One Week.

Yeah, um...you may have to excuse me. :D It may be mommy goggles but I tried to pare down the amount of pictures I was posting...and still came up with this many! SO, lots of pictures to see. Eli is now over a week old and he is doing great!

berlin reading him a story.

papa.
grandpa.
grandma.
nana.
uncle roger.

Welcome Home!

WELCOME HOME ELIJAH!

Elijah Christopher James Mattila was born on Monday, Feb. 18th, 2008 at 2:54 pm. He is 7 lbs. 4oz. and 19 inches long.

We are very excited to have him home! Here are some pictures from the hospital. I'm sure I will have lots more to share soon!!

Elijah- 1 day old.

Berlin on our way to the hospital.

James and I waiting. NOPE, no pain meds at this time. :D
Chrissy waiting. That Red Bull isn't helping her.
He is here! He is here!
I think I have an identical picture of Berlin like this.
One day old.

He has dark blue eyes and brown hair.
James and Eli.

Happy big sister!!
Giving kisses :D

New Every Day.

As I've said before, I've been trying to learn new things. I LOVED the movie 300 and am attempting to find some info on how to edit pictures to look that way...but while looking, I figured out some other things. It'll take practice but here are some practice edits. All would look better with better lighting to begin with....but that'll get better too.... I hope. :D

Traverse City: Before, Edit 1, Edit 2
Heather: edit 1, before
Senior: Before, Edit 1
Chrisssy: Before, Edit 1
Erin & Kate: Before, Edit 1.

Functionality!

Well, this is what James and I were up to yesterday and today. If you don't already know, we had to clear out our old office to make room for Elijah's arrival--leaving our choice of office space to pretty much be our dining room. We had a corner desk for a while but it wasn't functional for my business use and left me very cranky when trying to find anything! SO, this is our new space for office and dining. NOT the most beautiful, but better than before....so I am happy. James is a little annoyed by getting stuck with the pink chair, so we'll be upgrading him soon :) Also on the happy list is finally getting my picture frames up....which, if you didn't know, have been sitting since last April.

I had the BPP test today (fancy word for ultrasound) and we got another picture of Eli pre-born. He was sucking his thumb...cute! They estimate him to be about 7lbs 12oz. but we'll see.




If anyone wants a corner desk...FREE to the first person to come pick it up!!

Waiting is soon over.

Just an update, the doctors are going to induce me on Monday, Feb 18th if I don't go into labor before. James is more excited now that he knows that he'll be here by Monday....the waiting game will soon be over! I just really can't wait to see what he will look like. Will he be a mini James??

Today I couldn't really sit still. I am going to make sure I take it easy tomorrow. James and I reorganized our office today. It looks great! YAY! But, if I would have gone into labor, I would have just died! In other news, James is laid off. Stinkers for money but we are hoping that it won't be too long. We've been trying to think of a new tv series that we want to watch or something for lazy take it easy days....maybe Heroes. Hmmm. (Yeah, Erin, we gave up on The O.C. We couldn't handle that Marisa drama. :P)

Someone emailed me this today. I thought it was funny--click to enlarge. Now, I love being a loving wife and domestic enough to make dinner and keep my house clean....but geez!

Snow Day!

Berlin went sledding yesterday! I took her to Grandma's house and we bundled her up and took her outside. She had so much fun with the snow that she didn't want to come back in! Here are a few pictures.

Yippeee for sledding!
Wow, grandma is strong!
Snowangels? or grandma is pooped? :P
Weee!
Fun times!

Egan 9 Months.

The very mobile Egan! You can't tell in these 2 pictures, but this guy is a mover! I've got more to post but figured Tim and Cody might want to show off their cutie boy on their blog :) . Amazing how fast they grow up!

New Years Experiment.

On New Year's Eve, Chrissy braved the cold for me to try out some different lighting...I just now got to playing with them. I've also been checking out new textures and decided to try it on these. Here you go Chrissy! Sorry it took so long!!

Two weeks and counting!

We went to Snowfest in Frankenmuth for a little while this last weekend. It was okay...there were too many people and it made it hard to enjoy. While we were there we saw this very sad horse posted below. He looked bummed. I had to take a picture.

Yesterday, Berlin kept bugging me to take her picture. OH no, what have I done?! Ha! She loves getting her picture taken. And she likes to see herself on video, so she was very disappointed when the camcorder she brought me to record her on had a dead battery. So, she sat and watched some home videos of herself for a half hour. She laughs and bounces up and down while pointing out all the people in the videos. Pretty entertaining for me to see.

ONLY 2 weeks until my due date! Yipee!

Berlin at Snowfest and the sad horse.
Berlin posing for me :)
She was making all sorts of faces. Which usually led to her scary face. Silly kid.
She was shaking and dancing for the camera. Then run over and see what she looked like.

To see larger picture, click on picture.