Wednesday, December 31, 2008

We're home!

After a LOOOOONG drive home, we are finally here! Check back soon for photos from our trip to Kansas, our Christmas with Papa Dan & Andy, and our Christmas with Beanie & Tim.
Here's just a taste of our visit...nearly 50 people in one house (with one bathroom) for a day of Christmas festivities...The Lilly Christmas!!!

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Get Ready!

We're still in Kansas, and I don't have much time to blog right now, but I have TONS of pictures from our visit to post as soon as I get home later this week. We're probably gonna get home on Wednesday, go to Ann & Andrew's to ring in the new year, hang out with Beanie (Maxine) & Tim on New Years Day, and hopefully have time to recouperate before Matt goes back to work on Friday.

Lilly has been sick our entire visit with a fever and nasty cough, and today her fever broke. She's in a much better mood today. So of course, Jude just spiked a fever about an hour ago and he started couhing and snotting all over the place. Yippee.

Pray for us! Now back to the food, family and fun...

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Happy Birthday, Jesus!

We're off to Kansas...see you next year!

Monday, December 22, 2008

Merry Christmas (the first 2 of 7)

Saturday was the kickoff of our Christmas gathering season. Matt, Lilly, Judah & I started the day with our Christmas, and then we headed over to Mom & Dad's for the Chaput extravaganza. It was great to have all 14 of us in one place at the same time. I took a ton of photos...to see the slideshow, click here.



Yeah, we know we're normal.

I'm a fan.

Last Friday night, Matt and I met up with Jessie & BJ in Kokomo to attend the Behold the Lamb concert by Andrew Peterson & Friends. It was AWESOME! I am now a fan of all of these anointed artists. I've spent way too much time today downloading their albums, checking out their sites and blogs, and learning their songs. I'm hooked. If you want to hear some amazing musicians, check out:

www.caedmonscall.com
www.andygullahorn.com
www.brotherhenry.com
www.bebonorman.com
www.andrewosenga.com
www.andrew-peterson.com
www.jillphillips.com
www.benshive.com

Many of the artists have music availble for free downloads. Check them out! We will be listening to these guys on our drive to Kansas on Thursday...we can't wait!

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Blue Steel--Le Tigre--Magnum


Lilly was my model yesterday. She is pretty much the most beautiful little girl I have ever seen! You can view her gallery here (to see the images in the gallery larger, just click on them).

Baby Prison

Here's what Judah did during Lilly's bathtime a couple nights ago...Apparently baby prison isn't all that bad.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

FYI

I was trying to update my header/background. Long story short...I don't like what I did, and I can't get back to what I had. So we're going to be boring on here for a little while until I build up the inspiration for something new.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

I saw a funny/quirky/goofy musical last night on Hulu called Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. You should totally watch it. If you know and like Joss Whedon's stuff, you'll like this (he wrote/directed it). Featuring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion & Felicia Day.

Good Times.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Lilly's 1st Christmas Program


Lilly had her first Christmas program at GK this past Tuesday. She was beautiful in her new sparkly shoes and tutu/skirt! She felt VERY fancy! Her class sang 2 songs, and they were the cutest little pine trees in the building! Matt taped the concert, but we have not had time to figure out how to get the videos from Ann's camera onto the computer. "I'm a Little Pine Tree"
I'm a little pine tree as you can see
All the other pine trees are bigger than me
Maybe when I grow up then I'll be
A GREAT BIG Merry Christmas tree!True to 2 1/2 year old form, Lilly pretty much stood there silently for the majority of her songs, and the LOUDLY sang them ALL THE WAY HOME...and ALL DAY agter the show. But not on stage. Of course. We love our Lilly girl! (Judah was a prince at the concert, too. He sat in his seat without a peep the whole time! We love him, too!)

Monday, December 01, 2008

Kate Podjan Photography Winter Discounts

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Our Little Goobers

Lilly & Jude spent a large part of the morning playing on the floor together. Lilly loves her brother, and he lights up whenever she is in the room. We had some fun this morning!

Friday, November 21, 2008

More Photos of Logan

Jude and I visited Nic, Jen & Logan (& Lisa, Jen's mom) at the hospital this morning. I've updated Logan's slideshow with more images for you to see. Click on the link and enjoy!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Logan Nicolas Chaput

Logan was born today, at 4:40 p.m. He weighs 8 pounds and is 21 1/2 inches long. Here are a few photos from today...more to come!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Flashback to June 2007

I was organizing my computer files yesterday when I came upon these images that I took in June of 2007. A year and a half ago! I shot them in RAW format and at the time I didn't have the capability to convert them to jpegs, so they just sat on my computer, unviewed. When I opened them up, it was like when I used to lose film, and then develop it years after taking the pictures!Most of the pictures were taken on a trip to Kansas that I took with Lilly and my parents. She was teething hardcore, and if you look closely, you can see her massively swollen gums where her molars were coming in. Poor girl! There are also pictures of Nic and Jen shortly after they got engaged (...and now they're getting ready to welcome Logan into the world...probably TOMORROW!). The rest of the pictures are of my mom, my cousin Brandy's little boy, Kaden, and Lilly's forst tractor ride. Enjoy!