Gosh, I seem to have fallen off the face of the earth, haven't I? I can't believe it's been so long since I posted! Let's see...what's been going on?

The biggest thing is that we just got back from a week in Texas with Nick's sister K and her family, and it was ah-MAZ-ing! We spent most of the week at their house near Houston, then drove out to their lake house near Austin for the last part of the week. We had a blast, and Daisy got to take her first trip to the beach when we visited Galveston on Monday. K has a little boy 4 months older than Daisy and a daughter 16 months older than Morgan, so there was fun had by all.

Morgan starts the 4th grade tomorrow - how did that happen?! Actually the first day was this past Friday (weird, right?), but we didn't get back from Texas till today, so she'll start tomorrow. It seems like just yesterday she was crawling around like Daisy (who's just about walking herself!) and now she's a great big fourth grader!

Oh, this was pretty exciting for me - I booked my very first ever full price, person-who-doesn't-know-me-otherwise-and-just-likes-my-work photography client! Yipee! I'm professional!

What else? Hmmm...not much. The blog hasn't much lived up to its premise lately, and I don't know when or if that will change. Obviously the weekly sessions have gone away, although I'm not sure exactly why, but I guess it's just part of the normal ebb and flow.

Anyway, how have you guys been?

Busy, busy

Gosh, I can't believe it's been so long since I posted! It's been a really busy couple of weeks. First of all, I've had a little bit of photography work to keep me occupied, which has been nice. Then last week we unexpectedly got to go up to the cabin. We go every year for our anniversary, but this year Nick's sister was in from Texas that week, and his cousin got married the day of our actual anniversary. Something was vaguely mentioned about maybe last week being good for it a couple of months ago, but as far as we knew it was never set in stone. Then Nick's grandmother called him week before last on Thursday to confirm that we would be going up there the next day and letting us know we could have it all week. The irony is that this is the first year she's let us have it for an entire week, and Nick hadn't scheduled any time off at all. He wasn't too hopeful when he asked at work if it was too late to request to take a week's vacation the next week, but God worked it out that no one had happened to ask off, and they let him take it.

It was a wonderful week - we just relaxed and played a lot of Scrabble, watched a couple of movies, and let Daisy have her first experience with the lake (which she LOVED). My parents and one of my brothers came up on Monday and brought us dinner, and on Thursday Nick's youngest sister came up and spent the day with us, and her husband joined us for dinner after he got off work.

Yesterday was a very special day for our family. My youngest brother was ordained as a minister by the church we grew up in. This morning, the church he's been serving at for the last month voted to call him as their permanent pastor. At only 22 years old, this is such a humbling thing, and as you can imagine, our family is very proud of him.

Anyway, that's been my life for the last couple of weeks. How's yours been?