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weekend recap & the barr family
Saturday was SO busy with 3 shoots which took all day and took me all around Nassau County. Saturday night I went out to dinner with my friend Beth and we had a great ridiculous time. Her husband also recently had surgery so we both needed a night off (with no working, no errands, no carpooling, no kids, no recuperating husbands). Had some sushi (duh!) and went to see Brian play at a local bar. He was great as always and it was nice to see him. Then on the way home we were listening to my ipod in the car and Beth was saying how much she loved the songs on it- it’s probably 90% of 80’s music. So we ended up driving around town (just like highschool in the 80s) blasting the music and singing at the top of our lungs and dancing in the car. It was so stupid and immature and SO FUN! You gotta love friends that you can be stupid with like that. Beth said that I should post my playlist on here, but it’s so long that it would take forever. Suffice it to say that it’s tons of Cure, Depeche Mode, Beastie Boys, Erasure, Yaz, English Beat, The Call, and some Nitzer Ebb and other crazy stuff. But there is some newer stuff too so I’m not totally stuck in the 80s- some Dave Matthews, David Gray, U2, some dance stuff too. I’m all over the place when it comes to music.
On a more somber note…Patrick’s crayfish met an early demise on Saturday night. It was very sad when I went into his room to put away some laundry and saw the little lobster floating upside down. Patrick was crushed and spent a lot of the weekend quite upset. We will not however, be getting a replacement. Timmy was concerned that his fish, Lewis and Goo, were going to die too. Let’s hope not. I can only handle one pet death and one hysterical kid at a time. Oh, and Timmy accidentially called them Gewis and Loo the other night and that just might be their new names. It goes back and forth.
Patrick also came along with me on a photoshoot on Saturday as my assistant and did a great job! I had 5 month old twins and a 2 year old, so I really needed the extra entertainment factor. Jack gets to go next weekend. They are both so great with babies and little kids and anything that keeps the little ones smiley and focused works for me. And it was really fun for me to have him along (he had a great time too he said. And of course loved the $20 he made!)
More shoots today and a quick trip to the park for our family. Timmy got his first subway sub (the teeny tiny one) with apple slices and actually ate both! Now editing like crazy for the forseeable future.
Now on to the Barr family. I donated a bsquared gift certificate for a raffle prize for a fundraiser for a friend’s sister who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. The winner of the bsquared gift certificate made it into a whole extended family shoot so everyone could be included and have their christmas photos done. Loved their whole coordinated green and red (you will be seeing a ton of red & green here on the blog over the next few weeks). Hope you love the pictures "aunt chicken" and thanks for the family insider info to make the kids laugh! (all of the pictures are in an album on the left).
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the chi family
Please excuse the shortness on words tonight. Trying to catch up before the weekend and getting ready for Halloween tommorrrow.
Adorable and lovely family. Some beach, some park, some under the boardwalk, and some in grandma & grandpa’s backyard. Just nice all around people with good looks to match.
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the cog family
This family was gifted a bsquared photography photoshoot by mom’s sister who is one of my growing up squared families. Got that?
It was a pleasure meeting and photographing all of them. The baby was just so squeezable and cute. I know mom & dad thought we didn’t get many smiles…but the pictures prove differently. We originally scheduled the shoot over at the planting fields but the weather was so iffy that we decided just to do the shoot at home (the house is actually not the ‘shoot family’s’. it belongs to the growing up squared family. I said it before and I still stand by it- that house has the BEST lighting. I want to rent it out for my studio!) Found some great little spots in the backyard with more fabulous light.
Got out the old standby metal tub. Love this whole series.
Besides letting us use her house, Aunt H supplied plenty of great props. She knows what I like!
We even shot a few in her halloween costume.
Sad flower, happy flower, planted flower.
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an update & the dunn family
First an update from around here:
John’s doing pretty well. We went to see the surgeon in NYC yesterday (Timmy came with us and was sooooo good) and John is now allowed to drive, but only very short distances. So now the coffee/newspaper crisis is over. The doctor was pleased with what he saw and took out the staples. John saw the xray of the metal mesh cage that is now in place of his disc and the HUGE 3-4 inch screws that are holding it in. Pleasant, huh? Two more weeks and he can go back to work a little bit. Not that he understands what "little bit" means.
In other news, our medicine cabinet fell off the wall in the downstairs bathroom, crashing into the sink and cracking it a LOT. So we have to get the cabinet put back up and now I get to go out and find a new sink. Cause I have the time and money for that.
And now on a happier note, on to the dunn family. Again, a repeat family who is just a pleasure to be around. The girls are adorable and so sweet and actually WANTED me to take their pictures this year (a great change for me!). Well, at least until they had enough! We had a great time and the girls were happy to make a game out of almost everything which elicited tons of smiles and giggles. I love a fun shoot!
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the pear family
I’m sure that if you are a blog follower that you will recognize this good looking family from last year. The girls grew up so much over the last year and although they are still pretty shy, they were more at ease with me. I don’t know if it was the year older, the fact that I see them at both the boys schools occassionally, or the fact that I started talking about High School Musical. MInd you, I know next to nothing about the whole HSM thing since the boys are not the slightest bit interested but I must’ve faked it okay.
Mom had the girls hair blown out- it looked super. And they worked the camera like real models! Check em out!
