This is my favorite! Papa and Caleb
Momma and Caleb
Sleepy boy...
Bright Eyes
Our new family
There were a few accidents while trying to get this shot - Matt, you're my hero!
Wildflowers
15 years ago
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Kristin's infant photo shoot
Troy, Kristin and Cayson Brown, Shellie's brother,sister-in-law and newphew came up to visit us when Caleb was just under 2 weeks old. Kristin is a professional photographer in San Diego and wanted to take some newborn shots of Caleb, which was wonderful for us! These are a few of the wonderful shots she took of our son and us:) Thank you Kristin!
This is my favorite! Papa and Caleb
Momma and Caleb
Sleepy boy...
Bright Eyes
Our new family
There were a few accidents while trying to get this shot - Matt, you're my hero!
This is my favorite! Papa and Caleb
Momma and CalebSleepy boy...Bright EyesOur new familyThere were a few accidents while trying to get this shot - Matt, you're my hero!
Bath time
Janelle was going to help me give Caleb a bath but got a bit distracted by how cute he was through the view finder of her camera:) Trust me, this is a VERY small sampling of the pictures she took:)
Thanks John for censoring this one!
AHHH.... My little boy!
dressed and ready to go!
Thanks John for censoring this one!
AHHH.... My little boy!
dressed and ready to go!
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
7 weeks!
Caleb is 7 weeks old today:) He is getting to be fun now. He gives us big, toothless smiles and lots of coos and gurgles:) He is sleeping really well at night, just waking for a bit of nourishment before dosing off again. He is growing like crazy - 23.5 inches now and about 11 lbs! He loves being held by anyone, and shows a bit of particularity for mom and dad:)
Bath-time
Daddy's arms
Standing practice-He loves to do this about once a day
Big smiles!
Changing time-we think he likes being naked, he is always so content and happy when we change him:)
In Grammi's arms....
Bath-time
Daddy's arms
Standing practice-He loves to do this about once a day
Big smiles!
Changing time-we think he likes being naked, he is always so content and happy when we change him:)
In Grammi's arms....
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Caleb's first photo shoot
Caleb had his first photo shoot with Janelle yesterday. He was amazingly well behaved, except for the mid-shoot pee leakage and then the explosive poop at the end. Ah, infant photography! The pics came out great and I just had to share my favorites.
The Sweet Face
The Feet
The dirty diaper change
The Nuzzle
The scream
The Tongue
The Yawn
The Great Outdoors
The attempt to find his thumb
The Sweet Face
The Feet
The dirty diaper change
The Nuzzle
The scream
The Tongue
The Yawn
The Great Outdoors
The attempt to find his thumb
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The whole story
So, here is the story from Shellie's perspective....
I went into early labor tuesday evening (which was very manageable), took a shower at eleven (just in case this was the real thing), went to sleep at 11:30 pm and then woke up at 11:50 as my water was breaking and I was finally having a REAL contraction. We called the midwife right away as we were supposed to if my water broke and she told us that French Hospital was closed, they had filled up! We were told to check in to Sierra Vista Hospital. We were a bit hesitant about this since we heard that you have to share a room there and it is much more "hospital-like." I ended up with a great confidence about it and we headed down there. By the way, that afternoon I went in to see my midwife and I was already 5 cm dilated, 75% effaced and she could feel his head nice and low, so we knew we didn't have a ton of time before things started getting serious.
We arrived at the hospital and had to go through admitting, since we hadn't pre-registered there. Mental note, don't make that mistake again! I was standing there, in labor while they are asking for my stupid social security number and address! We made it to the room at about 1 am and the contractions were coming just about every other minute and they were very intense! I progressed quickly and by 4:15 am I was pushing. We had a solid hour and a half of that and then got to meet our Caleb, screaming as he was coming out! The midwife did a great job and I had no skin tears, yeah! He was very alert and was placed immediately on my tummy. He nursed within the first half hour and barely looked like a newborn! His skin was very pink and he was nice and plump. Matt cut the cord and we had our moment with our son. Matt was everything I expected him to be, wonderfully supportive, sensitive and just a great coach. Everyone was so impressed with him and I was very proud.
In the end, after a big poop, he was measured at 8 lbs. 9.5 oz, 21 inches and he got an Apgar score of 9:) He was 40 weeks, 6 days.
Caleb is now 1 week old and sleeping most of the time. He eats, sleeps, pees and poops and it is not a whole lot different than myself other than the fact that I feed as well. He is absolutely precious and Matt and I are crazy about him!
Thank you for all of your support and prayers. Email is the best way for me to communicate right now, so drop me a note if you like:)
Shellie
I went into early labor tuesday evening (which was very manageable), took a shower at eleven (just in case this was the real thing), went to sleep at 11:30 pm and then woke up at 11:50 as my water was breaking and I was finally having a REAL contraction. We called the midwife right away as we were supposed to if my water broke and she told us that French Hospital was closed, they had filled up! We were told to check in to Sierra Vista Hospital. We were a bit hesitant about this since we heard that you have to share a room there and it is much more "hospital-like." I ended up with a great confidence about it and we headed down there. By the way, that afternoon I went in to see my midwife and I was already 5 cm dilated, 75% effaced and she could feel his head nice and low, so we knew we didn't have a ton of time before things started getting serious.
We arrived at the hospital and had to go through admitting, since we hadn't pre-registered there. Mental note, don't make that mistake again! I was standing there, in labor while they are asking for my stupid social security number and address! We made it to the room at about 1 am and the contractions were coming just about every other minute and they were very intense! I progressed quickly and by 4:15 am I was pushing. We had a solid hour and a half of that and then got to meet our Caleb, screaming as he was coming out! The midwife did a great job and I had no skin tears, yeah! He was very alert and was placed immediately on my tummy. He nursed within the first half hour and barely looked like a newborn! His skin was very pink and he was nice and plump. Matt cut the cord and we had our moment with our son. Matt was everything I expected him to be, wonderfully supportive, sensitive and just a great coach. Everyone was so impressed with him and I was very proud.
In the end, after a big poop, he was measured at 8 lbs. 9.5 oz, 21 inches and he got an Apgar score of 9:) He was 40 weeks, 6 days.
Caleb is now 1 week old and sleeping most of the time. He eats, sleeps, pees and poops and it is not a whole lot different than myself other than the fact that I feed as well. He is absolutely precious and Matt and I are crazy about him!
Thank you for all of your support and prayers. Email is the best way for me to communicate right now, so drop me a note if you like:)
Shellie
Monday, July 21, 2008
This is the newest addition to our family baby Caleb Matthew. He was born at 5:45am July 16. Every thing went extremely well Shellie was in labor for about 6 hours and she did great. She said she didn't even feel any pain at all. Ha Ha just kidding. I am very proud of her for doing an all natural childbirth. Caleb is very happy and is feeding very well and we are just trying to get some rest
Saturday, June 7, 2008
More pregnancy photos
kay, well I am now 8 whole months pregnant! Reality is sinking in that I will actually have to remove this wiggling little baby from his current home! He should enter the world during July sometime. We are in our final preparation stages, having a baby shower next week, finishing the baby room that is adorable! I'll put pics up once it is finished. Here are some pictures that my other sister-in-law Kristin Brown took 2 weeks ago. I am so blessed to have such good photographers willing to use their talents on us!
Shellie
Shellie
Monday, May 5, 2008
Pregnancy photos
I know I never finished my europe blog, but I got a bit side-tracked once I got home. We have been thinking mostly BABY since then and I am trying to not be stressed about not finishing my last project:) Janelle, Matt's sister took some amazing photos of us and the hidden baby this weekend at Montana de Oro and I thought I'd share....
Thursday, April 10, 2008
coming home to sweet America!
We are starting our journey home today at 3 pm. We are flying into Venice and then will hopefully run into town for one last wandering-fest. We catch our flight home Friday morning. We'll arrive in LAX at 4:30 and have dinner with Megan, maybe crash at her place and then head home. There are a few things we are looking forward to in the states, here they are
1. A real grocery store
2. going into a store/restaurant and being understood
3. not being considered "a tourist."
4. not looking like "a tourist."
5. being with people we know and love
6. the dollar! this euro is killing us!
A few things we will miss
1. taking really cool pictures of really cool things
2. sleeping in till 8 or 9 every morning, then turning over to Matt and saying "what should we do today?"
3. waking up because the tram is going by, the construction workers are singing in the building across from us and our housemates are doing the dishes ridiculously loudly-oh wait, i think i put this in the wrong list.
4. GELATO! going from place to place, trying to find the best!
5. the best Gnocchi I have ever tasted! and probably ever will! oh, it was in gorgonzola cream sauce too!
6. the freedom to do what we want when we want.
I have been homesick though and am really looking forward to coming home. I'm gonna be in "nesting mode" as i have just 12 weeks to go:) Keep checking this blog next week as I will put pictures up of Rome and videos from the whole trip.
Ciao,
Matt and Shellie
1. A real grocery store
2. going into a store/restaurant and being understood
3. not being considered "a tourist."
4. not looking like "a tourist."
5. being with people we know and love
6. the dollar! this euro is killing us!
A few things we will miss
1. taking really cool pictures of really cool things
2. sleeping in till 8 or 9 every morning, then turning over to Matt and saying "what should we do today?"
3. waking up because the tram is going by, the construction workers are singing in the building across from us and our housemates are doing the dishes ridiculously loudly-oh wait, i think i put this in the wrong list.
4. GELATO! going from place to place, trying to find the best!
5. the best Gnocchi I have ever tasted! and probably ever will! oh, it was in gorgonzola cream sauce too!
6. the freedom to do what we want when we want.
I have been homesick though and am really looking forward to coming home. I'm gonna be in "nesting mode" as i have just 12 weeks to go:) Keep checking this blog next week as I will put pictures up of Rome and videos from the whole trip.
Ciao,
Matt and Shellie
Monday, April 7, 2008
a challenge....
so, just want to put a challenge out there for you. there is a picture of a sign and then a vague picture underneath, if you can figure out what the sign says, you may be able to find something in the lower pic. what is it? Then I want some real guesses as to how we got the pictures of the wolf and bear, get creative. We got home late tonight, so i will put more details on the blog tomorrow. give me some good stories:)
The real tour-Slovenia to Spain
So, we start this tour off back in Slovenia where it was really cold. Well, our last day there was gorgeous! Her is a picture of Matt on his awesome bike! We rode ourselves around the lake that morning before catching our train. Is it just me or does he remind you of the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz? A very manly version of such though of course:)
Here we have a mere glimpse of our amazing trip through the Alps to Innsbruck. I tell you, the entire trip was at least this beautiful!
This is a wonderful self portrait of us up on top of the local ski area at Innsbruck. we took the Cable car and then two gondolas to get ourselves to the top and it was completely worth it!
Me, getting more and more pregnant in front of the cable car doo-hicky and the mountains. When we were in Spain, the family I was with swore that I had gotten bigger just in 4 days! take note of this, you will notice that I have had a big of a growth spurt in my belly region once I get back. Let's just say nice things like, "oh, the baby is growing!" not "YOU ARE GETTING HUGE/SOOO BIG/GINORMOUS!!!" I seem to be a bit sensitive as to my growth. Side note: I am now in my 3rd trimester! The baby is just over 2 lbs and about 9.5 inches from head to butt. He is a mover and a shaker for sure and I absolutely love having him! BTW, he is kicking right this very moment!
No comment yet, see "The challenge"
This is a picture of the ski jump in Innsbruck. We went up to the top cause we got a free ticket. Those guys that do that are insane! FYI, they had the Olympics in Innsbruck twice, in the 60's, then the 70's. They also do ski jumping in the summer, random,eh?
We made dinner for ourselves this night and ate on the little balcony of the apartment we were staying in. It was absolutely lovely!
We had a bit of a layover in Milan, so we quickly ran in to see this cathedral. It was pretty impressive! We also almost got nabbed by a pickpocket. This guy came up to me with popcorn seeds, trying to give them to me, which I was refusing as MANY pigeons started swarming both Matt and I. He then attempted giving them to Matt (actually shoving them in his hand), then it was revealed what he was trying to do, I saved the day as I grabbed our camera from his hand and took Matt away. The man immediately disappeared. I wasn't too into sightseeing after that, so we grabbed a Kebab and ate in our shoebox sized room.
Spain
This is a picture of the beach in La Coruna, where we landed and our hosts picked us up. Ill tell you more about them in a sec.
Our first day we took a walk around the little village where we were staying and ended up here at this cute little church.
Just on the other side of this river is where we stayed. You could see the river from our room in the morning, it was gorgeous. It had rained the entire week previously, and yet we came back from this walk sweating and I had to pull my pant legs up!
We took a walk up the river and went over this decent sized suspension bridge. Isabel, our mom for the week used to sit on this bridge when she was a kid and her brothers would jump on it, trying to scare her. The house they live in is a generational house that they have had in the family for a really long time. The house is made of granite stone. They have gutted it and it is nice inside now, and super cool!
Again, no comment, see "the challenge"
We went to a beach where Isabel used to spend her summers and she went out collecting snails to eat for dinner (she was nice and didn't make us eat them:). She brough us back this little hermit crab, I thought it was cute!
Portugal
This is the whole family. Stan (matt's old boss), Isabel, and Stephan, their son. We played on this wondeful beach and had lunch on our day trip to Portugal.
Portugal Fortress-this was a cool fortress right on the border, lots of stuff to buy, but no room in our bags for it!
We went to this amazing market in Padron sunday morning. It was the biggest market I have ever seen! Imagine Farmers Market times 20! They had everything there, but the produce was incredible! This woman was making churros right there in the market, in that big pot of oil behind her. The next pic is Matt and Stan eating them, they were delicious!
They sold these pots here as well. I don't know what to call them, but I think they fement whiskey/other liquors in them. Or they distill them, I can't remember.
Santiago Cathedral in Spain
Kay, that is the end of your tour for now. Rome will have to come later. We are enjoying ourselves. We saw the Vatican and St. Peters this morning. We leave thursday to go back to Venice, and Friday we go home. We are a bit homesick, but enjoying having eachother as we scour this city. Loves!
Here we have a mere glimpse of our amazing trip through the Alps to Innsbruck. I tell you, the entire trip was at least this beautiful!
This is a wonderful self portrait of us up on top of the local ski area at Innsbruck. we took the Cable car and then two gondolas to get ourselves to the top and it was completely worth it!
Me, getting more and more pregnant in front of the cable car doo-hicky and the mountains. When we were in Spain, the family I was with swore that I had gotten bigger just in 4 days! take note of this, you will notice that I have had a big of a growth spurt in my belly region once I get back. Let's just say nice things like, "oh, the baby is growing!" not "YOU ARE GETTING HUGE/SOOO BIG/GINORMOUS!!!" I seem to be a bit sensitive as to my growth. Side note: I am now in my 3rd trimester! The baby is just over 2 lbs and about 9.5 inches from head to butt. He is a mover and a shaker for sure and I absolutely love having him! BTW, he is kicking right this very moment!
No comment yet, see "The challenge"
This is a picture of the ski jump in Innsbruck. We went up to the top cause we got a free ticket. Those guys that do that are insane! FYI, they had the Olympics in Innsbruck twice, in the 60's, then the 70's. They also do ski jumping in the summer, random,eh?
We made dinner for ourselves this night and ate on the little balcony of the apartment we were staying in. It was absolutely lovely!
We had a bit of a layover in Milan, so we quickly ran in to see this cathedral. It was pretty impressive! We also almost got nabbed by a pickpocket. This guy came up to me with popcorn seeds, trying to give them to me, which I was refusing as MANY pigeons started swarming both Matt and I. He then attempted giving them to Matt (actually shoving them in his hand), then it was revealed what he was trying to do, I saved the day as I grabbed our camera from his hand and took Matt away. The man immediately disappeared. I wasn't too into sightseeing after that, so we grabbed a Kebab and ate in our shoebox sized room.
Spain
This is a picture of the beach in La Coruna, where we landed and our hosts picked us up. Ill tell you more about them in a sec.
Our first day we took a walk around the little village where we were staying and ended up here at this cute little church.
Just on the other side of this river is where we stayed. You could see the river from our room in the morning, it was gorgeous. It had rained the entire week previously, and yet we came back from this walk sweating and I had to pull my pant legs up!
We took a walk up the river and went over this decent sized suspension bridge. Isabel, our mom for the week used to sit on this bridge when she was a kid and her brothers would jump on it, trying to scare her. The house they live in is a generational house that they have had in the family for a really long time. The house is made of granite stone. They have gutted it and it is nice inside now, and super cool!
Again, no comment, see "the challenge"
We went to a beach where Isabel used to spend her summers and she went out collecting snails to eat for dinner (she was nice and didn't make us eat them:). She brough us back this little hermit crab, I thought it was cute!
Portugal
This is the whole family. Stan (matt's old boss), Isabel, and Stephan, their son. We played on this wondeful beach and had lunch on our day trip to Portugal.
Portugal Fortress-this was a cool fortress right on the border, lots of stuff to buy, but no room in our bags for it!
We went to this amazing market in Padron sunday morning. It was the biggest market I have ever seen! Imagine Farmers Market times 20! They had everything there, but the produce was incredible! This woman was making churros right there in the market, in that big pot of oil behind her. The next pic is Matt and Stan eating them, they were delicious!
They sold these pots here as well. I don't know what to call them, but I think they fement whiskey/other liquors in them. Or they distill them, I can't remember.
Santiago Cathedral in Spain
Kay, that is the end of your tour for now. Rome will have to come later. We are enjoying ourselves. We saw the Vatican and St. Peters this morning. We leave thursday to go back to Venice, and Friday we go home. We are a bit homesick, but enjoying having eachother as we scour this city. Loves!
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