Buying a House and an Engagement!

Ok here is my effort at keeping this blog up to date! It has been a VERY VERY busy week! One of the busiest! Since last Sunday we have looked at at least 25 houses and most of them with my children... that is at least 12-13 hours of looking at houses with my 2 and 4 year old. In all honesty they were pretty awesome... chocolate milk and donuts go a long way!

We found a house we loved... it was move in ready and while we were signing papers for an offer the other realtor  called and someone had made an offer and the seller accepted! Back to square one on Wednesday! Thursday we looked at 7 more houses and some that we had seen before. We actually chose one that we had seen before that was way under our budget! That's a great thing huh!? Hopefully we can add some of our own personal touches to the house and make it our own!

I am just excited to have a home! Living out of suitcases for 7+ months has been more then trying on us. But we have loved being closer to family. Carsyn has made some sweet friends and got to go to school at the church I grew up in. It has been so much fun reconnecting with old friends and getting to see the joy of both of our parents in seeing their grandkids so much!

Also in the last two weeks my baby sister got engaged!! I cannot believe that she is old enough to get married but she is almost 23... I was pregnant with Carsyn at 23 so I guess I need to let her grow up ;)
She found a great guy that loves her to pieces... I am so excited for them! Carsyn is most excited about being her flower girl and being there to help her with her dress all day ;))

This past weekend we all (my whole family) got together to celebrate my baby sister and her engagement! See photos below...

My sister and her boo

The whole family!

Aren't my parents so lucky!?

redoing an old photo ;)

me and my babes... love every photo I can get with them!

The kids checking out the new house... still not ours until August 8th.

20 houses down... 20 more to go!

my AWESOME sis in law looked and houses with me and took notes about every single house!

We’re moving to Oklahoma… Say What???

 The Cunningham's are on the Move!

Drew and I moved to the Beautiful Bay Area a little over 6 years ago this summer. We were newly married and ready and excited to start a new adventure together. It only took a few weeks for me to fall head over hills with the area and to begin to feel at home… (I am sure all of my Bay Area friends can relate). It's a place that steals your heart… and when you leave you feel the constant tug to come back home… even when we would go on vacation.

Throughout our time in the Bay Area we had a lot of friends move away and I always felt so sad for them…that they had to go somewhere else… to leave this amazing place. How could you ever leave? Thankfully Drew and I both have the same love for the Bay Area and to us… this is Home. I imagine us sitting on our back porch in 60 years sipping coffee, watching the sun go down on the Pacific with complete peace knowing that we followed our dream and made living in this beautiful (but super expensive) place work.

About a year and a half ago the Lord started to pull on both Drew and I’s hearts that it was time for a change and Drew began to fill a very clear call to be a lead Pastor. I always knew that Drew had this in him… he just didn’t know it yet ;) Over the course of that year we prayed, we asked, we applied for jobs and sought the counsel of many friends, family and mentors. The call that he had for us became very clear… to church plant.

We have started that journey and are starting to dream up what that is going to look like. Our hope and prayer is that Santa Cruz, CA is the place that we will start this church. We initially planned to move there in August (one month from now) but Drew has been given the opportunity to join an awesome staff for a handful of years in Oklahoma where he will get to serve under one of the greatest (in our opinion) and most successful staff/pastor teams in the country. We are super excited about taking this position & investing here in the OKC/Edmond area! 

What does that mean for my business? I will definitely scale back on my CA portrait clients and will start doing some portrait clients in the Oklahoma City/ Edmond Area and Wichita Falls, TX area. As far as Weddings in San Francisco I will become a “Destination Photographer” for the Bay Area. I plan to do about 6 weddings there each year…flying back 16 times a year with two babies seems impossible… 6 I can handle! I am already starting to book weddings for 2014 so if you are thinking about booking me for your wedding photographer for 2014… reach out now!

Oklahoma City and Wichita Falls friends I am excited to start shooting more Weddings and Portrait in the area!

I am also really excited to start blogging again! I want to keep an account of these years and I think blogging will help bc we all know how fast time goes by!  I am so excited to get to live close to both of the kiddos grandparents {also known as our Parents ;)} and to reconnect with some of my sweet college friends!!

Today we are hitting the ground running house hunting so if anyone has any tips for us in the  OKC/Edmond area... please send them our way!!