Why we blog...

In the last several months, I have strongly considered not keeping up our blog.

The decision always comes back to the fact that we love having a record of our days, our thoughts, pictures of us, our families, our pup, etc. We love knowing that we can come back to our blog and look back on the last several months of our lives and see pictures of the memories that we hold in our hearts.

We blog for us. For our memories.

We love our lives. Cal and I feel that we have the best of blessings, each other, family, and memories. It is important to us to keep a record of our life, Our life that we love.

But, we wanted something tangible.
We wanted something that we could hold, and look at.
I searched several avenues. I looked up numerous ways to "scrapbook", to put your pictures together with words, and sometimes without words. I even spent several hours and several dollars on trying to put some things together with the pictures of the last couple years of our lives.

It all seemed okay. Just okay. We love having our blog, but we were having the blog for our memories... so that one day, our children would be able to see what we are like, what we did before we had them, what our families and friends were like, our feelings and admirations, what their lives were like.

We want a record of our lives. Something more than just a blog.

One of the avenues that I was looking into was Blurb. It was so neat, except it did not support blogger. I had signed up with them and had also tried several ways that I could get our blog into a book with them. It seemed to take so much time since they did not support blogger...I felt it was yet another dead end.

One day my friend Jen came over, she told me about how she got an email from Blurb, and that they now support Blogger!

I was so excited and quickly got to working on our
2007-2008 Whitehead Family Book.

It is now finished and arrived at our house today. We love our book.

Blurb is so extremely efficient and easy. I am so glad that they now support blogger and I am so glad that this is the route we took with our memories. (Thanks Jen!)

Our book definitely took time to get everything just how we wanted it. It does take time to tweek this, and move this here, and add this there.

It was worth every second!

Here is a little snippet of how our book turned out.





[It is hard bound, and each page is printed on heavy paper, the quality of the pictures are great. There are many choices to choose from, including size, colors, fonts, backgrounds, etc. You can also choose to have a dust cover.]

It was so easy, you just let the program 'slurp' your blog, and then you begin the 'tweeking'. You publish it, order it, and they mail it to you.
Simple, easy, and oh so beautiful!

We love our book so much, and will now make a book for every year.

Our book, our memories, our words, our thoughts, our children; these are the reasons Cal and I have our blog.