What to do... what to do...

So this weekend I opted not to watch the all star basketball stuff on saturday night (I really do usually like watching all the saturday night stuff for all star weekend) but was inspired by this post by Becky Higgins.

So I was rearranging albums... I still keep 3 basic album types but moved some stuff around...

I've posted about them before but here are the three different types albums I keep...

1) my project life album....

2) Each of my children has their own albums

So this is where I was trying to figure out if I need to change things up. The way I approach my kids album for their first year is that I had a lot more energy to scrapbook with my first child... (and my scrapping friends gave me layouts as a baby shower present... this was soooo awesome!!) so when the second came along I often did the same layouts maybe with more boyish papers... or in the case of the layout above I just copied it exactly (I actually made two copies of the layout when I was pregnant with my second... my brother has ingrained in my brain that I need to keep up with my second childs book... moreso b/c he has no baby book to speak of).. for each one's first year I have all the firsts... first haircut, teeth, bath, etc.etc.etc....

The problem is nowadays the only pages that end up going in here are birthdays..... this is what I am contemplating... do I need to put more of the kids stuff from my project life album into these albums.

I did need to get the kids new albums. Their current albums are the ones I bought them at birth. My daughters is about to bust at the seems and my sons is just on the verge of being full.....I love how in Becky Higgins post each of her kids gets their own colored album.... so after driving everyone nuts about which of these colors to choose [BTW for the record my fav was plum for my daughter and orange soda for my son]. I did the simpler thing and just went to AC moore with a 40% off coupon in hand and picked out two colors from what they had which ended up being these

Which is Strawberry and Kiwi.. (the black is what I use for my project life)... the strawberry really is a bit too neon but hey she loves pink and its kinda of grows on you.

3) The third album I have is a school album (for each child)... the format for this is simple and the layouts are even simpler. For each year of daycare/school I have : One page with their class picture (I don't usually get the portraits) and One-two pages with a few select pieces of artwork (so far its artwork... I think this year I will probably include one of her handwriting samples)... somewhere in there I write a little bit about the year.

This is a layout in my daughters book from her first year of daycare ... as you can see these are in post albums... I switched to 3 ring binder albums and love them but have to just use up these post albums. (which now drive me nuts).

So the issue... I am contemplating combining #2 and 3.... for now I didn't. I just moved some of the loose items from my project life album (#1) into the kids albums (#2)... but we'll see.... Project life really works for me. Oh well we'll see

I do have a fourth category of albums which I like to call... my pre-kids, traditional scrapbooks... but I'm not doing anything with those.