(Our new) Home Sweet Home

Home. It's something I've been pining over these last few months. It's also what I've been hinting about in some of my previous posts. We've been waiting and hoping and biting nails - on pins and needles even! And now, we've finally found a place to call home - Austin, TX. It was touch and go there for a while, but I'm happy - and relieved to say we are now officially Texans.

We moved into our new place this weekend after a few months of temporary living quarters. =) I won't post any pictures of the mountains of moving boxes and the battle scars of sharpie ink. They'll be gone soon enough. I hope... But just image this: sunny skies, 78F in April, and no sign of winter blahs! Farewell, East Coast. Hello, Lone Star State!

We're loving life here in Austin. There's a thriving artist community, a retro vibe with some neat eat-in theaters, live music and concerts, SXSW, rockin' sushi runs with awesome people, parks, rivers and lakes, a cool city skyline, rolling hills and plenty of green trees. It's not how I pictured Texas to be at all. FYI - I used to listen to the old Lone Ranger Radio Drama tapes as a kid and that was basically how I got my idea of Texas. ^_^ It's so summer here. Temperatures have gotten to 91F with healthy mixture of humidity. (90% - that's healthy, right?) Still, we wouldn't trade our new hometown for anything.

On the photography side of things: our internet, email and phone are all up and running. We're looking forward to booking our 1st local wedding - in Austin. Yay! =) So if you're from the Austin area or know someone who is planning their wedding here, we're available for consultations and couple portrait sessions. We already have a few couples interested which is really exciting!

If your wedding is in Maryland, DC, or Virginia and you're thinking - shoot! They moved! Never fear. We'll be back off and on in 2008 for our current wedding clients. So if you'd like to meet with us then, let me know. I can travel all over the US (and the world) for weddings and portraits. Just tell me where you'd like to have your wedding or session and I can create a travel quote for you. Being here in Austin makes my travel times shorter and the country just a little bit closer. Just one of many reasons why I love Austin - our (new) home sweet home.