Announcements!!

He is finally here!! Gabriel Steven was born at 4:46 pm on Tuesday June 23. He weighed 8lbs 4oz and was 19 inches long. He looks just like his daddy :) We are home from the hospital now, and once we get rested up a bit I will post lots more pictures and his birth story!

I ♥ Faces!

This week's theme is "Let's Hear It For the Boys!" I decided to do adults this time and post one of my dad. Because he is a great dad, and grandpa, and all-around great person.

Rainy Day

What do you do when you go for a walk with your mommy and daddy and it starts to pour down rain just as you get home? Well if you are Hannah, you grab your daddy's hand and run out into the pouring rain of course :)

Then you talk your daddy into throwing you in the air as you both get soaking wet :)
Then you run up the driveway laughing and giggling because it is so much fun to get rained on :)
Thankfully Hannah has an adventurous daddy to play in the rain with her, so her mommy can stand in the nice dry garage and take pictures...(ahem :))

Is it wrong...

...that I am completely in love with this curly hair, and the sweet little girl that goes with it?

Wordless Wednesday

Hannah's version of a funny face :)

I Love Faces!

I have been thinking about joining in this blog fun for a while, but haven't been brave enough. This week though I decided to just go for. This is an older picture of my daughter, but I love the look on her face, so I decided to use it anyhow :) This weeks theme is sepia toned. Join in the fun if you dare :)

Wordless Wednesday

New Camera

Today I was reading the instruction manual on my new camera, and learning about all the setting and adjustments I can make to get my pictures to turn out just the way that I want them too. It is definitley a litttle overwhelming, and I still have a TON to learn, but I was really happy with how this particular picture came out. For this one I played with the aperture (I learned that this is how you can make your pictures have a fuzzy background...very cool in my book) and with the sharpness, contrast, saturation, and color tone. I really like it, because I think it really looks like what Hannah really looks like. If that makes any sense at all ;) I am really excited to keep learning and see what I come up with :)

36 weeks, the nursery, and gratuitous Hannah pictures :)

Today is the 36 week mark!! I am really excited, because for some reason, I just feel like he could be born any time now. I am feeling ready. Not just ready in the sense of having baby clothes washed, nursery ready, our bags packed etc., but emotionally ready too. I'm not quite to the point of feeling desperate, (haha), but whenever this little guy wants to come, I am ready :)

*Just as a side note, as you may or may not have noticed, we got a new camera this past weekend. You can kind of see it in the picture. Nick and I have been saving our change and pretty much any other extra money we had for the last six months, and we finally saved up enough to get the camera that we wanted. It is a Canon Rebel XSI. Even though I have not even come remotely close to figuring out all the things we can do, I am sort of in love with it already. :) *

This is a picture of the crib/nursery. The bedding has turtles on it and is light blue and brown.

Changing table and hamper. Hannah keeps untying the ribbons on the baskets, and I have given up on trying to keep them tied.

This is my super awesome diaper bag that I LOVE!! I didn't really need a new diaper bag, but when I saw this one I decided that maybe I did :) I love the bright orange and fun polka dots :)

This is the outfit that Gabe is going to wear home from the hospital. Hannah wore the same thing that I wore when I was a baby, so I wanted him to have something special too. It is light blue and white seersucker and in my opinion, oh so cute!

Just for fun I thought I would throw in some Hannah pictures. In the top one she was running around before church and in the bottom one she was fresh out of the bath tub. She LOVES her ducky towel :)