the last of the pics from our morning photo shoot...

...and MY personal faves!!!

lots of pictures from last night...

I stayed at Chris and Brenda's last night and of course, took LOTS of pictures.

I know that you all back in Iowa are still wanting picures, so here you go!

He's tired...all the time.

He sleeps all day and (luckily for Chris and Brenda) all night too!

He got of twice to eat last night and other than that, slept in his pack and play.

He slept from 4:30am until 10am this morning!!!

And Bode is PROUD...

and he loves Boones soooo much!

The Stewart's first family picture with all 4 of them!!!

Brenda and her boys...

Dragonflies...

I captured these photos in my parent's back yard this morning...

And ya, I LOVE my new camera!!!!

the sweetest boy in the world...

I'm not even kidding...Bode is the sweetest child ever!

When we were talking about him getting his Mommy flowers, this is what he said...

"I want to get both my mommy and daddy flowers because I love them BOTH very much! I want to get Daddy purple flowers because purple is his favorite color and I want to get mommy yellow flowers because yellow is her favorite color."

Then when we were picking out the flowers, he was VERY picky about which purple and yellow flowers he wanted to get them. Then he decided to get some green flowers for the baby. At this point we still didn't know if it was a boy or girl. Then he said on the drive to the hospital that his eyes were getting watery and thought he might cry because he was so excited.

He was very proud of the flowers he picked...I must say, he did a good job...

He also insisted on getting his picture taken with this onesie we got for Boone...

He is so cute!!!

This is the face he said he was going to make when he saw the baby for the first time...

And he wrote on a card to put with the beautiful flowers he picked out...

This was the minute Chris came in the waiting area to tell him, "You have a brother!"

So sweet!!!

More pictures of Boone!!!

Cassie ever so politely informed me that it was "annoying" that I hadn't posted any more pictures of Boone. I know if I were home and not here, I would feel the same way, so I will try and do better!

They just got home and are doing great!

He's nursing well and loves the pacifier.

Bode is IN LOVE and wants to hold him all the time and hates it when he cries.

I am doing an official photo shoot tomorrow and will hopefully have a lot of great pictures to post!

In the meantime, I'll keep posting pics when I get a chance...

Brenda and Boone

LOTS of pictures of Boone and the Stewart family...

Bode seeing Boone for the first time...

proud papa...

brothers...

Boone's hilarious toes!!!

It's a BOY!!!

Introducing...

Boone Eugene Stewart

6lbs. 8 oz.

19 3/4 inches long

VERY LOVED!!!!

the big day

So tomorrow (technically today because it's 1:15am) Brenda will go in to get induced at 5am. I am so excited for the big day tomorrow...really, I have no words! I cannot wait to meet this new little baby that I already love so much! Brenda is already dilated to 3ish and hopefully she'll have a quick and painless (HA!) labor and delivery. Bode is about the sweetest thing in the world and is genuinely so excited. I had so much fun swimming with Bode and Chris tonight. I colored and cut Brenda's hair so she looks like a supermodel for her pictures tomorrow. :) She looks great of course! I will post tomorrow the big news on the sex of the baby and its stats and tomorrow night will likely have pictures to post too! Woohoo!!!!

a good cry

I told Brenda that I would pack up some gender neutral clothing items and bring them down for the baby so tonight I opened the "Newborn/0-3 month" clothes box I packed away about 3 years ago. It was only seconds of looking into that box and seeing all of these things...like the onesie Tate is wearing in the picture below that emotion just flooded over me.

It was actually quite unexpected. I AM an emotional person as most of you know, but this was just going to be a quick trip to the basement to pull a few items out of the box for the baby. It didn't turn out that way. The tears flowed my friends...big time. Every item I pulled out brought back a different memory or feeling. I don't even know if the tears were happy or sad or maybe I just needed a good cry. I miss my "baby". Is that bad? I LOVE the age Tate is at (all but the not yet potty trained, temper tantrums in public, talking back to us part!), but I feel like I don't know where the last 3 years has gone! It seems like yesterday, but at the same time, I feel like I can hardly remember him being so little. As I pulled out the Newborn sized onesies he wore, I just couldn't believe those ever fit him! I am so scared that the next 3, 6, 10, 20 years are going to fly by before I know it and I'll have a grown child! I kind of always want him to stay this age (only potty trained! Ha.) and never want him to grow up.

And all of that emotion made me realize that I am going to miss him terribly this next week. This will be by far the longest I have ever been away from him. It makes me want to go crawl up in bed with him and snuggle him until I have to leave.

Strange how a few little onesies brought all of this emotion out...I have a feeling it's going to be an emotional week. I cannot wait to wrap my arms around Bode and my new little niece or nephew! It's going to be so hard to leave them!

Next time you hear from me, I will be an Aunt for the 8th time!!!!

Playing around with Adobe Lightroom

Did you know that you can get a free 30 day trial of Adobe Lightroom 2.7 by going to the Adobe website?
Well you can, and I did!
I have been playing around with it the last few hours and edited several photos.
I've been playing around with making photos look "old".
Below are a couple I've edited.
You can do SO MUCH with Lightroom! I can't wait to try other things too!
I think that Lightroom may end up on my Christmas list. :)
I will be sad when my free trial is up!