Mommy, I'm dressed....

So anybody that knows my son, knows that the child does not like to wear clothes. Seriously. He would be happy living in a nudist colony..lol. At night....it's a fight I don't care to have to get him to wear PJs...so most of the time he sleeps in his birthday suit, which means that when he gets up in the a.m. and comes out of his room to watch tv or go to school...he's just hanging out naked. Well, this a.m. I heard him in his room getting up, but next thing I know...he came out and said..."Mommy, I'm dressed." I couldn't help but laugh at the outfit he picked out, considering it's supposed to be almost 80 degrees today. Check it out.....

(Sorry for the crappy pic...the P&S camera was closest and T really didn't want his pic taken, so I had to move fast)...

Happy Easter!

This a.m. we went to church at 7:30am...whew..that's early. Anthony slept almost the whole time...he rarely sleeps during the day but he fought going to bed last night so this a.m. he was paying for it. But I enjoyed that he actually let me hold him while he was sleeping...so I'll take what I can get..haha. We went to Boodles after church (it's kind of like a Perkins, but way better and way more fun because we have gotten to know the staff and they are all so nice..they give us hugs when we come in!) In a little bit we'll leave to go to Brian's family gathering where they will have the annual Easter Egg Hunt - I always enjoy watching it and taking pics, of course. Then at 4:30pm we are having thanksgiving dinner on easter..haha. We wanted Turkey dinner instead of ham and it'll be nice because our whole family (except for Dave & Jenny) will be there. Mom also invited a friend from work to join us. Ok, enough rambling..here are a few pics from dying easter eggs the other night...diana wanted edwin to give it a try...it lasted about 30 seconds..he kept trying to eat it of course! Then Diana & anthony dyed the rest. (Click on the storyboard of Edwin to see it bigger)

A few cute pics....

I haven't updated for awhile so I thought I'd post a funny pic from tonight...and a cute pic (well, they're both cute). I rented a fisheye lens for a wedding that I am shooting this weekend and it is way fun...I wish I could keep it..lol. Obviously, as you can see, it distorts the image and makes it look like you're looking in a side view mirror.....you wouldn't usually use it for portraits up close like I did this one...a lot of times it is used for big group shots or if you're trying to get a whole room in a picture....



Then...I had to try out another lens that I just got...this one I get to keep :) I sold another lens and used money from some of my sessions (and the wedding) to get this bad boy...look how sharp and beautiful his eyes look...I didn't do any editing to his eyes...they looked like this straight out of the camera...



On another note....I'm excited to announce that God has given me the opportunity to do my photography full time...so you'll be seeing lots more posts (on my other blog, which I still need to combine) of upcoming sessions....it's a bit scary financially, so we would appreciate any prayers...but I think this is going to be a wonderful change.

Well that's it for now...time to go edit some pics..I'll try to blog again with some Easter pics sunday :)

I love it...

I love to take pictures...did ya know that? Just thought I'd post here that I posted on my Photography Blog. I photographed the cutest baby tonight and the best part was, it only took an hour....the other newborns I have done have taken 2 or 3 hours...that's tough...so anyways...here's one pic..the others are on my other blog...

Come One, Come All to the Backyard Carnival...

I thought I'd share just one or two pics from today....but I don't know how to do just 1 or 2..haha....so here's like 10...

I'll post more pics and detail later....right now I'm beat!!!

Happy Birthday Anthony!!!

I don't know where the time went, but my little tiny baby turned 5 today! I don't know what it is about 5, but I found myself tearing up in the shower this a.m. thinking about how much I love my baby. He is such a sweet boy...so polite and so very funny...he's a joy to be around and 99% of the time, very well behaved. Brian and I were really blessed when God gave us our sweet angel.

Since it's T's birthday..I thought it would be fun to post "the" picture from his birthday (this is the picture that Uncle Dave saw all the way in Iraq by the news crew that introduced his nephew to him - awesome!) and also his birth story. Some of you may remember the website I had for Anthony when he was first born (and for about 2 years)......I copied and pasted what I had written on there about his birth....(that's why it "sounds like" anthony was writing it)...

I'll be back later tonight or tomorrow w/a few pics from the Carnival today - it was a huge success!

My Birth Story

Mommy was having contractions all day on Saturday, March 1, 2003. They weren't painful, just uncomfortable. She went to bed at around 1a.m. early Sunday morning, March 2, 2003. She woke up at 4:30pm having more painful contractions. She got up and timed the contractions..they were about 3-5 minutes apart. Around 8am she woke up Daddy and said they should go to the hospital. They arrived at 9:30am and Mommy was 2-3cm dilated (remember 10cm is the magic number). After walking around Labor & Delivery for about an hour they checked Mommy again at 11am and she was 3cm. They decided to admit her. At about 11:15am Mommy's doctor came to her room and checked her again. She was 4cm. The doctor decided to break her water. Mommy was having contractions up until this point but they were not very painful. After they broke her water and started Pitocin the pain started....the contractions were every 2 minutes and lasted about 1min and 30 sec each (which means there was really only 30 sec to "relax" in between). At 12:30, Mommy was in soooo much pain that the nurse checked her again and she was 5cm, it was time for an epidural. The nurse came back and gave Mommy the bad news that the doctor was 25 minutes away. The pain continued...At 1:00pm the first epidural was put in. When the doctor tested it with some saline, there was a block in it, so they had to take that one out and put in a new one. At 1:50pm the medicine had finally kicked in and Mommy was much happier. At 2:00pm the nurse checked Mommy and found she was 8cm dilated!!! I was coming quickly and Grandma and Grandpa Mathews weren't there yet (from Wilmington). At 3:10pm Mommy said she was feeling a lot of pressure so the nurse checked her again and she was fully dilated (10cm). By the time the doctor got there it was almost 3:45pm. Mommy pushed a few times and I was born at 3:52pm. By the way, Grandma and Grandpa Mathews made it in time..they got there about 5-10 minutes before I was born.