Finished up, for now.

I'm looking forward to adding more family photos, both new and old, in the future!

To Do List

Another thing that was on our "while we wait to do list" was organizing photos.  We had a giant tub of photos in our basement full of photo boxes and oodles and oodles of photos.  Jamie claimed that it weighs 120 lbs.  He dragged it to the "man room" last night and we started sorting and pitching photos while we had a family movie night.  We had lots of great giggles.  Goodbye scenery photos that we can easily Google and check out instead, goodbye senior photos of high school friends, good bye most of the photos taken with our then cool 1980s cameras...mine was pink, and goodbye free doubles (and to think I used to think that was GREAT!).

What a mess!

 Good bye!

Here's the end result....two photo boxes!  YES!  I bought a few photo albums, so will be working on getting some them in albums, but the rest will happily room in these boxes until we want to reminisce. 

Talk about timing!

Wow....look at what I got in the mail today!  You know that fabuloso wedding I got to be in last September?  I got a wonderful gift from the bride and groom today, my good friends Ann and Jordi!  Check it out, a black frame!  So, I headed upstairs and hung it right up on our family photo wall.  We call our friends family around these parts! 

How perfect is that!?

Annie wrote the sweetest write up about me and our relationship on their wedding website, she printed that and included it behind the photo, incredibly thoughtful and so special! 

See, the photo wall is already expanding!  (Yes, I realize how many frames are crooked right now, I'll work on that...someday!)

 

To Do List

I put together a little to do list to "keep us busy" (as if we are bored!) as we wait.  I thought I'd blog about our progress on our to do list to keep track of what we did while we waited for our baby.  Most of the list focuses on our home and capturing family memories.

To do list item #1: Create a family photo wall.  Here's what I did today:

Obviously, it needs LOTS of help!  Only a few of the photos you see are of our family, so I am setting out to find the perfect photos for the frames.  I'm planning to print them all in black and white, and am hoping that quite a few will be "old" photos.  The top right photo is of Jamie's Grandma Jean, so, so cute!  I'll add more frames in the future (of course, we hope we'll be able to add a photo of the next Baby T to our family photo wall someday!).  It will be fun to see how this expands in the future.

I had all of the frames already (yes, I have quite the decor stock in our basement) and the family sign was a gift we received for Christmas. 

In the frame below the family sign, I plan to do a little scrapping type collage.  I'm starting with a fun last name collage, I found the details on how to make it on a great blog, Full of Great Ideas, you can find it here.

Here's what I made:

Uh-oh, now I am itching to make the collage and dig up old photos.  But, motherhood is calling, so I better go pay attention to that cute curly haired little boy I get to call my son!