Perfect Anniversary Gift? New Car Battery!

Today Andrew and I celebrate 3 years of marriage. We dropped Jules off at my moms, had a great dinner at the local Japanese steakhouse, shopped for Julien's birthday and stopped for coffee and doughnuts on the way home. Everything was going great until the doughnut stop... as soon as we pulled out of the parking lot it started raining. Not just a little sprinkle either, the huge drops that soak you to the bone. Then the car battery light came on and before we knew it the car was slowly coming to a stop and I was calling my dad to jump us... Thankfully it ended up just being the battery, which we replaced in the pouring rain--because no one's car breaks down in the middle of a beautiful day... I guess that's one way to have a memorable anniversary. We finished up our evening with a glass of wine at The Lafayette, picked up our sleeping boy and headed home. I didn't get 1 good picture, but it was a good day.

Tomorrow we will have been together for 7 years and our sweet boy turns 1! This Momma's emotionaaal!

Father's Day Part 1

Happy Father's Day! (Especially to my dad and Hubs)

Here's Hub's gift. (Tina Fey's new book Jimmy Fallon's "Thank You Notes") He's been wanting them so I knew he'd love it...

I made him crepes with cooked apples, fresh strawberries and peaches, whipped cream AND Harry & David chocolate sauce for breakfast in bed and we've just been hanging out all day. 

Here's wishing you a fun, relaxing day!

Update

Feels good to have a new blog. Gotta work on getting some posts switched over...

Hanging Cocoon-- Put To Use!

This little fella is so sweet. 17 whole days old! On one hand I feel like my little Juju was just this size yesterday, on the other it feels like ages ago. More of my photography can be found HERE.

Thrifted

If only I would have found these a month ago! They're a little too snug for J now. He could wear them, but not with socks and it's just too stinkin' cold to not wear socks... Even if he can't wear them, I'm glad I found them. If I don't have another little one I can think of a couple friends that would be very happy with these. Plus they seem like they would be really easy to make. I might try to make something similar sometime.

Did I mention that I paid like 20 cents for them!? LOVE!

Crochet!

I've been fitting in a lot of crocheting/knitting this week. A few nights ago I made a knit baby cocoon to use as a prop in the studio and last night I made a hanging one. I'm so excited to use them and I have a newborn shoot tomorrow!

I have to say it turned out really well for what I went through with it. I purchased a pattern on Etsy because I wanted to be sure to get the sizing right. I knew I shouldn't have though... The pattern called for 3 skeins of yarn (which I used) and when I was about 2 rows from being done I ran out. I followed it exactly. Lame. I knew I wasn't going to be happy with it about 1/3 or the way through it, though... It was way too tight and didn't look at all like the photos she provided. I guess it did push me to write my own pattern, which I may share here sometime. The worst part about it is that I just hate to leave negative feedback. I think I'll just let it sit for a while...

I'm excited about tomorrow's shoots. I love newborn shoots. I also have my first shoot with a local band. That should be really fun too. I need to start sharing my photos here.

Blog much?

I kinda suck at this blogging thing lately. Not even lately... like, for the past 2 months! Yeah... I blame it on the 2 week vacation, holidays and the fact that I don't only have a crawling everywhere 7 month old(today!) but a standing, walking(holding on to stuff) 7 month old!? Who starts walking at 6 months?? My house is nowhere near baby proofed and he's still pretty good at the wipe outs... that plus the fact that he all of a sudden wants nothing to do with sleep gives me ZERO free time. A lot of days I don't even know how I stay awake between his naps... getting anything done during is not even an option. But he's asleep (in his car seat) and I'm waiting for the DaddyMan to get home...

Let's see... Our trip to Florida was so much better than I even expected. We spent so much time with family that we rarely get to see AND Hubby took me

to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter for Christmas! We also went to Universal Studios. It was just a really good time. Even Baby J had fun. It was freezing, but better than Ohio any day...

The holidays were pretty great, too. Definitely a successful first Christmas for my little guy. He loved all the excitement and of course all his loot. I got a Nikon D300S! I am one happy momma...

So the new year is upon us and nothing too exciting is going on. Hopefully I'll get back into blogging. I feel like I've had a lot in mind to share. We'll see how much of it I get out.

Also, I've entered my first photo contest and it would be super awesome to win... If you have a spare moment please vote for us!...

VOTE HERE!!

I have no idea if that link will work, but here's the picture...

My sweet boy at 6 months. I did a newborn shoot last week and it just made me want to cry because he really is growing up too fast. (The shoot was actually a blast and I can't wait to do more newborns...)