Our New Family Portraits

May
17

Posted by: Maggie

Because I couldn’t shoot them myself when I did the rest of George’s newborn portraits, my friend Becca of Becca Rillo Photography was kind enough (and patient enough) to come over on George’s 12th day to shoot some family portraits for us. I always try to shoot newborns in their first 10 days, because I know that after that it will be difficult to get them to stay asleep and calm through a photo session. But of course, I am a terrible client, and I waited a little too late to schedule the shoot.

George did not want to cooperate for most of the shoot. He didn’t sleep and cried a lot, so we spent much of the session trying to keep him calm. Despite that Becca did an amazing job! I love the images she captured and I’m so grateful for her talent and friendship!

Here are some of my favorite images:

Thank you again Becca!

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Categories: Family Stories, Friends, George Stories
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Christmas Dinner 2011

Jan
31

Posted by: Maggie

After lounging around in our PJs for most of the day we got dressed and headed to my Mom’s to meet my brothers and sister for more present opening and Chistmas dinner.

As usual, the place was elegantly decorated for the occasion and there was a variety of delicious appetizers for us to snack on while we opened presents.

After presents we had a delicious dinner, which I guess I didn’t take any photos of. And that was Christmas!

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Tags: christmas, Family Stories, gifts, Holidays

Christmas Morning 2011

Jan
31

Posted by: Maggie

NOTE: It’s the last day of January so I better get these Christmas posts done already! I’m going to stop writing about how terrible I am at blogging while pregnant and just let you all complain about me yourselves. Please do, I deserve it, I am a terrible bogger!

Christmas morning Eleanor woke us up excited to find that Santa had indeed come just like we said he would, and had even eaten the cookies and drank the milk we left out for him! Eleanor very impatiently waited for Josh and I to clean ourselves up a bit, and get my camera ready, before ripping into her gifts.

We didn’t go crazy this year. She barely plays with most of the toys she already has, preferring instead to build castles out of pillows and blankets and couch cushions. So we just got her a few things we thought she would like. Including a box of legos, which I’ve seen her have fun with at school. Unfortunately, she has barely played with them at all at home.

We also got her talking Ferb & Perry dolls (from her current favorite Disney show Phineas & Ferb). We had bought her a Phineas doll at Disneyland as her one souvenir she was allowed, and since then she had complained that she did not have a Ferb or Perry to go with it.

She got some cute pink kids headphones, because she sometimes wants to sit and watch a show on one of our iphones instead of on the tv, and we thought it would be nice if we didn’t have to listen to what she was watching.

She was pretty amazed by them.

And lastly, Santa brought her, the thing she had been telling us Santa was going to bring her, a DINOSAUR! That is almost as big as she is. It’s pretty cool. Or at least Josh and I think so. Unfortunately, she explained to us, Santa got it wrong! He was supposed to bring her a REAL dinosaur that would crush our house!

Since we’re poor, Josh and I limited our gifts to each other to $30.

I got him this super nifty little wooden earbud holder from the etsy shop Acoustic Design so that his cords don’t get all tangled in his bag while he’s not using them. He got me a 2 year subscription to Vanity Fair! Sorry no photos of me. The ones Josh took were a little too blurry to use.