Here's Your Nice Deed for the Day

You know those emails you get that are like, "If you don't forward this to 50,235 people in the next 19 minutes, you will die"? This is not one of those, but if you DO help out, it would sure be nice of you. The Lord just might say when you get to the pearly gates, "Remember that time you helped out your blogger friend? Well done, good and faithful servant! Enter in!" And you'll be so glad you did. ;)

My adorable new niece's photographs are up on Brandy Jagger's website. If the comments on the photographer's blog post for Caroline's photos reach the number 20, the parents get a special prize having to do with their daughter's photos. Now wouldn't you want someone to help you out? And you probably have a spare 30 seconds on your hands. So....head on over here and leave a comment. Say anything. But something positive would be best...

'Cause if you don't you're gonna have a booger hanging out your nose and toilet paper on your shoe at your next company meeting and no one's gonna tell you. And you'll lose your raise.

Live Bunnies Photos

My mom was dying to have Drew's pictures made with the live bunnies, so we had them done today. A few tears were shed over the humongous rabbit named "Oreo," but overall he did well.

Wanna see? Click here. The password is "drew" in all lowercase.

JC Penney portraits & review

I have a confession. I've been a bad mom when it comes to having Drew's picture taken regularly. We had them taken at birth (but we don't have the prints yet) and we just had them taken again last week. Yes, I missed the traditional 4 month photo shoot and now I'm almost too close to 6 months to have them done again to get back on the traditional track. Maybe we'll be on the 5-7-9-12 month track. :) My problem was the photographers I was craving cost more than my pocketbook could allow.

Anyway...guilt got the best of me and I finally decided that it was better to have a studio take his picture than to not have it done at all! Hilary & Justin & her parents have so generously given us a beautiful white Feltman's Brothers outfit that we just HAD to have his picture made in. (Hil, just so you know I hunted everywhere for white dress shoes and socks--NO ONE had any!) We made our minds up to head to JC Penney portraits since it's close to home. I will include my review in this blogging.

In the end, we got some cute pictures of him, but mom & I both decided we may not go back the next time. Here's the breakdown:

The good: simple backgrounds available, appointments open all the time, pictures available in 10 minutes for your viewing, prints back in a week

The bad: you are herded in and out like cattle, only 2 outfit changes allowed, they DO have catches to their coupons, SHORT photo sessions, & you have to hope they capture what you want b/c they don't let you look at the shots well until after it's over!




























(Note the blue gauze I'm not a fan of. Drew, however, loved it and thought it tasted great!)