Jordan turned ONE!!

One month that is! Can you believe she is one month old today?! I can't either. I am so baffled by it! I can hardly believe our little bundle of joy has been with us for so long! Her daddy & I agreed last night that she gets cuter by the day. I hardly thought that was possible because she was so stinkin' cute to begin with.

While Brandon was working today my mom & I took Jordan to the mall to get her pictures taken. She was such a good sport! She was awake the whole time, didn't cry or fuss and she posed like a natural model.

She's picking up on the smiling thing. We've found a couple tickle spots that can get her to smile but for now most of her smiles come during her sleep. The other day I had her laying in the bassinet in front of me on the couch and she kept crying. I finally after quite a bit of crying gave in and picked her up. She immediately stopped crying and smiled real big like she was thinking "Ha, ha! I fooled you! I was only crying because I wanted you to pick me up not because anything was wrong and you fell for it!"

Decorating the Laundry Room

Our laundry room is also the entry way as you come in our back door. We hadn't really done anything with the area yet and it really needed something. We got to work hanging things and cleaning the room up and it looks so much more comforting when you walk into our house. It's funny how hanging two things on the wall can cozy a room up as much as these did. I feel much better about people coming in through that door.

This one here I ordered at an Uppercase Living party my friend Katie back in April or May. Once I saw it in the catalog I knew the perfect place in my house and I HAD to have it. Ha! It took us until this past weekend to get it up. How long is that? Five months?! But just like I thought, it's perfect in that spot right above the washer & dryer.

We hung this one right above the stairs and it's pretty much the first thing you see as you walk in the door. This was a gift from Brandon for Valentine's Day about three years ago. He is absolutely the best at picking out gifts! Here is a close up so you can see the pictures better.

It feels so cozy in there now! I love it!

Going on a Picnik!!

I found this new program on the internet to edit photos! I have been playing around with it all morning and having a blast! I've always wanted Photoshop but it's not really a priority thing for us to purchase so we haven't, but in the meantime, this program will do! It's called Picnik and it's FREE!! Here is another picture that I played with too. This was just a sample photo they had on the site.

This may "enhance" my posts! Instead of boring just plain ol' pictures like I usually have I can get all fancy shmancy now! This is so much fun! I highly recommend it for those of you who don't have photoshop or any other photo editor program; this one is easy to use. And you can do more than those above. I was just liking this style for now.