Big Day

Today was a very big day for Lauri and I, it started with the inspection of the house we're planning on buying. My Dad joined us to check out the place, and I asked him to take a few pictures for record purposes. He took a few more than "a few" since he knew he didn't have to do any post-editing, but I'm happy he was there to check it out and give us his oppinion. Pictures on that to come later, because more importantly, today was our first ultrasound for Lauri and the Baby!

People always tell you how exciting it is to be there for this procedure, but I never really understood what they meant until today. It was so exciting to see the baby wiggling around inside of Lauri on the screen. Usually all you get to see from other people are the still images that are produced from this procedure, but today Lauri and I got to see our baby for the first time moving all over the place! I'm not sure if it just wanted some excercise, or if the ultrasound was bothering it. But anyways, here are our Baby's first pictures!!!

Crazy Days

Not sure how many (or, if any) people follow my blog consistently, but if you do you've most likely noticed that I haven't had a blog post in quite a while. That's been for good reason, we've had quite a bit going on in my Shields family lately (including Lauri, Baby, and Me). A few weeks ago, the condo that we've been living in for the last 2 1/2 years (6 years for Lauri) sold! Which of course meant that it was time for Lauri and me to really start looking for a new place to live. Yesterday, after nearly 40 houses, and one failed offer on another property, our offer on a house was accepted!

We're both very excited about our new home, and even more relieved that we don't have to keep house hunting. Each time we went out it was like a marathon session of home viewing which was tiring for both Lauri and I, but especially her with the baby.

On top of all of this excitement, Sunday was my birthday! So we headed over to my Grandparents house to celebrate with our family, and even my brother was able to make it for dinner! If you don't know, I have a twin brother (who's a chef), and we were born on our Dad's Birthday. Being that my brother is usually busy on the weekends, we don't usually get to celebrate together on our actual birthday anymore. And it never feels quite right if we're not all together on that day. Head over to my Dad's Blog to check out a picture of the three of us (click here).

I've also been working on Logo ideas as my Dad's been in the process of re-branding Shields Digital Images into Jim Shields Photography (New name, same good looking staff...) I have one of my designs at the top of my blog now (as you probably have noticed) and have been playing around with some colors as well. It's still a bit of a work in process, but it's getting there. Let me know what you think.

P.S. I've got a high-five for the first person (besides Lauri) who can tell me where that picture was taken.

Light the Night Slideshow

As promised, here's is the slideshow. If you don't get to see an image you really liked for as long as you wanted to, don't worry. When the show is over, thumbnails of all the images will appear and you can view individual images for as long as you'd like. Let me know what you think, leave a comment. And as always if you don't have a google account you can leave a comment as "anonymous", just make sure to leave your name so I know who you are. Also if you'd like to let others know about the slideshow, there's an icon that looks like an envelope at the bottom of the post (next to the comments link) that you can use to easily forward a copy of the show on to your friends and family.

Thanks.
John

Light the Night Slideshow Update

So I finished editing the images late last night and immediately started putting a slideshow together, which I'm expecting to post within a day or so. It's been alot of fun going back through the shots I'd taken, you can see it in the faces of the people that were there how much this charity means to them.

Special thanks again to Debby Vasallo for all of your hard work and for asking Shields Digital Images to get involved, not to mention everyone else involved in bringing it all together.

So check back either later this evening, or tomorrow for that slideshow. And leave a comment when you stop by to let everyone know how much Light the Night means to you, and how much you enjoyed yourself so the people that put on the show can hear it too.

Thanks.
John