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disney days 2012 {part 3}
On our 3rd day of our very busy Disney trip, we headed over to Epcot (known in our family as Efcot) with Nate, Colleen & the girls. It was a rainy on and off kinda day so the fun was a little limited. Although we were treated to 2 very cute little girls and their Karate moves- complete with yelling. Adorable!!
We grabbed our fast passes for Soarin, rode Nemo, Test Track, Mission: Space, Spaceship Earth- all the front of the park rides. We never made it over to the World Showcase this year. John’s parents came over for the day to hang out, but they aren’t much for the rides (I think it’s probably cause I ruined them on Big Thunder last year!!) so they did a lot of the “bench ride” with John. I didn’t really take out the camera at all that day, but just snapped a few with the iphone.
More Disney to come.
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diane & henry- first look
I had the pleasure of photographing Diane & Henry’s wedding a few weeks ago and it was a wonderful, happy day filled with love and joy and everything you’d want a wedding day to be filled with. It’s the second marriage for both and their reunion was a long time coming. They’ve known eachother for 26 years or so and were both married to other people. Circumstances changed for both of them and when they friended eachother on Facebook, they were both single and their online reunion turned into…well, a marriage! Love stories like that!
A few first looks at the Church too (although these shots could go in the ceremony post, it is sorta a first look too- a first look of the chapel before guests arrive.) Taken by my fabulous second shooter Kate. 
Another 2 shots from Kate. I adore working with her. We have a great time and balance it out really well. 
We set Henry up with his back to Diane for the big moment. He kept trying to turn around too early, but we did pull it off. 
I tried to get Bethanne to give her mom a kiss. The request was followed by lots of laughing and finally a kiss. Bethanne made a beautiful maid of honor. 
Henry’s son Adam was a very handsome (and funny!) best man. Fantastic wedding party!
Such a gorgeous bride!!
And handsome groom!
My other favorite from the first look. Could they be any happier?!
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blood drive for rob
Taking a quick break from the Disney posts to post a few shots from the 3rd Annual Blood Drive in honor of Rob Sullivan. Rob & Suzanne are great, great people- so generous with their time, humor, and love and it’s so nice to see that the whole community feels the same about them. The deal, as in past years, was give a pint (of blood)- get a pint (of beer). Seems like a fair trade! And since I can’t give blood, I take pictures. They had a great turnout again this year for the blood drive and even had a donor all the way in Australia (unfortunately, I wasn’t asked to take photos there.)
For those of you wondering, Rob is doing really well and looks great. We spent some time discussing the crazy last episode of The Walking Dead, so you know he’s on my very good side!!
A beer smiley face. Nice.
Please keep Rob in your thoughts and prayers. I know he and his whole family will appreciate it!
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disney days 2012 {part 2}
So not only did we have a great time at Disney as usual, but this year we got to meet up with a bunch of friends and family to make the trip even better. First up, our friends Nate & Colleen and their little girls. Nate & I went to Miami together and have stayed in touch ever since. He is so totally the anti Disney so it was a little worrisome meeting up with him there. But all was well- well, relatively.
You can just barely see Colleen behind Nate. I think we were both a little worried about Nate at Disney. 
Gorgeous girl!
Both of the girls looooved the big boys and didn’t leave their sides much at all.
So we ended up on the Tomorrowland speedway together and as I was trying to get a shot of us from the iphone, the guy behind our car hit us and Nate’s face changed to this with a quick comment of “nice job a**hole”. Yeah, he can only tolerate so much Disney. 
And a cool shot from the iphone tilt shift app of the Electrical Parade. More fun with Nate, Colleen and the girls coming up on the blog. 
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disney days 2012 {part 1}
Being that I just booked our Disney trip for 2013 yesterday (yup, already) I figured it was time to start posting some of the shots from this year’s trip. They are all snapshots- nothing spectacular this year. I really needed to be on vacation and in the moment w the boys so I left the big guns home and just took the Fuji x100. Which is a fabulous camera and you can shoot amazing stuff with- but I just went the easy snapshot route this trip. That, and the iphone.
The first part of the trip included a really fun Jetblue guy (he was director of ground operations or something official like that) who came up to us in the airport and asked the boys if they wanted to be in charge of checking the boarding passes for the flight. Cool, right?
Then the flight- which is my least favorite part of the vacation, but getting to Disney on the Magical Express and breathing in the Disney air (yes, it is actually different air there) makes it all worthwhile.
Started our first full day at Magic Kingdom with breakfast at Crystal Palace. Yum. I wait all year for this breakfast- it’s the best!!
More tomorrow with pictures of our meetup with our good friends! Stay tuned!