2009-2011 Yearbook

So I have recently been introduced to a blog called Young House Love and I am addicted.  It is a young couple in Virginia that are all about DIY projects.  Last month they posted about a 2011 yearbook that they had created for their family.  It went through the entire year and showed all of their vacations, events, and other random things that had happened.  I loved the idea.  Looking back through our photos I realized that Eric and I had a ton of pictures just sitting on our computer that needed to be printed out.  I decided to put together our own yearbook only I went back through 2009 and put multiple years into our first book.  I tried using mypublisher.com for the first time and really liked it.  They had a sale going so that all extra pages added to the book were free.  The classic hardcover book with 20 pages starts at $35.  Typically it is $1 per page for anything over that.  Our book turned out to be 45 pages and thanks to the sale I saved $25!  Cha-Ching! :)  I guess they have these sales/coupons pretty regularly so keep an eye out for them if you decide to do something similar.

I'm going to show you a few of the pages from our book.  Please excuse the poor photo quality.  Maybe once Eric sees these I can convince him to let me get a new fancy camera!  It's worth a shot.

Front Cover

Back Cover

& Some of the inside pages

We got the book in the mail today and I've already looked through it about 4 times.  It's great to finally have some of our pictures off of the computer and out where we can actually see them.  Plus, it gives me a reason to take even more pictures in the coming year so that I can fill up an entire book for 2012.  I think it will be fun to see how our family progresses year over year.

Do any of you have yearly photo albums or ideas that work well for you?

xo,
Carly