legos

Thank goodness for these big lego blocks.  They've kept Chico most occupied, most occupied indeed (name that movie).  Chico and I have been adjusting a lot this last week. Brent has gone back to work now and I have to feed Nelmo quite a bit during the day so Chico has needed to keep himself entertained more.  Thankfully these blocks have been perfect for that!  I asked Chico if I could take a picture of his creation and he was more than happy to pose for me...several different times.  What a ham. :)

And here is a picture of what Nelmo has been doing a lot of:  

No pictures of the other activities of his day which include changing diapers and eating. (you're welcome). Apparently we're doing something right over here. Nelmo has gained 11 ounces from his birth weight in just two weeks! That's my boy!

Chico sure loves Nelmo

This picture was from back at the hospital. How did I forget to post it!?

One week old..

We're going to be calling our cute little baby, "Nelmo" on this blog.  That's what Chico called him at first when he came home. Yeah, Nelmo doesn't really sound anything like his real name but that's how Chico talks for example "Grandpa" sounds like "Bartok".  It's a secret language and sometimes even I can't figure out the word Chico is trying to say.  By the way, Chico absolutely loves Nelmo.  He would hold him all the time if we let him.  And we are letting him hold him again, he finally stopped throwing up a few days ago. :)

We did a photo shoot this past weekend and had so much fun capturing OUR cute little baby. You don't know how much I've been looking forward to this! Here is Nelmo, one week old! And of course we had to try out the wedding rings on the toes. I was so proud of Nelmo, he was the most patient newborn with wedding rings on his toes that I've ever photographed. He didn't mind it at all! Good boy, you're being trained well Nelmo. This is the first of MANY photo sessions. :)

And I forgot to post this picture in the pictures last week from the hospital. I LOVE this one of him!

Welcome Baby #2...

We'd like to introduce you to our second son. He was born over the weekend and was healthy as can be. The delivery went really well and it has been wonderful experiencing life with our newborn. We're home now and Chico just started throwing up everything he's eaten today so I can't do a long post right now. Soon though. :)

Wanna see some awesome 4D pictures of our next baby?

Well it's been a while since I wrote much on this blog. We have been so busy with photo editing that I haven't been able to take the time to write hardly anything! You may ask why I'm writing now seeing as I'm still finishing up editing our last three weddings? Well, we're running into some problems with our monitor calibrator and so the color on our screen is off and I'm stuck until the problem is solved. Frustrating? Yeah, really frustrating... but let's not talk about that now.

As you can tell, I'm still pregnant and that has us all very excited! Looks as if I'm probably not going to have any toxemia this pregnancy, I'm just healthy as can be! The baby is growing at a steady rate, as of Monday they said he's approximately 5 lbs 11 oz!!! I'm looking "big with child". Brent and I will have to go out and take some maternity pictures soon. The baby has been up in my ribs a lot lately which is wow, painful.  It's exciting to be experiencing these third trimester "joys". I'm so grateful to still be pregnant. It doesn't keep me from complaining unfortunately... probably should work on that!
Anything else going on non-pregnancy related...?  Hmmm, well we're finally getting the remodeling finished up around here (because the baby is coming).  I got released from the Primary Presidency (probably mostly due to the fact that the baby is coming).  I just had a birthday too and Brent got everyone to pitch in to buy me a gift certificate to a local framing company. Oh boy, I'm so excited to use that for a family picture... after the baby comes of course. :)
I guess our lives are kinda revolving around one thing lately, lol.

Chico's Grandma got married!

A couple weeks ago Brent's mom got married.  We are so happy that she found someone so good for her that loves her so much.  Pictures from the wedding will be posted someday soon... I have to finish editing a few other weddings from other clients first.  For now, here's a cute one of Chico.  He is so cute and sweet.

Guess who turned 2 in July!?

Chico is officially growing up too fast.  He is so dang cute, such a ham, and so fun to have as a son.  We did some engagement pictures of Brent's Mom and her fiance the day after Charlie's birthday and we brought him along.  He and I did a little mini photo session while Brent was taking pictures of his mom.  Here are a few of my faves (by the way, all of the poses were Chico inspired, he is his own man):

(he likes to get up in my lens, it's so dang funny) 

For his birthday we had a little party at the park with some family. I made this super easy but oh so cute caterpillar cake.
Chico has really been wanting a bike so I got him this tricycle for his birthday. He can't reach the pedals yet but he still loves it because it has a control panel that makes all kinds of awesome car noises. The only noise I wish it wouldn't make was when it says, "Get out of my way! I'm Lightning McQueen". Other than that, an awesome find.