Cute, as always. I was wondering...do y'all print out hard copies of any of these pics to put in old fashioned photo albums or to send to grandparents? Or, do you keep everything digital?

Organizing photos seems to be getting away from me and I want to know how others do it.

She looks a lot like Jenn in this pic, I think. Just from the pics we've seen of Jenn. And she's looking very tall.

I put a hard copy of every picture in an album. If its one I particularly love, I get it professionally printed so I can put it in a frame. Otherwise, they're in the album or plastered on my cubicle walls at the office and on the fridge at home. What's nice about the hard copy is that its dated and Ben's title keeps us clued in as to what Trixie was up to when the picture was taken.

I keep everything digital. We rarely print out photos anymore. The biggest issue is making sure that you backup your images (because you never know when your computer is going to fail.) Even if I don't have time to organize photos, I copy the files to a separate hard drive as soon as I look at them on the computer.

She looks like a little girl here, not a toddler any more. Sweet.
We have a ton of pictures as well, all digital, and we just backed them up because I get paranoid about losing them. The thought of it...! I also want to print at least some of them out - it will probably cost a little fortune, but I think it'll be worth it. After all, we're not always at the computer.

We completely stopped printing pictures also (except for one computerless great-grandma). We put everything on-line so whenever and wherever anyone in the family wants to look throught them they can. Sooooo much better than the old hard copy albums. But again, back-up, back-up, back-up.

You've all noted nicely the need to back up; here's a short horror story (that ends okay) to bring it home.

We had a flood in our basement, where the "office" is, where the computer sits (on the floor). I come down of a Monday morning to see my entire basement floating in about two inches of water. There's very little more disheartening than lifting your computer off the floor and watching water spout and cascade out the little vents on the side.

Nine months of baby pictures, from pregnant-belly to the day before the flood, were on that hard drive.

And there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Eventually, with some help from some more computer-savvy friends, I managed to salvage the HD and the DATA on it. It was an unstable fix though, and you can imagine I burned numerous CD's immediately on salvage. I managed to get everything I needed, but it was a traumatic few weeks until I could figure out the rescue.

I am now pretty fanatic about backing up. I put everything important on a second HD (which is, however, still internal to my computer, so it's not the best system); I burn all pictures to CD every two weeks or so; I'm still deciding on the removable media larger-scale backup system. My current thinking is that it either going to be a DVD burner or maybe one of those new IOmega REV drives. (Expensive, but a rotating three- or four- disk backup system would amoritize well enough.)

--FD