Good times

Got my wisdom teeth out today. Nothing is more fun than a little oral surgery, if you ask me.

It was a last minute/emergency thing because my one wisdom tooth decided to turn against me over the long weekend. I went ahead and had 3 taken out, while I was at it. What this means is that my last day of work was today instead of Friday. Not a very fun way to start stay-at-home-mommyhood!



I came up with this ingenious way to hold frozen vegetables to my face. It involves 2 headbands and a t-shirt. I think I'm gonna patent it.

I'm actually not feeling too terrible - at least not yet. I've been icing and gauze-ing and all that. The Oral Surgeon called to check on me at 9pm. Weird time to call, but nice none the less.

Thanks!

Thank you all for being such a supportive and encouraging bunch. I want to give you a great big hug just like this.

New blog

I'm excited to announce that I've got my new business blog up and running. It is still not 100% perfect, but you get the idea :)

Over there, I'll be posting about my client photo sessions and photography tips. This blog (babblesbybrook) will still be the place for family updates and truly random weirdness :)

So please go forth and check it out. Please do give Amanda and Jon some love there, as well!

http://www.brookrieman.com/blog/

EDIT- I screwed something up and the blog was out of commission for awhile, but it is back again. See, still working out the kinks!

E-I-E-I-O

Creek stomping

It has been really muggy around here. Sticky, sweaty, and downright miserable. It seems like a good day for Lily's inaugural creek stomp in the park. We figured she would love this since her favorite things involve water (baths and playing in the dog water bowl).

To our surprise, she didn't love it like we thought she would. The water was a tad bit cold and I think she was just kind of confused about it all. It made for cute pictures, though.







We are so fortunate to have this beautiful spot in practically in our back yard. There are definite advantages to living in a park.

In other news, we've been busy picking these.



This is the first year that our strawberries have really produced. We have gotten a nice big bowl each of the last few days. Yum!

MSN

If you go onto www.msn.com right now, you might see one of my photos. The photos at the top of the page change every few seconds and one of them is my image of my hand reaching for toilet paper. It is highlighting an article on incontinence. Glamorous! If you hover over the image, you see the credit to me and that they purchased it off Getty. I assume it will only be up there for a matter of hours.

This made my day!

Thanks so much Laura for happening across it AND knowing that it was my hand and my toilet paper!

Never a dull moment

Lily's fascination with putting things into containers continues. This evening, I found a bottle of lotion in the diaper pail and a full bottle of milk in the toy box.