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Here are some pictures of the new house. It’s been almost two months since we moved in. Almost all of our furniture will be coming at the end of August, so some rooms look a little empty right now. My studio is the room that is most furnished right now.

Here’s the new studio. Still need to hang my artwork on all the walls, but it’s starting to look good.

I love the windows in the studio. There’s so much natural light in this room.

Here’s the front living room that you walk into through the front door.

The back deck taken from the balcony off the master suite. We stained the deck a dark brown color. Check out the new patio furniture! It all arrived in the past two weekeds.

Here’s the kitchen which is on the first floor.

Master bathroom.

This is the ceiling in the master bathroom. The ceilings on the second floor are all vaulted to about 16 or 18 feet. They really open the rooms up.

And now.. the much anticipated slideshow of the bean bag toss from Cooper’s 30th. What better music to set this action packed game of luck and skill to then Loose Yourslef from Eminem? Click on the link above to play the slide show.

Enjoy!

Here’s a pictures of some of the ladies from the party earlier tonight. Unfortunately, they all went to Indiana University for undergrad (GO BOILERS!)

L to R: Micki, Sarah, Carolyn, Alison, Shannon and Heather

Tonight we went over to the Nickoloff’s to celebrate Sarah’s 30th birthday party. It was good to see everyone again. We had a nice cookout and played a bunch of bean bag toss. Here are some picture I took of Libby (Shannon and Mike’s new baby girl)

I love it when I learn about a new software that can make my life easier. I recently found a program that Apple makes called Pages. It’s a really slick program that let’s you create really nice designs in a not so complicated way. I updated my photography planning document that I send to all my couples with the new software and it looks awesome! It’s such a huge improvement from what I used to do which was in Word. Here’s some sample pages of the new planning toolkit. What do you think?…

I’ve really enjoyed getting to know my new neighborhood. It’s nice to see so many new homes being built in the area. It makes me feel good about moving to this part of town. Carolyn and I have passed this one home a bunch of times and it has a bunch of sunflowers that are about 8 ft. tall. I’ve always been intrigued by these sunflowers… so tonight I grabbed my camera and took some pictures.

I wanted to share a really interesting company that I was introduced to a couple months ago. I was actually introduced to them via a friend who was designing their website. And they needed Chicago photographs for the site, so I agreed to do a shoot. Here’s a link to their site. – http://www.urbanshopguide.com

And here’s a description of what Urban Shopping guide is –

USG is a Chicago-based business specializing in shopping tours around the city. It’s pretty genius… I mean, I’ve lived here for 7 years, and I’m seriously thinking about signing up for one of these tours the next time Laura is in town (!) – I just know that there are some hidden gems out there that I’ve never come across… The concept is great because it’s very much along the lines of the NFT (Not For Tourists) guides, where you’re not being told where all the tourists shop (i.e. Michigan Avenue) – instead you’re being told where actual (trendy) local Chicagoans shop… places they adore, businesses they respect, shops they visit personally & feel lucky to live near.

They were also mentioned in Daily Candy earlier this month. I’ve attached a screen shot of that email above. Good luck Julie and Marci!

I’m sitting in my studio right now and it is raining so hard! For the past 10 minutes, the sky has been filled with lightning and the rain just keeps coming down. We have a bunch of skylights on the 2nd floor of our home and the rain just keeps on slamming against the glass. Here’s a picture of the radar and some pictures I took from my studio window. BOOOMM!!! I huge bolt of lightning just landed a couple blocks away. Wow that was loud. Hopefully there’s no flooding that happens with all this rain. When I look at the radar, it looks like there’s a lot rain still headed this way.

I recently put together a slideshow for my wedding so I thought I would share some of the pictures of me as a kid. It’s funny to look back at yourself every now and then. It’s wonder what I’ll look in 10 or 20 years…

Carolyn and I went over to Johsua’s house after work today. We haven’t seen him in about 2 weeks. He was full of energy today and couldn’t stop talking. New words were coming out left and right. He has almost mastered my name, although it comes out “teve” most of the times. He also said Carolyn for the first time which was exciting. Carolyn has been pretty hard to say for him, so in the past he would jus say the letter “C”.