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Sweet Baby Emma

We have had the opportunity to spend the weekend with some long time (and long lost!) friends. They have a sweet baby Girl who was born a few weeks premature back in September. They have a healthy little girl despite her being a bit early but she sure is a peanut!

Of course, we took some time to snap a few pictures this morning and hopefully there will be more to come. These are a few of my faves from today.

Some new, some old.

This is nothing but a random post of pictures that I've been working with lately. A few winter scenes, a few of the kids and a few of some milk weeds taken last October at the request of my mom:)

No particular order...

Happy Birthday to my Meeper!

Today, my sweet little boy Ethan turns SEVEN! I can hardly believe that my kids are getting so old. We started his celebration today the same way we start every birthday morning...with breakfast in bed. Ethan brought some snacks to share at school today (and yes, I stopped at Hannaford on the way to pick them up because I am so not organized enough to have made something homemade!)....then, I will be picking him and a few of his friends up from school and they will come home play here for a while, have some cake and eat pizza...then we are going to join with the Friends group and Youth Group for a skating party! It just so happened that this was planned on the day of his birthday so it works out well for me!

Mr. Ethan is doing well. He is surprising us all at school. He is already in the reading level he's supposed to be at by the end of the year, he got all "m"s (mastered) on his assessment and he got a 97% on his math assessment. Also, he is working through the 2nd grade spelling list already! He loves being able to read and particularly loves the "Cam Jansen" series.

He, of course, still LOVES video games (not sure where he gets that!)...and can contend with 'the best of 'em' on any game.

Poor Ethan has still not lost a single tooth! He is 7 years old and nothing is even starting to wiggle! I'm starting to think that Luke will lose a tooth before him. I am just envisioning Ethan being the only kid without teeth...while the rest of his friends have already gotten their permanent teeth. I suppose there is hope that when it happens they will just all fall out and grow back in very quickly! He is getting anxious about it I think.

Overall Ethan is a real sweet boy. He is quiet and cautious when he first meets someone, but if you give him time you find that he is a crazy, silly boy who will do anything for a laugh.

I will be sure to take lots of pics at his party today, but until then here is one from his breakfast in bed.


As you can see...there is some texture in this photo. The reason for this is because I finally purchased photoshop cs4!!!! You have no idea how excited I am about this! (or maybe you do?!) I have been holding out, knowing that I wanted this particular program. I have spent the last few weeks saving up the money I make babysitting Elijah AND my mom decided (out of the blue) to kick in a chunk of cash to my cause. There is SO much to learn and the picture above is my first attempt at any texturing. I can't wait until a year from now..when I have learned much more and I look back at this picture and hate it! For now...as my first attempt...I kinda like it:)

I have been spending the last few days trying hard not to spend all day messing and learning about photoshop..it has been a struggle (and if you walked in my house today this would be clear to you..ha!). ...the options and creative capabilities are ENDLESS :)

More Anna!

Chris and Kim were GREAT sports, letting me put Anna anywhere I could think of that would make a cute picture! We even tried to put her in a mailbox (inside of course)...but there was just something about being put back into such a tight space that made Anna a bit unsettled:) It would have been super cute...but I think we ended up coming up with some other cute ideas.

She was nice and sleepy at first, which made for some easy positioning and placement for a few cute pictures. After a break for some lunch and a diaper change she was nice and awake for a few wide eyed shots. She kept wanting to fall back asleep...all this modeling was surely making her exhausted! We waited patiently for those beautiful eyes to pop back open...and we were glad that we did!

I got many pictures (MANY more on smugmug)...I'll try to choose only a few to share here:)

Baby Anna

I just love it when our close friends have babies! Not only does it give me the opportunity to snuggle, but it also gives me the chance to take their pictures! I didn't want to steal Anna away from her mom for too long so I only snapped a few...but we are making a plan so that we can take more very soon.

Anna is a sweet girl...



..and she has a sweet big brother!

A bunch of Wild girls.

Back in October I had fun doing a little photo shoot for some family friends. These girls are tons of fun and always a great help with my crazy boys. They wanted some nice pictures for their mom for her birthday. Again, I didn't want to post any from that day on the blog, fearing that I would ruin the surprise.

Ahhh, but three months later (and talking with the mom), I can be assured that the gift has been received. I think posting a few from that day is safe now!







I love this one!