trying to pretend to be a photographer

and these are the results I get.

a few more

Bryan made a demand request for more photos of Maximilian. At first I was disinclined to acquiesce his request, but then I decided to accommodate.

So here you go, more Max.

serious this time

a quick photo to tide you all over

Here is a picture of Maximilian. I will post a few more later on. You know after Carrie and I get some sleep and something to eat.

PS it is fantastic to see all the comment posts, it felt like you guys where right there with us.

okay the photo is going to have to wait. this internet connection is not allowing me to upload the photo. I will try again later but it too may have to wait till we are home (tomorrow morning if all goes well)

getting closer

It looks like today is going to be the day. We got the call at 6:19 this morning to come to the hospital. They checked Carrie out and then gave her some tablets to induce labour. At 1pm her doctor broke her water and now we are just waiting for her body to respond. So far everything is going well.

baby blanket

I was talking to Mom awhile back about our baby blankets and how the stuffed character was the exact same as the blanket. Well I decided to try my hand at it. I went to the fabric store and they didn't have anything like what I was looking for. So not to be discouraged I went to another fabric store. Where again they didn't have what I was looking for. They did have something that was close though, so I decided to spend my money on it. (I got enough for two just in case I messed up the first one) 

  A few weeks ago I tried to make this blanket. Yup you guessed it I messed it up, pretty badly too. So this past weekend I decided to take a bit more time and try a second time. This time the results where much better. Today I finished the whole project, and while the results aren't as good as I was hoping, they aren't half bad either.

So here are some pictures of the blanket, stuffed character and then one of them together.

Now we just need Maximilian to get here.

Jared's 31st Birthday

Today was Jared's 31st birthday.  I was hoping that he would get a new baby for his birthday, but I guess the stork didn't arrive on time.  Instead we spend the evening together eating pizza on the living room floor and enjoying each others company.  I did have plans to go out to dinner but it the birthday boy wanted to stay in.  

Here are a few pictures of what our evening looked like and even a video of Happy Birthday (coming soon...I can't get it to work right now, I didn't get the binary joke either).

 

Bike Show

Yesterday we decided to go to the International Bike Super Show. It wasn't all that great to be quite honest. It was very poorly organized and there weren't that many bikes there. It was still nice to get out out of the house though. 

Here are some fun photos from the bike show. 

order of appearance: Jared, Gary, Carrie, Aggie

Christmas Morning

This year we were a bit of a grinch. There where no lights up and no real tree. We have been trying to get our place ready for our new addition that we, well we just couldn't be bothered with our usual Christmas decorations. We did display our Christmas cards and the stockings where hung (over the radiator) with care. Our Nativity Scene was set up and the snowman and moose where out. So I guess we weren't a total bah' humbug.

Our gifts to each other where the couch we are sitting on in the picture and a love seat to match. We even had them under the (wooden) tree. We did get to unwrap some gifts though. So we wanted to say thanks for the cookbook from Mom and Dad, the onsies for Maximilian from Jamie, the digital photo frame from Tyson and Dee and the first aid kit from Rebecca and Robert. 

As we unwrapped our gifts we did one of our traditions of playing Christmas music while we watch the yule log burn. (this year it was in HD)

Merry Christmas

From Campbell's Golden Mushroom