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December 24, 2009
Gracie Mae Noelle
Gracie Mae Noelle was born on December 21st. at 8:02 AM. She weighed 9 lbs. 1 oz. and was 21 1/4 inches long.She is beautiful and just perfect. Everything went very well with the c-section and Mom is doing great as well.
I stayed in the hospital with Jenn and Gracie and Shane took Carter home at night so he could be in his own bed.
Carter was so good at the hospital he just played and charmed all the nurses of course. I swear he is the sweetest little boy.....
Of course I took a ton of pictures and we love all of them. Jenn and I dressed her up on the 2nd. night and took a bunch more LOl.... We are loving it..... I have been helping Jenn out at home the last couple of days but I thought since I have neglected my blog so much I better post here too. It seems since I am on facebook I just don't post here very much. I hope I am going to start posting here more. I know some people don't read facebook and have my blog address so I will try to be better at it.
Here are some pictures that I did today of Carter and Gracie....
I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year.... I know I have already got the most precious gift of all so there isn't anything else I want..... I am so blessed to have all my wonderful grandchildren..... I soooooo enjoy them.........
I just love her little chubby cheeks...
Phyllis made this hat and a cocoon for her and it was perfect...Thanks Phyl I just love it....
This is a little antique colored.....
Tried a sepia tone on this one...
Carter is going to be such a good big brother...
This is my favorite one.....So sweet.....
Beautiful baby girl......
October 24, 2009
Senior Photo's
I know I have been so neglectful of my poor blog it wouldn't hardly let me log in... I don't think it recognized me.... LOL.....
I have been super busy and trying to edit all my senior photo's and just haven't had time to do much sharing of them.....
This is Trista and Desi's that we did at the coast.... We had so much fun doing them and the girls are so beautiful it was hard to choose our favorite's but here are some that we really liked....
We took some of them together just goofing around...
The waves were huge that day
This is so cute of them...
The first day we were in Coos Bay....By Bastendorf....
Desi
Trista
I really like this one...
Then we drove down to Bandon and spent the night and got up in the morning to finish the shoot...
It was pretty cold but the girls were real troopers.....
I love this one of Trista
I love this one of Desi.....
Black and White are always my favs...
We had these white dresses that I was determined the girls were going to wear on the beach and they were soooooooo cold but they did it anyway.... Thanks girls.....I love you......
Then they had to run to warm up LOL....
Best Friends...
More beach....but a little warmer clothes....
Love her eyes in this one...
Love this one of Trista...
This was so fun........
We did a few more in Old town Bandon but the girls were getting tired so we ate and then came home...
I still want to do some fall ones of them before they choose the one for the yearbook.
October 02, 2009
Update at last...
I can't believe how long it has been since I posted but I have been super busy and now I think things are going to slow down a bit and I may be able to post a little more often. I need to have about 10 posts to get caught up but this is a good start.
Jamie and I didn't go to Italy and Scotland as planned because a couple of days before we were to leave her Dad had a heart attack and was in the hospital. He had to be transported to Portland and he is still there. He is doing better and showing signs of improvement so he may get to come home in a few days. It has been a nighmare for everyone and we weren't sure if he was going to pull through or not. I do thank God we were not already over there and had to come home. I was really looking forward to seeing everyone again but we will probably go at a later date. It is just very scary leaving to go that far when your parents health is not good so I think we will be sticking around home for awhile.
I am working on Trista and Desi's Senior photos that we took at the coast and I hope to get them done this week-end since Jim is hunting and I have the whole week-end to myself. I don't plan on leaving home so I can get them done.
I did a couple of photoshoots with baby Maddie so I thought I would post them so everyone can see how she is growing. She is just so adorable and I can't wait for Gracie to get here. I must say time is going by fast this time.
I just love this...
She does not like hats but after she was asleep we put one on her...
With all that beautiful hair I think I like the headband better...
This is my favorite of them....
Katie wanted to get some photo's of herself with Maddie so I went down last Sunday and got these.
At first she just wanted to sleep.....
But then we got her awake..
She is just so cute...
Love this...
Of course a black and white.....
I think this means " I have had enough and I want my nap".....LOL....
September 04, 2009
Just 1 Hour
What can you do in just 1 hr???? Jenn and Shane went to a funeral on Wed. so I took my lunch hr. and went over to stay with Carter. I decided I was going to just take him to the park because he LOVES to go to the park. He doesn't like the swings but he told me he was going to go on the round and round. I thought oh there must be a merry-go-round there but no it was a slide that goes round and round.
Here he comes....
He climbs right up there...
Stops to wave to Nana....
Then he went round and round...
This is the only thing he wanted to do over and over so after about 20 times I asked him if he wanted to go for a walk around the park and he said yes...He always takes a dump truck or tractor with him wherever he goes...We could run the truck on the table a few times....
Or we could just sit on the table for awhile...
We could water the bear...but he said it was very hard.....
I asked him if he wanted to run his truck down the ramp but he said no so I showed him how to make his dump truck wreck and then all I heard was " Carter's turn" LOL I did a video but I don't know how to upload it here so Jenn is going to have to show me how.
He thought that was a lot of fun...
This must have been a bad wreck....
After a lot of wrecks I asked him if he wanted to go get some ice cream???? That produced a dance and a "I want ice cream"... He doesn't get too many sugar things(but what are Nan's for?) so when he does he really enjoys it.....Can ya tell ?????
OOPS>>>> " Nana it fall off"....
Nana can fix it with just a napkin....Well maybe not perfect but I fixed it....
Well maybe I will just have some of Nana's...
Wow that was a big bite.....
maybe I will just eat my little one....
This thing is getting pretty messy and he doesn't like to have his hands all messy..
Maybe I can put it all in my mouth and then it won't drip...All gone......
We had a great time in just 1 hr. He was getting tired and ready for his nap so we went back to his house to wait for Mom so they could take their nap and I went back to work... That was a great lunch hour.....
August 28, 2009
Introducing Miss Madeleine Lynn
I thought I better get busy and update this blog before everyone decides to quit checking it LOL..
While I was in Ohio at convention little Miss Maddie decided to make her appearance. I was really disappointed that I wasn't able to be at the hospital for the first photo's but when I got back we set up a time to take some. She is so precious and beautiful. I love all her hair as my kids and all but 1 grandchild (Terak) didn't have any.
Congratulations to Katie and Jaysen on their beautiful daughter born August Th. She weighed in at lbs. Oz. and 18" long.
Also Congratulations to first time Grandparents Lourie and Chris Archuleta and of course UNCLE Kyle.
My sister Donna is also a great grandma now.... Yikes!!!!!!
I took a ton of photo's and she was so good for us....My friend Phyllis (Thanks Phyl) made this cocoon for me to use. There was a hat but Maddie was having none of that...
So sweet....
Everyone that knows her Mom and Grandparent know that they are very involved with the rodeo so we had to do these.
See her cowgirl onsie????
Her Daddy is a volunteer fireman so we set up this shot...
Having a Mommy moment...
Just me and my Dad...
Can't have a photo shoot without the precious baby feet....
You know how I LOVE the black and white ones here are a few of them.
I used frames from mcpactions and some of her actions in photoshop for these.
Finally my favorite one........
That's it for me for this time so I hope to blog again soon....
August 13, 2009
Class Reunion
Last week-end we had our Myrtle Creek class of 63=64=65 reunion. It was held at Stanton Park in Canyonville.
It was so great to see some of our old classmates that we haven't seen since the last reunion. Lots of people didn't make it this year so I hope they will make it for the next one. I really enjoyed visiting with friends and getting caught up on everyones lives. Most are retired now and are either just enjoying getting some traveling in or spending more time with the kidds and grandkids.
The weather was great after the heat wave we had the week before so it was nice to sit out in the shade and just relax. We had a wonderful Hawaiian BBQ for lunch with lots of fruit salads and cookies too. Of course I spent a lot of time taking pictures of everyone as well as the class pictures of 63-64-. I was in the 65 one and had someone else take it. i will be getting a remote so that I can set my camera on a tripod next time I am in the photo.
All in all it was a success and I am not sure when the next one is but I plan to keep in touch with a few people that I haven't in the last years. Next year I am going to go to my class reunion in Maine where I still keep in touch with some classmates from there.
I am in Ohio right now at a convention with Jamie. she had classes all day yesterday and then the trade floor opened last night from 5:30 until 9. We were exhausted and just came back to the room and got ready for bed. I didn't even feel like eating so I was glad I brought some chex mix and trail mix with me because that was dinner and then to sleep. I feel pretty good this morning just a bit hungry. I am having a coffee so that always fixes everything LOL.... We have the trade show today tomorrow and Sat. then it is pack-upthat night and we will fly home early on Sunday. I miss my Carter and can't wait to get home and play with him.
I hear Congratulations are in order for Katie and Jason on the arrival of baby Maddie...... I wish I had been there to take photo's of her right away but I will make up for that when I get back. I can't wait to see her. Congratulations Grandma Lourie..... and remember to share even if it is hard LOL.....
Well I better get ready and go eat before we start the day..... Hope everyone has a great week.....
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