Felt like playing today

I hadn't looked at Rob and I's wedding photos in a while and when I received this cute little digital keychain for Christmas from Rob's family I uploaded all my wedding photos too it and today felt like playing with one of the photos in photoshop and making a little card. Background papers are by Tracy Collins digital flower, brad and ribbon downloaded from various places on the internet as well. Picture taken by my fabulous wedding photographer, Michelle Walker.

Our New Years Resolution

So I asked Rob, Savannah and myself what our new years resolutions are for 2008 here are the top answers.

My resoultions are:

• Start working out again. Since becomming pregnant I've slacked & really want to get in shape for the rest of the pregnancy and to shed what is sure to be 30+ pounds of yucky fat.
• To organize and print my digital photos from 2007 (backup of files started today.. yay me!) So I can catch up a little on my scrapbooking!
• Get some home fix it projects finished. 1st room has begun.. the movie room. 2nd room begins in two weeks and will be the baby's room.. stay tuned for future pictures!!
• Spend more time with my family.
• Work more on my photography
• Go back to school

Rob's resolution when asked was:

• Make me be nicer to him.. which I took to mean he wants to work harder at making me happy.. by helping out around the house, giving backrubs when I ask, and by saying "sure sweetie anything you want" :)

Savannah's is:

• To go to school and learn (she'll finally start kindergarten this year)
• To spend time with friends

I think Savannah has the best chance of resolving her resolutions for the year! If you read this, I would love for you to comment on what your resolutions are for the new year :)

Happy 2008! The year will be what we make it so lets make it a good one!

Our Movie Room

So we got the couch brought up to what is in the works of being our loft movie/game room. We still have to paint the marron wall a shade of brown and the gray walls a nice light tan. Then add a nice thick curtain to the window. Once thats done we will center the TV in front of the window. We enjoyed our first movie there last night. The Kingdom. Good movie btw but sometimes hard to watch how people can be so flippin insane especially when they honestly think they are doing it in the name of god. Ridiculous.

Christmas Cards & Happy Holidays

This year I decided to make my own Christmas Cards (with a little help from some digital scrapbook elements).. I came up with two designs and they should be arriving to my friends and family anyday now. Here are the two designs I came up with.. the first is a 5x5 Tri-fold and the second it a 5x5 flat. Next year I think I'm going back to making mine on the computer to save a little money these were just a tad expensive to print ;) We did however have a blast (ha not really) with the camera self timer taking our family photo in front of our super fab Christmas tree :) This year we got to go bigger since our new living room is four times bigger than our last one! Well... Happy Holiday's Ya'll...

Pregnancy News

WoW.. I haven't posted in ages. I was dealing with a tough first 3 months in my pregnancy so it had me sort of out of commission. I spent most of that time lying around on the couch watching TV, taking naps, and rushing in and out of the restroom. YUCK.. I'm finally up and running again and taking a few pictures.. Here is one from today taken with the self timer in front of our Christmas tree :) Belly out in full swing.. 17 weeks into my pregnancy :) I can't believe how soon and much I'm showing already but couldn't be happier. Last week I could actually feel the little guy/girl in there not movements so much as pressure. We waited so long between pregnancies its like its a new experience all over again! 5 weeks from now I'll should be able to fill everyone in on the sex of the baby! We are very excited to find out! The names we've chosen are for a girl: Brooklyn Michelle or boy: Ethan James Robert (deciding on the two middle names or we could be weird and do both since Rob has two middle names, why not :)

Savannah and I were playing in front of the tree as well.. trying to get some images worthy of our Christmas Card this year which at the rate I'm going will be getting to people the week after Christmas unless we can get a family image that works! Here is one of the better ones of both myself and Vans (we were having issues with movement so lots were blurry!)

Black & White Day

This session felt best in black & white.. the color came out well but for her expression I just had to convert them all to share.. she seemed a little unwilling to stop for pictures (I think she was in a hurry to get to grandmas since it was 97 degrees out and she was ready to ditch the walk and get into the pool :)

My Favorite Pictures yet..

New Pictures of Savannah.. I love these!! She is getting much better at modeling for me even when she doesn't really want to :) We're growing her bangs out again too which just makes her look that much older. She's still a few months away from her 5th birthday but already looks like a first grader!