I wanted to mention another idea for preserving those memories from what I hope is a Funner Summer for your family!
The first idea is to make a summer scrapbook of all your adventures. This is actually something we plan to do this year. I am not really a scrapbook person but a long time ago I bought one of these Project Life systems:
You purchase the album, the inserts and then little cards and the idea is to capture all the little moments in life and just write a little something about that moment on the cute designed cards you can buy and then pop the photo in and you are done.
So I bought one of these with great intentions (cough…) two years ago and now is the time to crack this baby open and get after it.
I was thinking making a little scrapbook like this would be something I can do with my 5 year old. I think she will really enjoy this project- so if you have older kids maybe you might consider putting together some sort of scrapbook of all your summer activities.
These Project Life books can be found here on Amazon or I actually just saw them in Hobby Lobby!
The other idea is an annual family yearbook. This is also something I am doing this year. Are you terrible about making photobooks? Me too!! I never seem to get to them and suddenly a year passed and then it seems overwhelming.
So this year I have a new idea to make a family yearbook. What I have done is started an ongoing photobook and each month I summarize what happened that month and add photos. It seems easier for me to tackle a month at a time and by the end of the year you have preserved all those wonderful memories in one spot.
The picture above is a sample of our May pages. I have one other page because May was a big month for birthdays and my little girl got a cast off and such- the page right before this one has a big MAY 2013 and then each page has a summary of what interesting things happened that month.
This has worked well for me so far this year and I should have a lovely little book by the end of the year!
If you are interested in creating your own Family Yearbook, you might consider using:
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Great idea Charlene, these scapbook kits are super easy and the girls can even make them. My nine year old makes them. It’s for the to be scrapbooker. Have fun, from one scrapbooker to another.
Joanna- which kits do you mean? Project life? I was thinking those looked cute for teenagers. I have my photos printed and just need to get started 🙂
Hey Charlene,
This is probably a dumb question, but…
Are your family yearbook pages- the monthly ones- pictured above actual paper pages you glued things on or are they digital? I’ve always had great intentions with this stuff too but never make the time to follow through… Didn’t know if maybe shutterfly or one of those sites lets you add a page or two a month and not order the book til the year is up???
Thanks for all you do! Love the funnier summer series!
Jill- yes that is right! Just pick a site you like and start a book and then you can save it in your account and just do a page or two at a time :). The nice thing is that come Dec or so when you are ready to request your book they have tons of promotions running at all the photo book sites.
Scrapbooks are a great project for kids! When I was a kid, every summer we did a 4-H yearbook — I still have mine, photos and little kid writing and all. As an adult, I treasure mine dearly.