Wow. It’s been awhile. I promise we’re all still here and doing well! We’ve been doing a lot around home (crown molding updates to follow), a lot of nothing (summer break is drawing to a close), and a trip!
My parents (thank you thank you thank you thank you!) bought us [...]
This year, I had help (THANK YOU, Grandma and Grandpa!). This year, I was not pregnant (hurray!). This year, we did not get a flat tire. This year was fun!
Here are a few pictures from SummerFest, a street festival put on by our church to round [...]
I don’t think I even need to say more. I love my husband more than words can describe and our youngest son is growing up so quickly. I just love that picture and wanted to share because time is flying by and I need to remember moments like this one.
The wires are through the wall and hooked up and the crown molding arrived yesterday in three boxes. We’re spending time after the boys go to bed painting and installing it since we don’t have to nail anything with this stuff. I grabbed the paint tray after David poured most of the paint back [...]
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. [...]
If you were observant, you’d have noticed on the teaser image for that last post the new web address for my new photography gig, jenbarnesphoto.com. Yep, it’s true. I’ve had so many inquiries about it that I decided to start up a blogfolio (portfolio blog?) and list some info and not bore y’all [...]
…but I’m learning so much…
No, that’s not why there is a picture of an elementary school up there, but it is kinda funny. That was actually from a shoot tonight. I really wanted a blank post but this template has those crazy question-mark blocks that pop up [...]
Happy Birthday, Blog. I started this blog back in 2003 on the 4th of July. Six years.
In celebration of Independence Day, here are some photos, straight off the memory card (no photoshopping!) thanks to my brother’s MacBook Pro. Enjoy. Hope yours was a good one.
Run the wiring.
This is currently on hold – we hit a brace – must decide whether to drill straight through (into a closet) or go through the ceiling or … or … I don’t know what the other options are, but we went ahead and hooked it up with the [...]
Get the speakers on the ceiling.
Ohhh. That install guy. Oh. Well, he’s a hunk if I do say so myself. He makes cute babies, too. *blush*
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