Memories

I have two scrapbooks.

One is for Jordan...his first two years.

The second one is for Katie...her first two years.

I love these books. I worked for endless hours to crop, mount, journal, decorate, sticker, and preserve each phase of their baby-ness in an "acid-free" bubble.

I literally "cropped 'til I dropped". (Thank you, Creative Memories...I love your company for pioneering the scrapbooking frontier, and opening this creative, love-driven world to me.)

Then, in 2000, I bought a Kodak digital camera. (Remembering it now, it seems so huge and bulky... little did I know that over time, my digital cameras would be big...then go tiny...then get even bigger)
I bought the first one so I would have enough "pixels" (and I didn't know what this meant, the guy at Circuit City just told me to get a LOT) to really capture every moment in its truest form.

So now, I have years and years and YEARS of precious photos...images of J&K's childhood...locked in jpegs, gifs, and God knows what else. Over the years I have thought about those pictures and wished I had them in my hands...so I could touch them...shuffle through them in a shoebox...or tape them to the fridge, instead of displaying them in a slide show on a computer screensaver.

It's time to join this digital scrapbooking world all my friends rave about. It's actually very fun, and the possibilites are endless.

Here is my first attempt.

Psstt...I think I'm hooked. :)