The room is now all set for our baby’s arrival. I’m pretty low maintenance when it comes to this kind of thing and I didn’t really care about painted walls and cutesy stuff. However, my father in law Denis loves to paint and he came over and really fixed it up and made the room look nice. Cheridy and my mom picked out paint colors and then most of the furniture was either donated or from Craigslist where we found some great deals. The only thing we need to put up still is the blinds which are on their way. So, although this initially wasn’t too big a deal to me, now that it’s done, I really like it and I think it looks fantastic! I’m really looking forward to getting some cool baby photos in black and white on canvas and getting those up on those red walls.

After coming home from City Mission, Cheridy and I decided to have a “no photo” day where we did nothing related to our photography business. This was the first day like that…probably all year. We spent the day cleaning our house and cleaning out our storage room and all sorts of stuff which was nice to get done.
In the evening we had some friends over to hang out. Keesha and Bobbie who’s wedding we shot earlier this year, and Ron and Amy who’s wedding we shot last year.
We’re really should have taken some group photos to post on the blog but…we didn’t, so here are a few photos that I have:

Keesha and Bobbie on their wedding day (obviously!)

Ron and Amy (when we did some family pics for them last Christmas)

Jeff, one of the men in my Thursday morning bible study group lives and works fulltime in the Brightmoor community in Detroit with an organization called City Mission.
Every year, they deliver food baskets to the people in the community around Thanksgiving and Christmas time. Cheridy and I have done this through our own church for the past few years, but decided not to this year since she’s supposed to give birth any day now. However, my friend Pete (also from my mens group) was heading down there to help pack and deliver those food boxes on Saturday so I ended up going down with him to help out.
At City Mission they give out boxes with fresh food. The people in the area don’t have access to fresh food because many don’t have cars and there are no nearby Meijers or Kroger stores. So, the food boxes that City Mission packs have apples, milk, chicken, bread, butter, peanut, jelly, eggs, potatoes, etc.
There are 800 people in the community that they wanted to deliver food boxes to, but they only raised enough money to do boxes for 200 people.
They will be doing this again at Christmas time, so hopefully they’ll be able to raise more money. If you want to help out or learn more, please visit http://www.city-mission.org/.
Thanks to Pete and Jeff for getting me off my lazy butt to get down there and help out!