But Mel... what about your old blogs?!

Hey.  WHAT IS THAT?!  What are those cute books on Melanie's bookshelves?!  
Ohhhhh, let's look a little closer.  C-U-T-E!  

Why they even have "Volume1, volume 2", and so forth on the bind!  

And this is one of the covers!  So cuteiful.  
When I was so sad that I would have to delete my blog, I wasnt' able to think straight about what my options were.  Jessi just sprang into action!  

She found a service called blurb and had my entire blog copied and published into these big books!  That way, I could have these memories forever and ever without those who were scrutinizing and picking apart my past blog posts (out of context, I might add) would no longer have the subject matter.  I know, I know, I never really went into all the what's and why's and won't now either!  Just know that I HAD to delete the blog before it became a big ol' mess.  

Now Jessi is CLEAR that I am a control freak... when it comes to my artsy stuff!  I would consider this kinda artsy!  But she also knew that I was pretty blue during that time!  I really like blogging and not doing so made me sad.  Even worse was that I was facing the possibility of losing ALL of my hard work over the past year and half or so.  SO, Jessi made the wise decision to just go ahead and pick out the pictures she thought best summed up the details of each book.  

I loved her choices.  See?  Here they are as a group. 
I arranged these all over my kitchen counter for your viewing enjoyment.  
By having these, I don't have to totally lose all the pictures, and better yet, all the little stories that went with the pictures.  
They are actually much bigger than they appear here.  


But by having them, I still have a record of all of these important moments/ events.  

Like... the day Gabbi Girl was born!  
And that it was 10:11 , a little "you are welcome" from Jake.  
Or the time we took Ellie on a 17 hour road trip to Wisconsin, and took her to see her great grands in the land of corn! 
or the onesies that Miss Jean insists on putting on Gabbi twice a week! 
ANd now I can remember the sweet photos I took when Gabbi was celebrating her 4 month old happy day! 
Oh no... then there was this... New Years' Eve and our first set of stitches. 

But at least the night STARTED out fun! 
These books help me remember the day Ellie was dedicated to the church....
and her first trip to the pumpkin patch.
and how much fun my family seems to have on a countertop!
This is the day we officially took Ellie home.  Gaggi was only a couple of weeks old!  Remember Ellie tried to sign her own declaration!?
And we were one proud little family!
I like the books, because they serve as cool little scrapbooks with all the text to describe what was going on at the time.  Even if all that crap hadn't happened with my blog, I am glad I found out about blurb, because now I have an ACTUAL thing to pass onto my girls.  Who gets what?!  They'll have to duke it out!
Oh, and remember my needle felting phase?!  
And the first time DeeDee adn Granddad got to see Gaggi Gull.  (but pretty much stayed under attack by Ellie!)
And... WHO could forget the fingernail polish episode and TOdd's MASTERY of the carpet stain?! 
These are just priceless!  Gabbi and Ellie's first days together!
Yep.  In a way, I am glad it all happened.  It forced me to find out about these...
And thanks, Jessi, for making the perfect covers for all the books. 
Oh, Hello there, Masson.  She is modeling the books for you so you could realize how BIG they are!  Seriously, think extra wide encyclopedias!
Awww... remember Breckenridge?  and Gabbi as a little indian... at only 2 months old?!  and priss pot in her boots and tutu?! 
Ahhhhh, sweet memories! 
Melanie