Archive for May, 2007

From Jamey Richardson’s email:

Catherine “Kate” Elizabeth Richardson joined us at 1:10 AM on Thursday, May 24, 2007. She weighed in at a very healthy 8 pounds 3 ounces and measuring 20 3/4 inches in length (pretty good for a week early). She looks a lot like Jack when he was born and has a healthy, rosy color; no jaundice on this girl. She’s a looker and even has Jack’s dimple.

Nicole handled this delivery beautifully. Her contractions had been counting down from 15 minutes for about 24 hours and stalled out a few times. Nicole went to the park and the gym to walk and make those contractions work harder. It worked. We arrived at the hospital about 10:15 PM on the 23rd. She was checked around 10:45 and was already at 8 centimeters. It was a bit of a rush to get everything prepped for childbirth. Kate arrived after only two rounds of pushing. All the hard work paid big dividends.

Needless to say we are extremely excited and very proud of our gorgeous new addition. Thanks to everyone for the prayers and support. Feel free to come see her live and in person. We are at the Northport DCH in room WP12.

- Jamey (and Nicole)

Everyone, meet Hope. Hope, meet everyone.

Monday evening Hope Madelyn Carden was born into this world to the proud parents of Kevin and Stacey Carden. Hope weighed 7 lbs., 11 oz., measured 20.5 inches long and is beautiful. Both daughter and mother are healthy and well.

Kevin and I have been friends since the 4th grade. Hearing him re-live his first experience with an explosive poopie diaper on Tuesday night made me realize how much I’ve missed hanging out with him.

Often, you’ll be creating a template for a website and you run into a situation where your image isn’t large enough to cover the area you need covered. Or you might want to create a greater sense of volume by having a nice image repeat in the background of your header. Whatever your reason, here’s an easy way to do it.

Step 1

Find an image that you want to repeat.

Step 2

Split the image down the middle.

Step 3

Swap the sides of the image. This is done so you know that the outer edges will meet properly.

Step 4

Photoshop the middle of the image. This just takes practice. I find that the clone tool works great here.

Finished

Once you’re done, you just set the background of an element to repeat the image you just created, and this is your final product.