• occassions & parties,  personal

    eastover 2012

    Yup, you read it right- it’s Eastover! (Easter + Passover) and we celebrated it this past weekend.

    It all started with the dyeing of the eggs and Matzah to eat. Along with Elijah’s cup. Just in case he wanted to show up and help with the eggs…

    Grandma & Grandpa came over to help too.All the egg festivities were then followed by the traditional viewing of The Ten Commandments on TV while eating Matzah & Tunafish sandwiches. Timmy asked to go to bed around 10:30, followed pretty much immediately by John. The boys and I stayed up till the end (about midnight). Can’t miss the whole parting of the sea…

    And I would just like to mention that Yul Brynner was a hot pharaoh. Is that wrong? So let it be written…

    The next morning, the boys went to Easter mass while I baked paper bag cookies, brownies and a green bean cassarole. We went over to Grandma & Grandpa’s with my parents, Uncle Nelson, Aunt Anne & Bobby for dinner. Or Linner. (since it was about 4pm when we ate, it is NOT dinner).Timmy’s new pose for every picture. And Tebowing. Well, it is a religious holiday after all.And my favorite part of Eastover- the positioning of the ham right next to the matzah. See, we can all get along!! Even the food.And finally the wearing of the Eastover bonnet. Hoping you all had a lovely Eastover too. No matter what parts of it you celebrate!! (oh, and I didn’t mention above that on Good Friday I had a chicken parm hero for dinner. Wrong on countless number of levels, but it sure tasted good…)

  • disney,  personal

    disney 2012 (part 7,963…)

    A little more of the Disney trip still to go, sorry if you’re totally sick of it already.

    We’re gearing up for Eastover here at the Beyrer’s. (Eastover= Easter + Passover, since we celebrate both.) Off to dye eggs with the boys and then get ready for the traditional Matzah & tuna fish sandwiches while watching The Ten Commandments on TV tomorrow night. Then my inlaws for Eastover dinner on Sunday.

    But back to Disney in the meantime. This is the day we met up with my parents at Magic Kingdom. And this is my most favorite seat in all of the Magic Kingdom.

    So as we were waiting on line for Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin, I was busy trying to convince my mom to ride Splash Mountain. She was adamant about NOT riding so she offered a challenge. Post it on Facebook and find 25 friends to say she should go on in 15 minutes and she would She figured that there was no way I’d ever get that many people in 15 min, but it was more like 40+ people in 10 min who said to go. So she was pretty much screwed. (What my mother failed to realize is that I have a LOT of Facebook friends and everyone has FB on their phones, and they knew good pictures would come of this adventure!) Off to Splash Mountain we went!And here’s the resulting photo. Which of COURSE we paid top dollar for.Cheers to the fact that we got Grandma on!The next day at breakfast at Ohana. We always book this breakfast and ALWAYS cancel last minute. But we finally made it this year.And I got to meet up with Camie (my college roommate who lives about 10 minutes from Disney)!More from MK coming soon. 

  • disney,  personal

    disney 2012

    Still haven’t finished posting these pictures so since I’m caught up on blogging all my clients photos, we’re headed back to Disney. Well, on the blog anyway.

    Animal Kingdom (I loathe that park. It’s been 10 years since we were last at AK and it’ll be 10 years until we go back there again.) and some fun by the main pool at Old Key West Resort where we stayed.

    We did get to see lots of animals on the safari though, that part was good.

    Watching the rhino take a mud bath was cute. Big boys at the top of the waterslide/sandcastle.

    More Disney still to come.

  • personal

    rvc st. patrick’s parade

    Yeah, better late than never. I’ve had a lot of other stuff to blog and this got pushed back a little. Hope you enjoy the photos regardless!

    My father in law.

    Watching the parade with my parents from our “box seats” at their apartment. Timmy was inside pretty much the whole time. The computer is a much bigger draw than the parade apparently.Some cool cars.
    Sister in law Feather and brother in law Joe. Yearly parade friends!Some of Timmy’s friends and their mom’s (my friends!)John oh so happy to be marching. He couldn’t ride in the truck this year with his newspaper. Some friends.Ok, you know I really have Walking Dead withdrawls cause all I could think of when seeing this horse is the cover photo with Rick riding a horse into downtown Atlanta. The boys friend Robert who is so good, that he turned around halfway down the block to wave a pose for a picture. I knew I liked that kid!!!More friends.Joseph, who is one of my favorite bsquared subjects ever and gets to hang out with the Jets Flight Crew every parade. Lucky him.Great job on the parade Ladies!!!! I never got a picture of Suzanne. Boo.
    I love that they are leading the biker gang!!Parade remnants. My mom told me to take this one.

  • babies,  children & families

    oscar and angela & family

    Had a great shoot for this fabulous little family at their home. Mom was gifted with a bsquared session from her sisters (both previous bsquared clients themselves) and after some scheduling issues (stupid rain) we were able to finally work out their session on a gorgeous day. The boys were great and so sweet and their little girl was so cute. We lost her pretty quickly, but got in some great stuff before she was just done.