Photo Book Solution - A Year of Photos

So, the past few years I have put off making a yearly family photo book as I could not decide how I wanted to deal with all my digital photos! With digital photos being so easy to take (with plans to edit) and with such cute kids (: I think I end up with a few hundred digital photos a month. So between ALL those photos and trying to decide what I wanted to do with them, I had not come up with a solution. I was pretty certain I did not want to do a book a year for each kid as that seemed too much to do even with only two kids, but I did/do want to have a hard copy of my photos. I do have a first year book for each child as those are worth doing as there are so many milestones and changes the first year! So, as seems to happen more and more these days, I was inspired by someone's blog. A blog post showed how this mom creates a month in review each month of her photos for her blog, and I thought PERFECT - I will do a photo book each year that has a 2-page spread for each month (and an extra page for birthdays!). Such a simple solution - organize a photo book by month highlights and limit the number of photos per month to 2 pages. That means narrowing down each month of photos to 10-15 or so photos of significant things that happened that month, or favorite photos from the month. I started with 2011 and have to work back through 2007 (or actually 2001 when I was married but maybe that will be a page a year). I am planning on moving forward with it this year by compiling my page at the end of each month, a small doable task, so that at the end of each year my photo book is complete and ready to print. FYI: I use Picaboo and like to create my book and wait for a good coupon to come out or a groupon so I never pay full price for the book. The 2011 cost less than $20 with a group! So, maybe this idea will work for some of you - here is my first book of YEAR OF PHOTOS! Click here - http://app.picaboo.com/WebView/Project.aspx?clientID=677e0266438b52ce5a7d0291d99f1408&version=198671&siteID=FB-WallShare

P.S. So EXCITED to welcome new baby boy Ellis (name tbd) to our family born 1/21/12 in Japan to Amy and Fox!!!!