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| Happy Birthday! Jun, 24 2010 by Mel | |
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To a wonderful husband, father, and friend – Happy Birthday my love! You make me smile. :0)
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4 people have commented. You know you want to. Dawn Beirnes: these pictures are so sweet! (6.24.10, 6:29 am)
Ricki Ford: thats funny i love it! (6.24.10, 9:46 am)
esm: Ohhhhhh, how adorable!
 (6.25.10, 6:36 am) tingli: Concerned… shocked… satisfied.
That 7(yeslikethenumber)… he’s so hot right now.
Happy birthday Sean! (6.25.10, 8:49 am)
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| This is Us Thursday May, 13 2010 by Mel | |
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Hey look! Two weeks in a row now I am managing to both remember it’s Thursday and get a blog post up! For those of you who have ever had babies in the house, you know what a feat this is! ;0) I feel kind of silly having two personal posts up on the front page of the blog, but our sessions this past week have been super secret bridal sessions so I hope you’ll indulge me for now! This week we have images from Mother’s Day! For many reasons I won’t go into here, Mother’s Day has been a hard day for me for the past several years. This year, it finally became a good day again. I pulled my little boy into bed with me on Sunday morning and cried a little it was so good! I feel so blessed to be able to be a mother and to be a mother to such a precious little one! That alone made it a great Mother’s Day but breakfast with Sean’s grandparents and a beautiful lazy day with surprises from my boys made it even sweeter!
Mema and Doda (pronounced doo-da like in the Camptown Races song for those who are wondering)
Little Man held up quite well at the table for a while. He loves crowds and people watching and I honestly think he’s happier out and about than he is at home.
Before long though, he managed to fall asleep in all that racket! This always amazes me. I love those tiny fingers peeking over!
…and we all know where he likes to sleep best – on mommy. I’m getting quite proficient at operating just about anything a foot away from the table with a sleeping baby in between – especially eating bacon. Let’s face it, nothing gets in the way of eating good crispy bacon!
After breakfast, we came home and Sean had made me this sweet little card. I’m a little obsessed with really great pop-up books so he made this sliding contraption for me. He says this is Seven’s peek-a-boo face because he’s popping out from behind the message. Really it’s his shocked face from where I was standing over him on the bed, firing a flash at the ceiling above him, and trying to get a good passport photo. Up until this point he’s been a natural light baby and this was quite the introduction to rapid bright light sources. :0)
My Mother’s Day gift was an awesome old-school suitcase record player! Do you remember listening to records when you were a kid? I’m realizing as I type this that it’s totally possible many of you would too young for that, but I did and it’s one of my fondest childhood memories! I bought a bunch of children’s records when I was pregnant and now I can’t wait to play them for Seven! We wrapped up the day with pizza and a movie at home but not before getting a few photos of me and my boy on our first Mother’s Day. :0)
For all the mothers reading this, we hope you too had a wonderful Mother’s Day with the ones you love! :0) - Mel | |
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13 people have commented. You know you want to. adrienne scott: Hooray! What a fantastic, beautiful mommy you are, Mel! Seven is one blessed little man. =) (5.13.10, 7:39 am)
Tina Wilson: oh.my.gosh.
You have to be the cutest family on the planet. Love seeing how BIG he is already! Stop that growin, Seven!!!! (5.13.10, 12:34 pm)
Ulmer Studios: Love the post! So glad that you shared!!!
So glad to see how well you all are doing!!!
We need to get together with the lil ones included some time soon! (5.13.10, 12:37 pm)
Allison/b. Hughes Bridal: Everytime you post something about Seven, I end up in a pool of (happy) tears! I am so very happy for you three (5.13.10, 12:38 pm)
mary crow: I am digging that bacon photo!! And the one of Seven sitting in Sean’s lap looking like he listening to all going on around him! Sweet, sweet!! (5.13.10, 12:41 pm)
Hillary @ brocade: awww, that warmed my heart… love seeing all the love
Happy Mother’s Day! (5.13.10, 12:54 pm) Tweets that mention This is Us Thursday | McLellan Style -- Topsy.com: [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Melanie McLellan. Melanie McLellan said: This is Us Thursday – A Mother's Day post – http://bit.ly/axRoc9 [...] (5.13.10, 12:59 pm)
esm: Truly, it was a blessed day from start to finish. A day for celebrating motherhood and family. So happy to have been a part of it. Life does not get any better than this!! Thank you, Mel, Sean and Seven.
(5.13.10, 2:18 pm) Margaret Hoag: He is just soo precious! What a wonderful gift!! (5.13.10, 3:23 pm)
Mel: Thank you to you all! It was a wonderful day! Thank you for letting me share it with you. :0) (5.21.10, 3:05 pm)
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| This is Us Thursday May, 6 2010 by Mel | |
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So I have this grand idea to post a personal blog every Thursday but with the baby and the business I make no promises! :0) Today though, it’s going to happen! Friends and family, soak it in! We’ve been really trying to be good about taking photos of our life since Seven came. I want to remember every stage of his life and we’re also making an extra effort to actually be in the photos because we think it’s so important for kids to have images with their parents. My thought is that if I make an effort to post a personal blog every week, I’ll make even more of an effort to take the personal images every week. It’s a great theory right? :0) Here are a few of our more recent favorites. More to come (*hopefully*) next week. Sean doing what Sean loves best and Seven humoring Sean…
Seven at 7 weeks…
How work gets done around here. And yes, we have waaaay too many water bottles on our desk, among other things.
and finally, my little man just hanging out in the morning while we make breakfast…
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23 people have commented. You know you want to. esm: What can I say??? Cute, cute, cute. Precious! (5.6.10, 1:25 pm)
K. Crafton: Sweet angel!
I love the image of you working Mel….Ha! That’s so me most days. I love that you’re trying to do a family post a week too…I think our clients should see about our lives as well! (5.6.10, 2:37 pm)
Lisa Love: Ohhhh how sweet and I love this is “Seven at seven weeks” ~ so adorable! =) (5.6.10, 2:40 pm)
CONI: ADORABLE AND WELL DESERVED! (5.6.10, 2:41 pm)
Amanda B.: So adorable, guys. He’s so sweet. And I’m jealous of your work situation. I couldn’t take a baby to work with me! (5.6.10, 2:41 pm)
Deb Cull: These are precious! Thanks for writing updates about your life – it’s great to read about how you are doing! (5.6.10, 2:43 pm)
Missy: I WANT TO SQUEEZE HIS ADORABLE CHEEKS! He is just WAY too cute! Love all these pictures!!! Now how about a video?? Too much to ask?
 Love you all! (5.6.10, 2:46 pm) Courtney: Precious! Absolutely precious!! (5.6.10, 2:52 pm)
Tweets that mention This is Us Thursday | McLellan Style -- Topsy.com: [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Melanie McLellan. Melanie McLellan said: For you nice people who enjoy keeping up with our family…a personal blog – http://bit.ly/9xqnH3 [...] (5.6.10, 2:54 pm)
joy marie: So great!! I love these you guys. The shot of you working is the best Mel!! (5.6.10, 3:05 pm)
Chris Boyd: That office photo is great. The work’s gotta get done one way or another! Too funny. (5.6.10, 3:05 pm)
Dawn Beirnes: he is just toooo sweet! I hope one day to have way to many drinks around a desk IN MY HOUSE, WORKING IN MY OWN PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS! You guys inspire me! (5.6.10, 3:26 pm)
dellicious: I think this is a fabulous idea! Keep it coming! Love you guys! (5.6.10, 3:45 pm)
Jen Creed: CUTENESS overload!!! Oh my goodness, so precious. Love the first one where it looks like he’s elbowing Sean “Dad…..come on….” haha. They are all adorable! (5.6.10, 4:42 pm)
Tapp: awwwww….you can’t post any more pics b/c they make me tear up! sniff…sniff…he’s so precious and i’m so happy you guys get to spend so much time with him! (5.6.10, 5:57 pm)
mary crow: oh dear lord he is just a lovie!!!! I must come out and see him and you guys of course!! those eyes!!! (5.6.10, 7:58 pm)
Mike Hoag: Love the last picture of Seven – so serious. Like a little old man already!! What fun he must be! (5.6.10, 8:55 pm)
Emily: Seven is such a CUTIE! I love these personal images; thanks for sharing your life.
(5.7.10, 8:04 am) Vince McVay: It is so funny to see Mel working. The only difference between her desk and mine is the little one strap to her chest.
Mine just walk into the office now and say when can you play with us. (5.24.10, 11:40 pm)
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| Easter Traditions and Family Firsts Apr, 12 2010 by Mel | |
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Friends and family have been chastising us for not getting more photos of the little man online so here are a few from his first Easter. Now, for those of you from the South, you’ll understand this without me having to explain. For those who aren’t, let’s just say that Southerners love their traditions and we must carry them out, even when it’s silly. It’s our way. Silly traditional must #1 – Every child gets an Easter basket on Easter. I realize he was only 5 weeks old and completely incapable of understanding that it was a day of any significance or appreciating a single thing in his Easter basket, but I simply had to make one. I would have felt like a failure of a parent if my child didn’t have an Easter basket on Easter! So here he is, with his Easter spoils, thoroughly enthralled with his fist…
Silly traditional must #2 – The Easter Outfit. The night before Easter I tested poor Sean’s patience as we drove around to 3 stores to find the perfect Easter outfit. I like little man clothes – not baby clothes – and it’s harder than you might think to find something for a newborn boy without a puppy on it. I did manage to find what I was looking for though. I spent a ridiculous amount on an outfit that he won’t fit into for any amount of time at all and as of Easter Sunday, the pants fell off of him every time you picked up him, and the socks had disappeared by the time we took this photo, but we had the “little man” Easter outfit! I couldn’t find a cute newsboys hat to go with it and felt so completely obsessive about having one that I stayed up until midnight making one. Oh yes – I am that silly about my silly traditions and getting them just right!
Silly traditional must #3 – The Easter Sunday Family Coordination Project. If you know us at all, you know that we hate matching and so the whole color coordinated family event thing is just so not us. — But it’s tradition! :0) It’s a must and hence we decked out in all our brown and blue combo glory! I did at least mix up the hues so as not to look like something straight out of Stepford. My blue even looks a little more green in these pictures thus saving face slightly for us in the eyes of those who think I’m crazy. Between you and me though, I assure you we were very matchy-matchy.
We topped off the silly tradition list by going to have a big Easter lunch with my best friend’s family and watching the older kids run around the yard looking for eggs. It was a perfect first family Easter. Here we are, for our final Easter traditional must: the Face-Forward-And-Smile Easter Family Photo – preferable somewhere near a flower bed or on your front porch. :0) As you can see we are slightly tired and less slightly overweight, but we feel so fortunate to be able to be those things as a family and carry out our first family traditions.
We hope you all had an equally perfect Easter and thanks for letting me share ours with you. :0) I leave you with my most recent favorite image of our little Seven. Have a great week everyone! – Mel
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28 people have commented. You know you want to. sticky Rammel: Whoa! Seven’s a dapper little guy, love the sweater vest! Hope all of you are doing great! (4.12.10, 7:45 am)
Lisa Love: What a beautiful family & Seven is beyond precious especially in his lil’ Easter outfit! =) (4.12.10, 7:56 am)
Amanda Presnell: I totally agree about little man clothes! I’m sorry but little boys are just not supposed to wear pastel-colored rompers. It ain’t right
(4.12.10, 7:58 am) Shannon Hairr: Love it!! My 4 month old also had her Easter basket and matching outfit to her sister. HAHA
It’s these Easter traditions that one day will be their best memories!! (4.12.10, 8:14 am)
Sharon Campbell: I love how awake his is and his expressions. LOL!!!
The little man outfits are a must- I agree and can appreciate a pair of pants that fall off but look good in pics. (4.12.10, 8:21 am)
Michelle Hartz: He is just so adorable! I love the last picture of him, sooo cute! (4.12.10, 8:32 am)
Elaine McLellan: The proud and profoundly blessed, Mema is speechless. What can I say ??? The words don’t exist!!!
(4.12.10, 8:52 am) Deidre: absolutely wonderful family photos! Seven is the most adorable “little man” I’ve ever seen! (4.12.10, 8:53 am)
Emily: sweet, sweet family – Seven is ADORABLE!! Mel, I’m very impressed with his hat – great job; I love it! (4.12.10, 9:10 am)
angie + matt sloan: oh my gosh! what a beautiful beautiful family you guys have!!! Seven’s outfit is adorable! (4.12.10, 10:00 am)
Courtney: He is absolutely adorable! Congrats (4.12.10, 10:03 am)
Opal Yett: Thanks for sharing more photos with us. I can’t wait to meet seven. He sure looks alot like Sean. I love all the “traditions”, I completly understand, it’s a southern thing. (4.12.10, 11:27 am)
cathyknit: Precious! What a lovely family! (4.12.10, 11:51 am)
mary crow: OMG I must make the trip to Franklin to see your cute little man. ADORABLE!!!! (4.12.10, 1:58 pm)
Sarah: Adorable! I see Sean’s busting out the snazzy jeans again.
I hope I get to meet the adorable Seven when I bring my brother to Nashville this summer. He’s awesome. (4.12.10, 6:06 pm)
Katie Snyder: Mel and Sean, you guys have an adorable little boy and hope you enjoy the years to come! (4.12.10, 7:56 pm)
Jacqulyn: I Love it. Especially the last one, and your Easter family pic. So wonderful! (4.12.10, 8:59 pm)
rachel b: what a handsome little man and such a beautiful family! i was so glad to get to be a part of your easter. we are going to expect some easter egg hunt competition next year from seven! love you! (4.13.10, 8:41 am)
J. Chow: I love his little man clothes =) (4.14.10, 12:18 pm)
Whitney Beth: Hey u2! I looove the easter family photos… Hope the two of you are super and Dee and I want to come to Nashville and hang out sometime this summer if that is good with you! (4.14.10, 4:57 pm)
Becka @Studio222 Photography: HAHA! You’re adorable. And I’m from the south and actually laughed out loud when I realized what you were posting about. I have always had an easter basket since before I can remember. It’s a little wooden bunny basket my grandma painted. And we were working this Easter and I had to fight the urge to get Nate to coordinate wedding outfits with me. HAHA. (4.15.10, 6:54 am)
Tesa: Oh My Gosh! He looks like a little Sean Patrick! What a doll! xxxxxx. (4.15.10, 9:29 am)
Jen Creed: Oh my goodness! How did I not see these earlier?! Dying at Seven’s little outfit….so cute! You all look wonderful
(4.19.10, 5:50 pm) Mark Brooke Photographers: i love the last one. super cute! (4.26.10, 5:24 pm)
Spencer: Yay! Easter shots! (5.1.10, 10:50 am)
Christina Meadows: O.M.G. he is the cutest little person eVER! I’m totally diggin the vest and that pimpin hat! adorable…. (5.2.10, 9:22 pm)
Jeremy Dean: This last shot is simply amazing…what a cool little guy! Hope you guys faired well in the flood, my prayers are w everyone in Nashville. (5.13.10, 9:58 am)
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