Year By Year Birthday Album

Why not designate a special album for recording your child’s birthday each year? You will be able to flip through the pages and see how your child changes and grows each year. Even if you are extremely busy this is a project that is manageable! You can create a wonderful keepsake for you and your child by just dedicating a few hours a year.

Choose an album that will be easy to add pages to as the years pass. I recommend three ring binder albums or post bound albums with top loading page protectors. Both of these types of albums are able to hold a large amount of pages.

Try to include the same information each year:

Information to include:
Guests who attended the party
Party theme
The Cake
Gifts your child received
Games played
Milestones your child achieved during that year.
Likes and dislikes
World events
Make sure to add any special birthday traditions.

*You may want to consider a pocket page each year for cards, swatches of wrapping paper, favors, etc.

As your child learns to write it is nice to include some of your childs own handwritten journaling into the album. They will love looking back at what they wrote as a child. Seeing their handwriting progress over the years is really neat as well.

Some people prefer to create mini albums for each birthday year. I like mini books but started my birthday books for each child in three ring binders. I
use a tab for the start page of each new birthday so you can easily flip to the year you are looking for. I prefer to title the tabs with the childs age and the calendar year.

BellaOnline Scrapbooking features a faithbooking section. For more information about Faithbooking click here. The bible doesn't really mention birthdays, however, it does talk much about celebrations. Here are some scriptures that you may want to add to your birthday celebration pages.

I Corinthians 10:31 LB “Whatever you eat or drink or whatever you do, you must do all for the glory of God.”

Psalm 126:3 CEV “And so we celebrated because the Lord had indeed worked miracles for us.”

Philippians 4:4 Message Bible “Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in Him!”

Proverbs 31:30 NKJV “Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.”

Psalm 126:2-3 NKJV “Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing….The Lord has done great things for us and we are glad.”

Psalm 9:1 LB “I will praise You, O Lord with my whole heart; I will tell of all your marvelous works.”

Proverbs 9:11 LB “Wisdom will multiply your days and add years to your life…”

Numbers 6:24-26 “The Lord bless and keep you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift His contenance to you and give you peace.”