Newborn Portraits

More wonderful, marvelous, absolutely BEAUTIFUL pictures thanks to Laurel Ingledue!

  

The babies’ room… finally done!

I spent Saturday behaving like a crazy person getting things ready… I had this overwhelming feeling that things must be done NOW. I guess that’s the nesting instinct I kept hearing about? It was over about as quickly as it began but I now have a serious backache to show for it! And a completed nursery:

A closer view of the pictures on the wall. I actually got the pictures out of my office calendar from last year! :)

Their cribs all ready for their little heads… I made Liah’s bedding but I couldn’t find fabric I liked for Hunter so Mike got to pick a store-bought set for him.

I sort of made up this cross stitch pattern. I got the shoe pattern from a premade kit but then I copied and mirrored it so that I could have two pairs in one pattern. The outline ribbon I copied by eyeball from a pattern that hung in my room as a child, and the slogan I saw on a tv show. Paste it all together and this is what you get!

I grew up with these little figurines on my wall, and of course Hunter and Liah need a picture of their parents to gaze at.

The diaper stash. This *should* last us 3 months… hopefully.

The rest of our maternity portraits

I seriously had so much fun taking these pictures!! It reminded me of back when I was a preteen and I took a modeling class in Portland. Laurel Ingledue was excellent to work with and a great photographer! Check out the editing skills on the bare belly shot below… if anyone thinks I’ve made it through this pregnancy with no stretch marks you are sorely mistaken! But Laurel did a great job of making them disappear. (Thank you Laurel!!!!!)

   

Valentine’s Day

This year for Valentine’s Mike got me a perfect little bouquet of flowers, he had them ready and waiting for me when I got home from work. We went to see The Vow (tearjerker!!) and had dinner at the Olive Garden. It was a nice quiet little night out. :)

35 weeks 2 days

Woo babies! Somehow I am still mobile. Although I am pretty certain that people get really annoyed if they happen to get stuck behind me in the grocery store or in the hallway at work. I have a newfound respect for the old people that shuffle around at 1 mph in public places. 

Oddly, the shirt I am wearing is one of the few that still fit me, but it is not a maternity shirt! All the maternity stuff I've bought is too short. Weird, huh?

Maternity Photo Session Sneak Peek

Laurel Ingledue took these awesome pictures! More to come…

Snowmaggedon

Well we had our “snow event” for this year and it was a big one! All together we got about 16 inches of snow over the course of 2 days, most of which fell in one 24 hour period on Wednesday. It is safe to say I have never seen this much snow in my entire life. Unless you count the times I’ve gone to snowy places, but those don’t count if you ask me. I’m talking about at home, in my yard.

The snow was very beautiful while it lasted. I laughed at everyone who was relieved to hear it would rain on Thursday and Friday. Apparently freezing rain is not as common here as it is in Portland? They all thought the rain forecast meant it would all be over soon. I knew exactly what that forecast meant: an inch of death over top of everything in sight, and utter destruction of anything that has leaves or needles on it (see how low the tree branches are?? and this picture is BEFORE the ice!), resulting in a long power outage.

 

I thought we were pretty well prepared for a power outage. We had some food and some candles, and a camping lantern. I was wrong. The Portland freezing rain storms followed by power outages are not accompanied by weather in the low 20’s. The house got cold FAST. We were miserable. I can’t imagine what we would have done with two infants. Go to a hotel, I suppose.

Since we didn’t have any infants (yet), we stayed home Thursday and cooked chili for dinner on our camp stove. It’s a single burner that screws onto the top of a little propane tank, and then you balance your cooking vessel on top of that little tower of flammability. We did that in the rain on the back patio. That was really fun. I am dripping with sarcasm if you can’t tell. Mike taught me how to play Canasta and we played that for several hands, then went to bed early. That part was actually fun. :)

On Friday we ventured out to Wal Mart to try and buy some more lanterns and maybe a little generator to run a space heater. Wrong! Out of stock. Should’ve known. But we did get some more food since we didn’t have as much as I thought and what we did have needed an oven or a stove. Then we spent a while sitting around at KFC since they got their power back and were up and running. That didn’t last as long as we thought it would because when we got there I discovered that I could no longer fit in the booths. The other option is a hard metal chair, which obviously did not agree with me. Our friends Mike and Julina invited us over to hang out so we went over there and stayed there pretty late. It was wonderful!!! Going back home after being warm was like torture. We went straight to bed.

At 4:30 in the morning on Saturday the heater kicked on and woke me up, which usually really annoys me, but this time it meant we had POWER!!! I woke up Mike and said “the heater is running!” and he said “uh-huh” and went back to sleep. Thus ended our “snow event” for this year!