papa – Welker Fam

Brayden Miles Welker

Our newest addition to the family: Brayden Miles Welker, couldn’t wait to join us and came 4 weeks early on Nov. 14th, 2012 at 1:18 am.

He weighed in at 6lbs. 15oz. and was 20.2 inches long.

Welcome to the family, tiny boy.

We have a puzzle that’s fairly difficult to do, but it’s colorful, and Skye likes to play with it on occasion. On this occasion, she asked me to help her, so we put it all together, and then she gave me half of the pieces and asked me to put those in, and she would do the rest. Surprisingly, she did it, and when she asked me to only put in one piece, I told her that she could do it all by herself.

Here is the result:

New Camera

I got a new Nikon D3100 for my birthday, so of course I have to show off some pics from my new camera.

These images are totally raw, no post-processing at all. I think they turned out pretty good, but it helps when the subjects are the most adorable kids evor. Continue reading “New Camera”

New haircut, and budding photographer

So we decided to give Ian a haircut today…

Before:

After:

and while we were taking pictures of Ian, Skye wanted to play with the camera as well… so we let her. Here are the first shots from the next great photographer:

36 Cube

So I’ve been geeking out over a puzzle that I got for Christmas this year. The puzzle is called 36 Cube. If you have this puzzle, and haven’t solved this cube, or would like to in the future, or have any other reservations about reading spoilers,

PLEASE STOP READING.

This is not a hints post, and I do not ease you into a solution slowly. This is a post about how I solved the puzzle and some interesting facts about the puzzle I found out afterwards when I began to dive deeper into the solution set. As well as the programming that went with it.

If you would like some proper hand-holding, please see How to solve the 36 Cube puzzle – hints & solution for hints (and samples of the program that got me started down my path).

AGAIN, IF YOU DON’T WANT SPOILERS, PLEASE STOP READING!
Continue reading “36 Cube”

Skye under a blanket

Going through some old pics and movies, I found this little gem, and decided to share.

Ian James Welker

We welcomed little Ian into the world after a sudden and intense labor on Tues., April 13th, 2010 @ 2:40a.

Chelsea began to have sporadic contraction pains on Sunday, and everything pointed to false labor. Early Monday morning the frequency and intensity became too much to bear and we headed off to the hospital at around 5-6a. They placed her on the monitor and discovered she was dilating. Apparently the false labor wasn’t as false as we had thought.

After making sure she was progressing at a pretty good pace, they admitted her and get everything ready for a swift delivery of a pre-term baby. After they got her the epidural, the contractions spread out, and her rapid dilation all but ceased. We were hoping it would stop altogether and we could go home and let the little one cook a bit longer, but after discovering an infection in Chelsea which was affecting the baby, they induced labor.

Chelsea delivered the little 5lb. 13oz., 19.5 in. baby boy early Tues. morning, and they immediately took him for testing and observation. Having had prior issues this pregnancy, Chelsea had been given a steroid shot to help the little guy’s lungs develop a bit faster, so he was ahead of the curve in that department and has no issues breathing. And although his muscle tone was a bit low right after birth, he has since recovered a lot of that.

Both baby and mother are doing amazing, and are eagerly awaiting the infection test results for Ian before being released into the wild.