Here are a few things that have “happen” to us lately… Saturday night I photograph a wonderful reception up in Cleveland. It was really hot and I was well soaked through with sweat so I put all the windows down and opened the sunroof. It was quite pleasant I enjoyed the breeze and I was pretty much dry by the time I got home. I went in the house and got settled in. When I woke up entirely too late on Sunday I laid in bed enjoying the rain falling on the roof and hitting the windows. What I didnt realize is that I had left the sunroof open on the Pilot. Eeek. There was lots of water in there. So we rented a Rug Doctor and sucked as much up as possible. Put the dehumidifier in there and have been letting it run for hours on end.

Also I have been painting in what is to be our baby’s nursery. We got the paint matched to a quilt that we liked the color of. Did the research on which paint is scrubable and everything. Bought the paint from Home Depot and painted the walls. Two coats. Erin comes in and says is this the right finish? Sure enough they mixed the right color in the wrong finish paint :S

Then today after all of that, Erin called me at work today to let me know that there was a water stain and some mold on the ceiling of the master bathroom!!! So I finished what I was doing at work and headed home to check it out. Sure enough there was a leak in the roof that had made its way through the bathroom ceiling. So I got up in the attic to find the problem and it seemed to be coming from around a sewer vent that goes up and out the roof. So I got some roofing caulk and got up on the roof to see if I could seal up around the vent.

Did I mention that Sunday was Erin’s birthday and I lost track of the days and totally forgot to tell her happy birthday? Ugh. Anyway there will be pics of the nursery progress to come but I thought you might like to see me on the roof! Keep in mind I am only as handy as I am cheap so this is not a think you will see me doing for fun.

I have decided to enter a few images into a photo contest specifically for wedding photography. It is a juried competition judged by some of the best in the biz. I am going to post another entry with the option for you to vote on your favorites as to which I should submit too.

For you photographers who don’t know about this competition yet there are mulitple cash prizes so you should definitely check it out. HERE is a link to their site or you can click on the image below to enter some pics of your own.

Wow… Erin and I came down to Atlanta last night for some relaxation and turns out we drove right into a MAJOR storm!

Thursday night we got on Priceline.com to see about getting a whale of a deal on a fancy hotel. As it turns out there is something like a basketball tournament or something going on so we could not get any hotel rooms in the areas we like to come down and stay in. Lucky we couldn’t cause there was a tornado that tore through the area and we would have been in harms way! Check out a photo gallery of some of the damage HERE.

What we did get was a room in the Westin Hotel at Perimeter. Very nice and convenient to the interstate to get to all our favorite places. But it was a little scary to wake up this morning to Erin’s sister in Chicago calling to see if we were ok. We only knew of strong rain and some thunderstorms.

To top it all off, there was another band of destructive and deadly tornadoes that passed to the north of us this afternoon. Pretty scary stuff. They are getting 2-3″ hail up there.

I found this link on one of the blogs I stalk and thought I would pass it along. It is Will Ferrel and Jack Black singing on the Oscars a few years back. So Funny. Here is the LINK.

Well I just now got a chance to look at the pics I took in Chicago last weekend that were not wedding related. I had a few hours to explore while I waited for the rehearsal on Friday. I walked around downtown on the Michigan Avenue area. I had lunch at Arby’s then got some popcorn at Garrett’s. Then I walked back towards the hotel where I promptly fell asleep on a couch in the lobby! Woke up about 30 minutes later with some people talking near me probably thinking I was a bum who wondered in to warm up. Come to find out the people talking there about 10 feet from me were the bride’s father and a couple other wedding guest :)

Anyway here are a few shots I took. Not too much to look at but thought I would post them anyway. Be sure to check out my photoblog over the next few days for some more from my trip.