We had a very big and eventful weekend starting on Saturday when Teri purchased us an above ground pool. We loved Patty and Terry's so much during our visit that we had to get on ourselves. Since it's almost the end of the season it was tricky to find one in stock but she pressed on and found one in stock. I didn't help set it up but apparently it was pretty easy. James was amazed that you could fit an 18 foot pool into one box! You can see by the picture that he started to enjoy it from the very beginning!

Truthfully he'll probably get to use it more than Teri & I combined. For the money, the easy set up and the relaxation it provides we're sorry we didn't buy one years ago.

Sunday we went to our professional photo shoot. This was a baby gift from our friends Jay & Nathan who own a production company . Check them out at http://www.jaywitkowski.com/commercial.html

They rented a studio space in Deep Ellum with exposed bricks, wood floors and lots of natural light. Then they divided the shoot into two segments, first the natural shots of Teri,Vin and I (and a few James too) which will be black and whites and secondly they created a stylized shot. This is where it got fun... They brought in vintage beauty shop chairs and blow dryers along with an art director and a hair/make-up woman to get up dolled up.
I started encouraging Teri from the night before to branch out and accept the hair and makeup they were offering.
Ok that's just too funny - let's take a closer look!
You can see by her face that she's not used to wearing makeup but the hair was the best. They styled it in a modified pompadour created with some serious backcombing. Again you can see how thrilled she was.
And let's take a closer look at that via video

We'll show the final pictures when we get them!