Did I say I would update this...

Well clearly I was lying to you all! I am not sure what has happened over the past couple of days to take up all of my time, it certainly isn't labour and delivery since I'm still sitting here, with a huge tight belly, ribs being pushed out from the inside and a foot kicking me. I think it's just that I don't move very fast, so anything takes time!

So just to cover my butt, here is a photo of my beautiful baby girl who turned 4 last week. Here she is celebrating in the garden with her PJs on:



And for all you curious folks out there, who have been hounding me for a photo of myself here it goes....

Terrible I know, I should have done it when I actually had had a shower and brushed my hair, but that happens so rarely when someone else is around to be able to take my photo... so alas, this is what I have. Maybe if I haven't delivered by the weekend I'll do it properly!

Like Jem did for our shoot last week, check out my work blog:

http://christinedenisphotography.blogspot.com/

If I could only look that good...

night! :)

Happy Birthday Gillian

My baby girl turned 2 today! Of course at two she didn't really have a clue what was going on, but I think by the end of the day with all the singing and ice cream at daycare and then singing and cake at home, she knew something was up! Abby had fun to, eating all the goodies and helping blow out the candles, and she is now, even more so, looking forward to her birthday in August. I'll have to plan something a little better for her as, she is now getting to the age where she will remember and know what it's all about!


Now to recap what I've been up to! Well, lots of sleeping! I try to watch the hockey games, I try to stay up "late" but I'm usually crashed out and sleeping on the couch at 8:00 pm, so it doesn't leave much time for blogging! I miss it. I miss having the energy to scrapbook (sorry Beth - I've fallen horribly behind on the scrapping challenge). I miss having the energy to take photos (mind you it's been pretty cold and rainy here... sorry Jen for not keeping up with the photo challenge!). But after the baby comes, I'll have lots of photos to take and lots to scrap!

Last weekend I attended a Baby photography workshop with Amber Shereen. She held it at her place, and there were only two of us there, so it was great to get such personal time. We had 3 baby models, each around 7 months old. Two we shot in her natural light studio and one in her basement studio with strobes. It was fun to see how she set every thing up and how she goes about getting the fabulous photos that she does. Here is a link to my other blog that I decided to set up for posting these photos: http://christinedenisphotography.blogspot.com/ I was really happy with the way my photos turned out and couldn't wait to do it again! I just have to work on the set up of the "Studio" to be able to do it successfully!

Is it Wed?

It's my Mom's Birthday today! Happy Birthday MOM!!! Here she is with Abby looking at photos.



It's been a busy week... taught/took 5 spinning classes, working all week and we have Eric's Christmas party tomorrow night.. wow will I ever be tired on Saturday. 3 of us are sick also, started with me, coughing, went to Gillian, now Abby came down with it today... I hope she doesn't break out into a fever. I guess it's the start of cold and flu season.

I took this photo last week, but never posted it.

Off to bed.. blog more on Friday, since tomorrow we are out.

Birthday Recap...

Abigail is now officially 3. The day didn't start off too well for her, however. She's had been pretty miserable over the past few days for whatever reason, and so it seemed to come to a head yesterday morning. I left for work a little later, and could see she was whiny and crying a lot before I left. But I guess after I left Eric had a tough time with her screaming and pushing Gillian. The report for the daycare when I picked her up wasn't much better. I got the "She had a rough day" report from Phyl. Luckily, when we got home she seemed to turn around, perhaps in anticipation of her big birthday celebration.

Both our parents came over, Gail bringing a cute giraffe cake and my parents a fun bath toy gift. We ate burgers, french fries, salads, and corn - which Eric prepared the day before on his last day off. It was fun, everyone was happy and Abby loved all the attention. Actually Gillian did too - taking this opportunity to show off her ability to sing and dance...

Here are of the, not so great, photos:

Look who's three!

Gillian gives us a little show, singing and dancing.

And here are a few of the outakes...

Abby loved her giraffe cake.
Just not the sparkler.

They all got drunk.
Abby sits there and wonders what is happening
to her grandparents...

Another fabulous family shot....
We need to hire a professional!

And, with all the confusion of drunk parents and grandparents, flaming sparklers, and a screaming Abby - Gillian opens the screen door and tries to run for it.

In all seriousness, thanks to Eric, my parents and his parents for making Abby's 3 rd birthday a great one!!