The New Addition!

At 11:45PM February 21, 2009 the Leishman Family got officially bigger by 1 girl. Sephora Violet Leishman was born at Sierra Vista Hospital at 8lbs 1 oz and 20 inches long. Mother and Baby are doing wonderful. We cut is pretty close again this time, getting to the hospital and having the baby born within an hour, just like Darcy. Tara and Sephora will be coming home tomorrow around lunch time. I'm posting a few pictures now. If the photo taking is anywhere near what I did with Darcy, there will be many thousands more to come. Sephora has near black hair, which was a major surprise after Darcy and her blond curly locks.

Just a thought

I heard this on Fox Business yesterday:

A government that embraces a policy of robbing Peter to pay Paul, can always be counted on to support Paul.

Experimental Photography

I don't usually take pictures of anything other than people, especially Darcy in particular. I think I'm up to around 4,000 of her alone. My goal is to take at least the same number of photos of Baby Girl #2, so she doesn't feel like Darcy got all the attention. Anyways, a few weeks back Dillon and I went out to shoot some experimental stuff, in particular an old beat up shack type building and an old abandoned house on a hill. Here are a few of the shots from that afternoon.

Potty Trained

Darcy started potty training about 4 weeks ago. The first week was absolutely HORRIBLE. But after that first week was over, Darcy had gotten the hang of going in the potty. We are so happy and excited that she has really grasped this potty thing, before her baby sister comes, which should be in the next week or two. Not to mention that fact that we don't have to buy all those diapers for Darcy.

Just a little fun

Darcy is such a wonderful photographic subject. I came home from work today and asked her if she would like to do a "Darcy Photo Shoot". She said, "Yeah!" So we took a few pictures just in the family room. Nothing formal or fantastic, but still fun!

Last weekend's home improvement project

Last month's gas bill was a big shock. It had jumped from $100 to $278. I know we had some cold spells, but that was about all I could take. I had already bought a fireplace insert a few weeks ago, but had not found the time to install it. After that bill came, I suddenly had plenty of time to install it. A fireplace insert is basically a large cast iron box that go into your existing fireplace. It has it's own metal chimney pipe that simply goes up the inside of the existing chimney. The fireplace insert has a door that seals and also a fan that turns on and blows the heat created from the fire in the insert out into the room. I bought this one from a guy in Atascadero. I sanded it down and re-painted it. Also polished the metal door. We fired it up and man the family room is nice and warm now. Hopefully our gas bill won't be so high next month!!

38 Weeks

38 weeks and only a couple more to go. The doctor is very mean and says that the baby could come any day, but we all know that she probably won't for at least 2 more weeks. Darcy came 3 days late. Darcy is VERY excited for her baby sister to come out of Mommy's tummy. She wants to hold her and give her hugs and kisses. The holding part might have to wait for a little bit though. We have been very busy around here lately. Working around the house, having fun with our friends John and Kari Sinner, and playing a lot.

The Leishman Family had a wonderful Christmas this year. Seth got a new lens for his camera. He has a Canon 40D and decided to buy the Canon 24-70 F/2.8 L lens for his Christmas present this year. Tara let Seth surprise her, sort of. With a big list of possible presents Seth had to find ones to purchase. He ended up getting her 2 new All-Clad pans, a Boos Block cutting board, and a Pepper Grinder. We are trying to outfit Tara's kitchen to the max!!

We have been working on the house lately. The next post I'll post the pictures from my project from last weekend.