Meet The Kochersperger's: Part 2 and Advice Please!!!

So, yes life doesn't slow down enough for us to catch up as I'm sure all of you are aware!! So I am in need of some advice from some seasoned "busy parents" or, just plan "busy people!" I am BEHIND on all my family photo albums/scrapbooks!! In fact, other then the ones I "threw" together for BJ, I don't even have our adoption trip to Poland done! Aghhhh! I have all my pictures from the last 2 1/2 years nicely organized in folders on my computer, but I have done nothing with them. I kept telling myself I would do it during the summer, but something ALWAYS comes up. I haven't had time to sit down and sort pictures, cut out trim, etc. So what I am looking for is a computer scrapbooking program, that can be saved and then printed at a photo place. It has to be 12X12 sheets. I know about "shutterfly," and others that you can make books out of, but I'm actually wanting something that I can put in my already bought (many) scrapbooks! Can you do this with Shutterfly, save your image and print it? Any other ideas? I was thinking some kind of downloaded scrapbooking program. Please, PLEASE let me know your ideas or suggestions! I would be much appreciative!!!

And since we're talking about memory books, do you all know about Blog2Print? It turns your blog into a book!! I know that other sites can do this, but I wasn't aware that Blogger had that connection. I was so excited that I took our first adoption blog and had a book made! I was able to get the blog from start to finish with all the pictures and comments. It's perfect and even comes with a table of contents page. It was exactly what I wanted, plus you can download the book (w/out purchasing the actually book) and just get a download version for a couple of bucks!! I plan to use some of these excerpts in my scrapbook, if I ever get it done!! So, if you all already knew about this, then I suppose that means I've been under a rock. Which is quite possible! LOL!

On to other matters, here are some pics that were my favorite from the last few months! Just to say farewell to winter, here is a fun pic of BJ during one of the very "few" snowfalls we had! In fact, the next day was supposed to be in the upper 50's so we let BJ go out at 7:30 at night to play because we knew there'd be nothing left the next day!! He had a blast!!

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4 comments:

Lee and MarthaJune 23, 2012 at 9:22 PM
HELLO!
Creative Memories has a digital photo scrap booking software program. I have never used it, but I checked it out once and it looked pretty cool. I am in the same boat. I have printed all my Poland pictures, but they sit in the basement waiting to be cropped. Scrap Booking was such as passion of mine pre-kids, but it is one thing that I never have time for anymore!!
Tom and KaraJune 24, 2012 at 3:49 PM
I had no idea about blog2print...LOVE it! I want to delete my old blog but I wanted a copy for myself, now I can. Thanks for sharing.
Adoptive Parents of ThreeJune 25, 2012 at 12:49 PM
I think I knew about the blog2print, but thanks to your reminder I think I'll take it more seriously now. I haven't updated my blog in so long I feel bad about it.

I ended up doing the Poland album because I was under stress to get it done before a picnic of adoptive parents. It's amazing what you can do when you get a deadline to show it to someone else...
ShellyNovember 11, 2012 at 8:38 PM
I will definitely look into the blog2print. Thanks. As you can tell, I will be no help with giving ideas on how to do anything timely since I am replying to your post almost 5 months late. Still, wishing your family all the best.