I made one for Youngest and gave it to him on his 18th birthday. It had the stencils and lettering that scrapbooking shops sell, such as for his baseball team activities and such, going all the way back to his very first picture when he was 1 hour old. What was daunting was boiling everything down to maybe 3 pages per year; it did have photos and such things as report cards and little things he cut out at church. As I mentioned, distilling each year, picking out the highlights, was the brainbuster.

The family album is more a traditional photo album. What makes it tough, ha, is getting all those photos in order and then discovering another packet in another drawer! I could use a secretary.