Picture Memories

I love pictures, I love the memories and I love to take them. I always have a camera with me ALWAYS! I know some people who who keep items as memorabilia and I would rather have the pictures and they take up less space. My husband is one of those who keeps things for the memories and I have had to initiate a rule; if you haven't seen or used it in 30 days we don't need it, most of which we don't have the space for it. I am constantly organizing and re-organizing closets, dressers, cabinets, everything. My junk drawer is even organized! To help with kids clutter every year before birthdays and Christmas I go through the kids closets and dressers and their toy boxes (all of them playroom included). If they don't use it we donate it, broken or missing pieces we throw it away, and Punkin's old toys might get handed down to Doodle Bud depending on condition. I use the pictures of the stuff or activities as the memories. Not the stuff I hate clutter.

I still have my pictures printed, now it might take me three or four months to upload them and have them printed but I do it. Computers crash, phones don't always work, memory cards get full etc. So I like to have them in a photo album that I can always go back to and I have to look at whenever. We also have our screen saver as a slideshow of our pictures and every time I print pictures I update all of our picture frames with the exception of our professional photos and a few special ones that will never get changed out.

I finally printed some new pictures and its been like 6 months, I got over 300 pictures for $38 bucks. I upload them to Walgreens and always get a coupon code and it makes them dirt cheap. Usually I only have about 100 pictures but this batch had a ton of recent activites. I have hosted two baby showers, my birthday, Punkins birthday, fathers day, mothers day, Punkins first lemonade stand, Doodle Bugs first teeth and three play dates, and a couple of birthday parties. I just got done updating our picture frames and our family albums, and setting aside pictures for the girls photo albums.

This is our mantel. I love mantels they are perfect for displaying pictures. LOL.

One of our side table next to our love seat...my aunt took the pic of me and Punkin during Christmas last year.

My favorite photo collage and the dogs have a permanent spot...lol.
I love these pictures they are our best professional so far!
This is the side of my fridge for random pictures and the kids crafts!
My bookshelf, it is mostly full of dvds that we get 4/$20 at Hollywood video and they are usually new releases. I wish I could fill it with pictures.
The other side table and the picture of me and Doodle Bug was taken at random last Christmas and she was only two in half months old and now shes almost nine months, they grow up so fast.

This is my china cabinet, we also display cards here for about two weeks before I take them down or something else comes up.
There are pics all over the playroom of the girls.
I have to buy another album tomorrow our fourth family album is full now.
Do you see all the pictures I didn't even put in there, and that stack also excludes all of the ones I put in the frames, set aside for the girls albums, and the ones that hubby takes to work to decorate the wall above his tool box.
I just love things that can decorate your home but display pictures at the same time even though those candles never get lit.

I love pictures and will always be updating. I have however lost three cameras this year, well one broke. So my hubby told me I could go pick out a new one, he needs a camera for work to keep his portfolio updated. Then two weeks later we went camping in Albert Pike, Arkansas and were 4-wheeler riding and it either fell out of my pocket in a creek or off a cliff. When we came home I went back to get a new one week later got the same one Samsung 12.2 mega pixels only the first one was silver (the one that broke), the second one was red and oh so pretty, the third one was blue, and now I'm on my 4th and its black. The blue one we lost 2 months later at the zoo in Tyler, Tx and a couple of months after, someone who picked it up called my hubbys boss, he was flipping through the pictures and saw the shop in the background and looked it up, he said he would call my husband and hasn't yet. Who in the world would go through all the trouble to find the owner so bad and then never call to get our address to mail it to us? We got our hopes up because we were really missing a couple of great pictures we took at the zoo. So far my black one has been the lucky one, even though I did figured out what the problem was, the silver one I had for 2+ years and it only took AA batteries, all the other ones are strictly chargeable and I forgot. When we went camping I bought a bunch of batteries for the camera and it died on me and the batteries didn't work. Put it in my pocket and it fell out, same thing with the blue one. One of the reasons why I think I haven't lost the black one with the exception of getting threatened by many is I have three chargers for it. One stays in the kitchen junk drawer, on in my truck and one it my suitcase. It pugs right into my iphone car charger :) So My black one is my lucky one!

Goodnight all and sweet dreams!