[Jen D]

Oh my goodness... I'm nothing like these girls. I can't brake the chronological order obsession! I make one 12 X12 family album every year. I prefer to have my pages printed and then I put it into an American Heritage album with page protectors. My kids like to go through them... and a shutterfly album wouldn't stand a change in my house!

Then I do a 12 X12 for the first two years of each of my kids. There is so much change in that time period and so many things I like to journal about. Once they hit 2 I start making 8X8. I also put those in American Heritage Albums and I can usually fit two years of layouts in those.

So, I have my large family album running all year and then for layouts that are specific to one child I put that layout in their album. The great thing about digital is that I am saving my all time favorites to print again for when they graduate = ) Digi I don't have to do double duty!!

I would say I take about 500 + pictures a month. Not every photo makes it in a scrapbook page but every note worthy story does =) My family albums at year end are usually 80-100 pages each. I typically do 20-30 layouts per kid.

Oh and I am doing the 365 project this year. I plan to make that an 8X8 and put that in an American Heritage Album too!

I used to be super anal about my pages matching... more so with paper. If I do make a shutterfly book the pages always go together. But, digi has pulled me away from being so crazy about it! However, I would say about 85% of my layouts are double pages. I never did a single page in my life until I started digi scrapping. I rarely do a page with one picture... mostly because of money... but also because I can never eliminate the other pictures! I generally put 3-10 pictures on a page.

Whew... right now you are thinking... this girl can talk!!!!

HTH!!!