Baby of the Hour

While on a shopping spree at Babies-R-US, Adysen was selected as baby of the hour and won a free photo shoot! She worked the camera like a photogenic star. We were so proud of her natrual charm. Here is her first professional shot ... it turns out that it was just a marketing scheme to lure in young couples like us into buying frequent photo shoots. Still we felt flattered and got a free picture out of it! We also learned to never take Adysen to the store in her sleepers.

Adysen's 1 Month Birthday

For her birthday, Adysen got a new rain forest playmat!

It has all kinds of fun toys to play with and look at. We thought it sure beat staring at the wall or ceiling.

Adysen's 4-Week Old Update

October 31st - Our Little Pumpkin

She's just sad that we didn't let her go out trick or treating this year.

Adysen's Self Shot. Just kidding, she doesn't know how to use the camera let alone take a picture of herself.

So sleepy.

She's so content once we get moving. It's just every time we stop that she cries on cue.

So, so sleepy.

Grandma Smith

"I can see you..."

Sunday October 19th - Two Weeks Old

Well, I have finally got back to the computer to work on the blog. We are doing great and having a lot of fun with Adysen. She is so adorable. We have been taking lots and lots of pictures. Here are a few of this week's pictures:

Wednesday, October 15th:

Adysen was being so adorable and making the cutest smiley faces. So, I made Alton get the camera. It was like she knew what we were doing and she then decided to make the saddest, unhappy faces. Here is the last one.

Alton loves holding Adysen...They are so cute together :) This is a picture of Adysen with Alton while he was working on the computer.

On Wednesday, Alton took Adysen and I on our first big adventure. Adysen was so good...She slept most of the time. We went shopping and bought a swing for Adysen. She loves her swing. At least she really likes sleeping in it. :)

Thursday, October 16th:

Adysen hanging out in her swing.

Friday, October 17th:

Adysen and her pacifer. We don't like to use it much, but it has helped us out a few times. Alton had just gotten done giving her a manicure. He carefully filed all of her nails so that she couldn't scratch herself anymore. She was born with nice long nails. What a great Daddy!!

Saturday, October 18th:

Here is our first family picture. We took Adysen to her first restaurant tonight and to the grocery store. She was adorable and everybody loved her.

More cute pictures of Adysen

Adysen is one week old today and here are the latest pictures. More to come...

Baby Adysen Nicole

We love you baby Adysen. More pictures coming soon!

25 Days Left!

It's been a couple of weeks, so I thought I would write a quick update. Alton is keeping busy with work, classes, and the wire business. I just started teaching an online class over the weekend. It seems to be working out well. It definitely is a perfect job for me.


We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our baby. Only 25 days left until her due date. It is getting closer. We have the crib all set up and we bought a carseat over the weekend. So, I guess we are all ready. :)


To keep myself busy the last few days, I have been working on some scrapbook pages. So, here are a couple I did this week.

Credits:

Paper & Ribbons: Anguria Kit by http://scrapintimenfun.blogspot.com/ (some colors changed)
Alpha, stars, notepaper, & buttons: Boys will be Boys by Vicki at AWP (some colors changed)
Brad: Bits N Pieces by Harmonystar--Thanks Rachel for the freebie yesterday!! :)

Credits:
AWP Summer Colab by http://vicki20.blogspot.com/ and mel hains

Credits:
Pink Mocha by Vicki at AWP
Pink Stitch: Labor of Love Mega Kit -- Valarie Ostrom Designs

Red Butte Gardens

On Labor Day we went to Red Butte Gardens. It was fun to walk around and see all of the different plants and flowers. It is a really neat place. It seems to be a fun place to take kids. We also think that it will be fun to go there this fall when the leaves are changing colors. (I was 33 weeks pregnant at the time.)

More Scrapbooking

I think that signing up for the online group has really helped to motivate me to work on my scrapbook pages. It really has been a lot of fun. I have scrapped 6 more pages this week! Plus I have found some really cool sites where I can get free stuff for my pages.

I participated in two more speed scraps this week....but I'm only going to post one of those layouts. The other one just isn't good enough to post. It needs some work.

Credits: "Bit of a Bug" by Missy Misfits Scrapz


I also did a ScrapLift page; which means I copied somebody else's layout and added my own papers and elements.

Credits: http://www.freedigitalscrapbooking.com/

Digital Scrapbooking

I just joined a digital scrapbooking group on the internet. It is a ton of fun. They have weekly challenges and speed scraps (where participants have two hours to complete a page with specific directions). Here are the three pages that I made the last couple of days.

Credits (for all three pages): http://www.freedigitalscrapbooking.com/ (Marie Stones)

This page is for a Template Challenge.

This is was for my first speed scrap:

This one was using a color palette generator. I uploaded a picture, and was given a palette of colors that would blend with that picture. I then recolored all of the papers and embellishments that I used to match the color palette. It was a really fun project.