London & Gainesville

As y'all know, little Miss London has made her debut. She's sweet and perfect. :-) She definitely has her sister's lips, cheeks, and wacky hairline (no bangs for either of those girls!). Her forehead is completely different than Harmony's as is the shape of her eyes and nose. She also has less hair than Harmony had. So they will resemble each other in some ways for sure. Some day soon I'll post some side-by-side comparison pics. Oh, and my camera...wow! I. Love. It. Before I headed down there I went and splurged on the lens that I knew would take awesome portrait shots. It did not disappoint. And I think I just cost my dad some big bucks because mom is probably going to want one for Christmas. Sorry Dad! :-)

Over the past few months I've started designing some baby invites. I've done some birthday invites for friends over the past couple years and loved doing it. Who knows if I'll actually go through with it, but I'm thinking about getting a little portfolio together of announcements, invites, and Christmas cards and making it a business on-the-side. We shall see. So if any of you (Katie & Hazel excluded...y'all could blow me out of the water ;- ) ) want me to do a birthday invite, birth announcement, or Christmas card, of course I'll do it for free. :-) Here are a couple I did for London before she was ever born. They ended up going with the top one, and printed out it is absolutely adorable. :-)

About Gainesville- I had my interview down there and it went really good! But here's the terrible part...there are 8 (8!) other contenders. And I wasn't the only out-of-state interviewee either. They interviewed someone from Virginia who is also trying to move back to the area to be near family. So unfortunately my situation is not unique. Also good news is that she plans on calling and making an offer by the end of this week or beginning of next week at the very latest. And the lady (Charlotte) is a very considerate person and says she will call regardless of whether I get the job or not. It would be a GREAT job, so I'm kind of nervous now. In other news, even if I don't get this job, I really and truly think that Dane is going to get his job down there. He briefly spoke with his contact person, Lynne, and she said right after Labor Day she is going to get with him about coming down to meet with some other people.

Hopefully my next post will bear good news...