I am so brain dead I didn't even realize I'd already posted about Halloween. Sorry for the redundancy...hope you love pics of my little lady bug as much as I do!
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
More like 16 days late, but who's counting. And we're really not a dollar short, but we are out of clever blog titles. Halloween photo time! We had a fun evening with Baby Chooch doubling as a Lady Bug this year. We took lots of photos with our pumpkins, handed out candy, had a nice dinner with Kristen, Josh and Ava and talked about how fun next year will be when this little bug can actually Trick-or-Treat!
What a smile she has! Too bad the smile did not last more than 15 minutes in this hot, hot costume! Gemma was en fuego and quickly was down to just her Halloween onesie, watching Monday Night Football with her cousin, Ava...
Fam Bam Photo Teaser
On Sunday, we took family portraits with my family, and we also got some photos of our little 3-person family (sorry, Riley). Here's the "sneak peek" shot the photog gave us. LOVE!
We had a lot of fun - making crazy noises and making fun of my mom (Grammy) for jumping around like a fool to get Gemma to smile, but it worked and we got some great, great photos so the joke is on us!
Anywho, speaking of the photog, he's an old swim-team friend from the rec swimming days, Christopher Cooke. He is awesome. And affordable. Definitely will be our photog go to in the future. He was supposed to do our Newborn session with Gemma, but he was ill, sadly. Check out his website and blog:
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Workin' Mama
I went back to work last week. It was a rough week and a sad transition emotionally. I keep reminding myself I want to use both parts of my brain and have a "dual" purpose again. And the investment in my career is an investment in Gemma's financial future, too. And I want to show my little girl that when she grows up she can have a career and be a mom, too.
As I transition into a full time workin' mama....I am so, so, so thankful for my beautiful, happy baby who makes being a mom so easy. She smiles and laughs all the time. Rarely cries. Is very content and relatively patient for a baby. Sleeps well, eats well. She's pretty dang perfect, if you ask me! I also need to give a shout out to Brian, too - he's made the transition that much easier by helping more around the house, assisting in getting Gemma ready for the day each morning and for sharing the responsibilities of drop off and pick up at daycare. What a guy!
And so, I leave you with the cutest video YET of Miss Happy Baby herself :)
*%$*$#@&& Justify Button
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD....
Fellow Bloggers, please help me understand why NONE of my photos are center-justified when that is how I format them in the "edit" mode?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!!?!?
Gemma Does Denver
Brian had a business trip two weeks ago to Colorado, so Gemma and I tagged along using a free ticket on Southwest. We had the BEST time. We were in Denver for 4 nights and we were able to visit so many friends. AND, Gemma experienced her first snow! We flew in right before a big storm, so there was fresh (very wet, soggy) snow on the ground for the rest of the trip.
We had dinner with Sara on Tuesday night, lunch with Austin on Wednesday, dinner with Blitzer on Wednesday night, lunch with Laurie on Thursday and a visit to the old office to see many old co-worker/friends, amazing chili-dinner party hosted by the oh-so-generous Gomperts on Thursday night with lots of our mile-high pals and Friday fun day (and night) with the Herrmanns. Unfortunately, I didn't take that many great photos with our friends, but I did score this awesome photo of the cutest little face ever in her bear-fleece, flipping the bird to her photo-viewers. I'll need to crop that out for the Christmas card...
A visit to Colorado wouldn't be complete without a photo of Baby Chooch tapping the Rockies with a cold Coors Light.
Looking forward to a mountain house weekend with our Denver "family" sometime this winter!
Harvest Baby
Having a baby around the holidays is way more fun than just having a dog (sorry, Riley). Per usual, we headed to a pumpkin patch this year, with not only Riley in tow, but Gemma, too, of course.
We were THAT family who showed up with their dog, baby in a Halloween outfit, camera with self shoot setting and remote control. We trotted over to the hay bales and set up pumpkins as we see fit for our photo shoot back drop. Brian was embarrassed, I was not.
It's much harder to get your dog AND baby to pose in pictures, we are finding. Gemma loved the pumpkin patch. We think it was the twinkling lights and the colorful pumpkins. The minute we arrived, she was full of giggles and smiles.
Then it came to carving pumpkins...which as you can see by the look on her face, was boring to her. Luckily, Brian and I had fun with her, taking photos and talking to her while we carved.
We feel pretty strongly that our baby was the CUTEST dang lady bug there was on Halloween. Look at that smile, double chin and big ol' cheeks! I just want to kiss her all day long, every day.
I carved her little pumpkin for her (By the way, carving small pumpkins is hard! The flesh of the squash was much harder to carve through and it was quite difficult to get the guts out of such a small hole) - a smiling girl face with kissy lips.
We handed out candy and fought Riley to the door with each ding of the doorbell. Halloween is Riley's favorite holiday - it would be yours, too, if you were a dog that loved visitors. It was like Christmas morning every time the door bell rang....
Looking forward to more holiday-baby pictures over these next couple months...only 47 more days until the big man in the red suit visits!
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