My Life {With BOYS}

Thursday, February 10, 2011

{I Heart Photography}

I love photography. What, you knew that? Well I do. I consider myself my little family's historian, the memory keeper if you will. I love to document what is happening in our lives through photography. A self proclaimed "Momarazzi", I always have my camera trained on Paxton. I am just so desperate not to miss any moment because unlike the Hubs I do not have a photographic memory. My mom has album upon album documenting our lives growing up and my Grandpa took thousands of slides of their lives. Tradition? Yes, I think that the importance of taking pictures to document memories is in my blood from Grandpa and my mom. I have loved taking pictures since probably before I can remember, and have albums full of my furry models Chance, Randy & Mowmow, my childhood animals who were always my willing subjects. I took photography camps during my summers, in High School I was the yearbook photographer and my very first job was at Inkley's (a photography store). So yes I love it. Pictures are me and I am pictures. They make me who I am.

With that said, I desperately need to organize all my pictures, just to give you an idea I have 367 pictures of Christmas this year. Yeah I know. And I am getting annoyed with just plastering them all on here. So I have been looking for some ways to display and store all my pictures. So here are some ideas I have found while stalking design and craft blogs.

I want this stairway, love the way the photo's are displayed and I love the actual stairs too! ;)

I already plan on doing this in the nursery

Love this!

One day I'm doing this when I have a house that has a good foyer or hallway :)

Again pictures in a hallway = Love

One day I'll have a wall covered like this

I just got a huge cork board from the Hubs that I am going to do something like this on and put it in Paxton's room

I'm making one of these too with Paxton's cool 8/9/10

Already bought my extra large clothes pin to do this!

I want to make one of these. Bad.

Umm Hello! I am totally getting one of these, someday! From For all Time Clocks

I'm in the process of making a silhouette of Paxton right now!

Mmmmmm big square of photog love!

Nothing better then just some gallery wrapped canvas!

I see a big J in our future

Another great stairway

Old window & pictures, YAY!

I WANT this for my Birthday this year so I can document Paxton's next year. It's called Project Life by Becky Higgins LLC and it's a scrapbook that allows you to journal your everyday life. You take a photo a day and then write a little something about it. Instead of cutting pictures and needing all these scrapbook supplies you use plastic photo pages that she supplies and you get little journaling cards and a whole bunch more fun things. I like the idea of documenting this way. More my style. I LOVE IT! So much.

Here are some examples of some Project Life books:

These are from Ali Edwards (who has TONS of cute ideas for PL)

I've decided to make some photo books through Picaboo & Shutterfly, I made one for my coffee table with Paxton's newborn pictures and Love it! I think I will make one of his first year too!

I bought one of these for myself for Christmas, 6 pictures can go on them. Now just which pictures?

I'm taking this course right now too, way fun so far! It's from Willette Photography and is a free month long photography workshop!

Ohh and the last thing I need help with, I have like 25 ultrasound pictures of the peanut and have no idea how to store/display them?? Ideas?

I also really want to clean up my blog, I feel like it is sloppy and over run
with things not organized. To Do List... So much I want to do, now just to do it all!

Saturday, January 22, 2011

{The Great Debate}

There has been a debate going on around here the last couple weeks. That has to do with what color a certain little guy's eyes are going to be...

What do you think?

BLUE???

GREEN???

Hazel?

The momma has blue (awesome) the daddy has green...

Hmmmm my vote is that they are blue!!!

But honestly it depends on what he's wearing.

What do you think!?

Thursday, January 20, 2011

{Monster Love}

This is Midnight Monster....

We love him!

Ok, maybe we just like to chew on him....

but when Paxton chew's on you, that's LOVE!

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

{Better Late Then Never}

Here's my late Christmas post, hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!

Christmas Eve we went to Grammy & Pop's for a Christmas movie marathon!

Favorites are: The Grinch (Jim Carrey one), Muppet Christmas Carol (my favorite), Polar Express, Mickey's Christmas Carol, Garfield Christmas, plus any other renditions of A Christmas Carol!

Our Little Christmas Family

Watching Movies

Chewing on dad's finger ;)

Playing in his saucer for the first time...

Christmas morning we had our own little family Christmas before Preston's parent's came over for breakfast and spoiling of grandson...

Christmas morning

The Loot

Grandma Kelly & Grandpa Rob with Paxton

After our morning with Grandma & Grandpa we headed over to my parent's for more spoiling of child

(and the spoiling of the bigger people too!)

MOMMA GOT A BRAND NEW TOY!!!

(and totally cried about it!)....see my parents are sneaky people and made me believe that my mom got a new camera for Christmas which made me insanely jealous and a little sad since I have wanted one since before the baby. Only to find out that I got one to! Say hello to my new love!

This little Sony Cyber-shot can take pictures all by itself when it detects a smile (super awesome for trying to capture the ever elusive Paxton smile), 10x optical zoom, HD movies, 10.2 mega pixels, cropping, a GPS compass just to name a few!
I {heart}my new camera!