Al & Danielle Rakos Wedding

Al & Danielle Rakos Wedding

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Moving

Well... life has been crazy lately... to put it in a nutshell. We are, officially moving. We found a house too good to pass up.. however it is in the despicable "boonies" that I completely I despise... and even make fun of a guy work with for living out there. Which now, we will be probably a mile or so from him. How will I live without CHARTER?? I LIKE my super-fast high speed internet. I do not want to go back to DSL.. but have no choice. Wonder how different it will be uploading a wedding album to the lab with DSL? (GULP!) The house though is HUGE! We are going from a 1980 sq ft house to a 3600 sq ft house! It has a 3 season porch, a nice deck off front and back. 5 bedrooms. It even has a completely separate entrance to an apartment on the lowest level. Technically a "mother-in-law apartment". Which actually we WILL be having my mother-in-law stay there with us. Eventually I could turn this lowest level into a studio... but no time soon. I LIKE not having my studio NOT at my house. Yesterday I was at the studio all day with sessions & it was nice to get OUT of the house. I worry if I have the studio at my house I'd feel like I was too "Stuck" to my house. The nice thing though is S-T-O-R-A-G-E! I will have a in-home office & craft room! Yay! Maybe someday I'll get back to scrap booking! I have enough Creative Memories stuff I so need to get going on. I am the type of scrap-booker who does NOT believe in any digital scrap booking in any way. I LIKE having the "real" stuff in the scrapbooks... otherwise what it the point?. That is my opinion. I have Zander's 1st report card, his 1st band-aid... etc... I LIKE digital books, just NOT for scrap booking at all.
Anyway... getting off track here. The house is on 200ft of lake shore with a huge bonfire pit by the lake. Have I mentioned my husband is obsessed with bonfires? We have bonfires every weekend with our neighbors until there is snow. Which is fun.
So now we sit & wonder... WHERE do we start with all the packing? I have been selling clothes on craigslist like crazy. Made $350 so far & have TONS more to go. SO perhaps I will be able to get rid of a lot of stuff that way so I do not have to pack it ha ha ha!
Yesterday in studio we did a high school senior, a fun business session, and a maternity session. So we will get some to show soon. Actually I will post the business ones here on the blog today.
Tomorrow, Easter Sunday, we are going to church first, then the kids have a big Easter Egg Hunt tomorrow, then a huge feast. We are in charge of bringing Spencer's famous Cheesy potatoes... that we got the recipe from our neighbor's LOL. Happy Easter Everyone!

Friday, April 8, 2011

APRIL

Hello All! I have been busy with personal stuff lately & have neglected my blog. Sorry. This past Monday I went with a fellow photographer friend to the monthly TCPPA Seminar. It was neat. The speaker was all about weddings, and was showing us ideas & how he shoots into the sun, and also how he has images instantly up on an Ipad for some thing he does. Me.. I am just not that technically savvy. I wish I were. However meetings as these have been helping me... a year ago I had a super old version of Photoshop... and in a year upgraded to the latest, and have learned a LOT. I have another photographer friend who he & his wife are in Elk River who has offered to help teach me editing techniques... I just have to get my butt over to his place.
Currently we are debating on WHICH school to put our son in next year. A house we are leaning toward is in the MAPLE LAKE school district... however he does not do well with change, so debating on Buffalo or Maple Lake at the moment, as Buffalo he'd have hockey & baseball friends at least. He is super excited about the Easter Bunny this year as that darn Bunny hid his basket in a tree branch outside last year... so he is already thinking of places where he may find his basket. 
Well...those of you in or near the Buffalo area saw in last weekend's paper our big color-wrap ad we did. We are having a great deal in High School Senior sessions... Please get the word out! I will also be offering a couple different Family Sessions as well. Details have not been hashed out quite yet.
Please EMAIL me if you have any photo needs or want to set up a session. Happy Weekend all!