Last Night...

This happened...

This is one of my very dear friends Alexis. She is getting married in September and I couldn't be more happy for her and Chris. They are literally perfect for each other. I LOVE shooting at the UT Lake Boat docks and was teasing them saying they should just off the docks at the very end. And they did... NO ONE has ever wanted to and gave me a raised eye brow. Not these two. It was awesome! I have shot 2 bridals, and Engagement this week all ready. Today I am shooting a wedding and then taking a (very) small break for a few weeks. I can't wait! Last wedding before little guy gets here!!

Baby's Room Sneak Peak

Lincoln and I have been working on baby's room.  Now that we know there's about 5 days to go, I SERIOUSLY am in panic and nesting mode. Truly, it is driving me crazy! We got a lot done today and I am feeling a little more prepared. Please don't ask about the rest of the house though. Geez... Anyways, here's a little sneak peak of baby's room. Still lots to do and I am ashamed that I am far too lazy to take out my good camera to take pics. I seriously hate camera phone quality!

Like I said, just a small sneak peak with lots still to do and projects to finish. I really LOVE decorating baby's nurseries. 

Lincoln LOVES the new glider-as do I!!! It glides so easily without having to use much stomach muscle-which is nice for a recovering c section! I am having someone custom make some bedding (we are trading for photography-yes please!!!) and hopefully that will be ready soon! I am so excited for how everything is coming together. It will be super cute when it's all finished!

9 Years Later...

   I should be working right now. I have a huge (and AMAZING) bridal session that needs to be edited right away. Instead, I have been going through our blog from way back when admiring how skinny I was, how we went to Hawaii and actually did a lot of fun stuff. I took a lot of cool pics for me-not just my clients. What has happened to my life?! My sister in law Dayle and I were talking about how we need to be living it up and having fun in life. So very true. Fun these days consists of staying up late mopping my floors while Lincs is in bed. Ummmm... yeah, I smell the need for change. Very badly.

     Today is also our 9th anniversary. Life has been so chaotic that we both kind of forgot about it. I figured the cliche thing to do would be to post some wedding pics, but then I looked at them and decided against that idea. Jory looked a little stressed out in many of them. So then as I was going through our blog, I came across Kade and Jessica's wedding. They got married in July of 2008. 2 days after our anniversary. We both looked pretty damn good that day, so I will post those.

   And how did we celebrate our forgotten anniversary today? We went and saw Dr Baxter today. Things still look good with this baby and we were going to do our c section on the 22nd because that's when he'd be back from vacation, but I am shooting a wedding on the 27th and felt like that wouldn't be enough recovery time. Both of us feel REALLY bad that we are now going to have another Dr do it. I TRULY love my dr, but I need to do what's best for my health. We could tell Baxter felt bad too. :( ANYWAYS... if all goes well, this little boy is set to arrive on July 16th. We are excited and scared all at the same time. 2 kids... WOW! We know we can do it, but we are still freaking out about it all. Some how we will make it through.

    This evening we went to dinner. Oh how I LOVE going out to dinner-minus Lincoln who likes to create scenes and be a drama king. The server went to seat us in a booth and apparently my belly is larger then life because I LITERALLY could not fit! NOT JOKING HERE!! It was so embarrassing but I couldn't help but laugh. So we had to be seated else where. Nice... I had scheduled a bridal session this evening (remember, we forgot it was our anniversary) so Jory and Lincoln came along since it was up the canyons and Lincoln LOVES going to the mountains!

    We still have A LOT to do around the house to get things ready. All I really want to do is take a torch to this house and start fresh and new else where. Sorry, but the truth is what it is! I am so limited with what I can help with and it's been beyond discouraging. I have still been feeling super sick a lot. In fact, today was one of those days. I just feel like I have the stomach flu all the time anymore! Can't wait to get this baby out of me! Then, I am going to get super skinny again and I can't wait for that either. I probably shouldn't mention that I can't wait to be able to eat a chocolate, caramel apple again either while saying I can't wait to get super skinny too eh?! ;)

Life...

Life has been a little overwhelming lately. Well, make that this whole pregnancy actually. We seriously thought we were having a girl with how sick I was and how much worse this pregnancy has been. Mother's Day I was really sick and thought I had the stomach flu, but Lincoln never caught it so I knew it wasn't that. Turns out, I haven't felt well at all since then. I have so much to do and want to do before this baby comes. Our house is a complete disaster as we are remodeling, re arranging and getting a new roof. We are both so overwhelmed living in the state of chaos over here. I want to scrub my house clean and have it smell of Pine Sol! I seriously am obsessed with the smell of it. I just want to sit and sniff it! Yesterday I gave my bathroom a good scrub down and my back was in horrid PAIN just after mopping the small floor. It truly made me depressed. Our whole house is tile or hardwood....

 I was diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes not too long ago. It has been HARD! I like to call it the starvation diet. Seriously. 30 grams of carbs for breakfast?? Really?? Super mean for a prego woman! I have had to see a perinatologist, a dietician, weekly dr visits, weekly non stress tests and ultra sounds. Todays ultra sound showed that the baby is measuring in a 7.3 lbs and I still have 3 weeks to go. I am scared I will give birth to a walking toddler with a full set of teeth. As of right now, my c section is scheduled for the 22nd of July. I told my Dr I can't wait that long and as he will be out of town the week before the c section, we will discuss the possibility of having another Dr do it when I see him again next week. Things that are up in the air stress me out. BAD. I truly do love my Dr and would rather him be there through it all, but I feel like I need to do what's best for me and my baby's health. I have been so sad (and super MAD) since I found out he was leaving town when I needed him to be around. Although I am scared to death to have two kids, I need to not be pregnant anymore. Or ever again. I can't believe HOW HARD it has been on my body and health. It has been very depressing to constantly feel this way. My mom was down visiting one weekend and we were talking about how hard pregnancy is on a woman's body. She had 7 kids! She started out young and had her last at 33. She was telling Jory that the is such a HIGE difference having them young vs my age and that it truly is so much harder. I keep telling Jory he may need to open his heart up to adoption cuz I am more sure then not that I just can't do this one more time. Ultimately I would LOVE to travel to Africa (I always have actually) and adopt a beautiful black baby girl.

 Lincoln has been missing school and riding the bus. Everyday for a week straight, he would bring his toy school bus into my room, point to it and say "Bus" He LOVES riding the bus and it makes me sad that he misses school. I can tell he is lonely and wants to play with friends so badly! Luckily school starts back up next month. Lincoln has improved on his speech quite a bit and we both see that he tries sooo hard to talk and say different words. Lincoln's current obsession is Thomas the Train and we are beside ourselves on this one. It has been unbearable at times when all he wants to watch is that stupid movie OVER AND OVER again. EVERY time we are at the store, he wants a new train. We have to go shopping in shifts now while the other stays at home watching him. Seriously, it's out of control going to Target with him. Poor boy, thinks he has no choo-choos! HA HA AH HA!!! He is our little love though and he knows it! We are excited for him to meet his little brother, but a little worried how he will react. But I am not giving this baby back, so we'll work through it! ;)

 We were able to have a 3D ultra sound done of our baby a few weeks ago (while he still was a baby!) and I loved being able to see his little face so clearly. I was in AWE and fell head over heels for him. Since then, my arms have been aching to hold him. I am smitten with his chubby cheeks! The actual ultra sound looked a lot better then the image they gave me and then I took a picture of it with my phone, so it doesn't look that great, but he's still pretty cute.

Baby's Room

So it's official that we are having another boy for those who hadn't heard. I love getting things ready for baby to come. Decorating a nursery is a lot of fun for me, but this time it's been more stressful for some reason. Maybe because I have been more sick with this baby, I have a little boy I am taking care of, I have been busy with photography and we are trying to get a lot done on our house! Either way, my ideas are finally coming together. I am posting these pics mainly for my mother in law to see my ideas as she is kind enough to make a beautiful quilt for our baby that I can't wait to see! Jory painted most of the room these week. 2 of the walls are a light grey and the other two are a slate blue. So the main colors will be those two. The quilt my mother in law is making will have these fabrics in them... I think they are adorable! The rest of his bedding (skirt, bumpers and sheets) will just stay the neutral blue and grey.

I saw this pillow on Etsy and LOVE it for his glider. Clearly not in this fabric, but the ones we picked out already. We have to get  a new glider because the rocker we got at Ikea with Lincoln you have to use your stomach muscles to rock and after I had that C section, I couldn't even stand the thought of sitting in it. Ugh... it was beyond painful! But we found a cute one on Amazon that we love and it's a dark grey, so I think it'll look cute in his room.

Here's the glider I love!

I found the following wall art on Etsy as well that I love. I still need to show them to Jory and see what he likes, but I thought they'd be super cute on his walls as well.  I am really excited to see the final results of how his room all comes together. I have struggled with some depression this pregnancy so Jory told me to do all new things in his room if that helps me feel better. It really has been a lot of fun over all to do this. We are also in the process of re doing Lincs room as well since his nursery is still pretty much set up and all the pics on his walls are baby ones. I can't' believe how fast he's just grown up! Makes me sad. I am sure this next little guys first year will go by just as fast! Which is just not fair.

Loved these rugs from Target. Just can't decide which one I like better...

This piggy bank is a maybe, but for sure think it's adorable!

This was also at Target. For those who haven't figure it out, I LOVE me some Target! I love lamps! I just do! We always turn Lincoln's on in the evening around bed time and i think he's figure out that when it goes on it's time to calm down and get ready for bed. So anyone that actually still reads this blog, what are your thoughts or ideas?

 LOVE this light fixture!

Then & Now

When Lincoln was a newborn, we had Cort take some pics of him. They all had this fabulous idea to put him in a fish net. Of course... I was seriously not for it, but it was what Jory wanted. He was BAWLING and shaking during this shot. It seriously made me SO SAD! Since then, Lincoln has come to LOVE Jory's fishing net. He will put all his tubby toy fishes in it and pack it around the house. One day, he wanted to have Dad put him in the fish net. This time, he thought it was hilarious! Which it totally was! =D

Geez... he sure has grown a ton since the first shot eh? I LOVE his little face in this picture! He looks super happy and most of the time, he really is! He was having the time of his life.

Courage Reins Part 2

Lincoln loved his horse riding class (well, towards the end anyways!) He LOVED his therapist Gary. Gray worked really well with Lincoln and we truly noticed a lot of improvement. Lincoln graduated from Kids on the Move when he turned 3 and went right into Preschool. He LOVES preschool. Even more so, he REALLY LOVES riding the school bus. Jory was super nervous at first, but Lincoln can't get enough of the school bus. These are some of the last images I took while he was in KOTM.