End of year school program

Tonight was Jack and Lucy's end of the year school program.  It's always hot and packed with a ton of people and of course, I can never get a seat close enough to actually take any photos during the performance.  These were taken just before the program started. 

 Look who's not liking the "mamarazzi"

 There we go....

Jack and his buddy, Jack  :)

Lights, Cameras, Action..

I have a good friend and neighbor who is a local interior designer.  The design company she works for wanted to do a television production segment on home staging.  My friend suggested they use our home.  So, this morning a camera crew arrived at my house to film different rooms of my house and talk about how to stage a home to sell.  

I was a super fun morning and the segment will be airing in 2 weeks.  I will post the link when it becomes available.

 I'm going to miss my kitchen.  Jeff and I spent many hours making this kitchen just how we wanted it.

 Yes, that's the camera guy standing in my bathtub.

When things don't go as planned...

Sorry, I've been neglecting my blog.  I'm not in the best of spirits these days.  I flew to WA last week to be there for the inspection of our new/old home and after the 3.5 hour inspection we decided it would be best to back out of our contract.  I don't want to go into all the details, but bottom line is this home way too many issues that we don't want to deal with.  We have decided to postpone our house hunting until we are together in WA state.

So what now???  We have to be out of our current home in 13 days and we will be renting an apartment for the summer.  This gives us more time to look and find the exact home for us.  This does not thrill me, but I know there's just no other options at this point.  Good news is we will have a pool for the summer.  :)

Please, keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we transition through this.  

Birthdays x2

We've had some birthdays here recently.  Jack and Olivia's birthdays are 3 weeks apart.  Jack just turned 10 and Olivia just turned 13.  I can't believe it, where does the time go?

I've been wanting to take each of them out for a birthday photo shoot, but we have just been way too busy with our upcoming move.  

Here are just a few shots I captured from their special days. 

 Jack's buddy, Brady was in town from Chicago.  Don't you love the hats?

 Jack and his neighborhood friends.  Yes, that's a bandage around Matthews head.  He hit his head at the pool and had to get stitches. Ouch!

 We love the famous "chinese candle"

Officially a teenager!!!

Jumping for spring

Lucy Lu jumping for spring!