Instagram Love

Do you use Instagram? It is one of the main reasons I was so happy and so excited to get my iphone earlier this year. It is kind of a mix between Facebook and Twitter. In my opinion, it is the best of both worlds. A simple little photo + a little blurb = great story telling! With technology and the way our world works now, we all seem to have a camera (of some sorts) on hand, at all times. For this Snap Happy Mom, I am in LOVE! I LOVE  that if I haven't lugged my big SLR out with me, I can still capture our life and happy memories via my iphone and Instagram! YAY for modern day technology.

I thought I would share our month (so far) via the Instagram photos I have taken.

 

Super FUN Train concert in Reno. Celebrating 16 years of wedded bliss.

Impromptu Brody/Mommy date to Bishop's Pumpkin farm after kindergarten!

 We kicked off the month with a little BOO action for some favorite friends. The boys love to door bell ditch.

 A General Conference tradition...scones with Buttermilk Syrup.

 Another General Conference tradition...BINGO with Skittles.

I often find Brody in my scrapbook room, looking at our Project Life albums. This makes me thankful that I have kept up with Project Life.

Spending my children free morning at the DMV. Not the way I want to spend any child free day but I was happy about the weight adjustment on my new license.

I taught a lesson to the YW on taking care of their Physical bodies. I like to  bring them treats. Here is the treat they received. We then we talked about everything in moderation :-).

 I have learned that if this is the candy I buy for Halloween, my scale stays happy. No chocolate candy is a good thing!

I haven been listening to Trace Adkins song "You're Gonna a Miss This." While I do think there are a ton of things I will miss when my children are grown, this sight will not be one of them. This is the clean(folded) laundry pile on my kitchen counter. Not Gonna miss it one bit!

Do you use Instagram? If so, let me know so I can follow you!

I can be found at raimi1.

I thought I'd answer a few questions about how I store our memory/picture files. I take a ton of photos each month. Don't we all? The beauty of digital photography is that you can take as many photos as you'd like and then delete the ones that you don't like. It can be overwhelming to find a system that works for you. I thought I'd share mine in case it helps you out.

On the last day of the month(or sometimes the first day of the month),I don't stress if I am a day early or a day late. I take my memory card down to my local Wal*Mart and put our photos on CD. Lets face it, I am at my local Wal*mart a few times a week replenishing our milk, yogurt and bread supply :-). It makes it easy for me to remember to save my photos to CD each month. I love that the CD comes back to me with some thumbprints of the photos that were taken that month right on the CD. You also receive index sheets with a thumbprint photo of every picture that has been downloaded to that CD. Once I receive my CD with the thumbprint index sheets, I take my American Crafts Slick Writer and print the date & events that are on each CD right onto the sheet protector/index sheets. I will occasionally put the ages of each family member on there too. Saves me time with my math at a later date :-).



From there, each month is placed in a little black binder that can be purchased at Wal*Mart.



From there, I place the little album on a shelf in my scrapbook room with all of the other binders. I store our photo CD's by year. It makes finding a certain picture for reprints a snap.



One helpful tip/reminder is to delete the photos that you are not wanting to save. I take a lot of photos of my scrapbook projects/layouts for the GTKC. I certainly don't need 10 detail shots of each layout. Deleting those photos before having them put onto CD makes it so I don't have a ton of unwanted photos stored on my CD's.

This is the one system that has worked for me. I would die if my computer ever crashed...but I would not be heart broken because of the simple fact that all of my photos have been saved elsewhere and not just on my computer :-).

I hope this was helpful. Please let me know if you have any questions :-).