Wow, first of all, I am sorry for not posting in a while! In the last 3 weeks, my life has gone from hectic to downright crazy, and my blog has unfortunately been neglected. Outside of work, sessions, meeting with clients, and preparing for the busy wedding season ahead, my personal life has exploded in activity.
First, baby update – we are 27 weeks along, and now going to the doctor every two weeks. My belly is growing immensely, and baby boy is moving like crazy. Well, most days. 🙂 He is responding to voices, now, which fascinates me. He doesn’t respond to mine, but that is probably because he hears it all day long (I’m a talker), but when my husband is talking, or even a doctor or nurse, he will start kicking up a storm. I love this part of the pregnancy!
Second, houses are exhausting!!! Many of you know that we have our beautiful little 2 bedroom on the market, but we haven’t been looking too hard for a new house, and weren’t planning to buy until ours sold. We have been going to open houses on weekends, and lo-and-behold, 2 1/2 weeks ago we walked into a house and fell in love. The next night we made an offer, and after a whirlwind of activity, we are closing next week (two weeks early!). It is a beautiful 2000 square foot, 4 bedroom with a walkup attic that could easily be two more bedrooms, a nice sized front room that I’ll use to meet with clients, and a huge sunroom with lots of natural light. Since I don’t forsee, or even particularly need a storefront location due to the type of photography I do, it is a perfect house to set up shop in, given the layout and space. The yard is perfect for our dogs and cat, and the neighbors seem nice. We are going to take our time moving in, but hope to be moved by the second week of June. We have a lot that we want to do to make it our own, though I feel a little useless since I can’t paint or do heavy lifting at this point. Fortunately, we have a lot of family and some wonderful friends to help out where I can’t!
Third, I love furniture shopping! I have a new desk suite coming to keep me more organized, a bedroom suite for our master bedroom (now that we will have the space!), and our crib will be delivered for the nursery in a couple of weeks. I am most excited about that room. The crib is a beautiful cherry colored sleigh-back. I have found a changing table to match and just need to order it. For a dresser, we are using one that was handed down to me from my dad. We will refinish it to match the other furniture, put new knobs on the drawers, and make it a third generation dresser, which excites me. Now, I just need to decide on bedding for both our room and the baby’s! 🙂
I am also doing my childcare search, working with a new realtor to get our house sold, and a dozen other things that are keeping me running around, so unfortunately haven’t gotten a chance to blog about the recent sessions or weddings I’ve shot, and my Mexico images have taken the backseat once again. One of these days, I promise! And I’ll get some house pics up soon to share as well, but likely after we are moved and settled. That might be after the baby gets here, though. Ah well! 🙂
I’ll try to update more often! In the meantime, take care of yourselves, don’t let life get too overwhelming, and keep a smile on your face!
Love,
Wendi.
by Wendi Riggens
Jim "homer" - Really like the look of these. For lack of a better word they have that rustic look to them. Very nice.