blurb

If you haven't heard of the Blurb, you've got to go check it out! I discovered this site awhile back while reading MckMama's blog. You can turn anything you want into your own book!! The possibilities are endless...you could make a wedding album, cookbook, portfolio, anything! AND their prices are really reasonable.

I've used Snapfish and Shutterfly several times before to make books, and they're great, but they can't do THIS...

Make a blog book
Blurb has free software that will "slurp" your blog into a book! It will take all of your posts and pictures and publish them into your very own hardcover book to hold in your hands! and look through with your family for years to come! FUN! One of the main reasons, actually the main reason I started this blog was to have a journal to keep my memories for Barrett to look back at. Sure it's fun to have friends that enjoy reading what I write, but really I do it all for the keepsakes. So, my plan all along has been to publish a blog book every year. I started this blog in March or April, so at the end of December I'm going to "slurp" all of my 2008 posts into a book and have it published. How AMAZING will it be to have a little shelf of yearly blog books ten years from now?!? Do you think we'll still be blogging in ten years? Or will there be something else? Technology is crazy, you know! Anyway, go check it out and see if you want to have your own 2008 blog book!

AND...since I have a complex and can't seem to post without including pictures of some sort, here are a few for your Sunday evening! Enjoy!

Sweet & innocent...I didn't do anything Momma!

Happy boy...crackin' up at Momma!

Working on his pouty face, and looking adorable!
This is his GQ Baby pose...and, NO! I didn't pose him like that!

We've been "elfed"

My little brother emailed us one of these last night with my whole family doing the disco! Justin and I watched it while we were on the phone with him and we were crying we were laughing so hard!! The funniest part was my dad in his sunglasses. He wears them all the time, so it was perfect. I wanted to post it here too, but I couldn't get the code since my brother made it. So...I made a couple of us. Barrett is the cutest elf I've ever seen ;)

DISCO

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THE CHARLESTON

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S*N*O*W

Tuesday morning we woke up to gray skies and a light mist. We usually head out for playgroup around 9:30, so I got dressed while Barrett was taking a little nap. Just after 9, it started to S*N*O*W! I looked out the front window and everything had been quickly covered by a blanket of fresh, fluffy, white!


I got us ready for our first venture out in the snow this season. Our Baby Sing & Sign teacher, Mrs. Lori was making a special visit to playgroup that morning, so we couldn't miss! The snow was coming down hard and the wind was blowing like crazy, so it was quite the adventure getting Barrett in and out of his carseat and running from the car! I discovered a few things: I would really like a coat with a hood, Barrett needs a heavier coat, and getting around during the winter with a baby is going to be a ball of fun!

Oh my, Mommy...what is that out there?!?!

This wasn't Barrett's first snow. We had a few last January and February when he was tiny. But, this was the first time he got to get out and about in it. Justin was away at work all day, and it was too cold and slick to get out that night. Yesterday the sun came out and dried up some of the streets and sidewalks, so we took some pictures out on the front sidewalk after Daddy got home.

first time walking in by the snow~ December 10, 2008