• bsquared business,  personal,  product,  travel

    10 for Tuesday

    It’s been so long since I’ve blogged anything other than client sessions with the exception of Thanksgiving last week (it is that time of year, after all) but I honestly don’t think I can come up with 10 things to blog about. I’ll do my best. And the pictures (cause a post is worthless without the pictures) are all from our annual trip out east in October.

    1. I don’t really leave my computer these days (hence the lack of bloggable material). The other day I went out to do some long put off errands in the morning and all I could think was “oh, this is what normal people do during the day”. It was so odd to see the light of day someplace other than my driveway or pickup/dropoff at schools and activities.

    2. My life is so totally pathetic right now that I have to have a list of friends I want to see in January when I can actually breathe again. And leave the computer. Sad.

    3. This past weekend was my last for shooting for guaranteed holiday delivery. For those of you out there who have not yet ordered your prints or your holiday cards, just a reminder that FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11th  is the LAST DAY bsquared will be accepting orders for guaranteed holiday delivery. So, don’t delay and get your orders in asap so I can have your stuff for you before Christmas.

    4. So excited to be working on my bsquared newsletter for 2011. Please be sure to sign up at the top of the blog. The newsletter will be going out once a month and will have information that my newsletter subscribers will get before anyone else. I’ll also be adding lots of new bsquared products and promotions for 2011 which I can’t wait to share with you! The first edition of the newsletter will be going out by the middle of December, so be sure to sign up soon!


    5. The bsquared calendar for January-March 2011 as well as the new bsquared pricing will be available late December. There will be some specials available so be sure to watch out for that info on the newsletter, on the bsquared page on Facebook, and here on the blog. So keep your eyes open.

    6. When we were out east in October, I actually ran into two of my bsquared brides at a local vineyard. Random and so nice! Melissa actually snapped the family photo that we’ll be using on our holiday card this year. Thanks Meliss!!! (she’s the one on the far right, and my other bride Suzanne is next to her- Suzanne is the one who jumped into the pool in her wedding dress!)

    7. The big boys report cards were outstanding and I couldn’t be prouder. More on that in a post all their own, but I’m just feeling like bragging a little extra on them.

    8. Guess I need to decorate for Christmas this week, get my holiday cards mailed, and get all my Christmas shopping done. Nothing like a little pressure to get me out of my computer chair, at least for a little while.

    9. Thanksgiving here was really great and I think this year’s turkey was my best to date. Maybe because it was 20lbs instead of the 30+ pounds it’s been in years past. And we even ate on time (5pm- I refuse to eat dinner before that!!)

    10. Going to try to get into NYC with the boys and John sometime in the next 3 weeks for our annual Christmas visit and going to try and throw in a trip to the King Tut exhibit before that’s gone at the beginning of January. Has anyone been? What did you think of it? I know it’s not really very christmasy but I really want to catch it before it’s gone. (some shots from last year’s city christmas expedition)

    Made it. Sorry if it was boring but that’s what you get when I can’t separate my ass from the computer chair.

  • children & families

    the baga family {mini session}

    It’s been a while since I had the pleasure of photographing this family and I was so happy when mom emailed me and asked me to take some holiday photos this year. The girls got so big and grown up since I last saw/photographed them. And they are just delicious!

    Thanks for a great shoot, so glad we were able to do it!!

  • children & families

    the cros family

    I’ve been friendly with this family since my big boys were little boys, but this was my first time photographing them. I was so glad to do it, too. The whole family is totally gorgeous and ridiculously photogenic, and I had a great time taking their pictures. You can see why, right?

    This young man is a very talented dancer and has traveled worldwide to compete in dance competitions. He pretty much always wins. And he’s a really good fake smiler (most of the time I can tell which smiles are fake and which are real. With him, I couldn’t tell.) And, it was his birthday on the day of our shoot. While I’m certain that the photoshoot was not the way he wanted to spend his day, he didn’t stop reminding all of us that it was his birthday and was really a good sport about the whole thing. And this one- not only can I not believe she’s in 4th grade (she’s still about 2 years old in my head) she is drop dead gorgeous. She so has that look. Too bad they’re such miserable children. Happy birthday. Isn’t mom stunning? She has recently started her own event planning business. So if you are in the market for help planning a wedding or other event please take a look at her business at  http://andrewscottevents.com/Gorgeous family. Thanks for a great shoot (and sorry S, that it had to be on your birthday!!)

  • children & families

    the debo family

    The very generous grandma of this bunch gifted mom & dad with a bsquared shoot for an early christmas present. Grandma is a loyal blog stalker (thanks, Mrs. L!) and actually also got her daughter addicted too. They are both waiting for the family to make their debut here on the blog. Well, here’s the whole good lookin family!

    This charming young lady had the same teacher that Timmy has now for Kindergarten back when she was in Kindergarten. At a different school. In a different town. Small world.

  • babies,  children & families

    the take family

    Hi, my name is Maria but you can also call me Ben. The little girl in this family insisted that my name was either Maria or Ben. Why? No idea. But if you let me take your picture you can call me whatever you want. Her brother on the other hand, didn’t want to call me anything. He just wanted me to leave. I think this may have been one of the only sessions where I couldn’t get a family shot or even a shot of all of the kids together. Or hardly any pictures of him at all.  But they are little kids, and that’s what sometimes happens.

    The new baby however, let me take as many pictures as I wanted. And didn’t call me anything.

    This was the closest thing to a smile I got after the first 5 minutes of being there. The lighting was bad, but I had to take it and fast!He was pretty happy on his bike. For a little while.  Thanks to all of you for my new names and baby fix! I hope you are happy with the shots we did get!