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I’ve been waiting to share this news on the blog for MONTHS. And, I’m hoping to involve all of my faithful blog visitors in on the fun of the project that’s consuming a huge part of Jess and my life:

WE’RE BUILDING A HOUSE!!!

“!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” about sums up my feelings about the house that’s on its way to becoming reality. Beginning in September of last year, Jess and I began thinking about what our future housing plans might be. You see, for the last two years Jess has been a Resident Director at the college where we met, were married, etc. We’ve both graduated, but her RD position is one that includes housing in an apartment inside of one of the college dorms. Needless to say, it makes for interesting days.

We consider the RD position to have been a gracious provision of God, and it’s given us some time to save up for our first home which we’ve decided to build. It’s going about 4 blocks from my photography studio, right in Olde Towne Clinton. It’s the PERFECT area for the two of us–old, full of character, and within walking distance to work. The house officially began this past week and we’re hoping to move in sometime in the month of June!

As you could probably guess, there are LOTS of decisions that go in to building a home. And since Jess and I worked up house plans from scratch, we’ve been making TONS of decisions already. So, from time to time I’ll be enlisting the help of all of you in getting your ideas when we’re just stuck in indecision.

Now, lastly, please allow me to RAAAAVE about the man that’s making all of this possible, and that is our INCREDIBLE builder, Tim Prevost. Tim owns Timber Creek Homes, and knows what he’s doing when building a house. Jess and I go to church with he and his family and I can attest positively to his ability to build a house and love the Lord. He’s such an inspiration. For the past two years he’s been recognized with First Place honors for best house in Mississippi. Ok, get my gist? If you’re even considering about building, you HAVE to call Tim.

Here’s a look at our plans for what’s goin up…

Bottom floor:

Second floor:

And here’s a video of the stakes going in!

The Stakes Go In from Robby Followell on Vimeo.

uhhh… I haven’t been this excited about an announcement for the business in a LONG TIME. I’ve been spending lots of hours over the last month developing a new service that will be available to ALL followell |  fotography brides. I bring you the:

I’m not going to bore you with all the details, but, basically imagine: at your reception, we spend time hanging out with all of your guests, getting super fun pictures of them, and as a result providing you with a pretty-fly-for-a-white-guy album of all of those pictures. Imagine having the total opposite of those crazy lame picture directories that churches publish showcasing all of the people that love you the most.

Anyway, if you’re an approaching f | f bride, and this is something that interests you–email us right away and we’ll book the FOTOBOOTH at a special (and crazy low) introductory rate! Email us (robby@followellfotography.com) for all the info.

Here’s a look what these FOTOBOOTH images look like… excuse the fact that they’re all of me and my friends. That’s just how I roll.

Hey fellow Choctaws…

Got several (flattering) requests from folks who wanted to use my most recently posted images as desktop wallpaper. So, instead of making you stretch a tiny blog image to fit your big ol’ screen, I thought I’d give you some larger resolution files sized for the most common monitor sizes. Consider it a very late Christmas present. Hope you guys enjoy!

(just click on the appropriate display size below each thumbnail and the image will open in a new window. once the image loads fully, you may right-click on it to save the file.)

1280×800 (widescreen)

1024 x 768 (fullscreen – 4:3)

1280 x 1024 (fullscreen – 5:4)

1280 x 800 (widescreen)

1024 x 768 (fullscreen 4:3)

1280 x 1024 (fullscreen – 5:4)