• bsquared business

    bsquared calendar openings

    Hi everyone. A little break in the blogging for a little business.

    I am ‘officially’ opening the calendar to book your shoots thru the end of July 2009. If 2008 was any indication, spots will go quickly, so please contact me as soon as possible to get your date. You can email me at bbeyrer1@optonline.net or even leave a comment below and I will get back to you as quickly as possible.

    And because a post is just no good (even a business post) without a picture, here’s one from Disney. Love an empty park!

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  • personal,  travel

    florida trip- part 2. (mets spring training)

    So continuing on with the vacation…on Friday we left early and drove the 2+ hrs up to Port St. Lucie to visit John’s parents who have been there since right after Christmas. It was so great to see them and I think that Florida really agrees with them. They are all tan and rested and seem to have very full schedules of fun things with friends. See, snowbird=good.

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    Port St. Lucie also happens to be the home of Mets Spring training (oh goody.) so after a very quick visit at the apartment, we drove over to the stadium and practice fields to watch the Mets train. I of course was thrilled beyond belief, but the boys were really very excited (and when I say boys, I mean Jack, Patrick, Timmy, John and his dad). John brought a ton of baseballs to get some signatures which they were able to do.

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    I do have to say that the people there were so unbelievably pushy and RUDE. Shoving people out of the way to get to the fence to get the autograph they wanted. I was seconds from throwing some elbows or stomping on some insteps after being shoved and pushed and watching the same thing happen to my boys. The 24-70mm L lens I had on my camera is very heavy and could be used as a weapon in the right situation (but I didn’t want to break it cause we were leaving for Disney next!). Really people, a little decorum.

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    So they did get some autographs (Jerry Manuel, John Franco- pictured above, and Kyle somebody) and had some fun watching some of the Mets practice. John says they are expecting good things out of this guy who’s name is Josh Thole (kid, really. How old is he- twelve??) and he was very nice and signed for all three boys and talked to all the boys.

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    It really pisses me off when the ‘big name’ guys won’t sign. Who is it exactly that you think is paying to watch you play, ya jerk.

    A little lens envy. Ok, actually a LOT of lens envy. I mean look at that thing! I’ll even take the smaller one on the camera hanging from his shoulder…

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    Ya think Timmy’s shirt is big enough for him? At least he’ll have it for a while!

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    And then after practice, a little lunch with Grandma and Grandpa with a little school politics talk and a see you soon. They are headed home next week. I think we are all pretty happy about that. I mean all the kids are happy, not the grandparents. They’d probably like to stay longer, but it is parade season.

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    And we’re off to the big surprise of Disney…

  • personal,  travel

    florida vacation- part 1. (miami seaquarium)

    See, this time I’m keeping my word about posting pictures quickly.

    This was our first trip where my parents wouldn’t be there (we would only have our last night of the trip all together) in the apartment. I was told that I had to take a picture of the way the pillows are arranged on the bed so that I could recreate it upon departure.

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    We flew down and arrived Tuesday evening and had our traditional first meal at Padrino’s (love me some croquettas!). Spent Wednesday afternoon (after my massage in the morning with the fabulous Asela) at the Miami Seaquarium. It wasn’t warm enough out to go swimming so we made the trip down there to do something different.

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    On the way down, John and I were discussing the itenerary for the rest of the trip. We decided that based on the weather forecast being pretty chilly for the weekend that we would go and visit his parents up in Port St. Lucie on Fri and see the Mets at spring training there too. I wondered out loud if Camie (my college roommmate) would be up to driving down from Orlando to meet us in St.Lucie so we could visit. It was at that point that John said something about going to Disney for two days- and did I want to do it. Uhhh…yeah! When would I not want to go to Disney??

    So while John and the boys checked out the fish and the dolphins, I was on the phone with Disney reservations trying to figure something out for under $1000.00 for the weekend. More on Disney in another post, but suffice it to say we came in a little over budget but still decided to do it and totally surprise the boys.  So the rest of the day at the Seaquarium was just a little more fun, with me trying to surpress the giggles at the upcoming surprise!

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    Funny story with the picture of Timmy on the drain. He’s very, VERY wary about walking on things like that so I had to take a picture of him on there. He still takes a ginormous step out of elevators- I think he’s afraid of falling thru the crack between the elevator cab and the floor! He won’t walk over grates in the sidewalk, and has the same elevator issue when getting on the plane from the hallway thingy.

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    John loves pelicans. Or maybe just saying ‘pelican’ in his best scarface accent.

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    Went to Captain Jim’s (which is in the WORST neighborhood, with an armed guard stationed outside. Who we didn’t see this trip- maybe he was being held at gunpoint in the back?) for a seafood dinner. Probably not a great idea after leaving the Seaquarium,  but no one got the flipper special for dinner. So first we see em. Then we eat em.

  • personal

    and we’re back

    Fabulous. Back to brown, grey and cold as hell. I am standing by my previous statement of wanting to be a snowbird before I turn 40!

    Well, at least the plane made it (both ways) and we had a really nice vacation inbetween. I’ve already started editing pictures so stay tuned for some highlights from the trip and a full trip report too.

    In the meantime- two shots from the plane. I get a stomach ache just looking at them.

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  • i'm with the band,  personal

    rockin. a lot.

    So Jack and Patrick have been taking drum lessons for about 2+ years. Last August Grandma and Hakka got them a real (and very nice) drum set. So they finally moved on from the drum pad to the real thing. And you know what? They sound really, really great!! I really like listening to them play and practice (not that you can avoid it as they are pretty LOUD and if you are within 500 feet of the house, you can hear them whether you want to or not. Sorry neighbors!).

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    How well does that brick wall in the basement work? And no, I didn’t put it in just for the pictures.

    I’m pushing for them to learn My Sharona- just a fantastic drum song! Now that I have that song stuck in your head, you know you want them to learn to play it too!