Photobooth

I imagine we'll be posting a lot about our wedding. Another HUGE thing that's happened in the past 7 months that we haven't posted anything about. We put so much work into trying to make it a wonderful and amazing day. For the most part, we succeeded. There were definitely somethings I would have changed, but I'm not going to think about them. Instead, I'm going to start off with the Photobooth that we rented. One of the best ideas we had!! It was a splurge for us, but in the end it was worth it. So many great memories are captured in those strips of black and white photos. We definitely suggest it to anyone who wants to try something different than a traditional wedding album.

Here are photos that my roommate from college, Rachel, took from the outside: (click for bigger image)



And ones of my brother and his girlfriend on the inside:

Before & After

The first few months of our move from NYC back to Ohio revolved almost entirely around fixing up the farmhouse. So much time was spent (and still is) on fixing up the house and we've barely posted anything about it. The only posts that we do have about the renovation are mainly to bitch and moan about how back breaking the work was. So, finally we have some photos to show for it. I wanted to wait and put the photos side-by-side before I posted them and I've finally put them together. There aren't pictures of the entire house because there are rooms that are still a mess (not because of renovations necessarily, but because we need to clean!).

One day... For now, enjoy these! We definitely are!

(click no the picture for a bigger image)

Mustache

Maybe you remember awhile back I mentioned Christmas presents (yes, CHRISTMAS presents, you know, that holiday that took place about 7 months ago??) me and Andrew made for our nieces and nephews. I remembered them because of two incidents. First, Andrew's mom being the very prepared person she is, mentioned a Christmas gift that she just bought for a friend at an art fair. Second, my sister mentioned the gift we made for our nephew, Falcon, and said the kids play with it all the time. I figured it was high time to finally post about the gifts, just in case anyone was looking for ideas for this coming Christmas.

This pillow person/thing is the 3rd one i've made and it's inspired by a creation by Hillary Lang over at Wee Wonderfuls. It's such a simple and fun idea and oh-so-easy to customize to a kids liking. This is actually the fun part, coming up with ideas of how it should look. Sewing it, not so fun. And stuffing it with random pieces of foam and poly-fill, even less fun. All of that is worth it when you see how much the kids enjoy it though.

Summertime

If you've been trying to view our site lately, you probably noticed that it was re-directing you to a page saying we haven't uploaded any content. Turns out that I needed to renew our domain name, which ended up being a week-long, super frustrating process. A number of times, I felt like ripping my hair out, screaming, and crying out "Why is this happening to me?!" But it's all figured out and we're back up.

Today I've been uploading like crazy to Flickr. Now that there video uploading capabilities, I've added a year worth of videos, that i'm sure no one but my family cares to see. Along with about a million photos of my family.

Above is a little sampler of photos from our wedding. Our photographer, Lauren Crew, is amazingly talented!!! Check out her site here.