• babies,  children & families

    the pows family

    This family came to me thru the powe family- they are cousins. And I think I fell in love with their little boy just a little the second I walked thru the door. What a cutie pie!

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    His first birthday is this week, so the photoshoot was in honor of his special celebration. He’s definitely the apple of his parents eye.

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    The other baby had to get her moment in the spotlight too. In her cute doggy tshirt no less.

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    Poor guy is teething- hence the ‘booboo face’. But honestly it’s not a sad face, he’s sucking on his lips.

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    I loved their home- great colors and decorating in every room. His happy apple green playroom was a photographers dream.

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    Mom almost didn’t let me upstairs, but after seeing his room, she couldn’t have kicked me out if she wanted to. Sorry, but as soon as I saw the sky painted on his slanty ceiling, I was staying!

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    I had a great time meeting all of you. Thanks for the fun morning. Can’t wait to make your storyboard…

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    If you’d like to see all the images of the pows family session, please click HERE.

  • i'm with the band

    The Turn & St. Baldricks

    There is a national organization called St. Baldricks that benefits children with cancer. From their website:  “St. Baldrick’s is the world’s largest volunteer-driven fundraising event for childhood cancer research. Thousands of volunteers shave their heads in solidarity of children with cancer, while requesting donations of support from friends and family.” 

    Immediately following the RVC St. Patrick’s Parade, a St. Baldrick’s fundraiser was held at the local parish center. Eric (who has appeared here on the bsquared blog a number of times in the past and who is Brian of The Turn’s big brother) volunteered to be a shavee, and I was asked along to document the whole process.

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    I  already thought that Eric was a great guy with a big heart, but doing this just proved that all the more.  This is a cause that is very close to both Brian and Eric’s hearts (not to mention their dad, Geoff, who unfortunately couldn’t be there that day no matter how much he wanted to. Hopefully the pictures will be as close to being there as possible.). Their mom, Lynn, passed away from cancer when they were very young. This was a wonderful tribute to her memory and further proof of what good boys she raised.

    Eric signed in but we were told there was a VERY long wait, so we ran over to Kookaburra Coffee Co. in town. This is where Brian and Eric have their office and spend a LOT of time. Everyone there was pretty excited to hear about what Eric was about to do.

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    After quite a while, it was finally Eric’s turn. And the shaving of the giant, thick mop of hair on his head commenced.

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    The before and after. And the during and after (they take that hair down LOW). And also the remains of the after. That’s a lot of hair!

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    While Eric was under the razor, Brian was watching on and totally teared up.  And then when Eric was finished… Well, I felt a little like I was invading a moment here, but it was so special between super close brothers and I knew their Dad would want to see it, so I snapped it. I know their mom was looking over them and was as proud as a mom could be (yeah, crying a little myself right now … and I know you are too).

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    After chatting with the volunteers and showing them his new look, they wanted to head back to Kookaburra (Eric couldn’t seem to stop touching his “new” head!) where everyone had a look and couldn’t resist touching it too.

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    To see a slideshow of all the images of Eric and Brian at St. Baldricks, please click HERE.

  • personal

    St. Patrick’s parade

    Here it is, in all it’s green glory!

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    You would think that they would’ve gotten the watertower finished before the parade that goes right by it.

    Grandma (and even Hakka this year too) were doing their best Mel imitation, chasing kids off the apartment property. Dontcha just love Grandma with her police tape?

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    We had the best seats, thanks to Grandma and Hakka. The ‘box seats’ always give us great views. And we even got some beads. It’s like Mardi Gras (except with no shirt lifting). Here’s Hakka squishing up Jack.

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    John marched in the parade, although he definitely shouldn’t have with his back. His truck was out of service, so there was no riding while reading the paper this year.

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    Grandpa Jack, Feather, and Uncle Joe played as they do every year.

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    We got a wave from Mr. Met since the boys were wearing Mets hats.

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    The boys made it thru part of the parade, but once Daddy, Grandpa and Uncle Joe passed they kinda lost interest. The pull from the computers and the slot machines inside was just too great. And I was off to St. Baldricks.

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  • babies,  personal

    *new baby alert*

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    My good friend Jen and her husband Brian welcomed a new baby boy yesterday morning at 4:30am (oy!)!

    Brady James. 8 lbs, 13 oz. (oy oy!) and 21″ long.

    Jen and Brady are doing well and will be in the hospital for another day.  She said that the delivery was really rough (the hardest out of her 3).

    I absolutely cannot wait to photograph the baby chunk! Especially with all the cool new newborn props I’ve gotten in over the last 2 weeks! This baby and I are going to be well aquainted.

    Jen is also Mommy to “baby Michael” (the kid is 2 years old and is still referred to as baby Michael by all my boys, but now I think he’ll finally have to graduate) and Timmy’s best friend in the whole wide world, Jack.  Timmy’s pretty excited about the new baby. We can’t wait til he gets home so we can visit.

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    And because some kind of superhero is always around these two…

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  • personal

    recovery

    No, not from the weekend…I took it easy. But my computer guy informed me that he was able to save about 95% of what was on the external hard drive! Woohoo! So I should have that back in my hands shortly and will be able to upload all of those pictures to smug mug for extra saftey. What a relief!

    Yesterday’s parade and St. Baldricks was lots of fun…pictures coming this week. Sorry I missed you, Uncle Jerry! Had to run to St. Baldricks for pictures.

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    Friday night I went out to dinner with my friend Gina who I used to work with at Jimlar a thousand lifetimes ago. We email and talk often, but even though we live less than an hour apart, haven’t seen eachother in 4+ years. (That was at the Prince concert where I was pregnant with Timmy and had to sit on the end of the row cause I was still getting sick!). So we had a great dinner and spent 4 hours catching up on 4 years!

    Finished another book on the Kindle and started another last night (UR-Stephen King’s Kindle only book…about a pink Kindle. I might be freaking out shortly.)

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    A shoot today for a one year old boy. Should be fun!

    And because a post is worthless without pictures (the ones above have already been posted here on the bsquared blog) here are a few new ones from NYC a few weekends back…

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