I am one with Shutterfly

Shutterfly and I. You could say we have been spending QUALITY time together.

I mean quality time as in Spaghetti took the kids to his parents house yesterday, so I could have THE whole day to myself. He made me promise no art room, no blogger, JUST Shutterfly, and to get the Photo books of Bagel done for Christmas.

Each Christmas since Bagel was born we do a photo book. And now for Mother's Day we do Weaky's. They are alot of work, require patience that I do not seem to have, BUT they are great books, great memoribilia, and the "big" gift for both parents.

And now my plug for Shutterfly (your welcome Shutterfly, please feel free to thank me in free photo prints)
Shutterfly is a FREE site, that will hold ALL of your pictures, AND will NOT charge you for that. NOR will they force you to buy anything yearly like some companies do (cough*Kodak*cough)

They also have these really cool home pages you can create. I also LOVE these, I can email my family and friends a link to the page with my OWN url attached to it, and they can see all my picures, leave comments (and who doesn't LOVE comments?) and best of all buy prints!

Beautiful thing I tell you.

AND Shutterfly has a great store, so you can put your photo's onto all sorts of cool things. They do the picture cards, and the calendars. I loves them, I do.

Spaghetti and the kids were packed into the car around 10:30 am yesterday and came home around 4:30, 5 of those hours were spent right here, uploading, sorting and placing photos in cronological order and uploading like the crazy mom-a-razzi in me would.

Damn I take ALOT of pictures. Either way I found some more that I was looking for on other SD cards, some on our random trip to Starved Rock State Park, and Chicago. I got some great shots from Bagel's birthday present camera (one of those kids camera's) it takes regular SD cards, and it's amazing what she got! I mean EVERYONE smiling and laughing! I will be adding those to the books!

I am REALLY trying to push myself to organize my photos more. Especially since I take pictures daily. I am all tech savy with my SD card reader (I am SO in love with this, since my computer seems to HATE all my camera's and their USB connections) I can just upload, and order what I want!

So if your looking for a service, I vote for Shutterfly. How bout you? What do you use? Oh and my other question. Does everyone else have a few SD cards? I mean I have 3 plus the mini that goes with my cell. How often do you take pictures? Print them? Scrapbooks or albums? Neither? I ask because even though everyone and their mother has a camera now a days, I just wonder what we do with the end results?

CHEESE!

Yesterday I took my kids to get there pictures done. Babies R' us has a studio called Kiddie Kandids, they always do a great job. My mom the Queen and my sister Frances paid for ALL the pictures. (very thankful!!)

I was stressed Friday night about getting us all to have coordinating colors. I went with Weaky's T'shirt, and went from there. Bagel wore that dress for his first birthday party, and a brown shirt for me. I knew they had the meadow background, and the fun 3 level log they are sitting on.

AND I was smart. Fed everyone, kept them happy (even though the Babies R us we were going to was 45 minutes away!)

The picture lady made claw shapes with her hands. Wiggled her fingers. And said IIIIII'm gunnagetchoo!! In a high pitched voice. And wala! You get happy face kids for pictures!

I was rotating people in and out SO fast. I knew happy would only last so long. And we needed just the kids together, then just Weaky, just Bagel, just the kids and Frances, and just the kids and me. Did you get all that? Yes there are more pictures. I will share them. I want to space them out. Yaknow milk the project.

So Happy 1st birthday pictures to Weaky, and Happy 3rd Birthday to Bagel! Muah!!

More then my life,

Mommy

Playgirl called...

I know I promised more of Spike's 6 month pictures. Is this not the cutest thing? He looks like he's posing for Playgirl!! LOVE. IT!

Spike!

Oh there is more, a few more... well like 5 more... I didn't want to overload you all with the cutest pictures on the planet. So I thought I would start with my favorite one... I will share more later! My Spike is so damn cute! Muah!

Meet Spaghetti

This is my dear husband, Spaghetti. I love him so. But I hate the fact that I can NEVER get a good shot of him. It is so rare. Now his mom has no idea why he hates his picture taken, he won't smile, and it KILLS him to pose for pictures. He has an amazing smile, and is very handsome.

Now I have to tell her some day that maybe because she and my father in-law both hate having there picture taken, maybe it just taught my husband to hide from the camera. It saddens me, because I love having pictures of him, so when I do get a good one of him. I LOVE it! Is he not the cutest ever! Love it! Love it! Love it!

Pick two numbers.

Tag! Your it. This was a random photo Meme, I found again over at Buried with Children, she had you go into your 6th photo file and choose the 6th photo in that file. Well that was a post I just did, so I did today's date 10th file, and 12th picture. (nope not enough files) So I chose the kids birthdays (awww, she mentioned her kids...)

2 for Bagel and 25 for Spike. It worked. I got the trip to Arizona file from last year. Now hear is a bit about the picture...

This is Bagel (18 months) with Spaghetti and Grampa Mc, at the wonderful Phoenix Zoo. A place I love to visit! Not sure what animal was even there, but I saw a photo op, and went for it. It was December, and the only week it rained in months. This was the nicest day (and it still rained on the way home)

Now you, pick two numbers, and tell us about the picture. Leave me a comment letting me know you played!