I had the hardest time deciding what I wanted for Christmas this year until I remembered that I had three of my shutterfly photo books made for over a year now, but never pulled the trigger to actually buy them. I’m so glad that’s finally what I decided on, and that I get to hold these memories in my hands for years and years to come. One of the greatest gifts that I think has come from blogging is the fact that I have literally thousands of pictures of my kids from over the years. Some are beautiful, Instagram worthy pictures that I’ve shared and posted here, and others are just us living in the moment, in a messy home experiencing real life. When I became a member of the ldschurch I started making a photo book for each year since my baptism. These books run September to September, and it’s so fun to look back and see how much I’ve grown over the last nine years as a result of one simple decision that I made. Now I just have to go back and finish my year eight book before year nine is...