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 My mom asked me last week if I wanted her phone since she planned to upgrade to the next phone. I'm not technologically savvy by any means, but I've seen the photo quality on her 'old' phone and it's excellent. So I took her up on the offer and should have it this weekend. It's lit a fire under me to delete duplicate photos, videos that aren't meaningful or too long for their own good and sort through images on my phone and place them into separate folders.

I've created folders for pregnancy/baby shower, newlyweds (AKA anything on my phone from before Leighton came along), Leighton Year 1 (which includes birth til first birthday), Leighton year 2 (After 1st til 2nd birthday party) and Leighton year 3 (after 2nd birthday til now). I also have a recipe folder and a crochet pattern folder.

I was able to dwindle the number of photos on my phone down to 2000 which is a huge accomplish seeing as how it once was at 8000. I took the amount of videos down from around 200 to 100.

I'm relieved to have this step done! I sorted photos into folders so that I can send a large chunk of organized photos to be physically printed. I have around 1500 or more photos I want to get printed and placed into photo albums and that is going to be quite pricey so I hope to do it all in chunks over time. 

My overall goal with photos is to have them all stored online. They're in iCloud (I turned it on today and they're all stored there now)But I would like them to be in one more place. Google photos perhaps? And I would also love to get them on a hard drive but I'm not entirely sure how to do that from a phone. Google will surely tell me. 

I also want them all printed off. I have majorly slacked on Leighton's baby book and I'm a very sentimental mama and this is not okay with me! I LOVED looking at my baby book growing up so it's a must do for me to get one together for her. The problem is that I've yet to find a baby book I love. So I'm thinking I will just create something that is meaningful for her in a typical photo album. 

Here's my plan: Years 1-4 documented in photos with some info about what was happening in the world and things she enjoyed in those years. Also any other interesting info on a print out sheet. I want to also have albums of each year with overflow photos because I have a ton to store. And a good quality memory box of hospital items, etc. to keep for her. 

Other photo albums I wish to do are before we were married--any photos I can scrounge up, our wedding album (we never officially got all of our wedding photos printed!) and honeymoon, any photos from before Leighton and then Leighton albums as mentioned above. 

I plan to create photo books (think Shutterfly) after age 4 when we're out of the baby book category. I love looking at photos on display at other people's homes and also taking the time to look at their albums! 

It's a lot of work and also quite costly, but so important to me to have done. 

Do you print physical copies of photos or leave them online?


Our wedding anniversary in 2018, Leighton was 3 months old.

With heart from our home, 

Jordan

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