Archiving text messages received on iPhone

My daughter sends me great pictures and text messages on my iPhone about my grandchildren and I would like to save them as a form of "baby book".  e.g. create a Word doc that could save to hard drive.  How can I do that?

Julian, I sync iPhone to MacBook.  My desktop is a PC and that is still the computer I view as my master hard drive...the ultimate destination for things documents.  So, I could sync to MacBook and have a folder e.g. "Jessie's Baby Book" (Jessie is one of my granddaughters) which I could then transfer easily enough to my PC.  Someday our household will be all Mac.
Deggie, thanks for your suggestion, I will check it out.  I had searched around a bit myself and found MobileSyncBrowser which seemed to do this sort of thing but I thought I wanted info from Apple Support Community to lend a bit of credibility. 
Thanks both of you and I will stay tuned for more suggestions before I buy anything.

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