Ahh livejournal, I miss you! I've been the worst updater these days, I basically only post to Facebook & occasionally Flickr. But since not everyone checks out those places, I thought I'd at least do a quick entry with some photos [EDIT: and a video!] of my little bean! She is growing up so quickly!  ( Read more... ) I'm still debating if posting pictures/videos from Christmas is going to be worth all the effort, eep. |
In case you haven't yet heard the news, Milla Rose was born on November 9, 2009 (her due date!). Geoff & I set up a website for her where we will be putting up tons of photos & videos. There's also a blog on the main page, where I just posted the story of her birth. I'm on a livejournal hiatus only because I do almost all of my interneting on my iPhone & there's no good app for reading friends' entries at this time. I'll be back soon though! For now, find out the latest with the little one here:  milla-rose.com |
This year, due to my impending baby-laboring, we co-hosted our Halloween party with Angie & Joe at their house. It was much more of a small kickback than last year's epic blowout, but since we've been pretty distracted, that actually worked out well.  ( enter if you dare! ) |
On Saturday September 12, my mom came in town & held a wonderful baby shower for me at Angie's house!  ( click to enter the pink paradise! ) |
I'm sure you all remember our amazing engagement & wedding pictures courtesy of our incomparable photographers Trish & Jared. When they found out that we were expecting, Trish offered to do a maternity session for us. She had a whole fun vision incorporating a bit of a Gwen/pin-up girl style influence and we were totally down for that! Since our other photos have all been so pretty & sweet, it was cool to do something a little more creative and rocking. And the fun won't stop there! They will also be doing a newborn session with us once the little one arrives, so stay tuned for that. For now, here are my favorites from our maternity shoot, done in downtown Vegas. |
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Well even though we're not going to begin the nursery for at least another month, we've got plenty of ideas for it brewing. I thought I'd share some of the items we have in mind for the little girl's room, as well as some other neat baby things we hope to acquire. ( Read more... )  ( Read more... ) |
Oops! I've been getting some nudges and requests to update my lj. I guess it has been awhile since I last posted & made our big baby announcement! There really isn't much to say at this time on the pregnancy front - I've been feeling really normal and mostly good. Just still tired/needing a lot of sleep, and my belly is growing bigger by the day! We've only had one appointment in this interim and it was a simple one where the doctor just used a doppler to hear the baby's heartbeat (and LOTS of moving around!). I'm still not aware of the movements, which has been frustrating me, but I'm reading it can take up to 22 weeks and I'm just entering my 19th today. So I got to stop feeling discouraged about it. Our major exciting appointment is this Friday! We will have our ultrasound and be able to find out if we're having a boy or a girl. We've been really anxiously awaiting this, I'm so glad there's just couple more days to go. Obviously I'll have great news/photos to share after the appointment. For now though, I thought I'd post some stuff from the past month as Geoff & I have been really busy and done a lot of fun things. (Photos of constantly varying quality since they came from my nice Nikon, my old Olympus, and my pretty-decent-iPhone. Sorry if you've already seen a lot of these on Facebook or Flickr!) |
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In my excitement for the upcoming NO DOUBT tour, I made a countdown list back in December of their videos in order of my personal least to most favorite. I did all the caps & found the videos online and then totally forgot about it. I was going to do a write up on each one and why I ranked them where I did, but ... I'm getting lazy. And if I don't get this up now, I probably never will! It's worth noting that I feel almost all of their videos are rather amazing, so even something I ranked low I still basically adore. Some things I took into account: funniness, prettiness, Gwen's look, band interaction, & how much I like the song itself. Also the top four were pretty hard & are basically interchangeable, I just love them all so much. All the videos are after the caps for your viewing enjoyment :) |
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Disneyland on my birthday, what could be better? You're going to have to bear with me, as I came away with over 600 photos. What?! I was able to file it down to less than 200, which is still a ridiculous amount, I know! I was going to split it up into two entries, but meh. I have all the pictures ready to go so I'm just doing it all now. Proceed with caution! ( Read more... )  ( Read more... ) |
I'm seriously crying right now with excitement!!!!!! A TOUR?!?!?!?!
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Our Halloween party finally happened (& is over, boooo)! Couldn't have been happier with the way everything turned out. That's hugely in part to all the help we had from George & Ryane who came out the day before. Thank you so much you guys, we couldn't have done it without you! Go inside the cut for some photos from that Friday's party preps, as well as an amazing amount of gorgeous photos that Anne's wonderfulness snapped at Saturday's shindig. So many kickass costumes, you won't believe it!
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 I want to thank everyone so much for being a HUGE help in creating our Halloween party playlist! You guys are all seriously amazing. We actually ended up having to take sounds out because we ended up with so many. As fun as I hope our party will be, I doubt we'll still have the music going until 3am, haha. Some of you requested that I post the list, so here it is in its finalized (for now, hehe) state. You can probably catch a couple stretches we made in order to include our favorite artists ;)
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Xander learned how to give us a tiny "kiss" (putting his nose up to ours) when he was little. Somehow over the years, that morphed into big nuzzles whenever a kiss is requested. He especially loves to get on our bathroom sink counter & dish out the affection. Geoff took a cute video the other night of the little lovemeister in action. Please ignore my lazy ugly pajamas & my highpitched baby-talk voice. |
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