Author: brandy

Today was such a crazy, busy, exhausting day!!  I did a first birthday session in the morning, rushed to the grocery store and then home so that we could take Mya to the neighborhood Easter party.  Then we got home, I ate lunch faster than I’ve ever eaten, packed up the car with my newborn session gear and raced out the door.  I was going to Pflugerville and had my google maps directions, but wow, were they ever wrong.  I got sooo lost.  I don’t usually ever get lost going to a session but I got so lost that I almost started crying on the phone with Ryder who was trying to help me out.  Our GPS system was still packed with our stuff from our Miami trip.  My phone was beeping at me that it was about to die and I had no way of getting a hold of the mom from my session.  I was in the middle of NOWHERE land!  What a nightmare!!  I finally found my way there and things worked out great.  Thank goodness.  What a day!

So here are a couple of pictures from my morning session.  This was a morning of firsts.  We went to some property that  a friend of mine owns. (Thank you, Amanda, so much!)  They have some animals there on their property:  goats, donkeys,…and there was a horse on the lot next to theirs.  So in the middle of taking pictures, a horse came up and stuck his head right in the picture.  LOL  Weird, but cool.  Later the dad had to herd a few donkeys away from us so that we could take pictures without them being in them.  I was laughing so hard.  Thanks for your hard work, dad!  So this little boy was the happiest little thing.  I fell in love with him!  Thank you guys for a fun morning!

I love the way he just stopped and stared at this horse.  It cracks me up!  😉

I love you, bluebonnets!

Here are some pictures from my newborn session.  I loved hanging out with this family.  I met the mom through some old teacher friends that I used to work with.  I loved talking to her today.  I have a feeling that if we weren’t moving, she and I would become good friends.  She’s just so cool and easy to talk to.  And she had lots of great ideas for different pictures.  I love that!  Big brother was there too.  (Pictures of him coming soon.)  He was so sweet and apparently is the future version of Mya.  They were very similar babies and have personalities that are a lot alike.  It’s good to see that she will probably mellow out someday.  But this baby!  He was a dream child!!!  He slept the entire time that I was there, until the end.  If he woke up, he would stretch and instantly fall back asleep.  He was so adorable.  Congratulations on another perfect child you two!

More later, but now it’s bedtime.  The Easter bunny will be here bright and early in the morning!

We are heading back home tomorrow.  🙁  So sad to leave this beautiful place but anxious to get packing and get the move on!  We have so much to do that it almost makes me sick just thinking about it, but it will all be over and done in a month and a half.  It will fly by!  Today on our way back from the beach we heard the Alicia Keys “New York” song just as we pulled up behind a car that had a N.Y. license plate.  It was such an exciting feeling!  Mya was singing with me  from the back, “New Work!!!”  Precious!

We made it to the beach yesterday.  The weather was plain uck, but we didn’t care!  Can’t wait for the sun to come out so we can go back!

Well, we are officially moving to Manhattan!  An offer was made that we accepted on Friday.  What a crazy, whirlwind it was selling the house.  It has just gone so fast.  We’re closing in mid April and have to be out of our house by May 15th.  Wow!  So we have tons of furniture to sell along with our cars.  If anyone needs any type of furniture, let me know.  We have it!

We have made a little pit stop in Miami before the madness of moving begins.  It’s a much needed vacation for all of us!  Here are just a few pictures that I’ve taken.  We will be making it to the beach later today after nap time and I can’t wait.  I can already smell the ocean and I LOVE it.  It makes me so giddy and happy to smell that again.  I feel like it’s saying, “Welcome back home!”  I went to high school and college in Florida and have missed it here ever since I left!  Glad to know that there are cheap, direct flights to Florida from N.Y.!

We rented a house with our family.  It’s such the perfect place for kids.  It already has high chairs, cribs, strollers, a swing set, toys, you name it!  This light just made my heart sing so I had to go and grab the camera after our swim!  Of course Mya wasn’t quite as happy as me about it.  😉

This was at the car rental place.  lol  Mya loved the hibiscus flowers!  We also saw something a little bizarre in the parking lot.  Can you guess what it was?  See below!

That’s right!  Monkeys!  And lots of them.  It was very strange.  We found out that there used to be a zoo right there but after Hurricane Andrew, it got wiped out and now there are just monkeys running wild around there.

Ahhhh, Florida, thanks for taking the stress away, at least for now!

Well, an offer was made on our house. The people want to close on April 30th and don’t want to rent the house back to us. Holy BLEEEEEP! The offer is a bit lower than what we want but these people really want the house so we’re going to try and meet them in the middle. I’m scared but excited and nervous and anxious all at the same time. How in the world will we sell everything in time? We want to stay with Ryder’s parents for a few days or so if the house does close then so that we can stay here for Mya’s 2nd birthday party. We don’t want her to have a party with none of her friends. She loves them. It makes me pretty sad to know that she won’t be seeing them after we move. 🙁 Everyone pray for us and cross your fingers that things work out however they are supposed to.

Okay, back to business.  I took some pictures tonight of these cuties.  They were the easiest 2 children I’ve ever photographed, even the almost 2 year old!  He looked at the camera and smiled!  WHAT?!  Wow!  Oh, I wish Mya would do that.  It was so nice meeting you guys tonight!  Mom, I’ll let you know when your pictures are all ready, hopefully by tomorrow!  🙂