12 Years Captured, Chronicled and Kept!

So ever since these two started talking about getting married,

(all two months or so :-) I have been frantically working on a photo storage project. 

(Photo credit to Taylor's amazing sister, Amber, at Huckleberry Lane Photography) 

You see, I've always loved taking pictures of our growing family.

Ted calls me the "curator" (definition: a keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection)

of our family memories. :-)

So, as part of my curator duties, I needed to get 12 years of 35 mm film hard copies of photos stockpiled in photo boxes into photo albums for each of the quadruplets to have their own set as they leave home.  

 That doesn't look like much right? 

Well, it turns out to be 28 boxes, each filled with packets and packets of ONE original of every picture. And of course, I took a lot of group pictures when the kids were little. 

So, that meant scanning and making four copies of each group picture to be able to put one in each of the quadruplets' albums. 

The picture below is a classic! 

Everywhere we went when the kids were all about the same height we were somewhat of a spectacle. Especially to folks who had hardly ever even heard about higher multiples.  

This picture we've titled "Disneyland with our Auntie Cho" 

(The reason why we remember this photo so well, is that right after we snapped this picture,

being a little overwhelmed with the crowd that was forming and the folks that were wanting pictures with our kids, we began putting them back in their quadruplet stroller.  To our dismay, our long lost relatives began trying to take the kids back out of the stroller, as they were not finished taking pictures with them yet!)  

So, anyway . . .back to what I've been working on every spare moment of my days and late into each night . . . .

It has turned out to be about 10-12 photo albums of 240-300 pictures in each album  . . . times four! 

And that is just their first 12 or so years! :-) 

The rest of their years were taken with a digital camera, and so photos are stored on an external hard drive, CD's and SD cards.   I stopped trying to keep up with getting hard copies made.  :-( 

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It's been quite the walk down memory lane, and seeing before my eyes how fast time does fly! 

It is truly a bitter-sweet season as at the same time of seeing all these years flash before me in photos, we're planning the upcoming wedding of another sweet daughter.  

Another one flying from the nest to start her own family.  

It does feel as what they always said it would be . . . "In a blink of an eye, they will be grown!"  

I've been so reminded to savor every day and every moment with these precious gifts God has given us!