I've been avoiding blogging because as I mentioned awhile ago a new blog is in the works and I've been in denial about how long it's taking.  But it's almost done!  Really!  And, I can't wait :)

Fortunately, my new website is ready, so mosey on over to www.whitneyelizabethphoto.com and check it out!  I also freshened up my portrait website so feel free to check that out as well right here!

And now i'll make the "big" announcement that most of you know already!  We moved!  Woohoo!  Mike and I relocated to Connecticut from Santa Barbara just a few months ago for a great new job opportunity for Mike and so far the verdict is, we love it! 

and

we bought a house!  (yay, gasping, excitement, thought the day would never come!)

With the key to our house (i love you, instagram!)

So what have we been up to?  Unpacking things and organizing the house, which is more of a disaster now than it was when we moved in.  We've been doing some fun house things like pulling up carpet and refinishing floors.  I'll be sure to share but I'll try not to turn the blog into a house restoration project blog!  I've also been getting my home studio set up (yay!  can't wait to meet clients there) and eating lobster rolls as much as we possibly can.  Seriously.  You know those national hot dog competitions?  Well, I'm going to enter in the lobster roll eating competition and if there isn't one, then I'll just invent it!

Bear and Charlie are loving their new backyard, I think they were over the townhome living :)  I don't know if they enjoy sharing our new home with two new pet rabbits (photographs soon!) but we'll make it work :)  Speaking of the dogs...

Isn't Charlie so regal?  

We've also had family visit already and it's much easier to be able to see our families now since we're not 3,000 miles away (only 800!)...

My nephews Jackson and Benjamin came to visit with my parents in July.  They are growing so fast, especially compared to here and here.

And we did all kinds of fun touristy things...

And then Mike's parents got to visit as well...

Mike and I have been trying to visit as many cool things as possible in New England and South of us...

Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park, Maine

NYC

Eating lobster rolls on the coast!

There will be more blogging on the way, I mean it!  But hopefully the new blog will make its debut very soon :)

In the meantime, a housekeeping note:

-Please pardon my online presence confusion while I update several websites and online listings from NC and CA to CT!  I still love to travel for weddings so if you do not live in Connecticut or New England please still feel free to inquire about my availability and rates.

And you thought this blog post was going to be about Brad and Angelina...

What in the world, you may be thinking.  Yes, that's right.  I have gone off the deep end.  No, not really, I am just now the proud (not-so-stubborn-anymore) new owner of a vacuum cleaner and a steam mop.  Mike has been pining away for this power couple for awhile, but I stubbornly held out.  I try very hard not to buy things we don't need...for so many reasons.  Why spend the money, where will we put this, it will just break and then get thrown away, when I was a kid, blah, blah, blah!  But-finally, the sweeping twice a day (two dogs, people!) just got a little old.  And when I couldn't quite make two sweeps happen in one day and someone thought we had carpet put in, I just couldn't take it anymore.  Mike is off somewhere dancing in the street over my purchase :)