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Please don’t think we worship our son or anything!

We just really enjoy photography, and Josiah lets us take as many pictures of him as we want.

You can see the rest of ‘em here…

After much sorting and deleting, here is our vacation through a lense.

A few of my favorite pics are below.

You can see more from Stone Mountain here, more from the Georgia Aquarium here, and more from the rest of our vacation here.

(PS – There are 28 pictures below, so please be patient if it takes a minute to load)

Here are a couple more…

So expect several photo-oriented posts over the next couple of days. (I’ll use this album as I get the pics cleaned up)

To kick us off, here are a few photos from Dad’s recent birthday:

Dad got a new laptop for his birthday!

Josiah loves being up on his grandpa's shoulders

Got dad smiling on one

He has no idea how much it hurts when he yanks on your hair

We started by spending a few days with Steph’s folks up near Williamsburg. It was great to (for once) not be on a very short schedule, so we were able to spend time with some great folks!

We paid Steph’s youth leader, Miss Mary, a visit. And then we got to spend some time with ‘Ma-Roo’ and ‘Fa-Roo’ (you’ll have to ask Steph for an explanation on the names).

We also spent a fun afternoon walking around colonial Williamsburg.

You can view the whole album here.

Here are a couple of our favorites (after the jump):

We had a little shindig for her yesterday.

You can see a couple of photos from the evening here.

(Dance Dance Revolution was the main event of the evening)

I think from beginning to end, it took a couple of months to get everything in place… we thought it would never be done, but I’m glad we put in the time.

At one point, there was about a 3-week stretch where all the furniture for the nursery was in our living room and dining room while I painted the walls. I couldn’t find any whole days to set aside and work on it, so I had to get everything set up, paint for an hour or two, and then put everything away until my next chance.

…I do not recommend painting in this way :0)

When the day finally came that the painting was done and we put the furniture back, we had a celebration! Here’s what that looked like:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg9NPOke_Xc

And here are some photos of the finished product.

The amazing thing is that out of everything you see in these photos, we didn’t pay for any of it except for the changing table and some paint/supplies.

Everything else you see was a gift by our generous friends and family!

Through you guys, God provided so abundantly for us to provide a great home for Josiah!

Thanks so much!

(you can click on any of the photos to see a larger version)

As usual, these are just a few of the pics you’ll find in our picasa albums.

He’s a little bit jaundiced, so they have us going back and forth to the doctor/hospital until it goes away, but other than that, things are going really well… other than the whole sleep deprivation thing :0)

I added several more photos here. I won’t post them all here because if I did, this post would take forever to load. But here are a couple of them:

The Riesland family just a few minutes after Josiah was born.

The doctor and nurse who stayed up all night with us and delivered Josiah. The nurse was AWESOME.

(You can see the rest of ‘em here)

This just about 3 miles from our house…

Doesn’t she look cute in her little beany?

Yeah I know, I’m a goober…

Caught this little guy hanging around in our picnic shelter last night…

I found some free textures to play with…