What was I thinking?

So...funny story. I wish I could tell the story before you saw the pictures, sadly it looks like my poor baby is being tortured. Just hold on...don't call child protective services. So, my sister Cassidie, who is a senior in high school, really wants to be a photographer. She had interned with Kathryn Michaels who apparently shot many cute pics of tiny babies. Cass thought she could give it a shot, and I thought hey... save money on studio pics...give her some practice...everybody wins, right? So Cass set up her own studio with lights and a backdrop...pretty awesome...now all we needed was sweet little Easton minus warm cuddly sleepers and blankets. I am obviously an amateur at this whole mother thing. He was sleeping so, smooth sailing right? Negative. Had he eaten recently? Negative. Does baby Easton love hangin out nekkid? Negative. So needless to say, I got him all ready to go and he wakes up. Oh...we'll try anyway. Poor kid was literally trying to crawl away. Sigh. Learned that lesson. Better luck next time I hope.

Halloween 2007

Easton was an adorable little hunter for Halloween. We got the "authentic" camo sleeper from Cabellas and my mom made his beanie that says, "I'm ready to go hunting Daddy". Isn't my mother talented? I had to post pictures since our Halloween outings didn't venture past the pediatrician's office. Randon and I didn't even dress up...LAME! I'll post a pic from last year and pretend.

Backtracking...

I was scheduled to be induced on October 15 at 9:00 pm. 22 long hours later, Easton Kenneth Russell was finally born!! It was so hard to imagine that my huge belly actually had a baby in it, I couldn't believe he was really here! He weighed 8 lbs 2 oz and was 20 inches long. After pushing for so long, I was exhausted...as you can tell in the LOVELY pic. Oh man, I just glowed with beauty didn't I? YIKES! Anyway, I was happy when I had enough rest that I could actually hold the little man. He was and still is more perfect than I could have ever imagined (as I'm sure every mom would say about their children). Easton is a great baby! He is just so calm and observant when he is awake, I'm sure he is just trying to take in all the craziness at my mom's house with so many people and so much noise. He just turned 6 weeks old yesterday...crazy! Time flies when you are sleep deprived... These days we are trying our hardest to get a smile out of him. The first time I thought he was smiling, I got so excited, I let out an excited squeal and of course scared the poor little guy and that smile was history. My mom and dad and Randon have all claimed to have gotten a smile...go figure. He teases me with little half smiles sometimes...I'll just be patient.

Here we go...

Looks like I've jumped on the blogging bandwagon! I personally love to look at blogs of family and friends to see how they are doing. Now that we have little Easton, I can at least post cute pics of him and maybe some random updates of our little family...
Check out this little cutie!