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live from new york…
and the hospital for joint diseases. john is doing fine. the surgeon said everythig went really well. (although they scared the crap outta me cause they said 3 hrs for the whole thing. but it was more like 4.5). he is in recovery right now waiting to be brought up to a room. hes in a lot of pain but lucid (not to mention his usual cheerful self). hes got a nice morphine pump so its not all bad. i would like one too after the14 hr day so far and not even close to driving home yet. more tommorrow. thanks to everyone for your prayers and good wishes.
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the fre family & the hoi family and an important note
First, the note. John is going in tommorrow to the Hospital for Joint Diseases in NYC for his back surgery (discectomy). He will be having one disc removed and the spot filled back in with a mesh cage with bone from him and cadaver bone (ewwww), and then the cage will be secured with rods and screws. Sounds fun, huh? Due to these festivities I will be "out of the office" all day Thursday and possibly Friday as well. He’ll be in the hospital for at least 5 days and I will be running back and forth and doing shoots in between with lots of help with the boys and home stuff from my parents and my in-laws (THANK YOU SO MUCH in advance!). So if you email me and/or are waiting to see your pictures or have me upload your pictures to Rockville Camera, please be patient and I will get to it as soon as possible. I will be checking my email and messages throughout the day both days, and will try my best to respond as soon as I can. Thanks for your understanding and patience. I’m anticipating that it’s going to be nuts around here for quite a while.
Moving right along….The fre family is next up. This is the mom who owns www.uncommonlycute.com kids clothes and accessories. So I did a family shoot along with a product shoot the same day (the product shoot is about 4 down below on the blog, so you can scroll down to check it out). They have a tradition of sending out a family picture holiday card every year so the pressure was ON for me to capture a good family photo. Which was a little challenging since the little girl really didn’t want to do it! I think we managed to squeak a few out though.
The hoi family was gifted a bsquared photoshoot by the lef family (the lef family is featured back on the blog on september 18th if you want to take a peek) as the new mom is one of the teachers at music together. So I got to meet their newest family member at about 2.5 weeks old and what a cutie pie. With that strawberry hair and unrelenting gaze, I couldn’t stop taking pictures of her (which is probably good since that was what I was hired to do!). This baby however, did not want to sleep. At all. But she made up for the cute squishy sleeping shots with amazing eyecontact and some smiles. So it was all good.
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the mcs family
A family near and dear to my heart. Love the mom. She’s just awesome– even if she dosen’t like me posting pictures of her! We have very similar tastes and she loves the same wacky pictures that I do (more so than the way posed ones). No wonder we get on so well.
Got some way awesome pictures of the kids (and mom & dad too). Mom brought along some perfect props that we had a fun time with.
Another day at the beach I would love to have stuck in a jar for the winter. Beautiful evening, beautiful kids (seriously. they are gorgeous!). Mom and I stayed in the parking lot chatting til well after dark. No one wanted to leave.
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The Turn in the recording studio
It’s back to work (well, they never really stopped working) for my favorite band. They went back to General Studios to work on their new album and I went along to snap a few pictures of the process. Had a great time hanging out and watching (uh, listening really) the whole thing start to come together. It’s really so cool to see/hear. The new songs are all so amazing, I’m having a hard time choosing a favorite! Spent a lot of the evening with George (pictured above) who is the owner/engineer of General Studios and a great guy, as well as Brian’s brother Eric. We had some nice conversations while the guys did several takes to get it just right.
Brian and Pat brought in some studio musicians to help round out their songs. Both gentlemen are members of Cindy Lauper’s band and were on a brief break from touring the world. They were incredible musicians and really made the songs rock.
They are working SO very hard and sounding so very amazing. I can’t wait til they make it huge!
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the nev family & uncommonly cute shoes
I’m back and posting away so I can possibly (ha!) catch up (haha!!) with all the families I have to edit and get posted here on the blog.
Today, the nev family is first. These are my good friends (and Timmy’s BFF). We went down to the beach to take some pictures for this year’s portraits. Their oldest cannot be long without his spiderman costume so we had to incorporate it into some pictures. Mom is due with their third (I’m so excited!!) in the spring and we all can’t wait to see if it’s a boy again. Love three boys!
And I got the nicest compliment from Timmy’s BFF. He said during the shoot "i really like beth". Really buddy, the feeling is totally mutual! Especially cause if he ‘really likes’ me during a shoot, then it’s all good!
And now Uncommonly Cute… (not that the kids above aren’t uncommonly cute themselves. This just happens to be the name of a company I did a shoot for)
Recently met another mom with her own business with adorable kids tshirts and accessories. You can find her website here: www.uncommonlycute.com. Along with a family shoot (which is not quite done yet so it will be posted sometime soon) I did a product shoot for her with her new line of shoes. They are definitely uncommonly cute!
and a little gift bag action:
