Mom talk: Your favorite baby photo

This week over at Our Life: Narrated by Lacey…. It’s Mom talk time! It’s an excuse just to talk about our babies. This weeks topic is: Your favorite baby photo. The first that came to my mind:


{Ruari at 4 months}

I just love this photo. She was really changing and her personality was really starting to develop. She was also just starting to sleep a little better. 😉

Wanna talk?


Categories: photography


Photo overload: Lovely weekend

Mike and I headed over to Bellingham, WA to visit his family for a couple of days. We went to the farmer’s market, enjoyed Ski to Sea, and had a nice little break. Here’s an explosion of photos. Please feel free to link up your Memorial Day weekend post below. 🙂

{Angus and his treat}

{Baby (23 weeks) lounging at the farmer’s market}
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{Organic veggies}

{Super tasty cupcakes}

{Looks a little like doo doo…. but, man it was tasty! Chocolate peanut butter.}

{Feeding herself}

{Some tasty coffee}

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{New baby}

{Crash}

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{Sleep}

{Who’s there?}

{Got a picture of Mike!}

Mike’s aunt thought the bow headband I had on Ruari last time was WAY too girly. SO, she got her a little toddler Mariner’s hat. She looked so cute! But, I still love the girly bows!

{Silly}

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Categories: family


Monday’s My Pick: baby headband

I absolutely LOVE these little patterns! Very sweet! You get 2 patterns with this purchase: one for the headband and one for the flower. AND: They don’t care if you use this pattern to create and sell your own headbands on Etsy. 🙂 Now, while I don’t have any plans to start a baby shop… I do believe this headband would be fabulous on Ruari’s baby head! Please check out their shop for more amazing patterns!


{Two patterns: Snazziedrawers}


{Two patterns: Snazziedrawers}


{Ruari at 22 weeks}

Ruari hopes you all had a great weekend!

Categories: Uncategorized


Time for the Vote off!

We’ve had 4 challenges and now it’s time to pick an overall winner for this month! There will be 1 week to vote. Here are the lovely photos you have to choose one winner from…

1) Joy!

{“Joy” winner: Monster from Six Cherries on Top!}

2) Curiosity…

{“Curiosity” winner: Melissa 4 Ladies and a Patient Man}
3) Blue.

{Courtney at Love Love}

4) Fingerprint

Please Vote! Voting will end on June 4th, 2010 at 11:59 pm. Get your friends and family to vote! 🙂

What will the winner of this vote win you ask? The winner will win a coin purse from the Pepper and Farley store (retail $20). The winner will get to choose a personal photo to customize the coin purse! How about a nice photo of your baby on the coin purse? *note: fabric will be random and chosen by Pepper and Farley. 🙂


{Pouch/coin purse: Pepper and Farley}

If you want to get your own… head on over to Pepper and Farley. Send her an e-mail if you’d like your own customized coin purse.

AND: The winner of this vote off will go up against the winner’s of future vote offs in 6 months…. Nice little prize to go with that. 🙂

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If you have an Etsy shop and would like to sponsor the next vote off in a month: please drop me a line! I ♥ sponsors and will show your shop some love for your contribution. 🙂
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Categories: photography


And the "Fingerprint" winner is…


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Kate from Webster’s Updates! We really loved all of the fingerprints, but this one was our pick! So sweet. We loved it!
Congrats Kate! What a very sweet photo! You have a wonderful blog! Thanks so much for playing! Please check her out!

Sadly, there are no prizes this week. Just the excitement of winning! 😉 Feel free to grab a “fact: I’m awesome” button below. Because: you ARE awesome! And, thank you SO much for participating!

AND: you can click here to vote for your favorite photo from the last 4 challenges! The winner will win a sweet little prize. Click here to find out what that is!

The Paper Mama awesome button

Please check out this weeks photo challenge: “Three…

Guess what…. after 4 challenges there will be a week long vote off of the winners from the 4 previous challenges… The winner of the vote off will get a small prize! 3 more challenges to go after this next one…

Winners so far:
– Three: … no one yet …
– In the sun: … no one yet …
– Sleepy: … no one yet …
– Talented: … no one yet…

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If you have an Etsy shop and would like to give away an item as a prize… please drop me a line! I ♥ sponsors and will show your shop some love for your contribution. 🙂
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Categories: photography


Photo Challenge: Three…

*Note: I’m posting this one day early because I will be so busy this weekend! And, I know all of you will too. Take some awesome photos on this holiday weekend!


This weeks challenge
: Three…

Since this is a mama blog all the challenges will be based around your children. Now, I’m not too picky on what you call your children. As far as I’m concerned my cats and dog are my kids too!

The challenge: Take or find a photo that has three of something in it. Three flowers… a three year old… the number three… be creative! Try to get your kid (or furry kid) in the photo somehow. 🙂 My baby is in my belly for my photo. If you feel an explanation is needed for your “Three” photo… go ahead! I’d love to read it. 🙂

Here’s my example of Three:

{Mike and I. I’m just over 33 weeks pregnant.}

In this photo I am 33 weeks pregnant (almost 34 weeks). Little did I know that in 3 short weeks I would be rushed to the hospital in an ambulance to have an appendectomy turned emergency c-section. Basically my uterus tore and I was bleeding internally. I wrote a birth story when I first started this blog. I think I’ll re-write it. I just wanted to get it out on my blog when I didn’t have any readers. Sort of a way for me to cope with what happened. 🙂

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There always has to be rules… I know, boring right? But, it’s to help me and you. 🙂 Click on the link for more details… Each entry does need to link back to my blog… Click here to see last weeks winner… All photo entries need to be in by 11:59 PM Pacific Time on June 4th…
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Guess what…. after 4 challenges there will be a week long vote off of the winners from the 4 previous challenges… The winner of the vote off will get a small prize! 3 more challenges to go after this one…

Winners so far:
– Three: … no one yet …
– In the sun: … no one yet …
– Sleepy: … no one yet …
– Talented: … no one yet…

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If you have an Etsy shop and would like to give away an item as a prize… please drop me a line! I ♥ sponsors and will show your shop some love for your contribution. 🙂
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The Paper Mama



Categories: photography