Our lives have gotten a little crazy over the last few weeks. If you follow our personal blog, you know that we’ve been doing some major DIY house projects. When I purchased our home almost 2 years ago, the linoleum in the kitchen/dining/bathrooms and the carpet throughout the rest of the house was very livable, after all- it was all brand new! Well these two monsters we call Bender & Gus have taken a toll on the carpet… between the accidents/spills/dirty paws/ect. our lovely builder grade carpet has had it….. despite purchasing a steam cleaner right after we moved in and regularly using it! So… we first (I say “we” here, but lets be honest… it should say Jeremy & his dad) first ripped up the linolium in both our full bathrooms and installed new tile…. then a few weeks later they ripped up all the linolium and carpet downstairs and installed beautiful new engineered hardwoods!! We couldn’t be happier! In the coming weeks, he’ll rip up the rest of the carpet on the stairs and upstairs and put in the wood flooring there too. Not only have we done new flooring- but I’ve also repainted our dining room & living room 2 lovely shades of gray. Then we installed crown molding and chair rail in the dining room. ALLLLL this…. and we’re in the middle of negotiations on buying a piece of land at Carolina Beach…. it’s been stressful, but if it’s meant to be, it will all work out- if not, hopefully another piece of property will come along in our price range… keep your fingers crossed for us! I say all this to appologize for the slllllooooow blogging I’ve been doing… I’ve got at least 3 things that need to be blogged (4 after our shoot tonight) one of which is a WEDDING!!! YAY! So… stay tuned! On Sunday, while we were busy being lazy (for once in what seems like MONTHS!)…. taking naps, doing a little editing, and laying by the pool. I snapped a few photos of our doggies hanging out too… all taken in our kitchen with our new Sigma 50mm 1.4

It’s Sunday… and another fun snow day around here! We headed back up to the dog park today with the camera. It’s super duper sunny today so we wanted to get in some more practice. What happens when you try and take a self portrait of you and your husband using a 50mm lens!

Something about snow always reminds me of being a kid, and tramping through the streets to the best hill in our neighborhood, Rustic Court. It had the best hill for sledding and Ashley’s (a childhood friend of mine) dad would take their SUV and drive up and down the road to pack the snow for us to sled in, making two perfect tracks all the way down the road. I remember wearing my moms 1970’s snow boots to keep my feet warm. I still wear those boots to this day when it snows. I proudly dig them out of the closet and wear them, even though they are a little too big 🙂 I also remember one year we had my grandmothers video camera, and my mom didn’t want to go out in the snow because it was so deep and cold to see how pretty our house looked. So I went out and took a video for her…. I wish I knew where that was! We took our doggies out to the dog park in our neighborhood, and they had a blast!