Jimmy * Esther * Zeke * Lilly

Earlier this year, I was talking with Jimmy about wanting to print out our blog. I tried to find a service that would do it, with no luck. I was so excited when a few friends posted about blurd for blog books. I imported my blog, but was disappointed that you couldn’t change the layout to appear just the way it did on your blog. For example, the pictures would be on a separate page than the text, and I wanted my captions to be by the pictures still. Last month I was on another friend’s blog, and saw a link for lulu.com, I decided to use lulu to print my blog, and I am really pleased with the product. It was only around $50 for over 250 color pages with a hard bound cover.Before finding lulu, Jimmy had considered printing our blog at kinko’s, and surprising me for my birthday, but that would have been over 3 times as much, with no binding!

Jimmy wrote a script to import our blog so that it even has everyone’s comments too.

The cover is just from one of their templates. Next time, I will look into customizing the cover with pictures.

I think this is a great way to keep a family journal, and so affordable for printing a ton of pictures!

Yesterday was our 1-year anniversary of when we closed on our home. We got the keys at 7pm, and were so excited to move in that instead of waiting for the morning, we moved in at 11pm. We couldn’t wait to be here! I remember it felt like a mansion for a while, and it was so weird at first to be on different levels, (me downstairs doing something and Jimmy upstairs), it was so different than our apartment.

We have loved our first year! So much has happened, it’s been wonderful!

Then….

These are the first pictures of Zeke in our new house, I can hardly believe how much he’s grown!

Now….

Zeke put his banana in his hair during breakfast, he’s always trying to make us laugh, and he does a great job!

After we played outside yesterday, Zeke helped himself to some cereal. I liked his reaction as he stepped in them.

Our niece Makayla got baptized on the fourth in a little town called Kanosh, and we spent the rest of the day at my sister’s. Zeke was in heaven playing with all the animals!

Zeke loved the horses this time!

This was his favorite horse to ride.

He tried so hard, but never caught a chicken

The baby bunnies were so cute!

Zeke crawled into the bunny cage all by himself, and shut the door.

These Belgians are awesome! It was fun to go on a wagon ride with them.

I am a wimp, and right when I got on my horse, it seemed mad. Jimmy was taking a picture of me, and got this lovely shot.

Embarrassed after I realized how silly I must have looked when I was scared. Jimmy was laughing pretty good, so I knew it must have been bad.

“Scary!!” Zeke loved the big horses too, but he sure didn’t want to ride them.

Just the right size :-)