Exciting things coming up!

Today I ordered stamps for our Christmas cards!  I love getting things done well ahead of time and having everything organized and ready to go.  I prefer to send out my Christmas cards right after Thanksgiving, and I debated trying to wait and do Christmas/New Year cards to try and squeeze in a picture of our little one.  But I ultimately decided to do a Christmas card separately and I will be (hopefully) using the maternity pictures we get taken.  I just booked the appointment for those too.

I decided to do them when I was about 32 weeks, which I think will be plenty big enough.  I get to do three different outfit changes and will now be on the lookout for what to wear.  I think we will do most of them outside, so I will need to wear something somewhat warm.  I think I want to go for basic black/white for both Steve and I, because too much color in pictures annoys me.  Especially since it will be winter-ish.  I'm thinking at least some of the shots will be in some nice grey or black yoga pants...like this picture, which I like (copyright noted in pictures):



I might want to do a dress pose too, what do you think?



I might throw a pair of dark wash jeans into the mix, like this:



Neither Steve or I want any with just him and my belly, kissing it or hugging it or staring at it creepily for example, like this:

 It just weirds me out.  As do the rosary beads....

or this:
 interesting...

So back to what I DO like...not many when it comes to both Steve and I.  Thankfully that is what Mitch is for, brilliant genius that he is, but I still want to think of what I do and don't like.

I like this type:



or something like this:



So anyway, those are my ideas thus far.  Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated!

Ushering in March

So the end of February sort of caught me by surprise...it always does, I still haven't been able to wrap my head around the whole 28 days factor. John, Kelsey, me and the boys did get to go to the Star Wars exhibit at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmussen Center, which was pretty fun! I think John enjoyed it more than any of us, and although I had plenty of fun, I definitely enjoyed the food at Muse Cafe the best, as usual.

Since I my classes were cancelled today, I got to enjoy the start of spring break half a week earlier than everyone else, which is nice since Steve is actually home. As many of you might or might not know, I love family pictures and the memories they sharpen, or just the way they make me feel. Last year, I went through the boxes and boxes of family photos that haven't been put in albums over the last 32 years at my parents house and loved every minute of it. There are now Skinner family photos in nice leather albums from 1978 to 2002, when things went digital. So as you can imagine, I finally bugged my dad enough to find the external hard drive he had the family pictures on, and just uploaded them onto my computer. I am reminded of so many good memories, and can't wait to get them organized and into albums. For now, here's a recent favorite...