It’s a work in progress and please pardon the move-in mess, but I wanted to share some (snapshot type) photos of our new home! I took some photos the day we closed on the house and then more last week once the appliances were in. I haven’t taken any since as I’ve mostly been trying to get the house put together, catch up on business and take of my little girl!

I just had to add some photos of my birthday cake and card from my hubby - he asked me what I wanted for my birthday and I told him I already got it… he pressed a little more and I simply said “Yellow cake. I don’t even need any icing. Just cake. Not white cake, not chocolate cake… YELLOW cake.” Truth be told, it’s the only kind of cake that I really like and I prefer it with no icing! =)

I’ll take and post more soon!

And of course I had to throw in the exhausted new home owner self portrait! I’m actually surprised that the bags under my eyes weren’t triple the size!

After a week and a half with no phone, cable or internet (and going through serious withdrawls!) we are finally back online! Time Warner was supposed to be here yesterday afternoon but they didn’t manage to get here until today.

We have moved all of our stuff to our new house and are still working at getting settled in. It’s amazing how much stuff you collect over the years - especially when you have a child! We still have a long way to go but it’s coming along. I have about a trillion e-mails and phone messages to return and I will be working on doing so in the midst of trying to unpack and organize things, getting my address changed on everything and registering my business in the state of NY.

I truly appreciate your patience as it will probably take me a week to get caught up on my correspondence!

…and I am so happy to have a new place to call home! We closed on our house Monday (after many delays) and we are still in the process of moving our stuff in. I’ve been busy painting ours and Jaedyn’s bedrooms so we don’t have to deal with sleeping in rooms that smell like paint and Sean has been busy moving all of our stuff. Of course the weather last night and this morning is not making it any easier but we’re getting settled in slowly. My Dad arrives this afternoon from Florida and I’m so excited! I booked his flight well over a month ago, when I thought we would be closing before Christmas and certainly settled in by now! It’s making things a little more hectic but it’s worth it in the end. It’s going to take me a little longer than anticipated to get set back up as my desktop’s harddrive decided to revolt against me… it turned off and will not even pretend to turn back on and this happened Sunday night, the night before our closing! My best friend and computer genius was trying to diagnose it over the phone and by photos I was e-mailing and thinks that it’s the power supply (which is easy) but since we’re in the middle of moving an hour and a half away I haven’t had a chance to take it in yet. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to get that taken care of. Thank goodness for back-up discs and external harddrives! UGH… it’s just a pain! I really hate my laptop and I don’t have all of my programs loaded on to it so it’s going to take some time to get the desktop fixed and/or load all of my programs onto the laptop. Fun times. Of course with all of this going on my phone and e-mail start blowing up like crazy and I’m tryng to keep up with everything from my Blackberry in the midst of moving! I am technically off through this weekend but I will try to get back to everyone as soon as possible!

It is now *officially* Saturday which means just 2 more days until my husband and I are officially HOMEOWNERS and residents of gorgeous Hudson Valley, NY!!! We have been super busy packing and preparing for the big move and I’m trying to get as much work done as I can before we pack up the computers and will likely be without internet (or time for it!) for several days at least. My schedule is now booked to the max for the next week so if I take a few days to respond to any e-mails or phone messages please don’t be alarmed! Other than the meetings, sessions and album designs I already have on the books this weekend, I will be taking the next week off to concentrate on packing, moving and getting settled in to our new place.

Have a great week! =)