Smiles :o)

Logan started smiling the day before he turned 4 weeks old, on a Tuesday. These were taken that Friday. Love my little man's smiles. :o)








Today I was talking to him while he was in his swing, and I said, "Mama loves you!" and his whole face lit up in this huge grin. Talk about melting a mama's heart!!!

Photo Shoot

While I've been waiting for the pictures that we got taken of Logan to get put up on the photographer's website, I decided to try to take some of my own, and here's what I got. :o) These are just a couple. I'm still in the process of editing the rest. :o) I couldn't decide if I like the black and white's or the ones in color better, so I just posted both...

Cheerio Lips. My favorite. :o)

Shortly after taking these pictures, he started peeing and pooping everywhere. :o) Haha, I was prepared though, so it wasn't a big deal. It just resulted in the following picture...

I got the water level right this time, and he was able to sit up on his own in it, which made the bathing portion much easier. :o) Haha, I just love this picture. It cracks me up. I'm thinking about framing it. ;o)

Hope you're all having a great day!

First Bath

Here's pictures from Logan's first bath. :o) It doesn't look like he liked it, but he did. He was just already cranky before we put him in it. :o)

It was hard for me to figure out how to wash him in this thing, but once we got the water level right it was easier. And once he's able to sit up more on his own that will help too. Anyways, we had fun and here are the pictures. :o)

More Logan Pictures. :o)

Just thought I'd post a few more pictures of our baby boy. :o) And seriously, my birth story really is coming soon. :o) It's just EXTREMELY long, just to forewarn you. :o)

Anyways, I took these ones today. He's finally starting to have longer periods of time where he's more alert, and looking around. He's so cute. :o)

Took these about a week ago.

I love me a folded up little baby. So cute. :o)

Ok, that's all for now. We gave him his first bath on Saturday, so I'll post those pictures soon, and I'll post the thank-you goodies I made for my nurses who took care of me at the hospital. :o)

Announcing The Arrival Of...

Logan James Ryan. :o)

Our sweet baby boy was born on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 1:13 am, by emergency C-Section. We are both doing great, recovery from the surgery isn't as bad as I would have expected, just have to stay on top of my pain meds and it's all good. :o) We came home from the hospital on Saturday, and Mike has the rest of this week off. Things are wonderful and we could not be more in love with our baby boy. :o)

Birth story coming soon. Here's some pictures of my handsome little man. :o)

He's the best daddy ever. He's so good with him. I've fallen in love with him all over again these past several days. I'm blessed beyond belief. :o)

41 Weeks Pregnant, and Labor :o)

So I turned 41 Weeks today. :o) Here's my picture for this week. It's the last one of my weekly journey. :o)

Anyways, we're in the hospital right now, and I'm in labor. :o) Mary-Beth (the nurse-midwife at the clinic I've been going to) is doing my delivery since my Dr is out of town, and I'm SO happy about that. :o) She checked me just a little bit ago (at about 8 pm) and I'm dilated to a 5 already! :o) I was dilated to about a 3 this afternoon, so I'm making pretty good progress.

Labor isn't really horrific at this point. The contractions are coming about every 3 minutes, and are painful but definitely manageable. We'll see how things go as the night progresses.

Anyways, we should have a baby tomorrow sometime! :o)

Photoshop Elements

So I have Photoshop, and Photoshop Elements, and have been wanting to play around with them for quite some time, but they are quite intimidating (kinda like my fancy camera that I had to have). Well, I was super bored tonight and decided to give it a whirl. One of my favorite bloggers has done several tutorials on photography, and a couple have included editing photos in Elements. So, I pulled up her blog, and just went at it. :o) It turned out to be quite easy, once I figured out how to do a couple things (the version she has of Photoshop Elements is a tad bit different than mine), and really wasn't so scary after all. ;o)

I took a few pictures of old farm buildings while we were in Nebraska back in August for this exact purpose. So, here's how it turned out. :o)

"Antiqued" Photographs. :o)


This is the original image, straight out of my camera.


Here's my first attempt. Not too bad... looks a little "sun faded" huh? :o)


And here's the second attempt. :o) I think I like this one a bit better. It's not so washed out. I used a different textured layer for this one than I did on the first one.

Anyways, it was fun doing these, and definitely not as hard as I thought it would be, so maybe you'll be seeing more edited photography from me in the future. ;o)