I don't know how any of you could possibly not know this by now, but I have been using this website called Baby Jelly Beans to document my daughters' lives. It is basically a user friendly site that offers various different templates so that the average human being can create their own website for their child....you don't have to be a computer genius! I started right when Madelyn was born so I have over 4 years worth of pictures, videos, milestones, and journal entries on this site! Every year you can get your whole website made into a keepsake CD for free, so I have basically been using this website as a baby book substitute, since I have absolutely no time for scrapbooking anymore. The keepsake CD's were really cool to have but I had to admit that it just wasn't the same as actually being able to open up a baby book and look at all the pictures and read all the journal entries....that is until Baby Jelly Beans decided to come out with their keepsake books!!! I am so excited by this, it is exactly what I have been waiting for! They turn your entire website into a hard cover book and they include every single thing that is on your website....I am going to get over 4 years worth of pictures with the captions, milestones with the coordinating pictures, growth charts, journal entries....everything! I've decided to wait until January to order mine so I can end out the book with Christmas and our trip to Washington DC. Then I will probably wait another couple years before I order another one. And the great thing is when I go to order another book I can select what material I want included in it, so I can just start where I left off after the first book and don't have to include the first 4 years all over again. So the first volume will be Madelyn ages 0-4 and Macy 0-1. Then the second volume will probably be Madelyn ages 4-7 and Macy 1-4....something like that, or I may order a new book every year, I haven't decided yet.
Anyways, for all you other parents out there I would definitely recommend Baby Jelly Beans. They offer adorable websites with tons of different designs and themes to choose from. It's also a really organized way to document your child's life, everything is put into seperate folders. Plus if you are too busy to scrapbook these days like I am, this is an awesome way to still have a baby book for your child because it is really easy to update a couple pictures here and write a journal entry there, you don't have to do everything all at once like a scrapbook requires....you can work on it a little bit as you go for years to come! =)
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