One Month Portraits...take 2!

We had quite a full day today!  Church in the morning followed by a Senior photography session, a maternity session, and professional drumming portraits!  We were hardly home at all, and Natalie was a trooper (in the Trooper...ha, ha) through it all!  We got home and decided that she was far happier than two days ago and therefore up for trying the one-month portraits again!  And they were much more successful this time!  Check out our favorites...

-L

My parents think I'm so cute!

Yeah, I think they're right about that!

Ummm...is this going to get used in my wedding rehearsal slideshow someday?!

(You bet, Natalie!!)

Who's the cutest?  It's me...it's me!

So ready to be done! (and bed...)

Mom's holding me, so I can handle a couple more pictures...

Lovin' the Cloth!

So...many of you have been asking about the cloth diapers.  They have come quite a long way from what lots of us remember from our own parents' experiences, so many have been curious about them.  Many of you also think we are CRAZY for choosing cloth over disposable, but perhaps when you see the pics and diagram Jon put together for you, you'll have a little change of heart!

I've been so excited to use these, but wasn't because little Natalie is, well, little, and when we had the first try of putting the diaper on her, her butt was literally 2 inches off the changing table, and thus her legs were also 2 inches off the changing table!  So, they seemed so super-huge I went back to the disposables...until I had 3 days IN A ROW of emergency baths due to explosive diaper situations.  After the 3rd time, I had enough of that and went back to cloth.  I LOVE THEM!!  We have had no out-of-diaper explosions and they are so soft on her skin!  Yes, they add some bulk to her behind, but really, she's so small it almost just helps stuff fit a little better!  They are super easy to wash and very easy to use (very much the same as a disposable other than the re-using part).  Check out the diagram below...they are really cool!!

-L

P.S.  If you need to, click on the pic so that you see a larger version and can read all the text.

double vision

today Natalie had a very long day with mom,  with only a few short cat naps!  Today we also did our 1 month pictures and i am not sure it was a good day to do a photo shoot because in almost all the pictures miss Natalie was cross-eyed and made the funniest faces at the camera.  here are some highlights from tonight.  we laughed SO hard when we downloaded these to the computer to post some new photographs,  I suppose these will be fun to see in about 20 years...

We also weighed Natalie this morning and she is officially 7 pounds now and 20.5 inches long!

-J

mom & me

double vision

i have 2 mommies & daddies?

small but growing

this one reminds us of Puss&Boots from Shrek

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!

ok well most of you know that I'm a huge Indiana Jones fan and well, when I heard they (Spielberg)were possibly going to make a new one I was THRILLED from day one!  I have been keeping up to date on all the new sneak peeks and interviews on the web site.  In January I went to Lucasfilms.com and bought a tee-shirt so I would be ready to go for opening night!

Well May 22nd is finally here and Lindsay & I went to the expensive show and splurged a little to get to see it on the big screen!  And boy those seats were pretty close to a Lazy Boy,  all you had to do was sit back and recline and watch the show!  

The movie was AMAZING and I can't wait to see it again and again and then again and after that add it to the dvd collection!  I would for sure go see it at the big screen if I were you and if I were not you, I would still see it at the big screen!  5 star movie and a seamless transition if you were to watch them all in chronological order you would not know this one was made 20 years later! It's an instant classic in my book!

now the first picture I could not resist but yes I took it in the theater but with a phone so that doesn't really count and the last picture where I look really bug-eyed is funny because I forgot the self-timer was set at 2 seconds so I literally had to run to be in the picture...lol

-J

indiana jones!

$8.25

bug eyes!

biz expo

Today we were at the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce Business Expo at the Phil Long Center.  We kinda decided to do the show last minute and said we would pay for the smallest booth they offered and they ended up giving us a fairly large booth when we went to set up for the show (good for us)!  Any way there was hundreds of people and businesses at the show and we felt it was a great time to network with other businesses and hope to see a good return from the show!  

-J 

trooper loaded-up