Define Your Objectives: Select a trail according to your planned activities. Hikers hoping to photograph wildlife are going to want a quiet, secluded trail that sees little foot-traffic. Short trails over easy terrain are better suited to hiking with children. A trail with miles of ups and downs will be great for physical conditioning.

Consider Your Level of Experience: If you're going to hike alone, take an honest assessment of your experience and physical abilities. Are you in good shape or has your physical activity been limited? Can you navigate with a compass and map? If you have a cell phone, take it along. Realize though, that it may not work on trail and if something goes wrong, you need to know what to do. Unless you have a lot of experience, don't hike alone.

If you're hiking with a group, select trails based on those with least amount of ability and experience. If you want to reach summit of mount Buena Vista, make sure you hike with companions that can reach top. Novices should start on shorter trails over easy terrain until they are comfortable with navigation and carrying a backpack.

True, we can't possibly capture every single event, but we can definitely scrap those more memorable ones onto pages.

If you've decided to scrapbook together with your kid, besides guiding them with little prompts on journaling, you'll probably need some neat ideas to pull in those best memories.

Here's various hot-selling "stories" that you and your child can scrapbook about:

A) Story of Birth of Baby

Kids love to read stories about themselves as babies. Having pages surrounding your child's birth will make him or her feel how much he or she is wanted by family.

- Photo of mommy pregnant with baby. - Who waited for birth? - Who came for hospital visit? - Weight, length, doctor, hospital details. - Feelings of parents about birth of your child. - Funny stories that happened. - Documenting baby milestones. - What's your kid's favorite bedtime stories? - Photo of your kid's favorite toys.

As there's a chance that there's no photos taken during birth, a good alternative would be to do a page on significant or historical events that happened on day or year of your kid's birth. How to source for such information? Visit www.dmarie.com/timecap to pick up such data.

Another idea is for your kid to do a page on his or her name and birthday. Record down your kid's feelings about his or her name. Why did you and your husband come up with such a name? What's meaning of name? Find out what famous people share your kid's name. Find out what famous birthdays share your kid's birthday. What's best birthday party your child had?

B) Story of Family

Family members are among most influential people that influence a child during growing years. Having your child scrapbook about family will reinforce importance of family connectedness in his or her life.