Family Pictures

Something I haven't really mentioned before is that I have been helping my friend Brittany out with her little business by taking pictures of her daughter wearing some of her items. We had fun doing this, but this then led to her asking me to take her family pictures for her. My first response was "you get what you pay for and since I don't charge..." hahaha! I am just a picture taker and not a photographer so this made me really nervous! But I decided to help them out anyway.

We went to take the pictures a few weekends ago, and while we were up there I had her take pictures of our family, too. I think some of them turned out pretty well so I'm happy! Maddie was really cold and hungry during a lot of them, so she's making some funny faces but I still think she's super cute :)

Once again, I am definitely not a photographer, but I have fun playing around with my camera. Some day when I'm not working I'd love to take some photography classes since I've always had a fascination with photography. I'd love to learn more about lighting, how to better use my camera and how to edit, to name a few things.

Anyway, here are a few of the pictures that we got of their family and of our family!

Sorry about my hand placement, Maddie

I'm so sad that the sun came out right when we were taking these pictures! But I still like it :)

I love my cold little girl! Haha!

I'm planning on continuing my practice and self study of photography and then in May I'm bringing my camera out to Tallahassee for more practice! I hope the Gmeiners are ready for some amateur family pictures when I'm out there ;) And I'd LOVE to get some pictures of mom and dad with all of the grandbabies!! Oh, I can't wait for May and I hope all of us are able to be together. That would just make my heart so happy!

5 Months Old!

Little Miss Madison turned 5 months old on Friday! I can't even believe it. Everyone warned me when she was born that time would just fly by, and boy are they right! David and I are absolutely loving this stage and loving being able to watch her learn and develop so much, it is just so much fun.

Right now she is really good at rolling from her tummy on to her back, and every time we set her down for tummy time she will immediately roll over. She loves putting her feet in her mouth, can be entertained by her play mat toys for forever it seems and loves to take her binki out of her mouth and try to put it back in, though she usually gets it in the wrong way ;) She's such a happy girl and is always smiling! I'm fully convinced that she doesn't know how to smile without opening her mouth wide open, but that makes us just love her cute smiles even more! She does chuckle sometimes but she still makes us work pretty hard to get any out of her. She loves to be sitting up but still has no balance for it, and I can tell that she's starting to want to grab things enough that it's giving her motivation to move, so we'll see how long it take for her to start scooting. She is still a big fan of bath time and gets really excited to see the bath tub filling up with water. She's getting more hair on her head but you can barely tell since it's so incredibly blonde! I did notice a cowlick the other day on the right side of the back of her head and I was so proud of her for having enough hair to form a cowlick! Haha!

I took her 5 month old pictures today and wanted to share some of them with you!

She's looking up at David in this picture. I just love how much she loves her daddy!

Smiling at her daddy again :)

Such pretty blue eyes!

Our little baldy is getting so big!!

A few weekends ago David and I drove out to Idaho to spend some time with his family and meet the two newest cousins. It was a crazy trip travel wise and we've decided that we can't make that trip again unless we can stay for AT LEAST 48 hours before we have to drive back. Of course, I'm pretty sure we've said that every time we've made these crazy weekend trips, so there's a good chance we'll be caught doing this again in the future. Haha! For this trip we drove through the night on Friday, getting in to his parent's house at about 4AM. Moving Maddie from the car to the house woke her up and she didn't go back to sleep until 5, which means Dave and I also didn't get to sleep until 5. I'd say we're definitely not the young kids we used to be, but let's be honest, even when we were young kids neither of us were very good at staying up late. We had a great time seeing his family, though, so it was worth it! And Maddie loved being with her cousins!

As every first time mom, I have tons of pictures of Maddie on my cell phone, so I'll just stop "talking" and dump the pictures here for your viewing pleasure. I hope you enjoy!

Always so cute and happy

She finds the bath faucet to be captivating

It's captivating, I tell ya!

Our little fish, so happy in the bath. And she obviously needed a modesty bikini for the picture ;)

Sitting in the space shuttle at the children's museum

Parent fail caught on camera

Maddie at Grandma Webb's house with cousin Mckinley!

She wasn't so sure about cousin Samantha

After driving all night you're bound to have moments like this

I think Maddie really pulls off the 'fro quite nicely ;)

All of the cousins! Can you find our cute owl?

Having some grandpa time :)

Maddie with her Aunt Rhyannon

Maddie with cousins Colton and Samantha. I love the face she's making! It's so funny to me
I don't know how to rotate this picture...

She's always playing with her binki, trying to figure out how to get it back into her mouth

No so sure about this solid food situation!

All cozy for the cold weather!

Love those big open mouth smiles!!

These two make my heart melt

Maddie is really absorbing her books these days

This is the only place she wants to be when her tummy hurts

I love this happy girl!

Alright, I guess that's enough pictures of Maddie for now, though believe me, I have tons more I could share. Haha!

With Love,

THE WEBBS

Baby Toes

Well, I guess it has been a long time (again) since I last used this blog! Since my last post my belly became huge, I had Maddie, I went on maternity leave, went back to work and now Maddie is 4 months old. And boy, what a great 4 months this has been!

Big belly!

Madison Elva Webb was born on June 6th at 7:26 AM after 16 hours of labor. She weighed 8lbs 11oz, measured 20.5 inches long and had a head size in the 98th percentile. Yes, I said NINETY-EIGHTH percentile! She didn't cry right away so they were worried about her breathing, but it turns out she was just fine. I think she was probably just taking it all in!

Minutes after she was born

Our little Madison is so sweet. She is a good sleeper and started sleeping through the night at 5 weeks old. She took to nursing like a champ. She is definitely a daddy's girl and lights up with a huge smile whenever she sees David, and David is definitely wrapped around her little finger.

The cute daddy-daughter duo

I've been loving this 4 month old stage. Maddie is so much fun! She loves to talk to herself and we will often hear her in her crib in the mornings, just talking away. When we go in to see her she always greets us with big smiles and is in a completely different position than we left her the night before! She is becoming a drool queen which makes me think that she's probably starting to teeth. She loves to reach for and play with her toys and is learning to put everything in her mouth. She's working on rolling and can go from back to front pretty well, but gets stuck when she's on her tummy. She is definitely a water baby and has loved bath time from the very start! But I think my favorite thing right now is that she's discovering her feet! I love when babies find their feet for the first time, I just think it's so cute, and it's even cuter now that it's my own daughter.

The toes have been found!

Getting better at tummy time!

David and I are loving being Madison's parents and we feel so blessed that she is ours! And of course, Maddie and I are both really lucky girls to have David in our life. He is such a great husband and dad.

I'm going to try my best to update this blog more frequently, but I think I say that every time I update this blog! But now I have a cute baby to take pictures of and write about, so maybe this time I'll actually follow through. I guess only time will tell! :) 

Babymoon!

When David and I found out we were pregnant, we figured out pretty quickly that we no longer qualified for the family trip to Beijing in June for Paul's HS Graduation. Seeing how we were going to be missing out on our big trip for 2014, we thought it would only be fitting to take a different trip before I got too big - thus the babymoon plans were born!

After a lot of research and comparing hotels, locations etc, we finally settled to leave over the first week of February to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. We booked our stay at the all-inclusive Hard Rock Hotel and anxiously awaited our escape from the snow! In fact, the week prior to our departure, we did get a little snow in Carson, which just made the sunshine that much sweeter :)

Traveling to Punta Cana is a little more difficult than traveling to Mexico as we first had to fly to SFO, have a layover there, then take the red-eye to Newark. Then we flew from there to Punta Cana. Thankfully, both David and I slept pretty well on the flights! The airport in Punta Cana has a roof that looks almost like it was made from straw and it is basically an open-air airport with big fans on the ceiling, keeping things cool. There was also live music, which was kind of fun. After a slight debacle trying to find our ride to the hotel, we finally made it and were checked in. Oh, the beach and pools were a glorious sight, but our first goal was to get some food in our bellies!! We made our way over to the pizza place and enjoyed our first meal there! Then we enjoyed taking a loooong relaxing nap. Believe me, this was the BEST vacation for a pregnant girl. All we really did was sleep in, lay by the pool or beach, eat lots of food, read books and take naps. I couldn't have asked for a better vacation than this!

Here are a few (ok, maybe more than a few) pictures of our time in paradise.

The nice guy at the airport helping us find our ride

I had to take a picture of the bump, since the vacation was all about her!

Our awesome room!!

David on the beautiful beach

I love this man

We love each other

He was sad that no one was there to pass him a basketball

He was sad that his brother and sister-in-law decided to not join us

Every plate of mine was at least 3/4 full of fruit!

This was the best beach we've ever been on!

Enjoying our first day on the beach!

His lemonade had alcohol and tasted gross

Loving hanging out in the pool

Ghetto $10 glasses broke

The main building behind me

Part of the resort

They had all sorts of cool displays

David with some famous person's motorcycle

A sparkly limo! I obviously needed a picture with it

Us in the sun. We don't turn the same color in the sun ;)

This is obviously the only kind of picture I had the "time" to take

Handsome husband in the pool

We loved the pools

David convinced me to get up early the last morning to catch the sunrise

Us and the sunrise

He's my whole world!

It was a fantastic trip and I am so lucky to be married to my best friend who really knows how to spoil me!! We were sad to leave, knowing that this would be our last trip like this for a long, long time. But we're so excited for the adventures ahead of us as our family grows!