yet another full day around these parts. lets catch up.
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the video above (yes, all 8+ minutes) is of our official “gender finding” ultrasound today. confirming what we already knew, we’re having a girl! wooo! but as most of you have already seen that via twitter or facebook, here are some of the pictures the nurse snagged during the course of the ultrasound.
neat-o!
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thus far, response to the launch of little acorn photography has been wonderful, with a huge outpouring of support and well-wishing. we’ve got a facebook page now, as well as a twitter account. (as far as who is managing that twitter account… well, that shall remain a mystery).
so now comes the next thing: proper advertising. even with all the great snazzy web stuff we’re able to do, we’re not gonna get much of anywhere without advertising. and, as you can imagine, advertising with any sort of legitimate impact can be a bit expensive, especially when starting off.
the tools and know-how are readily available (perks of having a graphic designer in the house), its just a matter of coming up with a grand scheme of how big we want to start adverting. i mean, do we want to take out a full page ad for one month in a couple of the Montgomery magazines that float around and then scale it back for the proceeding months (big splash, then smaller reminders thereafter)? even for one month, it seems financially daunting.
we’ve a whole bunch of these sorts of things to discuss during our trip to Seattle next week, including tweaking the pricing plan we’ve already had in place. it’ll be good to get out of our normal element and away from the constancy of “life at home” to get our minds in a place to work these things out. while we’re at home, we just have so many distractions to lead us away from hammering out those details. hopefully next week will bring some great results for putting everything else into place.
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speaking of Seattle… we leave in like two days. wow. that rolled around quickly.
we have stuff on the agenda, but nothing so much that we’re not allowed any sort of down time to just venture out. so far…
- cheezburger night at SafeCo Park (Mariners v. Rangers)
- [hopefully] a night at the Experience Music Project where we’ll hear the widow of Jim Henson give a talk
- Coldplay at the Gorge
… and that’s about all that’s in stone.
i’m really stoked about this trip. its also the first trip we’ll be photographically armed to the teeth. Jac will have her fancy shmancy camera in tow (along with fancy shmancy lens) and i’ll have the still quite capable XTi to shoot with.
you thought we took tons of pictures on our trips before now? you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
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week two (now week three?) of the Great Uncaged Abby experiment is still going along beautifully. her demeanor… i just can’t get over how much its changed for the better. she’s so much calmer when we’re home from work.
i’ve also (fingers crossed) gotten the flea problem under control. i’ve now sprayed the back yard area down twice with some sort of all-purpose flea mix stuff and its worked wonders. Abby also got a big ol’ dose of Advantage today and the results were astounding. i hate paying money for that stuff, but if it works, its worth not having that annoyance around.
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i’m sad we won’t be around when Mr. & Mrs. H roll into town in the next few days.
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and that’s about it.
g’night!
