23/365: Fun With Blood Transfuions

Happy Halloween! I had to get a blood transfusion. How was yours?

Just a snapshot Jeremy took with his phone...

ROFL

22/365: Active Labor

I can't believe I'm putting this online, but Jeremy took it and it's too funny to keep to myself.

It's me - in active labor.... LOL Well, it wasn't so funny then...

This was actually taken on the 29th...

21/365: Alive.

This is me, post-giving birth and near death experience (#3 in the past year). Still alive, though, and now I have a son. *happiness*

This is the first time I got to see him, several hours after he was born. They put him on my stomach when he was born but I wasn't there for that. LOL

Ignore the medical waste bag - gross... LOL

Jesse was born at 3:37PM, 6lbs 5oz., 19.5 inches long.

20/365: Waiting...

Just waiting for the nurses to come in and give me Cervidil... Waiting, waiting, waiting....

Gotta love hospital rooms - they have such big windows at the hospital in my town...

19/365: Pre-Pregnancy

This is me a year ago - just a few months before we got pregnant. Will I ever be small again? Probably - in a while...

18/365: Snowy Trees

Taken last winter... Yay for snow - we hardly ever have it!

17/365: Springtime Butterfly

I love butterflies...

16/365: Pregnancy Fun

"A grand adventure is about to begin."
-- Winnie the Pooh


Jeremy took this with my cell phone. I was actually about 7 months pregnant in this picture, taken on August 26, 2009. Can't believe he'll be here next week!

15/365: Hidden Sun

Well, it's there somewhere... ;-)

"Though the sun is gone, I have a light." ~Kurt Cobain

Posted a day early because I won't have access to the Internet tomorrow!

14/365: Last of It's Kind

...for a while, anyway. This is probably the last self-portrait we'll take (we always take a picture like this when we go somewhere new or just randomly at family events, etc.) without our baby. I'm 7 (almost 8) months pregnant in this picture (though you can't see my stomach) and this was taken at a family get together back in August (22nd, 2009 - exactly two months ago today - how weird).

13/365: Favorite Pasttime

Chloe's favorite thing to do is sleep. She is almost ALWAYS sleeping. That's cool, though - it means she's always available to cuddle, and she's not getting into trouble.

12/365: Jeremy at...

"Jeremy at Shoemaker's Cave" (Full Title)

Shoemaker's Cave is a place on a wildlife reserve near our town - there is actually a cave there (not in the photo) where it is said that a man hiding out from the war (not exactly sure which one...) lived in the cave and would make/mend shoes for locals (there used to be a village nearby) in exchange for food and supplies. Kind of odd - makes you wonder how he knew who to trust... Anyway, that's the tale as I heard it. I'm sure there are other versions...

This photo was taken yesterday on our last outing to the woods before Jesse is born (and probably for a good while after he arrives!). I'm glad I felt like going.

11/365: Weogufka Creek...

 "Weogufka Creek at Shoemaker's Cave" (Full Title)

The creek the flows near Shoemaker's Cave (see October 20th's post for the story of the cave).

This photo was taken today on our last outing to the woods before Jesse is born (and probably for a good while after he arrives!). I'm glad I felt like going.

10/365: Broken Hallelujah

 Originally taken on Feb. 22, 2007; the pasture in front of my house and the horses having a morning gathering. It was actually really foggy and early when I took this shot (6 something in the morning), so I increased contrast in this photo to offset the fog a bit, but hopefully leaving a bit of a dreamy feel in the background. The title is taken from Jeff Buckley's song of the same name.

9/365: Pit Stop

This is actually an older image I found while browsing folders on my computer. This was taken this past spring, randomly, while walking in the woods with Jeremy.

8/365: Old Posts

 Old fence posts... Manual b/w conversion and vignette in Photoshop, as well as some light editing using action sets.

Pictures of old things tend to remind me of this quote: "You never grow old - you become old by not continuing to grow." ~Unknown

7/365: Out of Place?

 Not a creature I'd expect to see on a cool, cloudy day this time of year but hey - there he was...

6/365: Naptime Pup (PS Action Play)

 Playing around with actions in PS. Oh, and this is my dog, Scrappy. Different, very random actions downloaded from: deviantART.

5/365: That's Entertainment...

 

...well, for me, at least! I can occupy myself for days with this contraption, with work OR play. Just a crazy shot of my laptop, reworked using PS and some action presets.

4/365: JER.

 My hubby. 9 years, still looks like a kid. LOL.

3/365: Candy!

 This is Blow Pop mini-candy. It SUCKS. Just shot down into the foil packaging with the flash turned on slow sync.

2/365: Yellow

 Yellow wildflower (at some point I'll get out my field guide and find out what it is, specifically). I had forgotten how many pretty wildflowers bloom during this time of the year.

1/365: In the Woods

 
This is (obviously) the first shot I uploaded to the 365 Project page. Being nine months pregnant, I really miss going on hikes/walks in the woods. I can't wait to be able to go again. I never thought of myself as taking the ability to do these types of things for granted, but maybe I did - at least a little.