When your children come home with school pictures, awards, certificates, ribbons, report cards, team photos and other mementos to cherish throughout the years, where does it all go? On the refrigerator, in the junk drawer, the old shoe box, or the baby book that is about to explode? Or maybe you are going to make that elaborate scrapbook but never seem to find the time. That is the reason Alice Dawson of Richmond, Texas created the Through The Years® Memory Album to help with this task of where to store it all!

Dawson had special keepsakes and mementos she wanted to keep for the two children, Kyle and Elizabeth, but could not find a product on the market that would fit this need. She decided to make her own album, but knew it had to be more than just a scrapbook.

Dawson wanted an album that was practical, efficient, and photo safe. After months of trial and error she designed a rough draft of how the album should look and function. Her husband, Scott, encouraged her to have it professionally manufactured and share her idea with other parents knowing they too had the same need. Today, Dawson has sold thousands of Through The Years® Memory Albums from coast to coast.

Through The Years® Memories Albums are now marketed at craft shows throughout the United States and sold via the Web. The one album Dawson originally designed to help her keep up with her children's keepsakes has evolved into a business that manufactures and markets thousands of memory albums a year. And, as one of the most popular children's memory albums available today, there's no telling where Through The Years® will be tomorrow.