Dan & Katie - Wedding!

I had the pleasure of taking pictures for my cousin Dan and his wife Katie!  My fabulous friend Kacey worked with me...she has a great eye and I love working with her!

They had a fabulous day!  Really could not have asked for a better weather...

Here are just a few of the many pictures we took!

Pinterest...

Honestly why didn't someone think of this sooner?

I love pinterest!!!

The only thing I do not like is when one my phone it says...

No pins Available

Request has timed out

Annoying!!

Few faves at the moment...

Kids Fishing Game...so cute!  

Via

Why have I never thought of this??

Via

Made this for dinner today...YUM and easy!

Via

Ahhhhhh!

Honestly where does the time go!!!  I swear half of the time I feel like I am doing A TON of stuff, feeding a baby, feeding a toddler, feeding myself, laundry, dishes, cleaning, finances and once I get my list done (that doesn't even include fun things like crafting :) it starts all over again.  Or the other half of the time it feels like I have done nothing even though the day flies by!!

Olive has been such a great big sister, I love seeing the little girl in her growing.  I find she is very thoughtful.  I was cleaning the bathroom the other day and she came up to me and said "thanks for cleaning the bathroom mom,"  Richard was home and I asked if he told her to say that, but he didn't!  it was pretty cute!  She saw I stubbed my toe on a bench today and then she was trying to get into the freezer.  I noticed her and asked what she was doing.  "You want the pink car??"  The pink car is am ice pack...aww she wanted to put it on my toe.  Cutest kid ever I tell ya!

Ellie, oh Ellie LOVES to smile, especially in the morning.  She wakes up in the greatest of moods!

Some days I swear she looks a lot like Olive, but others nothing like her.  I should get some pictures to put side by side and see :)

I am hoping to get back to reading blogs and posting more.  Lets just say someone has been needing extra cuddles lately.

Can't get enough!

I can't get enough of this cute little face!!

and then there is this one...

Haha, kidding...she just didn't want smile for me :)

I have been going crazy on pintrest lately!  I will have to show you what I have been up too.  Besides hanging out with these two.

The Story....

My little Ellie must have been nice and cozy....

If you have been reading my blog for a little while you probably read that I was really trying for a VBAC...sadly it didn't work out.  And here is why...

Friday, September 16th I was scheduled to go in for 'induction,'  I use that term lightly because they really don't like to induce during an attempted VBAC because of the risk that my incision could rupture.  But I go in anyway because I was already a week late as of the 16th.  The good news I thought was at the clinic I was told I was 1.5cm dilated which meant I was favorable and they could possibly give me a small dose of pitocin to help things.

So here I am waiting to go and the nurse comes in to check me....apparently I am not dilated.  Big bummer because that means I am not favorable anymore.  They decided to send me down to ultrasound to check things out and see if I could possibly wait a little longer at home.  Things didn't look horrible but my fluid levels where low and the recommendation was to go for a repeat cesarean.  The Mr. and I weighed the options and decided to have our baby that evening...

Turns out it was probably a good thing....if I had waited I could have had close to a 11 pound baby that might have been stuck!  

 

At 4:05pm we had our little Evelyn Elizabeth.  On the operating table to exclaimed to the Mr. that "two was it for me."  The anesthesiologist had a hard time finding the "right" spot....err which made for a not so pleasant time sitting on the table with my bare back hanging out!  This happened with Olive too!  Little did I know this procedure was going to haunt me for days later.  Turns out I developed a spinal headache...all I have to say about that is NOT FUN!

 

Olive waiting to be a big sister!

First family picture!

Cutie...

Getting close to the three week mark I am finally starting to feel back to my old self.  After a fun little seroma...if anyone knows what that is, yeah gross...if you don't know what that is I will spare you the details.  But I would rather that not have happened.

Little Ellie is a very good baby.  She cries when she wants to eat and that is about all! 

Goodnight for now!

Embrace the Camera: Sept. 29th

Slowly getting back into the swing of things around here!!

Until I can get a full post up enjoy this picture my friend took of me and my girls :)

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More coming soon...

If You are Wondering....

.....I am still waiting....

Is it Time Yet??

Friday is my official "best guess date,"  I keep holding out hope that I will start labor any second now :)

When I feel some cramps I get all excited....and then they stop.

I have been walking like a crazy person, resting, eating mexican....and a few more things to try and jump start labor.  I know she will come when she is ready...BUT I really wish she was ready now!  Ha.

Part of me is worried because I really want a VBAC....and I am not sure how long the Dr. would let me go.  He is VBAC friendly or at least makes himself out to be....so I am hoping come friday he doesn't say I need to schedule a C-section :(  That would be a big bummer for me.

I am hoping maybe today would be a fitting day...go into labor on Labor Day :)

Hope everyone had a good weekend!

Potty Training....

Before I had Olive I had many ideas on how I would parent, what I would do and everyone else who had kids should do it this way.  Yes, I will admit it.  I was one of those people....but then I think anyone who doesn't have kids has done that at some point in time.

So along comes potty training...not sure why it would be so easy but its not.

I think if I were to start over from the beginning I would NOT get a small potty seat.  I would get just the insert that goes in a normal potty because I feel like now I have another challenge of transferring her to the big potty, since she only wants to use the "little" potty!  I told her one day the little potty was going to go to another little girl who needs to learn to go potty.  She did not seem to happy about that idea.

So far she stays dry as long as she gets to pick out her own undies...I can not say the same for #2's though, those have still been a challenge.

In my head its as simple as...ok go on the potty. Hah...not that simple.

What I have learned from this experience is just to be PATIENT.  She has been doing it a certain way for over two years and she just needs to get used to the idea of going on the potty.  It will happen when it happens and I should not rush it.  So I just need to take a deep breathe and let it happen!

We have had a few nice days out and I captured this picture...apparently she was an angry dandelion blower.

What a week!

Less than three weeks to go before baby #2!!  I almost have my to do list completed!  

However, this last week gave me a few new things to add to my list...

-feeling better after catching allergies, I have never really had bad allergies except with this pregnancy!

 

-fixing my computer's hard drive

Now after a hard drive scare a few years back, the Mr. and I decided to invest in external hard drives so we could back up all of our photos, documents, etc.  I am so thankful because of that I did not lose any of Olive's baby pictures or family pictures.  I don't know how I would have dealt with losing something like that!  So after weighing the options we decided to try to fix this ourselves.  Well, we didn't have to many options because after taking my little computer to Apple, they said it was too old for them to fix (six years old.)  So off to Best Buy we go, were we find out Apple has switched hard drive types, which is why they couldn't fix mine.  Best Buy only had one we could purchase...fast forward a few hours to where Richard is now on his way back from his Uncle's where they replaced the hard drive.  I get a call saying 'Yay it's working...however there are some cosmetic issues."  Hah, apparently they had a hard time getting into the "guts" of the laptop.  I now have a wonky keyboard (new one is on its way from Hong Kong) and I can not eject the start up disc from my dvd player!  

But my computer works just fine :)  Tomorrow we have a date to opening up my computer again to get the disc out.  I have a feeling the openings don't line up and it gets stuck coming out.  But I would be fine not using it anyways.  I love this little computer, it has been good to me for six years.  I just can't afford to buy a new one a the moment!

Next on my To Do list is to make a new header for after the arrival of baby #2!  I know I will be far to busy to sit down and try to make on I like, since I am so picky so I might as well do it now!

I am also going to write a post soon on our efforts with potty training...phew, I swear this is the most challenging thing I have done so far being a mom.  Patience, patience, patience....I have learned to have more patience myself!

In the mean time enjoy a few photos of a random day outside with Olive!

 

 

Sick...

I have been sick for the last week.  

Bummer.  

My hard drive decided it didn't want to work anymore.

Bummer.  

I will be back soon.

Castles...

Olive has a new favorite thing to build...castles, at least that is what she calls them.  She loves going to the beach, which reminds me we should get there again soon.  Its been so grossly hot out lately though we haven't even wanted to go outside!

Here are a two of Olive's towers....

Olive seems to be pretty excited for "baby sister" to come!  We ask her often about her now...so she gets used to the fact she is coming :)  She has asked me a few times when she is coming out...

Which by the way I went to the Dr. today...from now I go to weekly appointments I set them up on Mondays at the same time so it would be easier for me to remember :)  So my appointment today went smooth.  He did "check" me and baby is head down!!!! Yay...I am pretty excited about that!  So it seems I will be able to to at least have a TOLAC (trial of labor after cesarean)...I may be in denial but I am kind of excited to start labor.  I know some of you may think I am nuts!  But I never experienced that with Olive...that and if I can avoid surgery and the recovery time needed for a cesarean I will be extra happy!

Today I am 35 weeks and 4 days...so if I do go into labor at any point they wouldn't stop it....So could be any day now!!  

I know once baby comes things around this little blog will become even more quiet than they have become recently...but I still want to keep up with it and update friends and family!  So I will try my best and I hope you bear with me :)

It IS worth it...

It is worth it in the end...that is what I keep telling myself.  The...
-Heartburn
-Horrible sleep
-Gas/bloating/swelling
-Not being able to bend over
-Losing my breath after one set of stairs...

It is all SOOO worth it :)

 Needless to say I have been just a tad uncomfortable lately...I am getting closer and closer to my due date or "best guess date :)"

Olive and I tried out the new double stroller with the car seat in it today....

I kept thinking Olive was really not going to like riding under or in back...but she loves it.  I keep asking her do you want to ride up front and she was adamant to stay "in the back seat." The canopy on the back seat does come off...so that will give her extra head room. We also have the option to but the main seat all the way down, so the baby can lay flat and Olive would have the extra seat in the back in front...Love this stroller, it has so many possibilities!

I am off to down a bottle of Tums...this heartburn awful tonight! (worth it...worth it... :)

Maddie 6 Months - Photography

I have had the pleasure of taking pictures of little Miss Maddie even while she was in

her momma's belly!  She is now six months old!  I can not believe how fast that six months

has gone!  Check out this cutie...

She wanted to eat the tutu more than anything :)