Wordless Wednesday

Prayers for Lindsey

Our very dear friend, former co-worker to Cory, former roommate to me, bridesmaid in our wedding, my very own hair stylist for those times in my life when I needed prom hair, our photographer extraordinaire, our karaoke singing professional, the diva in our life, Lincoln's Aunt Z who wrote Where the Wild Things Are and most importantly a sister in Christ needs our prayers! This morning Lindsey will undergo a surgery to remove a benign tumor from her pituitary gland. Lindsey shares more details about the surgery on her photography blog. Please pray for Lindsey, her family, and doctors as they perform the surgery.

If you have a moment go leave her a comment that you are praying! Thank you!!!

P.S. For those of you who have prayed for Sarah and the removal of her tumor then click on over to her blog at Fries Family Four to read an update from Sarah herself.

New Lens.

I recently purchased a new lens for my camera! As soon as it came in the mail, I opened it, sat down on the kitchen floor and began shooting. Here are a few pics of my favorite subject with the new lens.

{None of these have been edited -- they are straight from the camera!}

I am trying to learn how it works but I am loving it.

Thanks, Bethany for the recommendation!

Lincoln's 9 month pics!

Click HERE to see a sneak peak of Lincoln's 9 month pictures!! His personality shines through in all of them! They are awesome.

THANK YOU LINDSEY! WE LOVE YOU!!!

Our Little Blue Jean Elvis.

On Friday afternoon {I am learning that your child always decides to get sick about 3 hours before the start of a weekend -- how do that know its about to be the weekend and no doctor will be readily available if needed?} Anways, Lincoln started showing signs of being sick. I knew that on Monday afternoon we had his 6 month well-child check up scheduled so I decided to hold off on calling Friday afternoon and wait till Monday. Bad decision.

Saturday morning, Lindsey met us at the Arkansas Studies Institute in downtown LR to take Lincoln's 6 month pictures. Needless to say, he was not up to his normal happy/smiley self but we persevered and Lindsey hung in there while we changed outfits and tried to make the best of the shoot. Well, hindsight is always right! I just don't like that hindsight sometimes!! Nobody likes someone who is ALWAYS right. I regretted my decision all weekend b/c Lincoln started running a temp on Saturday night {after the pics} and I just felt terrible the rest of the weekend. I took him in for his 6 month well-child on Monday and she determined he had an ear infection, some major congestion, sore throat and still running a fever! No shots were given b/c he was so sick. He did weight 17 lbs. 2 oz. and his length was 26.5 inches long. Both are in the 50th percentile still. All else looked good besides him being so sick.

Lincoln and I have spent some quality time together while he has been sick. You know, crib parties at 3:00 a.m. that last 2 hours. He was having a hard time sleeping laying down because of all the congestion. So he was napping better sitting up. We were both pretty exhausted.

On Monday, Dr. A. gave him the grape tongue depressor which he proceeded to play with for hours after we got home!

He is on the mend now and we will all be resuming our normal activities tomorrow! Despite being "under the weather" Lindsey, of course!, managed to get some super fun and cute shots. We received this onesie in a bag of hand-me-down clothes from Tara. We knew it was the perfect outfit for his 6 month shots!! And I just couldn't pass up the jean diapers. Totally fun and cheesy on so many levels but you are only 6 months old once so you gotta live it up big.

Here is our Little Blue Jean Elvis.

Thanks Aunt Z -- you are the B-E-S-T best!!

Wordless Wednesday

Well, Lincoln had a few things to add...

I like hanging out with my daddy!

And I love my mommy a lot!

And she loves me a whole lot!
I like her so much that sometimes I want to eat her delicious face!

I love this jumparoo thing my mommy and daddy got for me!

Time to what? Read a book? Ok.

I love Panda Bear, Panda Bear!

Goodbye blog readers! Time for me to get in bed!

O wait -- I thought you were gone! Well you have caught me I love to sleep with my face in the bumper. Its comfortable, you should try is sometime!

Except the only bad part is your hair sticks up like this when you do!

Thanks for stoppin by! Sorry this wasn't wordless -- I take after my mommy and its hard to do anything without talking!

New Camera

Well, I have enjoyed using my new camera and have loved that Lincoln just lays there so he can be my subject whether he wants to be or not!! :) Here are some - I mean A LOT of pictures of Lincoln and Cory from around the house lately!

Yummy, sweety potatoes!

My dad is the best!

Loves to sleep with his little rear end up in the air! I love it.

Hanging out with my daddy!
Hanging out in my crib
Pig Sooie Bear!
We combed all his hair straight up after his bath -- not sure you can see it very well. This is what he looks like all day trying to chew on EVERYTHING!!!

Hanging out on the couch!

Summer Projects.

In honor of Summer officially beginning earlier this week I thought I would write about my summer projects. Here is what I have on tap for Summer 2010:

Make Baby Food for Lincoln. I purchased this book to point me in the right direction. We started rice cereal on June 18th, I have made sweet potatoes and avocados thus far. We have only tried out the sweet potatoes and they were a big hit!

Lose more weight. I have 3 more pounds till I will be at pre-pregnancy weight, however after getting off birth control, my miscarriage and then being on progesterone to get pregnant gave me about 15 unwanted pounds before I even got pregnant. Plus, being back to "pre-pregnancy" weight doesn't mean anything fits like it use to, right? Can I get an amen from you other moms out there? Or maybe its just me. I need to lose more just so my old clothes fit b/c I'm too cheap to go buy new ones!

Learning how to use my new camera. Cory bought me this for our anniversary and I am lovin' it so far!

Play, read books, sing song, go swimming, shopping and hanging out with this sweet boy.

What are your summertime projects?!?!