Zade pictures

Zade: 12 minutes old:

Zade and his daddy:

Zade after his first bath:

ZADE!

Our litle bundle of wonderfulness is here! he's so absolutely adorable! will post pics once we upload them. :)
8 lbs, 11 oz, 18.9 in, born on 08/08/08.

Wedding pictures

These are from last year, but since I didn't have a blog then, you get the pictures now. :) I still can't believe we're married... or that someone as incredibly amazing as Jacob actually exists...




The getaway car:

Oh, baby!

Like father, like son: Here's a pic of the COOOOOOLEST maternity shirt ever! I'll get a better one posted when I have someone around to take the picture for me...





and a side view of the HUGE belly:





and the crib, all ready for the baby:

I went to the doctor last week... I was 3 cm dialated and 80% effaced, so that's good progress. We'll see the status again today... I'm hoping the baby will come THIS WEEKEND!! Crazy, eh? But I've been having lots of stronger contractions, so I'm hopeful.

my own boss!

YEAH! Talk about amazing. I'm gone from my day job of editing, and now am working as a freelancer. At the moment, I have two graphic design jobs going, which are actually lots of fun. It's the best.

And I have to say, it's amazing how God will bless you before you even get to the point of needing the blessing. I've been trying to find some sort of work that I could do from home, so I could be a mom all day, and here, before the first baby is even born, I have three different opportunities set up--the two graphic design jobs and an occasional writing job (for a magazine). It's amazing.

Italy!

ITALY!
For our (somewhat delayed) honeymoon, we went to ITALY ! Wow. Amazing. Incredible.

Rome
Our first stop, and my favorite city. It’s a crazy blend of modern and ancient—behind the roads filled with Mini Coopers (and even smaller cars) are ruins of one sort or another, in various stages of excavation or renovation.
The Colosseum is… wow, just amazing. During the day and the night.
The tour bus brought us back to the hotel in the early afternoon, but we wanted to go back to see the Colosseum at night, so we hopped on a random city bus. We were so far from the city center that we weren’t on any of the maps, so we had no idea if it was the right bus or not. But it got us to a station that actually was on the map and, with some help from the locals, we made our way to Rome.

Florence
Every day we were in Italy, we had perfect, beautiful weather—except the day we were in Florence. Fortunately, there’s this great little church (that used to be a granary) where we took refuge for a while.
And all the pictures, statues, and other replicas of Michelangelo’s David are NOTHING compared to the real thing, standing in all its glory at the Accademia Museum. Wow.
The Duomo was amazing, too, and the Gates of Paradise were breathtaking. Astounding.

Pisa
The Leaning Tower is pretty cool in person, even though it’s such a touristy place. The baptistery (for which the tower was built) is cool because it was built out of some other building—you can see words and random carvings from the previous building in the stones they re-used.

Venice
Ahh, Venice. And, yes, it does look just like the movies show it, at least from the waterfront. All the streets are about the size of alleys in America, since everything is so crowded together. We took a fun gondola ride and got to be in the boat with the musicians!