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What could be more fun than packaging up a bunch of boxes for clients, paying for the shipping online, and putting them at the door to be picked up that morning, only to notice on the way to your engagement session that a dog came by and completely demolished the boxes, chewed up the prints and scattered their shredded remains all over the yard!!!!!  Thank god the wedding books were untouched and i only lost a couple hundred dollars in proofs.  But still!!!

Anyway, Angelle and Sarah, unfortunately it’s your proofs that he ate, so i need to reorder them!!!  It will be a few more days before i can ship, AGAIN!

I can’t believe how fast January has gone.  Now that one month has passed, i thought i would take the time reflect on those resolutions I made at the beginning of the month, and share how I’m doing.  I doubt I’ll do this every month, but maybe I’ll check back on them again next new years.

Resolution #1 – Blog on time!  Well, what can i say, I haven’t caught up yet so I haven’t been quite on time yet, but I’m slowly getting there.  This one is a work in progress!  I have however made some upgrades to the blog and plan on blogging about more than just recent shoots and Eve.  I’ve already drafted a few new posts and newsletters (yay) and I’m still working on the new website.  In fact, last night I told Dustin that I’ve taken so long trying to build this website that I’ve grown out of it before i even finished it, and now I want to start all over again!  I know!  I’m horrible!  Oh well, it will get done.  I’m thinking about reducing the size of it, it’s far too big!  I took advantage of the fact that i could do ANYTHING I wanted, and as a result, did EVERYTHING I wanted, and it required a site map just to find everything because it was so big, you could get lost in it!!  I think this time around, I’ll keep it on the small side!

Resolution #2 – Drink more water and quit soda!  I’m happy to say that I have not had even a sip of soda since making that resolution.  I am drinking nothing but water now, and a small glass of milk in the mornings with breakfast.  It’s soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hard to only drink water.  Some days I’m so thirsty, but don’t drink anything cause I’m so tired of water.  I hope i get used to it soon.  Dustin’s sodas sound sooooo refreshing when he pours them over ice RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!  He’s just so thoughtful you know.

Resolution #3- Exercise every day!  This one started out so well.  Then 4 days into the month, i hurt myself.  Ironically though, I hurt myself while playing with Eve, not while exercising!  And I hurt myself pretty bad, pushed my hip right out of place and walked around with a bad limp for a while.  I have to go to the chiropractor a few days a week now.  It’s been helping, I no longer limp and feel like a million bucks.  But I’m still not 100% healed and I’m hoping I’ll be able to start exercising again this week though!

Resolution #4 – Eat Healthy for Life!  This has been my favorite one so far.  I’ve been learning how to cook all kinds of new healthy dishes.  I’m enjoying them but Dustin isn’t exactly a lean meat and veggies kind of guy, so i also needed to learn how to make healthy pizza, healthy burgers, and even healthy tacos!  I’m just redoing the way I cook everything.  He still complains sometimes, because he still wants to eat things the old way, but that’s ok.  If he doesn’t want to eat what I cook, he can make himself a sandwich!  Haha!  (Hopefully he’ll come around cause the point was to do this for the rest of my life.)  Even gets to nibble off my plate and i get so excited to see her eat my veggies!  I hope starting her off with good habits will stick.

Resolution #5 – Balance and Organization.  I’ve been working really hard on this one!  You should see the stack of  “how to organize your life” books that i have now.  I’m taking on projects  just one at a time.  This will not be something that will happen overnight, it’s going to take time.  But as I go, i learn new habits and set myself up to keep these new changes forever!   I can already feel the stress just fading away!

Resolution #6 – Sell my house and buy a new one before Christmas.  All I’m saying is, it’s not Christmas yet!  I know the year will fly by, and I have been looking into options to make this process as fast and easy as possible, but it’s last on the list and at the moment I haven’t had much time to spend on it, but I will be getting around to this one very soon!  I want to be in the market this summer when things pick up!

…. i was just beginning to go into labor, but still suspected it was just more false labor.  (I experienced so much false labor on and off for weeks and was beginning to think she would never come.)   Desperate for her to come before my doctor’s appointment the following day, I spent the next few hours pacing around telling Eve all the reasons why it was so important that she come out now.  27 very long and very painful hours later, she did!

Leigh is getting married this saturday!  I can’t wait!  It’s going to be fun!  I mean, just look at her, can’t you tell she’s a total ham?  And a simply gorgeous one too!  It was sooooo cold for her bridal session, she wore the cutest socks to keep warm, and of course i just had to shoot those socks.  I mean, socks with a bridal gown?  Of course, she made them look absolutely cool!  She also brought the coolest shoes too!  (Borrowed from the designer!) I’m sure if you ask nicely, she’ll let you know where to get them.  See her images below in the slideshow!

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