Lightning Smiles

Capturing Sarah's smile is like taking a picture of lightning. You have to be quick and you never know if it's going to happen or not. She smiles only when she's asleep, in that eye-fluttery, mouth moving time when I feel I'm eavesdropping on her heavenly conversations. After carrying her all day, trying to keep her entertained, you'd think once she fell asleep I'd want to put her down. But it is in those quiet, still moments, I want to hold her the most. I sometimes feel the veil is very thin for her, and these smiles are a window into her other world.

Look Who's Awake

I'm not sick of looking at her so how could you be? I don't think 12 minutes of her life has ever been so well documented. I took 67 pictures, some are blurry, some identical, most are cute. Here are some of my favorites.

And, in related news, she had her 2 week check-up on Monday. She gained 13 oz and grew 2 inches in 2 weeks! Glad all this feeding isn't for nothing. Her doctor says she's perfect! I knew that already but it's nice to hear it from someone who delivers babies for a living.

Watching Football

There's nothing like falling asleep during a good football game. Justin does it out of relaxation, I do it out of boredom. I think Sarah looks bored so she's like me. But I think this may be a recurring pose for these two this season.

And another one of her sleeping. She actually is awake a lot, but she gets annoyed pretty quick with the camera when she's awake, thus more sleeping pictures.

Happy Birthday Mom

My mom turned 60 on Thursday! I'm so proud of her. There are only 6 candles on this cake so I guess at a certain age, one candle represents 10 years. And that's Sarah, not wanting to be left out of the action.

Justin has a good non-smiling face, doesn't he? If I'm not smiling in pictures, I just look ornery. And if I'm smiling, I look cheesy. I chose cheesy this time.

One week old

Is it weird I already am afraid she's growing up too fast? Sure her clothes don't fit and that binky is super huge for her face but I like her just the way she is. Before she was born, I was nervous for the newborn stage, so fragile, so needy. But now I want her to stay little forever!

This is how she sleeps most of the time. I think she's trying to cover her ears.

Going for a walk

Saturday I really needed to get out of the house so we went up to Hobble Creek so Justin could fish and Sarah and I could enjoy the rare 70 degree weather. It may be our first and last outing til spring.

Sarah makes this face a lot. This time it was because the loud lady in the parking lot was annoying her. She annoyed us all.

Ah, far away from annoying lady taking a million pictures of dead trees.

See if you can spot Justin. Justin went down to the river whilst I walked on the path. On our way back, we passed Justin up. I wasn't looking for him and I'm surprised I found him. Atleast I think it's him.

Sixth File, Sixth Picture

I've been tagged. Here's the 6th picture in my 6th file on my computer. It's from August 17, 2006, my graduation day from BYU when I got my BA in Communications. Justin and I had been married for just 3 months and my parents were still living in Alaska. In fact, we left that next day to visit them as my graduation present. I forgot how short my hair was.

Now I tag Meredith, Nicky, Annie and Kirsta (and anyone who wants to)

Question for you experienced bloggers

So I was wondering why some pictures I post will link to their full-size version and others don't. I thought it was the small ones that do but I'm finding that's not always the case. How do I do it?