Our First Family Portraits

We just had our first little family photo session last Saturday and thought I would share a few of my favorites.  My beautiful son is now 2 weeks old.

Welcome Baby Thomas!

I just wanted to let everyone know that little Baby Thomas finally made his entrance into the world after being 1 week late. My doctor induced me because of low fluid levels, but after 22 long hours of labor, we found out he was just not going to come the “traditional” way and I ended up having a C-section. 

I am resting up now and am quite sore from the surgery, but my mother is here taking care of me and helping me out, and then next week my husband will be taking some time off of work to help. Will and I are so happy.  Our little baby is so incredibly cute and he is such a good baby too. I never knew I could love someone so much that I just met.

I just wanted to post a few pictures and let you all know that he is here! He has strawberry blonde hair (red) like me, and bright blue eyes like his Daddy.

- Jennifer

Past Due

I had hoped to be able to announce by now that I have a beautiful little baby boy!  But unfortunately he has other plans.  I am now 2 days past my due date and feeling a bit miserable.   I just don’t think he wants to come out!

I have been having some issues with my amniotic fluid being low, so I may possibly be getting induced on Thursday the 12th if the little tyke has not made his way into the world on his own by then.

I am very excited to become a mother finally and meet this little baby.  Just wish he would stop being so comfy inside and come out.  I keep telling him he would have WAY more room to stretch out and not be so squished, but apparently he doesn’t like to listen.  Hopefully that is not a personality trait that will stick…

- J

Ourstage Competition: Thank you!

6/1/08 – THANK YOU!

I just wanted to say THANK YOU to all of you who helped support my music this week in the Ourstage.com competition.  I ended up winning the following:

Number 3 OVERALL in the Finals (there were 29, 161 entries on the site for the month of May, so 3 ain’t too shabby!)

Number 2 in Solo Instrumental (Won an award for “Top 10″ for this category)

Number 1 in Instrumental (Won the Channel Award)

Well, I have to say it was a fun day watching the stats on all of the voting for the finals. I honestly did not think I would end up in the top 20, let alone the top 10 since I was competing against all of the other number 1 winners in each genre (46 genres). But I finished at 3 overall. That is pretty cool and humbling – there were a LOT of talented people in there. I am honored to have had the chance to compete.

I just uploaded some new selections that I’ve entered for June. This will be my second month competing on ourstage, so I’m curious to try out some other genres. For May I only had entered 3 songs into Instrumental, Solo Instrumental, and New Age/World – not having any idea how I would fair in any of those categories. Now that I’ve gotten my “feet wet”, I think I will try some more aggressive categories.

As for the baby update because many of you have asked - I’m due any day now.  It’s been an extremely LONG 9 months and I’m pretty much sick of pregnancy.  My feet are swollen, my hands are swollen…well, pretty much my entire body feels swollen.  I’m achey and cranky and my poor husband even puts up with me and massages my back and my feet and makes me dinner!   Love that guy.

No baby as of yet though – I think the little guy thinks he is going to stay in my tummy forever- and that just won’t fly with me!  He has been served an eviction notice.  If he even thinks about going over my duedate I will seriously cry. 

His “official” duedate isn’t until Sunday the 8th, but I’m beginning to learn that that is just a number on a calendar that pretty much doesn’t have much meaning to babies. They come when they want.

Anyway – thanks again for all your support.  Hopefully you are all well and getting ready to have an awesome summer pretty soon.  I really appreciate all the support of my music. I couldn’t do this without that, so thanks a million.

- Jennifer

P.S. I’ll be releasing a new album in August of 2009, just by way of information.