Year one of being married and I moved twice and traveled. A lot. With all the travels, I start to wonder what am I going to do with all of these pictures of us. Some of them would look good in frames (still need to do that!) but a lot of them, even though they’re good pictures, are for remembering, not necessarily for framing. So what to do with all these pictures?
Enter my super smart husband, who suggested that we make an album for every year; beginning and ending on our anniversary. We’re currently on our third year {yes..still newlyweds!} and we’ve got two albums to show. Sidenote: Should I be embarrassed that I have yet to put together a wedding album (and we have just fantastic photos) but I have albums of our first two years of marriage?
The only “rules” I’ve set is that the cover photo has to be the entire family. Right now that’s me, the stud, and Roxann. And like our Christmas card, I’ve tried to make the photo something specific to where we were living or what was happening in our life.
The idea for these started because we were traveling a lot and wanted a way to keep all the pictures without having multiple books. But they’ve evolved into trying to encompass that whole year. The people we’ve spent the year with, the places we visited, how Roxann looked with she was a puppy. Mixing our travels, with seeing family & friends and special moments that we’ve held onto through out the year that we always want to remember.
Both of these books are from Shutterfly. Similar, but not identical. And because these are books that are showing the whole year, I used a 12×12 book size. And what I love, it knowing that we do these books, makes me more intentional about taking pictures that aren’t just for the blog or because we’re traveling but taking pictures to document our lives. And I love adding the people we’ve spent that year with doing life. Because we move, it’s not always the same people–and I don’t want to forget.
Is there a special way you remember your memories?
