It’s always hard to move to a new place because you always spend weeks and weeks feeling like you don’t have friends. The only friends we have really made here are Jeff Hein and his wife, Jen, who are in our church ward. Jeff Hein is a painter and does some really amazing graphic portraits that are usually life size. You can visit his website here. Last sunday he asked me if I wanted to model for one of his portraits he was sending to a big show of his in New York. Obviously, I jumped at the chance knowing it might solidify us to *bf status. I took quite a risk, knowing his history with pregnant models ( see his painting below).
Phew!

Anyway, the FIRST painting above is the one of me. We were able to see the final product last night at his studio party. Sorry, I only had my camera phone with me so the picture isn’t very good. His paintings sell for a ton so I don’t think we’ll be able to buy it but I really like it. We’re secretly hoping it doesn’t sell at the show and maybe he’ll be able to cut us a deal, being all *bf and all.

*bf has a whole new meaning when you’re new to a city. In this case, bf refers to, simply, people we talk to in church that call us by our names, sit by us and occasionally speak hypothetically about hanging out outside of church. Once we do that a couple times, the friendship status will be raised to bff.