Facebook Photo Know-How

Facebook (beside Pinterest) is one of the many online websites I enjoy.  Being a stay-at-home and homeschooling mom, I enjoy this site where I can "hang out" with my friends while still at home taking care of my responsibilities. I also enjoy the fact that I can share my photos with my friends - for instance, say we are at a game or party and I'm the only one with my camera!  I can easily share all the pics I've taken with my friends in one easy swoop.

I have had many, many people ask me if they can get photos they are tagged in on Facebook printed for their own enjoyment.  Thanks to modern technology - of course you can!!  I experimented a little on my own and am prepared to show you how to send them to Walgreens to be printed.  This is great if you are trying to get to the 50 prints mark for one of their sales (50 prints for $5, etc).

First open your browser and put in Walgreens Photo URL:
http://photo2.walgreens.com/walgreens/home/

Then, sign into your account or create a new one by following the instructions.
Once you've signed in or created an account, your homepage should look something like this (minus my albums, of course ;) :

Next, you'll want to click on the Import from Facebook tab.  Your screen should look something like this:

Click Log in with Facebook. Sign in following the instructions. (I will warn you - at this point my computer/Internet had issues multiple times.  If you run into the same issue, look at the bottom of the screen, it may ask you to allow Walgreen's to have a popup - this popup will be the sign in window,so you must click allow to continue)  Your Facebook albums will come up on the left hand side and you can click on them individually to see the many photos in each album and select the ones you'd like to print off.  If you scroll further down, you will see the names of your Facebook friends!  As you click on their names, their albums will show and you can click on them and import photos from those albums as well!!

To import photos, you click on the album name.  The individual photos within those albums will be shown in the middle window.  (You can see a pic of my hubby there - isn't he hot?! Just sayin....lol) Click on the photos you wish to import and they will be shown on the right hand side in a film-strip view:

When you've finished selecting all the photos you wish to import, select Import Photos at the bottom of the screen.  A new mini window will pop up asking where you want to put the newly imported photos:

After you've either created a new album or added it to an existing, click Continue.  I chose to create a new album.  This is what your screen should look like:

As you can read above, there are more options given on this screen that you might be interested in.  Play around with it and if you find any more cool or interesting options, comment below and let me know!

Where in the world has that little sheep been?!

After taking a "blog-atical" for the beginning of Gideon's first real homeschool year, I'm back.  Things have been busy here...we have finally gotten a routine down with homeschooling, housework, family, etc.

So what have we been up to on our "blog-atical"?

We started our school year in August this year - Gideon is in first grade and we are doing preschool lessons with Elijah (colors, shapes, facial features, etc).  We began Gideon's school year trying "unschooling", which is a way of schooling that teaches the basics by no individual curriculum just learn as you go while learning what you are interested in method.  This did NOT work for Gideon.  He (and I) are too easily distracted for this method.  We would be talking about one subject and Gideon would ask a question and it would lead us into something totally different.  Not too bad, except we wouldn't finish the thing we started on!  Don't judge me for being honest.....After Scott and I had a parent-teacher conference (which consists of Scott and I discussing our schooling issues and options over dinner), we decided that curriculum was the way to go for us.  We ordered the Abeka curriculum for Gideon and it has made a tremendous difference in our schooling.  We are not as strict as the Abeka curriculum would like, but it works for us.

We bought our house about a month ago and amazingly we are finding all those little things that we always wanted to do to the house are getting done - painting the bathroom, painting the living room, pricing tile for the spare bathroom floor and the kitchen, etc.  Also unpacking.  When we moved back to Florida, we knew we wanted to buy a home we just weren't sure where.  Therefore, we never really unpacked anything we didn't need immediately.  We figured it would save us time when we moved into the house we would buy.  It just so happened to end up that we bought the house we have been renting!  No moving involved, just a LOT of unpacking and re-organizing.

We always promised our boys that we would get them a dog when we bought our own house, so that's what we did!  My parents brought us Quincy (a 8wk old black labrador) over Thanksgiving.  Quincy was from a litter of puppies born to an ill mother.  Quincy's mother's owner took her to the vet to be put down and they discovered that she was pregnant.  The owner decided to let her have the litter and was giving the litter away.  We graciously accepted the free puppy and the boys - especially Elijah - are enjoying her.

I'm pretty sure that sums up the past couple months....so Merry Christmas and here's to the New Year!