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the gold family
A super fun beach session on a luckily warm day in April. Mom requested a bit more of a candid session, so there was a lot of playing and laughing going on the whole time- and that included me!
Mom and I went to high school together (not the same grade though) and I think high school was the last time we saw eachother!
Such cute boys!!
This kid had NO fear. 
She was so brave!
Even though the hand holding only lasted for a second, I’m glad I caught it.
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10 for tuesday
Been a looooooong time since I did one of these- let’s see if I can make it to 10!
1. A few weeks ago, John & I went to Timmy’s school for visitors day. The program was adorable- loved the singing and the whole weather theme. Was so pleasantly surprised that Timmy sang and smiled the whole time! (he’s not much for singing in public).
2. We made sure that we got a shot of John & Tommy stuffed into the little first grade desks. Denice and I used to talk about this when the big kids were babies- so funny cause our kids have been together in classes all these years and I think this is the second or third shot of Tommy & John in the little desks…
3. Read a new book recently- Heaven is Here by Stephanie Nielsen. Totally different than my ‘normal’ reads, but it was great and very inspiring. Which I think was the point. I read Stephanie’s blog all the time so I was looking forward to reading her book about her recovery and life. Definitely recommend it!
4. The boys, John and the Healy men went to opening day for the Mets at Citi Field a little while back. They are all SO happy that baseball is back. I, on the other hand….
5. If we normally run into eachother in real life, I apologize in advance for the next few weeks. My spring allergies are in full swing and the only thing that works is benadryl. So I’m b*tchy and on about a 5 second delay all day. A lovely combination.
6. The boys are really enjoying their iphones and Timmy loves his Kindle Fire. Their favorite games right now are Stack the Countries and Stack the States. I love them too, and there are a ton of countries out there that I really know nothing about. Like Pakiscandinavia.
7. The weather here has been so nice, we hit the beach for a little bit the other day. Cannot wait until that’s EVERY day!! I finally finished cleaning out the garage from the giant purge of the winter and donated the rest of the items to the St. Mary’s Outreach Center down in Long Beach. They were so nice and very appreciative, and it was a good thing for the boys to see. Since we were just down the block from the beach, it was definitely time for a visit.
8. Saw this cool wedding seating chart a while back in Garden City and snapped an iphone picture. I wish I had something like this at my wedding- so pretty!
9. In a giant bubble war with my dad. He always beats me. I think his high score is 19,500+. So frustrating!!
10. Lots more Organic Bloom frames, window frames and a few families coming up on the blog soon. (ok this last one is kinda cheating but I’m all out of ideas). Shooting a newborn today- a big, chunky one who weighed in at 9lbs, 4oz at birth. And waiting on a birth session (I hope!) any day now…
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boys at the beach {our holiday card session}
Just realized I never posted these!! A few from back at the end of the summer when everyone was all tan and golden. We ended up using some of the pictures from this shoot for our holiday cards. I would post the cards but they are trifold and some of the images are upside down when posted flat. So just enjoy the photos for now instead.
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arrrgh.
Had some fun with Timmy and my lens baby composer at the beach a few months ago (only got to edit the photos recently). Many thanks to Zoe for the inspiration, crewcuts for the clothes and Brett for the sewing of the cape on very short notice! Oh, and Timmy for the fun!
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the smi family
My very last beach shoot of the season, and wow- what a way to end it! I really love photographing this family (and have many times now) and they are so gorgeous. Even the dog. But that’s not really why the shoot was so memorable. We had a squall. A real true full on 30mph winds, sideways rain, blowing sand, can’t see 2ft infront of you storm from hell. I totally wish I was able to take pictures of all of us looking like drowned rats running, screaming in the sideways rain but I needed my camera to be working for more shoots after this one. The rain was so totally horizontal that my back was soaked (like ring it out dripping soaked) and my front was perfectly dry. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Just as we were wrapping up in the dunes, it started to rain. Just regular rain. So we hightailed it to the cars to wait it out. Mr.C wanted a picture of him in the rain. So I took one (if you look closely you can see lots of raindrops all over the photo below)
Then when it stopped, we ran down to the ocean for our last pictures. We could see the rain coming in- we just didn’t know what kind of rain it was at the time…
And then it hit the fan.Thanks for a great session (although rainy and quite the adventure in weather!) and I love that your session was my last beach one of the year.