Stephanie plus...

We’ve had a wild few months over here and I realized I’d failed to mention WE’RE HAVE A DAMN BABY.

Stephanie is due in like 3 days and we’re pretty ready. I’ve been documenting a bit along the way and one of my favorite photos I’ve made is this portrait of her with one of our dogwoods. As bonus, she took a photo of me in my process (so this is sort of a poptpop situation, just barely off). My dear friend Bryan printed these both for me and they’ll eventually be hanging in the nursery.

As much as has been going on*, I imagine far, far more is headed our way.

*it feels like we’ve done everything. Cleaned everything possible, even redid the siding on part of the house. Converted a guest room / office into a nursery. Our room and bathroom has never been cleaner. We’ve traveled. We’ve had ridiculously generous showers thrown for us. We even had a crawfish boil that also served as a celebration for Steph’s mom finally (really) retiring and Steph’s sister getting engaged….AND her aunt having a birthday. And earlier this week we even took off honey from our hives (bonus photo of Steph at 39 weeks in beekeeping gear below).

We’ll have a name once we meet him, but for now we’ve been calling him Rufus T. Barelysheath (that comes from my 30 Rock, a show I have all but memorized).