A Whole Year of This!

I can't believe I forgot my own blogiversary on Tuesday!! I have officially been blogging for a year. To be completely honest, I never thought I'd actually stick with it, let alone complete 316 posts! I can't believe that I have been able to babble on about nothing for so long and more than that I can't believe anyone actually reads it! But you do, so thanks! :) Personally, I am SO glad I started this blog and wish I would have done it sooner. I just completed my first blog book which is 360+ pages (can't remember the exact # and it is on the laptop upstairs and I am too lazy to go up right now) and contains 1358 photos -- and is just covers June-Dec '08 of this blog! As soon as I get the first one ordered I am going to complete the next 6 months! Then I want to go back and do Lily's first year and a half, so that I can have her whole life documented. I love to scrapbook, but have only done 2 pages since Lily's birth -- neither of which was a photo of Lily (pregnancy and labor pictures). I know I will never ever get to scrapbook all the photos of our daily life; and photo albums are great, but there isn't much room (if any) to document the stories, milestones and funny things Lily does. So, for me, this blog has been great -- I am sharing Lily's life with my friends and family, all while completing a photo album and journal! It is perfect. The best part is that I got all those photos printed (in various sizes, some as big as 8x11) bound and in a large book for only $87 (plus shipping and tax). That comes out to .06 cents a picture -- not counting the book!! Can't really print pictures cheaper than that! So that is my opinion on the blog and I urge y'all to start one. :)

This week we haven't done anything too exciting. We had Gymboree yesterday at their new location which is 10 minutes farther away and a total of 25 minutes on the other side of town! I am glad Lily is starting to outgrow it and has preschool in the fall, because it is kinda far to drive! Other than that I have been cleaning since one of Chip's best friends from Merced, Eric, and his wife Kristi are coming to visit again this weekend. They were here last summer and had so much fun, they had to come back! :) So it has been a great excuse to really clean the house -- especially upstairs since it often gets neglected.

We went to my Mom's this morning -- I thought Lily looked totally 80's in her jean shirt, hot pink top and pearls.