Announcing Our Little Angel

A safer blog....thanks to kendra! :)

After reading my friend's blog posting about putting safety first, I thought it was time to start making our blog "safer" as well.You can get some useful links from this lady named Urth Mama, who Kendra found about taking steps to make your blog safer. This lady,Urth Mama, actually had pictures of her little girl stolen off of her blog, and the lady who stole them was pretending to be the little girl's mom by posting them on her own blog! Pretty scary huh? I do realize that I could choose to take our blog to private, but like Kendra said....I like that I have had the opportunity to visit many other blogs to learn crafts, recipes, touching stories, digital scrapbooking ideas, etc. So, for now we are staying public and I have quite a few things on my to do list! :)

To Do List:

1. Disable the right click option on your blog: You can go to this site to get the html code to copy and paste to your blog to disable right-click on your blog too! I was able to disable the RIGHT CLICK on our blog successfully today!

2. Make your pictures un-clickable: go here to get directions! I do have to admit that I was able to do this on an earlier posting, but then I tried to go and edit all of maya's newborn pics to make them un-clickable and I somehow messed up the html so badly that my whole blog's layout was ruined....hence, the re-post of maya's pics. So, I still need to figure out how to do this one! :)

3. Watermark your photos....I am still trying to come up with a sweet design for our own personalized watermark!

4. Upload pics to flickr first....it seems like a good idea....but I just don't know how realistic this is for me, it seems like an extra step and I want to be able to keep up with postings! :)

5. The tip on not using your real names, and using nicknames instead seems really hard! We have already disclosed all of our names and I read somewhere that you can somehow save a copy of your blog to your computer and then go through and use a software like microsoft word to replace your names...but that sounds really really tedious!

6. Start tracking who is visiting your blog here are 2 free site you can visit:

stat counter and site meter

7. Read the advice Urth Mama gives here: she is an attorney turned stay at home mom and has great advice!

And of course I couldn't post without posting pictures of our sweetheart!

sitting in her swing...she still isn't quite sure if she likes it!

notice her little hoodie is so huge on her and it is newborn size! :) it comes all the way down to her little thighs! and the lack of booties because she kicks them off ALL the time!

sitting in her papasan chair with her glow seahorse playing her lullabys

I found her like this...with her ears covered! silly girl!

smiley girl

sleeping beauty...just look at those lips!

our little polar bear, so precious

the silbers

wrapped around daddy's finger already!

not quite sure what she thinks about posing for pictures for mommy

P.S. I FINALLY figured out how to make the pics unclickable! (now if I can only figure out how I ended up moving the pictures to the left hand side of the screen instead of the center! argh! somehow the first picture is still centered....hmmmm....maybe tomorrow I can tackle that issue! :)

RE-POSTED...Maya's newborn pics taken by mom!

So, before Maya was born I was determined to be able to photograph her for her newborn pictures all by myself. I did a lot of research, acquired advice from my good friend Ashley who has experience photographing newborns, and thought it would be relatively easy! I rented a portraiture lens for my new DSLR camera and knew that the timeframe for capturing good "sleepy" pictures was within the first 2 weeks of life. Well....it was MUCH harder than I thought it would be! I bought a few things off of Etsy for her to wear, I made sure to feed her to the brim, let her sleep for about an hour to get into a deeper state, turned up the thermostat, had her room set up as my studio, and wouldn't you believe that everytime I took her into her room and removed the blankets she woke up! ARGH! Plus, many of you moms know how hard it is to plan anything with a newborn! I really needed the natural light, so if we didn't plan ahead enough we would miss the daylight! And...the older she got, the more her skin started to peel, and she started getting the little newborn acne....to say the least it was definitely a feat! But...we saved a ton of money and hopefully my skills will only get better from here on out! So...I have a sneak peak of what we got....and I do have to admit that they turned out really well! I am saving some of my favorite ones until I get her announcements sent out!

yay! I figured out how to post to the blog from my phone!!!

sporting one of her many accessories