Post 300!!!

Very exciting - my 300th blog post!

Today was Sarah Skillin's baby shower, which was great. It was a nice shower and she got some nice gifts. Lots of clothes for little baby-to-be Natalie. I posted photos of the blanket I made her in my Ravelry account, but I will put some up at the end of my post.

Hannah is doing great, we're still waiting on the portraits we had taken, I get to pick them up on the 2nd. I cannot wait to get them, I'm SO excited!!!! Last night she slept from 8pm - 6am, without waking up once. I'm also trying to get pictures organized at home, so I've got to get copies of just about all the photos we have taken at this point so I can get copies of them. That's the problem with digital photos, I like to have the hard copies organized in albums and photo boxes. Lesley (Sarah's mom) gave me a great photo box that I want to get all the photos in. I also need to get copies for the photo albums and stuff too.

I hope everyone is having a great weekend. I've been a day ahead of myself since Thursday night, which is great, because I don't go back to work until Tuesday! It's a great realization that I'm not as close to going to work as I thought! =)

Anyway, here are photos from the last few days and from Sarah's shower!




Above - the blanket I made for Sarah as a shower gift. The photos aren't great, but oh well...







Above - Photos from Sarah's shower. She got lots of nice things!



Above - Hannah and her daddy at home! =)

Hannah is 3 months old!

Today was Hannah's 3 month birthday! Usually, I post photos, but today I don't have any. Now, before you call me a slacker, John and I took her to the Target in Concord and we got some awesome professional pictures done! I was so excited, and they came out so great! So, I will share them when they come back next Friday!

That's about all the news from here right now. Keep posted for the new photos next Friday!

An update for an early Friday morning

Sorry, no pictures to share today. But I just figured that since it was so early (4:55am as I sit down to start writing), that I would just share a little about how things are going and what not.

Work has been going well. We had two families move out of the shelter and one family move in. The dynamic will shift, but so far, it seems like all the families are getting along. Hannah still comes to work with me on Thursdays, and goes to her Memé and Pepé's house on Tuesdays. I love only working two days a week, because it's just enough to keep my foot in the door, but it's also enough to make me feel like I have time at home. The biggest thing I love is that I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything major in Hannah's life. It's pretty much an ideal situation. Sometimes I definitely have the days in which I wish that I didn't have to work at all, but two things would come out of that: 1) I'd probably go stir crazy and 2) We'd have to move in order to still be able to save money.

John is on vacation next week, which will be nice. We have a lot of projects to get done around the house while he's home: We need to replace a storm door on our side entrance, rip up some carpeting on our basement stairs, build a banister on the basement stairs, and get some yard work done. I'm mostly concerned about getting the yard work done, and the storm door, but John is more interested in getting the basement stairs done. I don't blame him, but at the same time, that's lower on my priority list because of the simple fact that Hannah isn't mobile yet. If she were, I'd be more concerned about her climbing the stairs and falling off them onto a tile floor.

Hannah is doing well, too. She has a check up today. I can't believe she'll be 3 months old on Monday! John and I talked about going to a portrait studio to get some family portraits done that day too. Since it's supposed to rain, Monday would be a good day to get that done. I've just got to confirm that the place we are planning to go is still where I think it is.

I guess that's about all the news from here.... =)

Hannah's Baptism Photos

They didn't come out great, but I'm waiting on getting some others for another few people that took photos...