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yes, again.
I’m back in Florida. Today. I know, I know.
In Hallandale/ Miami for the weekend with Robin for a girls weekend! Looking forward to a few days of doing nothing really at all; laying in the sun at the pool and beach, reading a ton, going out for all you can eat sushi at Taisho (especially seafood handrolls!), going down to South Beach for drinks, heading to University of Miami for an all-reminiscing tour from our college days, singing loud in the car, and a whole lot of fun and relaxing.
It’s okay, I know everyone hates me. But I did work ridiculously hard in 2009 and need a break (and a break just for me) before things get totally crazy again in April until the end of the year! (and I don’t mean the end of the school year, I mean the end of 2010!)
A big giant thank you to John for taking care of our boys all weekend so I can have some girly alone time and not worry (too much anyway, I’m still the mommy and I still worry) about the boys. Thanks JohnnyB- I love you and will miss you! To my parents for letting us stay in their beautiful apartment and lending us the car so we don’t have to rent one (and yes, I will clean it all up before we leave). And for pitching in with babysitting while I’m away. And to my friends who volunteered to help out too. Love you all!
Taking the weekend off from blogging. And only have the point n shoot with me (see, really on vacation!) but will post some pictures from our adventure when I’m back on Monday.
Hope everyone has a great weekend! And because a post just isn’t a post without a picture, here’s two cool shots from Disney taken with the lensbaby. Delish!!
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the lerh family
Had the opportunity to travel down to NJ this past weekend to do a session for the cutest little pink newborn baby. She was seriously just a beautiful baby with amazing skin and coloring. And best of all, she loved the hairdryer that I had her daddy blowing on her for all the nakey shots! Between the warm air and the white noise, that baby slept. A lot!
She’s only one week old. I know, mom looks ridiculously fantastic. Not fair.
See what I mean about beautiful and pink?
Daddy just adores his new little princess (hence the blanket) and I’m so glad I caught a little smile. Sweet!
Thanks for a great shoot and all the help during the shoot. It was totally my pleasure!! Hope you enjoy your pictures!
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the heights couple
When I got the original email from B for this shoot, I was immediately so excited! A fabulous couple in Brooklyn Heights for a mini session = a happy me! While I’ve been shooting a ton of newborn sessions, and a few families and parties too, it’s always nice to break things up a little and get to use some of my ‘other’ kinds of ideas. Oh, and I had ideas!
They were just as fantastic and smokin as I had hoped. They jumped right into model mode without much prompting at all. And while it was ffffffreezing outside, they did their best Americas Next Top Model and pretended it wasn’t so cold just to get good shots. I loved them even more then!
When the picture on the right is your first for the whole shoot, you know it’s gonna be goooood.
Just walked around a few blocks with me yelling “oooh! can we stop here?” several hundred times in that small 5 block radius. I loved that they just trusted me and stopped where ever I wanted.
Loved Love Lane. Perfect!
Seriously? You are so workin it, both of you!
And I really need to mention that although it was Ms. B who contacted me for the shoot it was actually her boyfriend’s idea for the shoot! How cool is he?!
Thanks to you both for a totally awesome session! I couldn’t have had more fun with you!
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the fran baby
This lovely little family was gifted with a bsquared shoot from mom’s elementary school (she’s a teacher in my town). It was so nice to meet them and see such very calm, collected first time parents who were really just thoroughly enjoying their new baby boy.
And when he’s this sweet, how could you not enjoy him?
He was such a great baby and slept so well for us, and then was nice and awake later. So I was able to get a little of everything during the shoot.
Sorry about all the laundry you guys had to do when we were done with the shoot, but I hope you think the pictures were worth it!
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7 for Sunday
It’s been quite a while since I did one of these, so here’s a new one.
1. It’s really unfortunate that Tom Cruise went off the deep end. He’s so nice to look at, but now I can’t look at him without thinking ‘oh, he’s craaaaaaaaazy’. (this thought occured while flipping channels and finding Mission Impossible 3 on).
2. The application forms for passports are quite tedious to fill out, especially when having to do 4 of them. Gotta get all those ducks in a row for the wedding in Jamaica in May. Really looking forward to that trip!!
3. I love going on Facebook and seeing so many of my friends/clients with a profile picture that I took. Just makes me happy.
4. Our Disney trip was so, so fun! A whole week with the Mouse (and as an added bonus, friends of ours from town were at Disney the exact same dates, on the same flight down, and at the same hotel as us- and we didn’t even plan it!) and it was still not enough. Hit all the parks (except Animal Kingdom- not our favorite) and had a blast. All the boys did the Pirates League where you dress up as a pirate with makeup and everything, and we had both sets of grandparents join us for little bits of the trip. Timmy was finally tall enough to ride lots of the ‘good’ rides and he loved them! And although we didn’t win the Cinderella Castle Suite again (actually, they’re not giving that away anymore either) it was definitely one of the best Disney trips we’ve had. And it was our first trip with the Disney Vacation Club- so great!! Lots and lots of pictures and video to come soon. I brought along my new flip video camera and am slowly figuring out how to edit video. You know, in my free time.
Here are a few randoms from Disney (just the first few I’ve edited). Love this picture of Timmy. Looks like he’s giving me the finger, right? Actually, he’s just using his jedi mind powers to choke me. Much better. Some great ones of Patrick too, and some favorites of my boys.
5. I’ve really been enjoying the Olympics, but am still totally at a loss regarding Curling. And I tend to watch it for long periods of time just cause I think all of a sudden I’ll just GET it. But that has yet to happen. Is it shuffleboard on ice? Is it like darts? Do they wear special shoes? And really, WHY is it an Olympic sport? It’s kinda oddly mesmorizing. Any help on this is more than welcome. But, on the same token I have to say that I really love short track speed skating- omg, so edge of your seat exciting!
6. Getting so excited to head back to Florida on Thursday-Sunday with my college roommate, Robin. Just us girls, just for the weekend for sun, a University of Miami visit, relaxation, massages, sushi/seafood handrolls at Taisho, and some South Beach fun. Can’t wait!! (and yes, I do realize I just got back from Florida. Twice. But I’m not going anywhere else after this trip until Jamaica in May. I know, waaaa.)
7. I really, really have to get myself the iphone. I was waiting to pick one up when they switched over to Verizon but that really dosen’t look like it’s happening anytime soon. So when my contract is up this summer, I’m going iphone I think. I’ll ask for everyone’s favorite apps so keep a list ready for me, ok?
Hope you all had a great weekend. Off to NJ this morning for a newborn shoot and then a mini this afternoon that’s local. Then really looking forward to dinner tonight with some of my girls and movies for Shutter Island.