4 more weeks......

We can barely contain our excitement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our foundation begins next week! Finally!

Photo shoot with Jana.....

Last week Jana came home from Ottawa for a little visit (BIG YAY!!). On Saturday we had a girls day together. First we had to hit the walmart to pick up the latest Harry Potter book that we are both obsessed with. After that we had a little snack and went on a little photo shoot together. We were loaded down with our cameras and some fun props, but as my luck would have it, my camera stopped working about ten minutes into the shoot.

So we used Jana's camera the whole day..... I was getting her to go here and there, like climbing into shopping carts and jumping up into transport garage door areas, oh! and lying on the railroad tracks, lol. What a good model!

We got some great pics too!!!! I love them all...well most of them, there were lots of me where I looked too fat so off to the trash bin they went!!

Here are my favorites from the day!

Eleven years ago today....

a great friend passed on.....

Jamie, Chops as we liked to call him, was a hiliarious spirit and not a day goes by when he doesn't cross my mind. I'm sure all of the friends he had feels the same way today.

Miss you Chops!!!

In motion....

The wheels on our house building train are slowly chugging along at the moment. Paperwork is definitely a headache and time consuming!!

We 'thought' we had everything worked out and were just waiting for our paperwork to process, but we got a big surprise two weeks ago when we found out that the lot of land we were in the process of buying had been denied by the planning commission!

Talk about stress!! Mainly because we had already put down 15% on the lot, and we paid to have it surveyed, so as far as we (and the seller of the land) were concerned the land was ours, we just had to wait to get it approved before transferring the title into our name.

But, as it was going through the planning commission it was denied because of the future development of the subdivision. Where our lot is situated, it is seperated from our neighbours by a road and a ditch....but this road (for the future development) was not yet approved. So, that would later make our lot a corner lot and yadda, yadda, yadda, they did not want to approve our lot. Yet, they approved our neighbours lot even though they were in the same situation as us.

Things went into high gear when we found that our!! Jamie and I quickly headed to the offices of different people to try and get some help. First, the planning commission, then our building inspector, then onto the MLA in our area hoping he could push for the planning commission to approve our lot as it is on a developed street having nothing to do with the furture development. Then onto the village office, the owner of the lots, and finally our lawyer.

Having that many people on our case really got things in motion and by the next business day everything was worked out and our lot was approved. Woohoo!!

We were a little scared!! If it came down to it we would have had to get another lot in the subdivision, but it wasn't one that we would have loved to build on, so I am glad we didn't have to change lots. I love the one we have!!

Last thursday Jamie went to the lawyer to sign the documents of the title and on Friday they were faxed to our building inspector......so hopefully this week we will have our building permit in hand!! Then the contractor can get started and dig for our foundation and put in the basement relatively soon!!

Our tentative date for the house is August 20th........so they better they moving!!!!

This photography thing......

is pretty fun, but I can't help obsessing over all of the photography equipment I would love to have in addition to my stash. Right now it is pretty slim.....Canon Digital Rebel, three lenses, a couple of memory cards and a tripod. I don't even have a decent camera bag!!!



Like this sweet wide angle lens....http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/12082-GREY/Canon_2509A003_Super_Wide_Angle_EF.html

Or this sweet fish eye lens...http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/12069-USA/Canon_2535A003_Fisheye_EF_15mm_f_2_8.html

And this super sweet crumpler camera bag....http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/384137-REG/Crumpler_MD0701A_7_Million_Dollar_Home.html

Or this awesome, much better than my Canon SLR, camera...http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/397314-REG/Canon_0296B002_EOS_5D_Digital_Camera.html

Also would love this external flash....http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/397664-GREY/Canon_0298B002_430EX_TTL_Flash.html

And who can forget a couple of lens hoods, memory cards, and an extra battery pack would be very helpful.

Am I dreaming or what!?!?!

Playing with actions...

midnight gold & midnight sepia

More of my favs....

Chandra & Wade '09

My first engagement shoot!!!