The Day It Came.

4.07.12

It came.

I was laying in bed getting ready to take a nap while the baby girl snoozed and the husband mowed, since I was scheduled to maybe work tonight {signed up for overtime}, when the husband came in and handed it to me.

The book. The blog book. It was finally here.

I ripped it open so quickly I thought I might rip it open. And there it was. All 276 pages of it. Our journey. Our Story. Words upon words. Pictures. Memories of our past. From January 2010-June 2011.

It was here.

It felt so... untouched. So clean. New. The pages so perfect. Begging for me to skim through them. Just asking for me to read it.

And I did, and I loved it, and I think I may or may have not fallen on my pillows with the book in hand staring at he ceiling like I just met the love of my life.

In the form of a book.

So I layed there for a while and skimmed the pages. Wondering why it took me so long to finally do this.

It was much more exciting than I anticipated it being. I knew I would be happy to have it, but I just hadn't realize how happy.

The site that I used was blog2print. I actually started using BLURB when I was designing my blog book, but after spending countless hours on it and realizing that I was only a fraction of the way through, I realized that I would never get this thing printed at the rate that I was going.

So I browsed through blog2print. I had issues with the loading {probably because my blog book was so big}, and I had to try multiple dates in order to finally settle down with January2010-January2011. It had the capability of being more than the 276 pages...  however, it said that I had reached my max pictures {1,500} for one book.

Which is okay. Because I plan on making book number 2. And three. And so forth.

The only other issue that I ran into was that when I was deciding on which dates to put in the book, I ended up with having 4 books. I finally settled on my final product, did the editing touches {front page, back page} and then clicked to purchase.

Unfortuanately, I clicked the wrong one to purchase and didn't even realize it.

The only difference though would be that my front cover and back cover would have looked differently. Otherwise, it is the exact same.

And? I'm happy with it. More than happy with it.

I knew that my blog meant a lot to me. I knew that I have always been passionate about it for multiple reasons. One of those reasons being to document our story and have a memory book of our lives. But I never realized how important it would mean to me now. More than ever. Now that I have it in my hands.

The thought of sharing this with my children when they grow up, and then my grandchildren.... well that makes me all sorts of happy inside. Gets me teary just thinking about it.

And I can't believe that at one point I was afraid to document our lives. Share the little details that maybe others could care less about.

But at the end of the day? This book is for me. 

My family.

And our future.

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Book details:  I used blog2print.com. The pictures are black and white, but the book is in color. My book is the standard portrait (8.5x11) hardcover. I went through my previous blog posts and deleted those that did not pertain to my family and things I did not particularly want in my book {you can also do this on the website without deleting your posts... I however did it a different way. Both work}. The maximum per book for pictures is 1500. I post a lot of pictures. If you want it perfect, I suggest sitting down and editing each page... however, I did not want it perfect... I wanted it just the way it was naturally, and to me its perfect that way. You can write a dedication/about this book on the website... it's pretty neat. I plan on making ten million more. AKA 10+.