Yup. Last night I was sitting in bed playing sudoku while Kirby was finishing up in the office, and I felt a huge kick.
Followed immediately by another.
And another.
I looked down at my stomach in shock, only to see it MOVING!
Pretty sure she was kick boxing or something, because that belly of mine was getting manipulated in too many directions to only be caused by her feet. Impressive, really.
To put it short--I laughed my head off.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Good News and Bad News...
Good News: We got to see our little girl again yesterday, and she is still a girl! ;) She's weighing in at 1 pound, 11 oz and is growing.
Bad News: She was still being a little stinker which meant no profile shot. Bummer. (Yes, Erin, I am a tiny bit jealous of the profile shot of Lil' on your blog...)
Good News: I got my first kick in the rib region not one minute ago. It was a pretty decent kick--not painful, but rather impressive.
Bad News: The kicks to the ribs are just going to get harder. :) And hey--she must have finally rolled over to her back if she's kicking me up there... One day too late...
Good News: Our cutie seems to be taking after her daddy. First of all, she's pretty stubborn. Secondly, she's a tummy sleeper. Thirdly, she's got some mightily impressive guns! (See the post below for proof if you haven't seen it yet or have forgotten...) Hopefully this means she will also get his perfect eyesight, his incredible metabolism, and his beautiful eyes! :)
Super Good News: I found a crazy-amazing deal on a crib and changing table from some people moving to New York. Not to mention we also got a cradle swing, bouncer, and jumper in the package! It's such a relief to have some baby stuff! It makes it feel that much more real!
Bad News: I'm exhausted right now and am going to go to bed, rather than think of more news. Maybe my creative juices will return tomorrow. :)
Bad News: She was still being a little stinker which meant no profile shot. Bummer. (Yes, Erin, I am a tiny bit jealous of the profile shot of Lil' on your blog...)
Good News: I got my first kick in the rib region not one minute ago. It was a pretty decent kick--not painful, but rather impressive.
Bad News: The kicks to the ribs are just going to get harder. :) And hey--she must have finally rolled over to her back if she's kicking me up there... One day too late...
Good News: Our cutie seems to be taking after her daddy. First of all, she's pretty stubborn. Secondly, she's a tummy sleeper. Thirdly, she's got some mightily impressive guns! (See the post below for proof if you haven't seen it yet or have forgotten...) Hopefully this means she will also get his perfect eyesight, his incredible metabolism, and his beautiful eyes! :)
Super Good News: I found a crazy-amazing deal on a crib and changing table from some people moving to New York. Not to mention we also got a cradle swing, bouncer, and jumper in the package! It's such a relief to have some baby stuff! It makes it feel that much more real!
Bad News: I'm exhausted right now and am going to go to bed, rather than think of more news. Maybe my creative juices will return tomorrow. :)
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The Latest...
To any of you who may have inquired about my goings-on in the last five months I must apologize. For chances are pretty good that I either lied to you, or made my life sound really boring.
The good news is that Kirby and I now feel it has been a sufficient amount of time to be honest with the world. :) Come November 1st (or there-abouts) we will me meeting our little girl face to face.
Yup.
Pregnant.
Surprise, surprise!
To those who may feel slighted at not being informed earlier, lemme 'splain. After three miscarriages we wanted to limit the number of people we had to tell bad news to if pregnancy #4 went south. So we agreed it would stay under wraps until our 20 week ultrasound.
So there you have it. I am over halfway there, now! HOLLA!
And just because an announcement like this would seem incomplete without pictures of some kind...
Unfortunately for us, our stubborn little girl was lying face down for most of the ultrasound. We were able to poke her enough to get her to sort-of roll almost on to her side, but to no avail. Additionally, when she did roll a teensy bit, her chin was also tucked tightly into her chest. She's a daddy's girl, that one. I would share a picture of Kirby's signature funny face, but I couldn't find one! For those of you who have seen it, it's probably burned into your memory forever, and for those of you who haven't... well... You'll just have to ask him about it sometime! SO--Believe it or not, this is the best view of her face we could manage. It's mostly skull. We have to wait another month to try again to see the profile...
Because we love little baby toes!
She may have been shy about showing us her face, but she was all about showin' off those guns! Daddy's girl indeed. Not only has she mastered his signature funny face, but she's inherited his musculature! :)
Yup. She was all about showing off her calves and hamstrings, too. Flex and release... flex and release...
I'm not really sure how to end a post like this.
Perhaps with a...
Tada!
?????
The good news is that Kirby and I now feel it has been a sufficient amount of time to be honest with the world. :) Come November 1st (or there-abouts) we will me meeting our little girl face to face.
Yup.
Pregnant.
Surprise, surprise!
To those who may feel slighted at not being informed earlier, lemme 'splain. After three miscarriages we wanted to limit the number of people we had to tell bad news to if pregnancy #4 went south. So we agreed it would stay under wraps until our 20 week ultrasound.
So there you have it. I am over halfway there, now! HOLLA!
And just because an announcement like this would seem incomplete without pictures of some kind...
Unfortunately for us, our stubborn little girl was lying face down for most of the ultrasound. We were able to poke her enough to get her to sort-of roll almost on to her side, but to no avail. Additionally, when she did roll a teensy bit, her chin was also tucked tightly into her chest. She's a daddy's girl, that one. I would share a picture of Kirby's signature funny face, but I couldn't find one! For those of you who have seen it, it's probably burned into your memory forever, and for those of you who haven't... well... You'll just have to ask him about it sometime! SO--Believe it or not, this is the best view of her face we could manage. It's mostly skull. We have to wait another month to try again to see the profile...
Because we love little baby toes!
She may have been shy about showing us her face, but she was all about showin' off those guns! Daddy's girl indeed. Not only has she mastered his signature funny face, but she's inherited his musculature! :)
Yup. She was all about showing off her calves and hamstrings, too. Flex and release... flex and release...
I'm not really sure how to end a post like this.
Perhaps with a...
Tada!
?????
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
For Your Entertainment...
First off, this one time (back around Halloween) my family went to a murder mystery dinner hosted by BYU's drama program. It was a lot of fun, and ironically my family was designated to be from China. (All the guests were dignitaries from various countries). At one point we got to talking about how we should get some pictures like Chinese tourists... You know, where they get pictures of themselves with everyone and everything? For example...
Yup. This was the detective. We figured we had to get one with someone random, right??
There are some days where I feel a little racist or something for taking those pictures. But just a little. Because all I have to do is look at the one of my mom and dad and a surge of giggles washes away all my regret.
Today, however, I had a face-to-face encounter with a camera-loving Asian. In this case, as I have been informed, our friend was visiting from Thailand.
I was shooting a wedding at the Salt Lake Temple when, we'll call him Mr. X, showed up during the family stair pictures. I caught a side conversation of one of the bride's aunts asking him who's family he was with (knowing, I'm sure, that he wasn't with the wedding party), and then asking him why he was taking pictures. All I caught was him telling her he was a visitor. I figured he was just visiting Temple Square and thought all the excitement surrounding the bride was cool. Thus--TAKE A MILLION PICTURES!!
It couldn't hurt, I figured. He wasn't in my way.
But he kept popping up everywhere. Call it karma? Who knows.
And at one point, as I was setting up a shot, he came up and asked me if I would take a picture of him WITH the bride and groom. Huh. Negotiations regarding the operation of his old Nikon didn't go over well (I don't think he could actually understand what I was asking) so I tried to wing it. The camera was entirely manual, including the focus. Unfortunately, the image never looked in focus through the viewfinder for the whole range of the focus ring. So I just snapped one of them and got on with setting up my shot.
And he kept popping up for the remainder of the shoot. Usually in the background, taking pictures of me taking pictures of them.
Huh. I don't really feel guilty at all anymore.
Although, to be comletely fair, he didn't make the peace signs...
Yup. This was the detective. We figured we had to get one with someone random, right??
There are some days where I feel a little racist or something for taking those pictures. But just a little. Because all I have to do is look at the one of my mom and dad and a surge of giggles washes away all my regret.
Today, however, I had a face-to-face encounter with a camera-loving Asian. In this case, as I have been informed, our friend was visiting from Thailand.
I was shooting a wedding at the Salt Lake Temple when, we'll call him Mr. X, showed up during the family stair pictures. I caught a side conversation of one of the bride's aunts asking him who's family he was with (knowing, I'm sure, that he wasn't with the wedding party), and then asking him why he was taking pictures. All I caught was him telling her he was a visitor. I figured he was just visiting Temple Square and thought all the excitement surrounding the bride was cool. Thus--TAKE A MILLION PICTURES!!
It couldn't hurt, I figured. He wasn't in my way.
But he kept popping up everywhere. Call it karma? Who knows.
And at one point, as I was setting up a shot, he came up and asked me if I would take a picture of him WITH the bride and groom. Huh. Negotiations regarding the operation of his old Nikon didn't go over well (I don't think he could actually understand what I was asking) so I tried to wing it. The camera was entirely manual, including the focus. Unfortunately, the image never looked in focus through the viewfinder for the whole range of the focus ring. So I just snapped one of them and got on with setting up my shot.
And he kept popping up for the remainder of the shoot. Usually in the background, taking pictures of me taking pictures of them.
Huh. I don't really feel guilty at all anymore.
Although, to be comletely fair, he didn't make the peace signs...
Friday, March 20, 2009
Whoops.
So... Sometimes I forget that I haven't blogged on my personal blog for almost a month. BWWUUUT!? Yeah. pretty silly.
Item of business #1--No, Elizabeth, I am not employed by Miche bags. :) Merely a fan wanting to share. ha.
Item of business #2--I am out of Special K. Yes. This is a legitimate concern. I ate dry frosted mini wheats out of the box for breakfast today with a glass of milk. Why didn't I fill a bowl with milk and fill it with the frosted deliciousness? Well seriously. Yuck. Sugary cereals make the milk taste all nasty. No go.
Item of business #3--I have only done 1 hour of my Career Step this week, as opposed to the 20+ hours I pulled off the last two weeks. Sometimes I feel guilty, and sometimes I don't. I have to edit pictures sometime! :)
Item of business #4--Half of our curtains came. By that, I mean that the curtains for the kitchen came. The living room curtains are backordered until May. BOOO. Our kitchen curtains are currently hanging in the living room. That rod was already up... what did you expect?
Item of business #5--Yesterday was a super productive day, despite the 0 hours of Career Step that were completed. I deposited a check, ordered more checks, picked up our TV remote (I can finally control the volume on my TV!!), got the brakes checked and tires rotated, went to Costco (and resisted buying two pounds of cheese for my snacking pleasure), edited pictures from a senior session I shot on Tuesday, went to Kirby's class, and watched a movie with Kirby. Yup. I slept in today. :)
Item of business #6--I ordered a new lens. It's in the mail now. It is basically the cheapest lens Canon offers, has a plastic mount, etc. (instead of metal), but several of the photographers whos work I follow use it and love it despite it feeling cheap. So I thought I would give it a try! I figured it would help hold off the drooling for the 5D Mark II that I dream about. I'm saving for it one penny at a time and am not even close. It also helps that it is backordered everywhere anyways. Even if I had scrupulously saved before now I wouldn't be able to get it. Maybe by the time it reappears on the market the price will drop! (Fat chance, but a girl can dream, right??)
Item of business #7--I think I'm done. I'm going to go work on that senior session some more. :)
Item of business #1--No, Elizabeth, I am not employed by Miche bags. :) Merely a fan wanting to share. ha.
Item of business #2--I am out of Special K. Yes. This is a legitimate concern. I ate dry frosted mini wheats out of the box for breakfast today with a glass of milk. Why didn't I fill a bowl with milk and fill it with the frosted deliciousness? Well seriously. Yuck. Sugary cereals make the milk taste all nasty. No go.
Item of business #3--I have only done 1 hour of my Career Step this week, as opposed to the 20+ hours I pulled off the last two weeks. Sometimes I feel guilty, and sometimes I don't. I have to edit pictures sometime! :)
Item of business #4--Half of our curtains came. By that, I mean that the curtains for the kitchen came. The living room curtains are backordered until May. BOOO. Our kitchen curtains are currently hanging in the living room. That rod was already up... what did you expect?
Item of business #5--Yesterday was a super productive day, despite the 0 hours of Career Step that were completed. I deposited a check, ordered more checks, picked up our TV remote (I can finally control the volume on my TV!!), got the brakes checked and tires rotated, went to Costco (and resisted buying two pounds of cheese for my snacking pleasure), edited pictures from a senior session I shot on Tuesday, went to Kirby's class, and watched a movie with Kirby. Yup. I slept in today. :)
Item of business #6--I ordered a new lens. It's in the mail now. It is basically the cheapest lens Canon offers, has a plastic mount, etc. (instead of metal), but several of the photographers whos work I follow use it and love it despite it feeling cheap. So I thought I would give it a try! I figured it would help hold off the drooling for the 5D Mark II that I dream about. I'm saving for it one penny at a time and am not even close. It also helps that it is backordered everywhere anyways. Even if I had scrupulously saved before now I wouldn't be able to get it. Maybe by the time it reappears on the market the price will drop! (Fat chance, but a girl can dream, right??)
Item of business #7--I think I'm done. I'm going to go work on that senior session some more. :)
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Miche Bags!
Anyone in the market for a new purse? Or perhaps you wanna just see a super cute, to-die-for purse?
Go check out Miche Bags!
Wanna know how cool they are? You pick either a black or a brown bag, and then you have "shells" that you can pick that magnet on! So you don't have to be switching your stuff from one purse to the other--you just have to switch shells! HOW COOL IS THAT!? *Sigh* Here are some of the shells they offer... They have several dozen to choose from!
That stripey one is named "Lauren." :) Unfortunately it is out of stock. Bummer.
Go check out Miche Bags!
Wanna know how cool they are? You pick either a black or a brown bag, and then you have "shells" that you can pick that magnet on! So you don't have to be switching your stuff from one purse to the other--you just have to switch shells! HOW COOL IS THAT!? *Sigh* Here are some of the shells they offer... They have several dozen to choose from!
That stripey one is named "Lauren." :) Unfortunately it is out of stock. Bummer.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
My Valentines Day
What happens when I, Lauren Davison, am in charge of the Valentine's Day festivities?
Well, it ultimately turns in to KIRBY planning surprises for ME, and indulging me in every way. Lemme 'splain...
I wanted to keep things really simple, so I figured a gift, and dinner. And where better to go than J-Dawgs? That would necessitate our celebrating to occur on Friday, which was no big deal.
Oh yeah--and that gift? I'm really proud of this one... Kirby has had this on his list for a while, but he could never justify buying it because it's about twice as much as a paperback novel. So I surprised him!
Can I just express how insane I was when I bought this? Not because I bought it, but because I bought it over a week before Valentines Day. Have I mentioned how hard it is for Kirby and I to keep surprises secrets for longer than, oh, three hours??
But anyhoo... The plan for J-Dawgs was overturned by me really wanting Winger's sticky fingers that night, which Kirby generously catered to. After dinner I was stuffed silly and ready to chill for the rest of the night. And as we pulled onto our little little street, what did I see?
A light blue Mazda3 parked in front of our house! Very curious indeed.
Long story short, Kirby had planned a little surprise of his own. Starcraft with good ol' Mark (Amy could only be there in spirit... dumb parade of homes...), and then a movie!
Oh--and any guesses as to my surprise Valentines gift?
A frosted sugar cookie and six two-liter bottles of Brick Oven root beer. Heaven? You bet.
Happy February. :)
Well, it ultimately turns in to KIRBY planning surprises for ME, and indulging me in every way. Lemme 'splain...
I wanted to keep things really simple, so I figured a gift, and dinner. And where better to go than J-Dawgs? That would necessitate our celebrating to occur on Friday, which was no big deal.
Oh yeah--and that gift? I'm really proud of this one... Kirby has had this on his list for a while, but he could never justify buying it because it's about twice as much as a paperback novel. So I surprised him!
Can I just express how insane I was when I bought this? Not because I bought it, but because I bought it over a week before Valentines Day. Have I mentioned how hard it is for Kirby and I to keep surprises secrets for longer than, oh, three hours??
But anyhoo... The plan for J-Dawgs was overturned by me really wanting Winger's sticky fingers that night, which Kirby generously catered to. After dinner I was stuffed silly and ready to chill for the rest of the night. And as we pulled onto our little little street, what did I see?
A light blue Mazda3 parked in front of our house! Very curious indeed.
Long story short, Kirby had planned a little surprise of his own. Starcraft with good ol' Mark (Amy could only be there in spirit... dumb parade of homes...), and then a movie!
Oh--and any guesses as to my surprise Valentines gift?
A frosted sugar cookie and six two-liter bottles of Brick Oven root beer. Heaven? You bet.
Happy February. :)
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