Mandy had the idea last Christmas to put together a photo book for my parents & grandparents as a Christmas gift. She asked me, Laura & Christina to contribute pictures we'd taken from the year, and Christina was even able to get pictures of Mom's off of her laptop without her knowing so that the gift could be kept a surprise.
Mandy worked many hours to put together the book and it turned out SO great!! She shipped it to Mom & Dad with a "DO NOT OPEN UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE" note on it, and we figured out a way for me and Christina to both just happen to end up at Mom & Dad's house for dinner one night, where we planned to have them open the Photo Book with all of us there to see it together for the first time. The surprise worked out perfectly because after dinner, Laura and Christina were talking about old Tim Noah songs & videos and Laura found some on YouTube that they were watching. One had a ringing phone in it, which completely disguised the Skype ringer of Mandy calling. Brilliant, Laura!
Mandy did such an awesome job on the book - she'd asked us for pictures and memories from the year, so the book is a fun walk down 2010's memory lane.
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| Our "seeing the 2010 book" picture, complete with Paul & Mandy on Skype and Mom holding the book...we thought it'd be fun to have this in the 2011 book! |
Mandy's hope is to do a book every year - hooray for us!!
3 comments:
I wish I could take credit for the ringing phone disguise, but alas...we were just interested in Tim Noah haha
And we had no idea the ringing phone happened at the same time as the skype ring!
Great book, Mandy, and thanks for your MANY hours of time putting it together so nicely - it looks professional! And thanks to all of you for hunting through your (and my) pictures to get an anthology of 2010's our family's events. It is a wonderful memoir of the year!
Woot Woot! That picture turned out really really well!! Thanks for posting it. It will definitely go in the 2011 book. :)
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