Plus I was still doing our family scrapbooks so her life was extra, extra documented.

This time around, I have decided to give up scrapbooking.  Once I finish the ones I'm behind on and Rhys' first year book, of course.  Not interested in doing one for the first kid but not for the second.  I suspect his future wife will love having his baby book someday.  

Long after I'm dead, of course.  Since I will be falling asleep at night snuggling his baby book and missing him horribly.

Anyway, all that to say, Rhys got the scrapbook.  I think it's a perfect fit.  The first Christmas present his dad gave me as a married couple was about creating a family.  He was, even then, always wanted.  Always loved.  Always prayed for.  

And this scrapbook has a little bit more than his monthly pictures with Aubie.  Since I'm not scrapbooking, his book needed to be filled with more special moments in his life.  Not all.  The scrapbook's not that big.  But things like meeting grandparents and his sister in the hospital, coming home, newborn photos, etc.  

My goal this year is the same as it was with Aubrey Kate.  Finish the first year book in time for the first birthday party.  

I like having it on display.

So I am proud to announce...It is caught up!

Apart from adding in his 12 month photos and then the pictures from the birthday party, the book is caught up.  

No lie, I did this in a week.  Clipped and glued like a crazy person.  Every nap time.  Every night.  Every free minute focused on getting this done.  

But that's actually pretty normal for me.  I scrapbook in fits.  It becomes an obsession and I hold on tight getting as much done as possible for as long as that obsession lasts!

There is, by far, my simplest.  I also tried to use what I already had.  Of course, I had to buy some but I did manage to use a slew of paper I already had stored away.

I'm a little bit of a paper hoarder.  

It's way cheaper than embellishments.

Thought I'd share a few pages.  Largely because I am pumped about crossing this off my Summer Project To Do List.  Which is way longer than I could ever accomplish so every task completed is fantastic!  

You're Welcome, Rhys' Future Wife!  Hope you will love it as much as I loved putting it together.