Guest Post: Photo Friday by Scott

ScottScott is a drafter, writer, gamer, animal lover, dreamer. If I haven’t seen the entire world by the time I’m dead, then what was the point of life? People, places and all other things out there, I want to experience. Mysteries and adventure could sustain me better than any food I’ve tried yet. You can find me, sparingly, at twitter.

 

 
 

 

 

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As you will see, I have absolutely no aptitude for photography. I have an old pink Sony camera (Why is it pink? I don’t think I trust you enough to tell you that.) and all I do is point it at things and click. That’s actually the same philosophy I hold for FPS games. Anyway, we went out for the first of (hopefully) many walks around the neighborhood with the new baby. The first photo was taken a few days before and is secretly a filler picture to make it seem like I’m better at this than I really am.

I took a bunch like this, some were too light, some too dark, this was about the best of them. I was trying to catch her moving, but there would have been less motion blur during an earthquake so mommy obliged and stopped long enough for this one.

Here’s a couple of mommy’s face. We have wildly differing opinions of these pictures.

Can you tell what this one is of? I thought it would be cool to try, but it didn’t work out so well. There is a baby hiding somewhere on screen, see if you can spot him!

And here’s the baby, all comfy in his stroller. He slept through the whole thing, which makes me wonder about the point of taking him on these walks as of yet, but fresh air never hurt anyone. Unless they were allergic, and thankfully he is not.

And a better shot of the entire stroller contraption. So much plastic and fabric went into this thing, just so a baby can sleep through all exposure to the outdoors. Oh well, it glides smoother than you can imagine.

We’ve managed to get out to a handful of parks, either pushing him in this beast, or carrying him in his car seat (ouch). We’re trying to be more active and healthy for his sake if not our own. Maybe someday it’ll work out, but I just enjoy these moments with my new family.

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♥Kendra

 

 

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Happy Mother’s Day

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It’s my first Mother’s Day ever!

I was planning to come here and write about being a mother, how much I love it and how great it is.

But, my biggest blog rule is to be honest and true to myself.

So while I’m not ready to go in depth and share lots of details yet…I’ve talked in depth about my depression on here. Well, it’s not  any better. On top of severe clinical depression, an anxiety disorder with almost daily panic attacks, I’m now dealing with postpartum depression as well as the stress of normal life. I’m pretty bogged down in so many emotions lately I haven’t had proper time to process being a mother.

I love my newborn son, I’m so happy he’s finally in this world. I love watching him sleep and to see how happy he is when his Daddy is holding him or singing to him, but I’m not ready for myself to talk about my emotions on being a mother beyond that just yet.

So for today, I’m going to just go hang out with my two guys and try to enjoy the day.

♥Kendra

 

 

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Photo Friday Anniversary Date

As a preface, I wrote this post on April 27th and I have (hopefully!) had the baby by the time this gets posted, however my post is written in the present tense for the end of April.

At the end of April, it was our 8 year anniversary! In honor of the day, I wrote my Monthly Tips about Love and Relationships, which was a lot of fun to write and share! (I hope they helped you out some.) Since we’re expecting a baby any day now and Scott is still looking for a job, we decided to have a low key date and just do something together out of the house.

First, we went to a local park we hadn’t been to yet and loved it! Seems like a great little park to walk around, it has a nice lake and great areas for picnics and even a campground.

We took some more couple maternity pictures. Here are the first ones we snapped when I was 33 weeks.

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And I also used this trip to take my weekly baby bump pictures for 39 weeks! You can check out those photos here.

Here are instagrm pictures from our day too.

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♥Kendra

 

 

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