Simplicity Photography Class Week 2

Week 5 f/5.6 1/160s ISO-200
This bracelet is actually one that my sister-in-law made for me when I had my baby boy. His initials RJM mixed with his birthstone and mine.

Day 4: Collage of Where you Are Shot in Manual

Day 3 Night time shot This is a picture of my screen saver
Shot in Shutter priority
f/36 13 sec shutter speed
1600-iso

Day 2 Option 2 Frame Image

Shot in Manual Mode

Day 1: Water w/ Slow Shutter Speed

Shutter Mode: f/18 .80s ISO-1600

Week 1 Simplicity Photography

Day 1: Shallow Depth of Field

Day 1: Deep Depth of Field

Day 2 Light/Perspective Challange

Day 3 Deep Depth of Field

Day 3 Shallow Depth of Field

Day 4 Contemplate your Shot

Day 5: Snapshot of your life

So Excited

I was featured on Simplicity for one of my Photographs I took during her class and I am super pumped. Please check it out here:
http://faith-simplicity.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-heart-friday.html

Fix It Friday #82

Here http://www.iheartfaces.com/2011/01/photo-editing-fun-fix-it-friday-82/#more-3695 I was given a picture to edit for friday and I am super pumped about how the picture turned out. I did a Hue & Saturation on the picture, and used Everyday Elements Actions Deep Clean 1 & 2, Coffeeshop Blog's Johnna's Memories of Sunshine, sharpened the picture and added Coffeeshop Blog's Web Drop Shadow. In the end I am happy with the picture I ended up with. So without further ado here is the SOOC and the Final Picture!

SOOC

Edited Picture

Photography Class Week 1 Day 1

First I need to start my post with more pictures of my baby and family at Christmas and then we can get to the Photography class pictures:


I am taking another photography workshop from http://faith-simplicity.blogspot.com/ and for this week's Day 1 assignment we had to take a picture of something in an area that has light from a window or door. And take one picture with a small aperture and one with a large aperture. I decided to take a picture of my sweet baby boy's shoes. I love these shoes they always look super cute on him. So here is the picture. The first one is SOOC-straight out of the camera and the second one edited with a boost, and a texture added.

SOOC:

Edited:

Sorrow

So I guess I should start this post with the fact that this is definitely a really hard thing to go through. I guess I never really thought I would ever have to deal with something like this and the fact that I am is hard. Last night I began spotting and starting to cramp but wasn't too worried because it wasn't much, then this morning I woke up and took another pregnancy test and ended up with a negative test as well as much more blood. I scheduled a Doctor's appointment and we hurried and got there. I went to give the Doctor's a urine sample and looked to find much more blood so I knew...we went in to the room and the Doctor came in with the news that I had miscarried. She said my numbers were down completely to 0 and that they would not have to do any procedure. The Doctor than continued to inform me that it is very common for normal healthy women to have one miscarriage and that they do not show any concerns until it has been more than one miscarriage. I'm heartbroken. Heartbroken for myself, heartbroken for my husband, heartbroken for my son, and mostly heartbroken for my baby. I loved that baby even though I never got to see him or her. I consider the baby my baby and it will always be my baby.I know that one day I will be able to go up to heaven and see my sweet baby with Jesus and that makes me happy. I know there is a reason for everything and I trust that God will see me through.

Unfortunately I had a feeling something just wasn't right with this pregnancy. I had taken a pregnancy test and it got dark but then every day after would get lighter and lighter. With my pregnancy with Jay Jay this didn't happen. I would take a pregnancy test everyday and it would get darker and darker. I just don't know what else to say about this right now I know I just need time to mourn, but I do know that I will see my baby one day.

I'm Prego!!!

4 Weeks Pregnant

How your baby's growing:

This week marks the beginning of the embryonic period. From now until 10 weeks, all of your baby's organs will begin to develop and some will even begin to function. As a result, this is the time when she'll be most vulnerable to anything that might interfere with her development.Right now your baby is an embryo the size of a poppy seed, consisting of two layers: the epiblast and the hypoblast, from which all of her organs and body parts will develop. The primitive placenta is also made up of two layers at this point. Its cells are tunneling into the lining of your uterus, creating spaces for your blood to flow so that the developed placenta will be able to provide nutrients and oxygen to your growing baby when it starts to function at the end of this week. Also present now are the amniotic sac, which will house your baby; the amniotic fluid, which will cushion her as she grows; and the yolk sac, which produces your baby's red blood cells and helps deliver nutrients to her until the placenta has developed and is ready to take over this duty.

That's right I am pregnant with baby #2. Randy and I are super excited that we are expecting a baby. We actually planned on getting pregnant but honestly thought it would take longer than it did. With Jay Jay it took 4 months of trying but this one we got pregnant right away. I knew I was pregnant before I even took the pregnancy test because I was exhausted and taking naps when Jay Jay slept, which I rarely do, and I had a super duper sore throat in the mornings which I had with Jay Jay. I took a pregnancy test around 4 days before my period was due and received a super faint positive result and took several pregnancy tests the days following and say the second line get darker and darker. We are so excited also because this baby's due date is September 11th, 2011, which is Jay Jay's birthday.We can't wait for this baby to be here and know that Jay Jay will be a wonderful big brother!