Our Free Photo Shoot

A while back I was contacted by a local photographer named Alicia Rios about doing a free photo shoot for me and some of my mom friends and their kiddos. We finally were able to schedule a time and get the shoot done this morning. We were shooting the pictures at Grandview beach in Leucadia. I love that beach and liked that Tre can't escape into a parking lot or something, just beach and ocean.

We got there just after 9am and planned to be there till 11am. There were 6 Moms including me all with 1 child each. So 12 of us. I figured since some of the kids love the water that it'd be best to get some up close and "dry" photos of them first so while the kids played at the beach Alicia took a Mom and her child off to get some shots of just them and we did that with each of the Moms & their kids until we all had some shots of just us and our kiddos. After that it was candid shots of the kids just having fun and doing whatever they wanted to do at the beach. We even got a group photo that I am looking forward to seeing with us all holding our kids.

All in all it was a fun morning at the beach and Tre was tuckered out when we got home and went down for a nice 2 hour and 45 minute nap.

Thank goodness he took a good nap because Jammer ended up having to work the ENTIRE day from open to close because the closing manager called out sick. He left here at like 7:30am and didn't get home until 10pm. LONG day for him AND me. Thankfully Tre wasn't too much of a handful, I think the big morning at the beach really helped him stay somewhat sane for the rest of the day. He did ask where Daddy was a few times and I just calmly said, At Work and he accepted the answer and moved on. He'll be excited to see Daddy in the morning since him and Jammer are going to be hanging out while I go to a doctor's appointment. Of course at bath time I had an interesting experience where Tre decided that he had to go potty and went in the bathtub, yep both 1 & 2! Fun clean up for me!

While Tre was napping I did a bunch of packing. Packed up stuff from some drawers and stuff from the closets that all could be put in trash bags. I also FINALLY got Tre's birthday invitations done and dropped them in the mail tonight. I can't believe that I was so behind on getting them out. I wanted them out where people got them at least a month before the party, but life just doesn't work out exactly the way you plan sometimes. I guess I didn't expect to be moving so quickly AND to have to devote SO much time to finding someone to rent our condo.

Side note regarding the condo, just when we thought we had it all figured out and had decided on the person we were going to have move in, it all falls through. I emailed her letting her know the plan and got an email this morning that said that she decided on a different place, which FLOORED me because I just spoke to her yesterday and she was still interested. We had talked to clear up a few things and I told her all I needed to do was confirm with my husband and I'd call her back. Well, I guess from yesterday afternoon to this morning something changed and it wasn't to move here. Oh well, maybe it's for the best and that's why it happened. Everything happens for a reason, right? We did get another applicant yesterday but they can't move in until the 15th so we were hoping for something sooner. We'll see how things go. On to reviewing more credit reports and all that fun stuff!

So we made it through the day and now I am truly exhausted and need to get some rest. I was on my feet for way too long today, not to mention those torturous stairs at Grandview beach, I thought I was going to faint at the top of the stairs. Serious workout carrying a 27 pound kid up those stairs being 28 1/2 weeks pregnant!

I wish I had some pictures to share from today, but the only one I took was with my cellphone (shown at the top of this post). I didn't bring my camera since we were having pics taken even though I kind of wished I did so I could have a few pics now of what was going on. Guess we'll have to wait!