Sold!

That’s right…sold! We are excited to announce that we have sold our house! I’ve been waiting to mention anything on the blog until we knew more of what was going on, but we’ve had our house up for sale for the past 2 and a half months, which is why I haven’t had many posts lately. I never realized how time consuming it was to sell a house! Our lives have been consumed with fixing up the house and having agents show it to potential buyers. Having to keep the house spotless with 2 kids and then having to constantly leave for people to come see it has really taken its toll on us!

The story of how all this got started is too long to get into here, but to sum it up, we decided to start looking for something a little bigger and were blessed to find a house that had just about everything we were looking for. And oddly enough, we ended up knowing the sellers from college! We’ve been under contract on this house (here in the same town) for about a month and have just been waiting to sell our house in order to go forward with everything. After what seemed like years, we finally got an offer on our house last weekend. We are planning to close on both houses in just 2 weeks! Whew…we’ve got a lot to do in a short amount of time, but praise the Lord for His goodness and answer to prayer! Our entire summer has been consumed with this whole house thing and we are ready to get it all behind us!

I’ve had several portrait sessions in the past few weeks that I’m looking forward to sharing photos from, so I hope to have several more posts popping up in the next few days.

Newborn Portrait: Alexandra

One of the many exciting events of the time we spent in VA a few weekends ago was getting to meet my niece's new baby girl, Alexandra. She's a beautiful bright eyed little thing and she's the spitting image of her daddy, but hopefully she'll grow out of that...just kidding Will! ;-) I can tell already that she's going to be a "Daddy's Girl" and both her mom and dad are going to be wonderful parents!

9 Years and Counting

Ryan and I celebrated our 9th anniversary today. Yep, we were married on the 4th of July...the day we "lost our independence"! ;-) You know you're past the romance stage when you celebrate your anniversary by going to the mall to buy a washer and dryer! We all went dressed in matching red shirts. Ryan said we looked like a circus act.

Tonight, the kids and I went downtown where Ryan was doing a live shot for the 10 and 11 o'clock news and we watched the fireworks down by the Reedy River. The fireworks didn't seem to phase Zachary, unlike Elaina who cried the first time we took her to see fireworks. It was a long night, since we waited around until Ryan was done with his 11 o'clock live shot before we headed home because traffic was horrible for a good hour or so after the fireworks were over. Elaina enjoyed sitting in the live truck and watching a real live "live shot" going out on the air and Zachary actually stayed awake and happy through it all.

Zachary excited about his first fireworks:

Ryan shooting the fireworks for the news:

Elaina watching Daddy's live shot: