Friday-Sunday...

Here are some pictures of our weekend.

We started Friday with my Doctor's appointment...going every 2 weeks now! Baby's heartrate was in the 140's...got a little hyper on us! I go back next Friday.

After my appointment, we headed over to a friend's house for a playgroup. They had a little luncheon and shower for us. It was so cute. They had the yummiest cake, too. Oh, it was so good! Paul David had so much fun playing. These girls that did all this are some friends that we met at a Le Leche League meeting back when our two year olds were only babies (funny thing about that was that we all met there, but none of us ever went back...we formed our own support group that was for us...turned out none of us were really cut out for Le Leche League...kind of wish I were, but I'm not). Then, we all started hanging out at the library on Thursdays. It's been so much fun watching our little ones grow up! Now, there's a few that are moving on to the world of two babies!

On Saturday, my mom came into town. After a fun birthday party for Paul David's buddy, Colton, we hit the pool! It was a great day for the pool. I know you're going to get tired of these kind of pictures, but we swim a lot...

"Where is Justin???"

"There he is!"

Last week, Paul ordered us an external flash for our camera. Here's the deal. We LOVE our Canon Rebel XT...the best investment we ever made. We've had it since 2005 and have thought about replacing it before the baby! During our photography class, I was asking how I could make my pictures look better indoors under yucky overhead lighting (we all know our kid's do the cutest things inside at NIGHT!) Paul David is sooo fair that the flash just washes him OUT! She suggested the external flash, so that we could bounce the light off the ceiling rather than having that harsh flash right in your eyes. Well, after that, we decided that the only difference in our camera and the newer ones is the megapixals, and since we're not getting 16X20 prints made, that was really a waste for us. We decided to invest some money into making the camera we have better. It's working.

This picture is with the external flash:

This is with the camera flash:

Can you see the difference???

I think that it's really going to come in handy with the baby. I can't wait to play with it more...it has a ton of settings!

So, Sunday Paul David went with my Mom for the week. Since I'm not up for traveling anymore, and we hated for him to miss seeing everyone up there and everyone seeing him, we decided to have him go now rather than when the baby comes (oh, my I would be a wreck if he went then...I've already had bouts of weepiness...it's only day 1...can you imagine with post-partum hormones raging...bad, bad, bad). Anyway, so he's up with my Parents for the week, and I have a two page list of things to get done. I've already made tons of progress in getting the chaos OUT of this house! Plus, we're treating ourselves to some cleaning ladies on Friday! YAY...I can't wait! I'm hoping Paul likes it so much that he'll suggest we have them keep coming...yeah right, but I can wish!

Back to organizing and throwing things away!