Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!  Wishing you all love and happiness this holiday season!

 

Family Pics!

The best part about blogging is all the awesome people that I've met through here!  Cindi has been a longtime reader of mine (and I followed her back when she had a fashion blog as well!) and when she emailed me to let me know that she had followed her dreams of quitting her day job and starting her own photography business with her husband I was so happy for her!  She and her husband offered to come to my home and shoot my family and I can't thank her enough.  We just love these photos.  Layla was about 2.5 months here and now that she's approaching 4 months, so much has changed, so we love having these photos to capture her at this age!

A little peak at her nursery!  We're not completely done decorating it yet but it's getting there.  All the little trinkets in her nursery are things that have a lot of meaning to my husband and I, the giraffes we bought in Jamaica when we got married, the gray dachshund is from our trip to Hong Kong, the stuffed animals and hello kitty are from her grandparents, and I painted that little panda canvas myself!

Can't even believe they got the doggies and Layla to look at the camera!  You can see the rest of our shoot on their blog here.

If you need a fabulous photographer in the Seattle area (they do weddings too!), I highly recommend Cindi+Chris, they are just the nicest couple and made us feel so comfortable during the entire shoot.   Check out their blog and facebook page for more of their work.

Meet my little Layla!

On August 14, exactly 3 weeks and 1 day before my due date, my life changed with the birth of my beautiful daughter Layla!

33 hours of labor and she was born at 10:06AM at 5lbs 9.6 oz.  We've been dealing with some small issues because of her small size and being born slightly early (although considered full term, the doctors are still concerned about her early arrival and weight.) but everything else has been wonderful.  The sleep deprivation really isn't as bad as everyone warned me about (but then again, I functioned on 4-5 hours a sleep long before I had a baby!) and I'm loving being a mom more than I even expected.  The doggies have adapted really well to their "little sister" and love her as much as we do.  She's only a week old but has changed our lives forever and we love it!

Just wanted to let you guys know why I haven't been posting but once things are on a better schedule, I'll be back!  I need to post my last bumpdate and a few other pregnancy lookbooks but other than that, my blog will still stay the same, I promise it won't become a baby blog although if you follow me on instagram and facebook you may be seeing more baby pictures! :)