Catching up…

Finally, I feel like I can breathe.

The last month has been such a whirl­wind in our lives, but a won­der­ful one.  When I look back at the last few weeks, I won­der how we sur­vived, but we did, thank God, and we’re all set­tling in.  We couldn’t have done it with­out the help of our fam­ily.  We hired some amaz­ing movers as well to help.  If you are in need of a mov­ing com­pany, I highly rec­om­mend Two Men and a Truck.  They were A M A Z I N G.  The best money we ever spent.

We offi­cially moved into our new house on the 26th.  It’s been a lit­tle over a week, but now it’s begin­ng­ing to feel like we’ve been there MUCH longer than that.  I drive by Tyne Lane every day and won­der how our cute first house is doing.  I’m sure the new own­ers are lov­ing it, but part of me does miss it just a little.

We also had an awful deci­sion to make about a week before our move.  Our dog, Zeus, was 9 years old (that’s senior for a Dober­man) and his health had been declin­ing pretty quickly over the last few weeks.  We knew the time was com­ing, as hor­ri­ble of a deci­sion as it was, we made the choice to put him to sleep and let him cross the Rain­bow Bridge.  It was a very sad day for our fam­ily, but we knew in the long run, it was the right deci­sion. 

We’re now get­ting set­tled into our new home.  I have been tak­ing a few pics here and there, but it’s been such a mess with boxes and unpack­ing, that I’ve been hold­ing out on tak­ing too many until it’s all pret­tied up.   So, when it’s all nice and pretty for B’s party this week­end, I’ll be sure to take some new ones.

Speak­ing of The Princess, can you believe she’s turn­ing ONE on Sun­day?  I know I sure can’t!!  We took her one year pho­tos on Sun­day and did a cake smash.  Stay tuned for those, but here’s one of my faves of her laugh­ing at her brother.  And I LOVE my new nat­ural light stu­dio in the house!!  I can’t wait to use it over the com­ing years!!

While I’m on the sub­ject of photography…I’m hav­ing an amaz­ingly fun con­test over at the Ten Tiny Toes Blog.  Def­i­nitely go and check it out and I’d love to have you join in the fun!

We’re here and alive…

It’s been a WHIRLWIND the last week and a half.  Lots of ups and downs to say the least, but I’m happy to report that we’re all moved and get­ting set­tled into our new house.  Pic­tures are com­ing soon, I promise!!  My poor cam­era has been neglected lately, but I’ll be mak­ing up for that big time in the next few weeks

We LOVE the house though.  I feel like we’re liv­ing in a hotel and will be going back “home” in a few days to our old house though! LOL  The kids are adjust­ing well and life is get­ting back to a some­what nor­mal rou­tine again.

We’re excited for the weather to warm out so we can get out and get to know our new neigh­bors and get to the park down the street!

Now…we have to get ready for the big FIRST BIRTHDAY in just a week and a half!  Can’t wait!

& 8"> Project 52: Week 7 & 8

I know, I’m late post­ing my Week 7 photo, but I’m sure you guys can for­give me since we’re in PACKING HELL!!!  So, here’s last week’s and this week’s, all in one post.  And this is prob­a­bly the last one I’ll post from our old house! Yay!

Here’s last week’s.  I’m doing an online pho­tog­ra­phy work­shop and was try­ing to work on get­ting a motion blur shot.  There’s so many tech­ni­cal things wrong with this photo, but I still love it and it cracks me up.  This was Tyson’s ver­sion of Cross-Country ski­ing while we were watch­ing the olympics.  In case you can’t tell, that’s two hockey sticks as skiis, and his poles are a golf club and a bat.

And for Week 8.  Bai­ley got this cute lit­tle stool that is a puz­zle with her first and mid­dle name on in.  She’s OBSESSED with tak­ing all of the let­ters off and putting them all back on top of it (and into any assort­ment of con­tain­ers as well).  She’s still not crawl­ing yet, but I’m actu­ally happy this week for that with all of the pack­ing we’ve been doing.  It’s keep­ing her out of a lot less trou­ble!

The best part of moving…

is shop­ping for stuff for the new house!  We’ve been using an old kitchen table that we got from a fam­ily friend for $5 for the last 7 years.  It worked well, but I can’t wait until our new table arrives.

I’ve also been drool­ing over a front loader washer and dryer for MONTHS now (maybe if I love my washer and dryer I’ll love laun­dry more?)  We just ordered these today!

Now, to just get them all deliv­ered and installed…think that could go off with­out a hitch? 

Project 52: Week 6

We haven’t been see­ing much of this stuff this year, now have we?

Here are a few macro shots of the gor­geous giant flakes we had the other morn­ing.  These were on the win­dows of my truck (since I can no longer park in the garage!)