• 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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  • i'm with the band

    The Turn at bbq inc.

    Went out with some friends for dinner last Friday night and then to see the band. Couldn’t help but take some shots of The Turn.

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    Want to take a second to say how proud I am of Brian and Pat- how far they have come over the last year since we first met, what good people they are, and how ridiculously talented they are. Their new CD comes out in a few weeks (we are working hard on the cover art) and it is SOOOOOO good. I can’t wait for everyone to hear it!

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    Being their groupie photographer is so much fun. I can’t wait to photograph them playing the Garden! Someday soon…

    In the meantime, they are playing The Big Show at Madison Hall in Rockville Centre on Saturday, April 18th where they are debuting their new CD and hoping to play to a packed house. So if you are local, please come down and show your support and listen to some fantastic music. For tickets, contact Brian at 458.7299. Or you can leave me a comment or shoot me an email and I will get you tickets. Seriously, you have to come (even if you’ve come with me to other Turn shows). You’ll love them. 

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    Ogy (Brian’s brother Eric) will be shaving his head for St. Baldricks (benefiting children with cancer) on Saturday and I will be there to catch it. Look for pictures here soon.

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    Brian’s dad LOVES listening to them play! Can’t you tell?!

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    I just love Pat singing. He’s getting better and better. He rocked Lovesong by the Cure here…

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    My favorite is the screaming shot during “Sex on Fire”.

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    If you’d like to listen to some Turn, please visit them HERE. Hope to see you at the show!!

  • babies,  children & families

    the led family 3.0

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    As you saw from the sneak preview the other day(and shown again above), this great family just welcomed a new baby, their third girl! I love working with them- mom is the nicest and has the best outlook on life. And the girls have come SO far with me since we started taking their pictures over a year ago. I think they might actually like me at this point, and I couldn’t ask for more than that. Genuine smiles and happy giggles.

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    Grandma and Grandpa were in from out of town to visit and help with the new baby, and told me how their home out west is covered in pictures of the girls that I took. Needless to say, I liked them right away! And now they will get a few pictures to add to their collection with them actually in it!

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    Didya notice all the frames in the background? All pictures I took. There’s nothing that is more satisfying (other than repeat customers and referrals!) than walking into a clients home and seeing your work prominently displayed. Hopefully, there will be some of this shoot’s included soon too!

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    The baby was fast asleep when I got there and got started with pictures which was good and bad. Good because she was happy and I could work quickly with the bigger girls before it was lunchtime and naptime for them. Bad because then she woke up and all the pictures I had in my head for the perfect squished up sleeping baby shots were not going to happen.  But, we rocked it nonetheless with some awesome eyecontact from this three week old sweet baby girl. So the bad– actually not bad at all.

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    I asked my mom to make me some new knit props for newborns that I have seen other photographers use. She’s an awesome knitter (seriously, the woman can KNIT) and whipped up 4 of these buntings/peapods for me in different colors. Thanks, Mommy Dearest!! It worked out great.

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    The day after the shoot was her Christening, so we got some shots of the beautiful handmade family heirloom gown.

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    Hope you like the pictures  K and family. Great seeing you all again and meeting little miss C. She’s delish.  For a viewing of the whole gallery of images from our shoot, click HERE.