who am I banner--wife, creator, sista, momma

Welcome!

I'm so glad you've found my online home! If you're new here, you need to know a few things. 1. I’m a chronic over-sharer. I like to put my life on the internet, in journals, on social media, in people’s memories! 2. I’m a busy mama just like you trying my best to document the every day!! and 3. Memory keeping is a passion of mine.

I would even go as far as to call myself a Memory Keeping expert. I focus on living a typical life that prioritizes the happiness of myself and others before anything else. This has led me to memory keeping that is centralized around intentional ways to tell these stories, share my photos and videos, and ultimately help you do the same.

My goal is to help busy moms learn how to document their every day lives using easy and consistent methods of memory keeping. I want to help you to learn all about memory keeping—how you can do it, what you need to know, and all of my tips and tricks I’ve learned through the years.

LEARN MORE →

my goal is to help busy families learn how to document their every day lives using easy and consistent methods

W H A T I S M E M O R Y K E E P I N G ?

Memory keeping is any thing you do to document your current or past memories for you or someone else to review and reflect on later. This can be in the form of images, journaling, video, or anything else that evokes the recall of moments in our life. We live in a time when memory keeping is easier than ever. We can share the stories of our lives in ways previous generations never could. Social media, video creation, scrapbooking, journaling—these are all forms of memory keeping. Since most of us carry around these amazing devices in our pockets called smart phones we can capture stories and mini moments in an instant.

The more we grow, the more we begin to realize that our own memory is not reliable. As you encounter millions of meaningful stories in your lifetime you start noticing that not everything stays behind for you to remember, but every moment is important and deserves a time to shine. Our stories matters, so I focus on capturing all moments big and small, significant and seemingly not, because these are the moments that make up our life’s story.

Screen+Shot+2019-03-29+at+7.35.37+PM.jpg — PLANNING & JOURNALING

Journaling is the most simple and easiest form of memory keeping. It’s a great way to start documenting your story, and it’s a method I still use on a regular basis to jot down important bits that I want to be sure to fully embellish on later.

Photo & VIDEO Creation

Video is one of the best current formats for keeping memories. Video can do what no other platform can—capture movement, audio, and visuals that literally take you back to the time in which the story was originally being told through that moment.

Albums & Scrapbooks

Simply capturing your life with snapshots and videos is not enough! You need a plan of action to document these things through albums, yearbooks, scrapbooks, motion books, edited videos, etc. Learn about each of these special projects of mine that I share on the blog!

Figure out your why

The task of Memory Keeping can be daunting, but if you have a clear reason why you’re doing this then that can keep you going. Your why gives a focus to what you’re doing. And having a reason why allows you to have a meaning behind spending time on something like memory keeping.

Read more >

Map out your end goals

Figuring out what you want to create as your final product or end goal will guide you through the next steps of actually capturing those memories. If you don’t know what you’re memory keeping for them you aren’t going to know what to capture. Figure out what do you want to create and what do you need to get there?

Read more >

Capture your memories

Once you’ve figured out your why, determined the final products you plan to create, now it’s just about getting out there and capturing your memories. Our memories are such important things, so this may mean hiring a professional to help you during this process (like a photographer or videographer).

Read more >

Share it with others

I am a firm believer that it is not enough just to document your own life and leave it at that. We need to be sharing our stories with others. This could be by means of scrapbooks, videos, family albums, and other heirloom items that get passed on from generation to generation. Sharing can also mean educating, posting to social media, and so much more.

Read more >

Our real life examples of memory keeping

I practice what I preach. I give you real life examples of how I am capturing my memories, documenting them, and sharing them with others (that’s you). I use this blog to educate busy families on how to document their lives using easy and consistent methods. You can expect to find my own memory keeping endeavors sprinkled in with knowledge about how I do it along the way. For example, check out our YouTube Channel!

Want to know more about my family?

We’re Danyell and Trevor. We create videos as a form of memory keeping during our busy lives. Our goal is to use our channel to show others that memory keeping is important, and it’s something that you can do too!

In most of our vlogs we wanted to show you some of our favorite moments— like, random daily happenings with our pets, life lessons from our grandparents, funny clips with our nephews, and major events we attend. Most vlogs are a little all over the place, but such is life… so we hope you like it!

Tune in three times a week to watch my husband and I do normal life stuff on YouTube. We use vlogging as a means of memory keeping to document our lives and share it with you all.

LEARN MORE →

Featured