• babies,  baseball,  children & families,  travel

    beyrer baseball trip- part 5 (michigan friends + a mini session)

    So glad we included Michigan on this trip so we could see our good friends (and Jack & Patrick’s BEST friend) who moved there 6 years ago. It’s so great seeing them fall immediately back into the groove of being friends within seconds of arriving.

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    They treated us to a nice (real food/nonbaseball park) meal for dinner (thank you!), the boys played some backyard baseball, Timmy and Katie played together,  and the kids all watched A Christmas Story before bed.

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    The next day they took us over to their pool for a swim. The pool was great and all the boys had a blast. The slide was definitely a favorite (even though Timmy dosen’t look like he’s enjoying it, he did!) From there we went to the Tigers game (pictures on that in tommorrow’s post).

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    We even squished in a very mini-session for Maureen’s good friend and neighbor and her gorgeous kids. I didn’t have my favorite lenses with me, so the pictures aren’t quite up to the usual standards, sorry. But I hope you like the few that I got, J. The baby’s hair sticks straight up, no matter what they do with it. Too cute!! To view all of the images, please click HERE.

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    Timmy and Katie slept in her room on the floor in sleeping bags, while all the boys (Connor & Spencer, Jack & Patrick) slept on the bunk beds and aerobeds in Spencer’s room. John and I took over Connor’s room (thanks, dude!). Everyone was up waaaaay late- adults included. But you gotta get in the visit and laughs while you can!

    Detroit Tigers game coming up next…

  • personal,  travel

    beyrer baseball trip- part 4 (cleveland sights)

    This was really the only part of the trip (other than visiting with our friends in Michigan) that I was remotely looking forward to.

    A little more driving was needed to make it to our destinations for the day.

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    I found out that the house that was Ralphie’s in the movie A Christmas Story (a favorite of mine which I usually watch for the full 24hrs that it’s on TV on Christmas Eve) was actually located in Cleveland, and that there was a museum, gift shop, and house tours- I was SO in!

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    We watched the movie in the car about 5 times on the trip to get ready for the house! The boys really loved it (and we watched it another 6 times after seeing the house) and John and I were laughing from the front seats.

    A little walk around the museum while we waited for our turn for the house tour. This guy was in the movie as the delivery man who brings in the ‘major award’ in the FRAGILE crate. He lives down the street from the house and was the boys on set guardian while they were filming in Clevland. He had lots of good stories to tell.

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    Pictures from the house and museum, with some of my most favorite quotes from the movie.

    “Ralphie, I can’t get up!” or “I can’t put my arms down! Oh, you’ll put your arms down when you get to school”. or even “Getting ready to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep-sea diving. ”

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    “He looks like a deranged Easter bunny!”

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    “Oh! The theme I’ve been waiting for all my life. Listen to this sentence: “A Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time”. Poetry. Sheer poetry, Ralph! An A+ + + +!”

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    “In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan”

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    “Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.”

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    “Only one thing in the world could’ve dragged me away from the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window.”

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    “Would you look at that? Would you look at THAT?  What is it?  It’s a leg!  But what is it?  Well, it’s… A leg, you know, like a statue.  Statue?  Yeah, statue.  Yeah, statue.  Ralphie!  My mother was trying to insinuate herself between us and the statue.”

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    “Fra-gee-lay! Must be Italian. I think it says Fragile, dear.”

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    “Sons of bitches! Bumpuses!”

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    “Not a finga”

    “Randy? What’s wrong? Whatcha cryin’ for?   Daddy’s gonna kill Ralphie!”

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    “Meatloaf, smeatloaf, double-beatloaf. I hate meatloaf.” (Timmys favorite line. Cracks him up every time.)

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    “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine. Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!”

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    Not only did we purchase a Tshirt that says ‘Oh, Fuuuuudggee”, a bar of Lifebuoy soap, a Little Orphan Annie Decoder Pin, but also a leg lamp for our very own. Can’t wait to light that baby up in the front window!! Cause it is a Major Award, afterall.

    We also visited the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, and I wasn’t overly impressed. It was okay, but it was mostly about the costumes it seemed. And, there were no pictures allowed except for on the main floor where there wasn’t much in the way of displays anyway. Uch.

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    Onward to Michigan to see our friends and go to the Tigers game…

  • i'm with the band

    the turn @ longhorns 7/31

    This was my very last shoot before ‘closing’ for the month of August. A perfect way to end the season with some great music from my favorite band!

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    Needed some new pictures of them for some posters, cards and other advertising stuff that I’m working on for them.

    They are SO rock n roll!

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    The crowd loves them!

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    Adding to my collection…

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    So, not only were they my last shoot before closing up, they are going to be my first shoot back to work! Perfect!!

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    To see all of the images from this shoot, please click HERE.

  • children & families

    the beyr kids

    (ok, guess it’s probably not really a secret what the last name of this family actually is!).

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    These gorgeous kids are John’s cousin’s kids. I am so happy my cousin-in-law follows my blog and even happier she asked me to take some pictures of her kids! It’s always fun to see them, and I got to meet one of mom’s sisters (there are about 50 sisters I think- I can’t keep them all straight) who I adored right away.

    They met me down at Pt. Lookout (thanks again, T) and we got a great evening with fantastic light. And two kids with incredible eyes.

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    Stunning, no?

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    Oh, they are in such trouble with Mr. GB. He works it well!

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    See, told you I got a bunch! No worries.

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    Looking forward to seeing them all again today for the annual family bbq/baseball game (which is known as the fishing trip although there is no longer fishing involved). Hope for no rain!

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    To see the rest of the images from this shoot, please click HERE.

  • baseball,  personal,  travel

    beyrer baseball trip 09- part 3 (cleveland)

    By this point of the trip, this summed up exactly how I was feeling.

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    All I could think when seeing the sign was..’you got that right, buddy’.

    Left Cincinnati for the very exciting drive to Clevland to see the Indians.

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    Made it close time wise to get to the game (again). As we were walking from the hotel to the park (for about 3 blocks) I noticed a sushi restaurant across the street from the hotel. I debated for a while if sushi in Clevland would be a good idea or not, until my good friend Nate stepped in via facebook and decided for me that it was not in my best intrest to eat sushi (or anything else for that matter) in Cleveland. He phrased it slightly more harshly than that however.

    We made it to our seats (good seats again) just to be moved shortly thereafter. A sheet of glass in the restaurant above us was broken on the top and the whole sheet was all spiderwebbed with cracks. So instead of taking the chance that their fans would be sliced to ribbons by the glass should it happen to fall, we were moved over a section to slightly better seats.

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    There were some interesting folks at the game. Like sideburns here for instance.

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    John referred to some of them as “Eminem’s white trash uncles that even he would be embarrassed of”. We witnessed a number of people being ejected from the game- oh, they were real class acts. A girl wearing clothes that she had no business wearing fighting with some tattooed scary unbathed guys behind her. She went first, and they got removed shortly thereafter. Well, at least it was something other than baseball for me to watch.

    The boys took some pictures too with the little camera.

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    And they all had a great time. And I had a hershey bar for dinner back at the hotel. I figured that was safe.