7 and a half months old!!

I know these pictures aren't perfect (a wrinkly blanket for a background is hardly ideal, I'm still trying to figure out how to take pics in my living room!) But I thought that the faces he was making were cute :)

In awe:

Happy face:

Mid lip-smack face:

So over it, Mom.

My tummy feels cool!

Still bored:

Why am I wearing an oversized bow-tie, Mom?

Mr. Smarty Pants

He found the calculator and played with it for HOURS.

And I might be biased, but I'm pretty sure this means my baby is a genius.

Now, he just needs to learn how to crawl. Or not. I kind of like having an immobile baby.

I know he wants to crawl, but he just doesn't get it yet. Which is fine with me for now :)

By the way, he's 7 months and 2 weeks now! Can you believe that?!

A whole day at the gym

We spent the entire afternoon and evening at the activity center at Steve's school last Friday.

Steve had to work from 3 pm to 9 pm!
I did some yoga but mainly played around with my camera and took pictures of random things; I'm trying to get more and more comfortable with my camera so why not, right? :)

My baby :)

Some pretty chairs.

My shadow ;)

I love sun-lit leaves :)

The same leaves, at night:

Cole and I, in the girls locker room where I fed him.

Isn't he getting SO big?!

I also convinced some of Steve's friends to let me practice taking their picture, which they agreed to :) I posted some on my photography blog, which you can find HERE!

Meeting Great Grandparents for the first time!

Cole got to meet his great-grandparents for the first time last week!

Grandpa Bruce and Grandma Charlene were on their way to CA for Darien's wedding and they had a layover at the DFW airport, so we met them there and visited for about 30 minutes.

It was short but very sweet :)

Thanks to (great) Grandma and Grandpa for meeting up with us!! :) I'm so glad Cole got to meet you finally! :)

There's nothing quite like...

There's nothing quite like snuggling in bed in the afternoon....... because.....

it's freezing in your house...... because......

 you've cranked the AC allll the way up...... because........

 it's SO flippin' HOTTTTTTTT outside!!!

You know what I mean?

blowing spit bubbles

He learned something new :)

This weekend so far

Friday: We ran around and did some errands and heard One Republic's new song "Good Life" no less than FIVE TIMES on the radio.

(Did you hear Lissie's version on the sister's blog?! They did great!)

Friday night: We went to see Brittney perform in the play "Titanic."

She did awesome!! It was fun to watch, but sadly we had to leave after intermission because Cole wasn't handling the noise too well. We probably should have left him with a babysitter. We didn't think that one through too well.

Saturday (today): I left Cole home with Steve all day while I attended a photography workshop with Kalli Barker from church. She invited me last minute and I was able to swing it which I'm so glad that I did because I feel like I learned a lot! It was Sandy Puc's Creative Edge Tour and it was so informational. It was from 2pm to about 8pm so Steve met me at the convention center with Cole about half way through it so I could feed Cole. I really need to get that kid to start taking a bottle! Any tips, moms?

Love Lulu

I'm excited to say that I put together a little photography blog where I'll be putting up all the photoshoots that I do!! Marie helped me come up with a name for my photography.....

...and the name is....

Love Lulu Photography!!

So, what to you think? I love the name so much; I feel like it fits me perfectly :)

I also figured out how to do a watermark with the editing system I have. I don't know why, but it took me forever to figure out what I was doing wrong but I finally got it!

Here's a picture of a photoshoot I did with Bekah and Jordan (surprise.) last week. I called this shoot the "industrial" shoot because of the location:

What do you think of the watermark? They're pretty easy to make so I might make a handful of them!

Anyway, you can see the rest of the photoshoot at

loveluluphotography.blogspot.com

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out :)