sweating it...

Not a new excercise program, house selling and buying.

7 days away: close on our current house.
loving: that I don't have to pack a thing (yet) since they are letting us rent the house after closing.
stressing: a condition of the sale is we get a new roof put on (hail damage). We have had zero luck getting an insurance adjuster to come out and look at the roof. The buyer is buying several properties at the same time so pushing back the closing date is not really an option. Sweating it!

11 days away: close on our new house.
loving: ask me next month... better yet wait till 2010
stressing: SO much to do. New roof, new systems, new flooring, repairing water damage, repairing years of neglect, replacing the deck, removing a hive of bees, adding a fence, remodeling 2 bathrooms, painting 2500 sq ft inside and more outside, new lighting, repairing wiring, rerouting rain runoff. And then all the normal new house stuff.

58 days away: move out of our current house!
loving: it should be cool outside by then! :)
stressing: see above. I really think we will make it ok on the deadline. It won't be how we want it, but it will be livable.

*the picture above is of one of the "kid" bedrooms. All are pink, all have a built-in desk, all have a built-in desk that will be obliterated by me, and all have no flooring, ugly curtains, and broken closet doors, and missing light fixtures. Oh well, we would replace the lights anyways...

cute little family, sunny saturday morning!

This is my second time to get to photography this sweet family! Last time we did photos (last December) little J could barely sit up and we were all fretting about his ability to sit up on a brick sidewalk. Now he is a walking, baby talking (a few real words too) machine. He did remarkably well for a one-year old considering he would have much rather been running around like a crazy man. Thanks for letting me take your photos for a second time! And just look at how charming little J is when you offer him his favorite animal crackers :)

now booking sessions!

The shooting drought is over! I am thirsting to getting back behind my camera and shooting again. I needed to take the summer off from photography to get my job at church done and now I am full of new ideas to try and fresh energy! I am now taking baby, child, and family sessions for this fall!

It's also time to launch my website!
http://www.lfhcreative.smugmug.com

ruffle butt

And we will call her...

Ruffle Butt

We are still cloth diapering a year later. We still (mostly) use disposables when we are at church or traveling, but that may soon end with the arrival of our gdiapers! gdiapers are the hybrid of the diaper world, cloth outside flushable liners inside. I looked into gdiapers a couple years ago and the price is crazy high if you use the flushable part all the time, it's more expensive that the fanciest diapers at non sale price. Ouch! But. I read you can use cloth inserts with them now too! Brilliant. And ADORABLE. And Hazaa the little gpants close in the back so baby Houdini can't take them off as easily. They also seem to fit her better, she has huge thighs and a little bitty waist and these are smooth and snug around her waist.

I just wish I had named Ella Bella Grace or Gabrielle :)