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.

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.

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!

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!

Before meeting this family, I figured I would really have my work cut out for me just based on the fact that there were two boys- both under 6. But I can report that they were absolutely wonderful. They were so great and fun and well behaved and I think we had a great time together. Mom (who is like model-gorgeous by the way) and dad were both super nice and welcoming and up for all my crazy requests.

Mom showed me some pictures displayed in their home that another photographer has taken of the boys over the past few years so I could get a good idea of the style she likes. Luckily, I didn’t have to work very hard to ‘match’ the style as it is very similar to mine. They are big on b/w so you will see a more than usual amount of those below and in the album.

Had a great time with all of you. You boys rocked it!!! You were the best subjects- and so handsome. A family with the complete package.