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the beil family
An early morning shoot up in Connecticut with these 3 cuties (and I think it’s my 3rd year photographing them) and one more cutie on the way soonish. Very excited for all of them to make the move from a family of 5 to a family of 6. I have to say that I really love watching all the kids I photograph grow up and them getting to know me over the years. Its kinda cool seeing them only once a year and hearing about all their new little interests and memories since I last saw them. Makes for good conversation during the shoots!
By the way, how totally fantastic does mom look?
Can’t wait to meet the newest family member next year!! Thanks for a great shoot to start off a day of many! (and so totally impressed you guys were up and dressed and ready to take pictures by 8:30am)!! -
super sports sunday
It is sports central around here this year. The boys started playing football for the middle school team, and are playing on two baseball teams- a Little League town team and a NJBL travel team. So you can imagine the schedule lately. They have football practice every day from 3-5, a football game 1x a week, a LL weekday evening game, a LL weekend game and a travel team double header every Sunday. And somewhere in there they have religion weekly and homework every night. There are some days that they get home from football practice with barely enough time to change into baseball uniforms, shove down some dinner and get to the field for a baseball game. Throw in orthodontist and doctors appointments that have been rescheduled no less than 4x each, and you can see why I’m losing it. So far, they’ve been great about all of it (because they really want to play- all of it!), not complaining and getting themselves packed up the night before. The deal was that if grades start to slip at all, they have to give up something. But so far, so good.
So here’s some of their football scrimmage this past week. They have their first game on Tuesday. Jack isn’t able to play quite yet (and yes, he is so bummed) because of the oral surgery he had recently he missed a bunch of practices and he has to have a certain amount of practice time in before he can start playing in games and scrimmages. But they are both playing at Defensive Tackle and Patrick is loving it so far!! The first scrimmage was against Hempstead and the 2 guys up against Patrick were right out of the movie The Blind Side. Huge. Really huge. Like over 6 feet and 200+ huge. But he lived to play again another day.
Omg, my son looks like a football player!
Tommy.
A football version of American Gothic?
No, I don’t know why he has his water bottle on his head. 
My favorite. Can’t wait until they are both playing!!
And some baseball from yesterday’s LL game. Where Uncle That Guy is the manager and John is a coach. Keepin it all in the family.
Cousin Brendan at catcher. Timmy chillin in the dugout. 
And I’m off to a 5 shoot day with hopefully, finally good weather. See you all here tomorrow with a whole new week of client sessions. -
the stac family
While the first go at this shoot was pretty much rained out after about 20 minutes, we agreed to meet back at Pt. Lookout the next day for a retry. And it all worked out for the best! The first day was like a mini hurricane- freezing with a really strong wind and intermittent rain. Good times. But the weather gods made it all up to us the next day with a really pretty sunset. And good kids!
It was someone’s birthday. Can you guess who?
We only were allowed limited time with the hat shots. 
The two pretty birthday princesses. 
(you can tell this shot is from the first day with the winds!)
Sweet baby!!
Thanks to all of you for braving the weather the first day and coming back the next! Love you guys so much it was a bonus to see you two days in a row!!
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swimmy timmy
There’s a photographer that I really admire and love all of her work. So this was my attempt to do a styled shoot inspired by her work. And, Timmy really had a great time so it was fun for both of us.
A big thank you goes out to Aunt Ivy for the pool loan, Clare and Tammy for the flipper loans. It was a group effort.
Ok, did any of my blog stalkers ever see the documentary movie about Dogtown & Z-boys? I totally think Timmy looks like the b/w pictures of Jay Adams as a kid. Except minus the whole future ex-con thing. 
Doin the butt dance. A perfect ending (ha, ending– get it? sorry. I think I’m a little slaphappy from editing for hours on end.) 
And one little announcement…I have one MINI session available tomorrow, Friday 9/30 at 4pm at Tanglewood Preserve. Email me or leave a comment below if you are interested. -
the nevi family
Always a pleasure (but also always added pressure) to take photos of friends. But I had a great time with one of my BFF’s Jen who happens to be the mom of Timmy’s very BFF in the whole wide world. We headed down to Pt. Lookout for some quick family photos. The boys are always NOT into it until there is jumping and running involved so we did as much of that as possible- and ended up with (mostly) happy boys with real smiles!
Gorgeous momma!! And Timmy’s BFF Jack. Trying hard not to smile for me. 
Happy boys!
Someone was in a mood. This one is my biggest challenge to shoot. He’s literally happy one minute, looking to kill you the next. And has the best smiles and worst dirtiest looks ever!
Hope you like them Jen! Love you guys!!