Birth Announcements and Blessing Info

Here is a look at Oliver's birth announcement for any of you that may not have seen it. I had fun sending these out when Ayden was born and decided I wanted to make sure to do them for all of my babies in the future. I was able to make it myself online and insert pictures from Oliver's newborn photo shoot. I think they turned out pretty great!


Also, for anyone who might want to come, we are holding Oliver's blessing on Sunday, July 11th at 9:00 am at our ward meeting house up here in Kaysville. If you want to come just let me know and I will get you directions. The more people the better! We would love to see all of you!

Oliver Michael Decker

I have been job shadowing with Rachael from Rachael Tyler photography these last few months and aside from having a blast learning everything I can from her and being blown away by her gorgeous photographs, I have enjoyed getting to know her and become friends. Being the sweet gal she is, she offered to take some newborn photos of Oliver for me since I don't have a studio space or nearly the amount of cute props and backdrops as she does...plus I wanted to make sure the pictures were adorable and knew she would do a great job.
We did the shoot when Oliver was only 4 days old and he was anything but enjoyable during the shoot. He cried most of the time, and even made a mess of one of her blankets when we stripped him down. In the end though she still ended up getting some beautiful shots and I am happy to be able to show off my sweet baby boy to the world! So anyhow, here they are!

Our Little Oliver's Arrival!

On Sunday, May 23rd I woke up early to the happy surprise (or at least I thought it was happy) of contractions. I was 38 weeks along in my pregnancy and I had been praying for weeks to have the baby, so I was thrilled to know I would have him in less than 24 hrs if I was lucky....

By 5 that afternoon I headed to the hospital and within an hour or two was admitted and given my epidural. Unfortunately there were a couple of hiccups in the process (at one point my contractions stopped and I had to be given pitocin) we had a healthy new baby boy at 3:10 am on Monday, May 24th. He weighed 6 lbs 12 oz and measured at 20 inches in length. He had a decent amount of golden-coppery hair, crazy long fingers and toes, a squashed little button nose, and the cutest little cry ever. He was just perfect.

We had picked out a few names prior to his birth but when ha was finally here with us neither of them seemed to fit him just right. We had joked about that happening since that was what had happened when we'd had Ayden...so we were prepared not to make a decision right away. After some discussion and pondering we decided on the name Oliver Michael Decker - we fell in love with the name Oliver for him, and chose Michael as his middle name in honor of his Grandpa George (my daddy).

Anyway, so here are some pictures of his arrival into this world. Enjoy!

Watching my contractions on the the monitor

Sleepy daddy....couldn't be because it was 2 am or anything could it? :)

Not the greatest picture of me...I sort of look high (I kind of felt that way too), but it just shows how supportive and amazing Jonathan was during the whole process

My perfect new little boy

He threw quite the fit when he arrived but we were so happy we couldn't have cared less

Proud papa with his new baby boy

Opportunity Of A Lifetime!

As a lot of you probably know I have been trying to blindly make my way into the photography business and have been lucky enough to have some opportunities to do work for friends and family, but I haven't felt like I've had the general knowledge and experience I could potentially have. After hearing about a particular photographer from my friend Laura I looked at her work and fell in love with her artistry and style and decided I'd be daring and ask her if I could job shadow with her and learn anything she had to teach.

Thankfully she said yes and I've attended several of her photo shoots since. Its been an amazing opportunity and she has been an awesome mentor, not to mention lots of fun to work with. She even let me shoot some pics with my camera at the wedding reception I attended with her (using her lenses of course cause mine kind of sucks). Most recently she was nice enough to take some photos of our newest little addition Oliver, and they turned out just incredible! I can't wait to get the edits so I can post them on here! In the mean time you can see them on her blog: http://rachaeltylerphotography.blogspot.com/2010/06/olivernewborn.html

Anyway, here are a few of the pics I took at the wedding reception I attended with her!