A delayed announcement...

Sorry I haven't been able to post this week, but most of you have already heard ITS A BOY!!! We are so incredibly excited to have a son. I know he and Gracyn are going to be great friends. Here are a few ultrasound pictures from Wednesday- all profile shots. He is pretty smashed in there, already looking pretty long, so we didnt get to see the front of his face for any pictures... Everything is healthy and exactly how it should be! The last shot I didnt want to post, but Greg scanned the 3 together. But you can see his heart and his little boy parts from a profile view- lucky you, lol.

Baby Steps

Gracyn is getting closer to walking. I bought this push toy awhile ago but she has never had much interest in it. She would play with it, but as soon as it started moving she would sit down. This week she has finally started taking steps behind it. She started with one or two and now walks up and down the sidewalk to our neighbor Lidia's house. Its so cute to see! Here is a video of the first night she started trying to walk behind it.

my little pumpkin

I took these a few weeks ago at the pumpkin patch with Jake and Julia. She was pretty excited to be around the pumpkins and of course wanted nothing to do with mommy or the camera. I think that was the sentiment for the day since Jake and Julia didnt want pictures either!

11 months

This weekend I went home to Indy to visit family and go to my college roomate's 30th birthday party. I was fighting a cold last week but by Thursday night it was insane! I couldnt breathe or sleep, I lost my voice and Im pretty sure coughed up at least one lung. I was miserable, but it was nice to be with my family who spoiled Gracyn rotten. My sister and I decided to take Gracyn out to get her one year pictures before her birthday party. I didnt shoot because I was sick, but Amanda got some great shots of her at the Flying Cupcake (which has to be the cutest cupcake bakery I have ever seen...). I dont want to share all of the pics yet, because she is in her birthday outfit for some and I want to save those for closer to her birthday. But, here are a few my sister sent me that I love. I still cant believe how much she changes every single day and all the new things she does. She is a pro at kisses and waving and bouncing "aka dancing" when asked, she also does the sign for "more" pretty well and is working on a few others. She is getting pretty stable standing up without any support in the middle of the room, but still isnt making many attempts at walking unless its around furniture. She is very into putting things into other things, like stacking her cups or putting the rings on a stacker, etc... sometimes that translates to putting toys away but not enough for mommy to be completely happy, lol. Anyway life is good! Check out a few of the pics...

laughing at mommy dancing...

My Littlest Bird

I wanted to post a video of Gracyn dancing to our new favorite dancing song, but of course she started pitching a fit when I left to get the camera to capture her. So anyway for today I will just post the music video for the song, maybe tomorrow I can get her dancing to it. This is the Be Good Tanyas, this is the only song I know of theirs and found it as a fluke, but I love it so I will have to search them out on Itunes and find some other good stuff. This just makes me happy...

I have the best husband in the world....

Tomorrow is Greg and my 3 year anniversary. Since I will be out of town, he surprised me tonight by having his parents come over to watch Gracyn while he took me out to dinner to Francesca's, which is where we had our rehearsal dinner. Dinner was delicious and it was so nice to have a night out with Greg alone. I feel so blessed to have a husband who takes care of me the way he does. I hope and pray Gracyn is so lucky in love one day!

First time at the Beach

We headed down to Lake Michigan last week to shoot with another photographer I know. Gracyn started out loving the sand, but quickly became miserable as the temperature dropped and the wind picked up. She was so cold and wanted nothing to do with pictures! I really did have layers on her, but she was still shivering and mean mommy just wanted to keep shooting! Anyway I didnt get much of her, she is a classic photographers kid who wants nothing to do with pictures, but my friend Shannon got some great ones of her. I will post hers another time. Here are a few I liked...

here her lips were really purple, tried to fix that in photoshop


sad eyes...






happy when we first got there, playing in the sand


still finding sand in her bags and stroller...

Giving Kisses

Gracyn has started making kissing noises a lot and we just figured out tonight that she will make the noise when asked for a kiss, so we had to capture it on video. So here she is giving a few people kisses :)

Testing a new blog template

Trying to find something with options for bigger images.... ignore the poor quality of the pic, just wanted something bigger than the old template.

Capturing the moment

So many times during the day, I think of something I want to capture on camera... then never do it because the light isnt right, or her outfit isnt the cutest, etc. I have this weird thing that I need to only take great pictures and I miss out on a lot because of that. I have been trying to be better (taking pictures in class, etc), but I still need to make more of an effort.

Yesterday we were out with Greg while he was mowing the lawn. Gracyn loves to watch him and wave as he comes up and down the row. It is finally fall weather and she had her little fall clothes on and she looked so cute! Never mind the fact that she had 5 different shades of purple on, lol. Anyway the light was fading and not ideal, but I decided I had to capture the moment. So while these pictures are blurry and grainy, I still love everything about them. I cannot believe how absolutely grown up my baby is... I have no clue where this year went. But every single day I fall more and more in love with her and with her daddy for blessing me with her and taking care of us so incredibly well.