And here’s the end of my book.

and the back:

I am ready to take the decorations down this year. Last year, they stayed up all the way to mid-January but this year, I am ready for some reason.

and the back is following a tradition from last year. Tulips.

This year’s album was a lot harder. But I still love it to bits.

For day 24, I knew I wanted to tell the story of some photos I took of David and Nathaniel. For the front page, I adhered this photo of David hugging Nathaniel.

On the back, I put three photos of Nathaniel and David playing and wrote journaling to Nathaniel about how incredibly lucky he is to have David.

Here’s the journaling:
Nathaniel, even though you are not aware of it right now, I want you to know that you have the world’s greatest brother.

Not only does he love playing with you but he puts up with all of your curiosity and torture. Today, you crawled up to him, grabbed his nose, stepped on his face, and twisted his arm but all he did was laugh and encourage you on with giggles and hugs.

I hope that when you grow up and start taking his things and going through his drawers, he will exercise the same level of patience and love that he feels for you today.

(Wishful thinking, I know.)

Regardless of how things change as you grow up, it is one of the biggest joys of my day to get to watch you play together, David giggling, and your belly laughs. Even though, I yell at David to stop running around and screaming, I know he does it solely to enterain you because, like me, he loves watching you laugh. He loves getting and keeping your attention. He loves hugging you.

I am aware of what a pure joy it is to have the two of you. But you are still too young to tell how lucky you are and I know that things might change as you both grow older so I wanted to make sure we have records of days like this where you can see all that you did to your brother and how very much he loves you.

You are one lucky boy to have him.

For day 23, I printed the cookie photo from yesterday and added a simple number on it.

On the back, I arranged some more photos and added a few words.

I wanted to keep it simple today. So, instead of the canvas page, I printed a photo of the biscuits and added some baking photos in the back.

On the back:

That’s it.

David and I made this house yesterday. (link)

Then I made my Day 18 pages. I used the two photos from the nesting post cause I loved them so much.

and the back.

And then I told the story of putting the house together.

and painting it.

simple as that.

I apologize in advance for the quality in these photos. It gets dark so early here so I wasn’t able to snap good quality ones. I will try again tomorrow and replace these if I can get better ones. (Fixed now.)

Today’s page is all about wrapping presents so I wanted to make the front look like a present. I wrapped it and used the day tag like a present tag. Here’s the front:

And detail:

And the back tells the story of our now full tree:

We’re more than halfway now. That makes me sad.