Happy New Year

2010.

Wow!

Can you believe 2009 is already over?  I'm still trying to catch up!

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a fabulous New Year's celebration!  Christmas with our family was wonderful, but (as usual) it was over too quickly.  I never get to do all of the things that I have planned to do.  I suppose it's my own fault since Christmas also tends to be a time when we stay in our jammies all day long and just be lazy!  This year we spent Christmas with my family in Canada.  I went armed with my camera and lots of memory cards, and now that we're in the New Year and I feel like I actually need to do something, I'm getting to work recapping 2009 with a Family Yearbook.

Making Family Yearbooks was actually one of the reasons that I got involved with Heritage Makers in the first place.  I wanted to have a way to put all of the pictures, stories, and dates together.  Scrapbooking just took to long for me.  I'm okay at journaling for a while and then I stop for a longer while, and I take lots of pictures, but I never actually put a date on them...or print them out for that matter.  They just sit on my computer until I've got wayyyyyyyy too many, and I transfer them to a CD.  So, Heritage Makers was a great solution for me!  I could upload my pictures, choose a template, and with absolutely no creative thought of my own, create a great family yearbook to preserve all of the special family memories we created over the year.  It's perfect!

How about you?  How do you preserve all those great family memories?

So, here's a challenge for you:  Don't leave those pictures on your computer (or under your bed), don't let those memories fade...choose a way to keep track of all of your special memories, whether it's scrapbooking, journaling, or hmmmm....Heritage Makers! (sorry, just had to get that in there)  Maybe you're interested in doing a family yearbook, or maybe you're more ambitious, and want to do a yearbook for each of your children.  It really doesn't matter what you do...the point is, that you do it!  Complete 1 or 2 pages for each month, and by the end of the year you'll have a great memory book for the whole family to enjoy.

If you're interested in starting a family yearbook with Heritage Maker's, I'd love to help.  Shoot me an e-mail at featuringfamily@gmail with your phone number and what you're interested in doing, and I'll give you a call.  Just to give you a better idea, here are a few of my favorite templates from the template gallery:



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And here's a little preview of the yearbook I'm working on for our family!

(Keep in mind...it's a work in progress)

Happy Heritage Making!