Blue Team FTW!

Well of course this had to be the picture of the day. Is there really any way to top this?

Pink or Blue?

That is the question. And tomorrow we will find out the answer! I am so excited I can't take it anymore!




And Andy again of course because he followed me into the extra room where I like to take my pictures. Then he found this bucket.

Just "baby" for now. :-)

I think this could be a lot better but for my first try it isn't bad. My backdrop is just a white sheet after all. I need to get a black one too. But I wanted to try the concept. Oh well, practice makes perfect, right?


This second one is ok too. I'm not sure how to do better, I think my arms are just too short to make it work! lol.

The Morning After

This photo is from 6:30 am this morning. And it's supposed to continue snowing all day today. Fun.

Whiteout!

The snow started about an hour ago and has already dusted the ground and roads. The clouds are pure white and the snow falling is all you can see, visibility is pretty low. This is what you call Whiteout Conditions. Fun stuff. It's supposed to continue snowing all night tonight, all day tomorrow and even Saturday as well. Isn't that just dandy?




Here's Andy's climbing toy from the backyard, you can see the snow falling in this one contrasted with the colors on the toy.

Andy playing Wii

Oh my goodness it's one of the cutest things I've ever seen him do. Between his "Ahh!" when he's mad and his "Yeah baby!" when he does well, I just love it. He's finally mastered how to throw the ball in the bowling on Wii Sports. Just so freaking cute.




This must be after he missed.

My husband's so sweet.

This is the rose he got me for Valentine's Day.... pretty much dead now. lol. I'm not good with plants. But I love them.

One more week!

A belly shot seems to be the easy way out when I've gone all day without taking any pics. 20 weeks, 4 days today. Just one more week until we find out if we have a baby Annabelle in there or if we need to work harder to agree on a boy name! lol. This isn't actually a maternity top but it was in the back of my closet and looked like it could work like one, and it mostly does. Not quite enough fabric in front to last long, but it works for now. Kinda cute.

My Family

Wow Andrew really looks like a willing participant doesn't he? At least Andy's displaying some excitement!!

DIY maternity pics are hard!

This turned out ok but my shirt blends in a little too much with the jeans and my bump isn't distinguishable enough at this angle yet. I'll have to try again when I'm further along and have more of a bump. Wow my feet look tiny compared to the rest of me! lol,







Andy wanted to pose like me too.

I'm cheating.

So I admit it, I didn't take any new photos today. I worked until 4, had my first lab practical for A&P at 5:30 and went to see a movie with my boys and a friend and her kids at 7:00 so I've had a pretty full day and didn't have any inspiration when I got home except to hit the sack. So here's what you get, a couple mobile pics from 2 days ago.

Inspired by a friend I decided to ask Andy to draw a dinosaur and see what he'd come up with. The top photo here is his first attempt. The circle on the right is the head I think, and the rest is..... a mystery. The other photo is his second attempt because he really wanted to try again. Much more dinousarish don't you think? I love it. Definitely refrigerator worthy. Happy Friday!

Halfway there!

Made it to the 20 week mark today! Yay! I'm not entirely convinced there's only one in there though. We should find out on the 28th. I really don't have much to photograph lately and don't have much time to take pictures of what I do have. Oh well.... belly it is. And lots of Andy too. Hard to go wrong there. :)

My hands are dirty?

What a goofball. That's all for today. :)

Fun in the park

In case you didn't catch the album I posted earlier tonight, I did a maternity shoot for my friend Mercedes today. It was a lot of fun and I think the pics turned out great considering it was my first time!!! Here is a fun one of her and Andy.


And then here are a few of my faves from the shoot.

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

This is for all the ladies! No new pics tonight, but I did play around a bit editing some extra ones I took last week! *muah*

My funny Valentine

What a sweet boy. In case you missed the story on facebook. I got home from work this afternoon to hear Andy yelling from the bathroom "Mommy, is that you?" When I said that it was he jumped off the toilet forgetting to wipe his butt and led me to the kitchen because he was SO excited to show me what he and his daddy had purchased for me at the store that afternoon. Isn't he sweet? Little goofy butt.

Some peace at last

It's been a long day.

Practicing...

I wish I had better lighting in my house, I hate the shadows next to my face. Otherwise I love this shot.





Andy wanted to get in the picture too. He is too cute. He loves wearing his "I'm going to be a Big Brother" shirt!

He loves his tooth brush!

Apparently a dentist visited Andy's classroom at school today and everyone got a goody bag. In the bag was a toothbrush, a bouncy ball with a smiling tooth in it, some handouts, a sticker, and a little timer to help the kids know how long to brush their teeth. Andy's been excited about it all day and as soon as we got home from dinner he wanted to brush his teeth with his new toothbrush and timer. And so he did!

Playing in the tub.

I love this kid, I really do. He loves bathtime. After we're done washing and brushing his teeth he gets to stay in there by himself playing and I love hearing him talking to his toys and developing these funny stories with them and doing voices and everything. He has such an imagination already! We still only fill the tub up to about his belly button, is that strange for a 3.5 yr old? Oh well, better safe than sorry.

Does this violate child labor laws?

I didn't pay him either. Unless you count giving him poptarts as payment, he didn't seem to mind. He has his own shovel and really wanted to help his daddy shovel the driveway after our snow. So this is what he did for a few minutes after school today. Isn't he cute??

Andy has a heart on his belly too!

He was trying to copy my picture and I couldn't help myself. How cute is this? I love him.

Take that!

Not in the mood to do much else so I'll hit you with some food porn. This is dinner tonight.





And here's dessert or something I'll make tomorrow! Mmmmm....

My Valentine

Having fun making a Valentine's Day card this year. Don't think I'll have them done early enough to actually mail them, but anyway... maybe next year I'll do it long enough in advance so that I can! I love the effects on this photo, who would have known photobucket had some pretty neat effects?? Now I do. Coolness.

Beautiful...

Just beautiful...

Yes I'm that mom...

that lets her kid play on the playground in 30 degree temps. Better call CPS! I figured after yesterday's -23 that 30 was pretty hot! lol. We only stayed out there for a couple minutes anyway until the wind made me change my mind.







I really like his face in this one, too bad for the ugly garbage can in the background. I wish I were better at photoshop, I'd try to edit it out. Taking swinging pictures can be hard!

Who says you can't have pasta two nights in a row?

At least it's whole wheat pasta. I had it last night and was craving it again tonight so I made some more. I'm allowed. It was good too. This is all I have for you tonight - some food porn. So take that! :)

Poor doggies

No we aren't forcing our dogs to stay outside all day with temps in the negative teens and windchills in the negative 20s and 30s. What kind of animal lover do you think I am? We do let them out to go potty every couple hours and this is what happens after a few minutes. They're so pitiful aren't they?


In related news. These are the coldest temps I have ever endured. You'd think I'd be craving some hot cocoa or soup or other warm things, but no. What do I want? Ice cream. So I had some. :)