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more beaches & buckets
A quick reshoot of one style of flip flops. Since I didn’t have the awesome rhinestone charms that go on them at the beach, I reshot them in the backyard so now you can see the full effect. Super cute with the charms, right?? You’ll see them along with all the other stuff at my party on May 30th. If you didn’t get an invite and want to come, please email me.
A big thanks to my great friend Jen (aka FoxyKate today) for her foot modeling! Not to mention playing with all the boys while I took some flip flop pictures. You’re the best, Jen. Had a great time today.
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my parents wedding (part two)
Brace yourself for the next HUGE batch of pictures below. Lots more from the wedding (but no ceremony pictures. I asked the photographer Kathy if it would be really bad if I wore my camera down the aisle, and she said "it wouldn’t be really bad….it would be really YOU". so true, so true. But I barely restrained myself, so no ceremony pix from me).
While my father and brother in law piped and drummed the arriving guests inside, the boys decided they would give Uncle Joe’s drum a try. After almost 2 years of drum lessons with Jim, I have yet to hear them play on a real drum (all practicing and lessons are done on a drum pad). And let me just say…WOW! They can actually play!!! I think we are going to have to finally buy some real drums and soon.
The big boys as best men, made the speech. It was a big hit with everyone and they loved being up in front with all eyes and ears on them. They wrote the speech pretty much all by themselves and Patrick’s poem is all his own. Here’s what they said:
Jack: Ladies & Gentlemen, we’ve been asked to write a speech on behalf of our grandparents. First of all I like pickles. Secondly, my brother likes them too.
Patrick: To give advice to the newly weds, I suggest not to fight. Here’s an acrostic poem by us.
M is for her marraige today, A is for her kindness; a very kind person, R is for her radiance in beauty, I is for her involvment with the wedding ceremony, L is for her love for Ken, Y is for yarn for the cats on her wedding day, N is for that she is newly wedded today.
K is that he is the king of jokes, E is that he is an excellent man, N is for that he is newly wedded today.
Both: Thank you and congratulations to Ken and Marilyn. We wish you many years of happiness. Here’s to our newlyweds.
Jack: Cheers, Mate!
And then Patrick asked if he could try the champagne, so I let him.
This is what he looked like. Not so much.
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my parents wedding (part one)
There’s gonna be about 15 parts, so I’m warning you now you will be on picture overload of the day! I am editing a little each day/night so I’ll put them up as they are finished. If you don’t see "your" picture yet, just wait a day or two- I’ll go as fast as I can.
My parents got married (again. and finally.) this Sunday at The Bourne Mansion in Oakdale. Gorgeous location- a fabulous old mansion right on the bay. I think I’ll be moving in. The day was totally fabulous and a great, great success. There was the "do over" ceremony and a great brunch afterward. Everyone was happy (well, except for Timmy really but more on that later) and looked great. Here are a bunch from before going inside.
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the gup christening
Did the pre-christening shoot for the little gup baby on Saturday (the actual christening was today and so was my parents wedding, so I couldn’t go to shoot the actual event). Met the grandparents (mom’s parents) who I just absolutely adored. They are the NICEST people, ever. Everyone is just so thrilled about this little baby who is such a miracle. I love taking pictures of her- she and her whole family are just so special. Their story is here if you don’t know what I’m talking about.When I walked into the house, the dress was hanging right here just for me to photograph. I love my clients. They totally get it!!
Did some shots at the house, some inside the cathedral, and some at my favorite arches. A little different perspective since it’s not like the 3 month old baby can stand up in the arches, so I was doing a lot of laying on the floor. The baby was not happy for a good deal of the shoot (and we really pissed her off pulling out the paci everytime she fell asleep or calmed down) but she really rallied and pulled it out at the end with some gorgeous smiles and giggles. She even got a special blessing from the bishop who we ran into by the church.
Grandpa, thanks for getting the bottle (even though it wasn’t put to use til after)! Hope you all love the pictures. You know the drill, the rest of the pix are in an album on the left. Click to see any image larger.
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blurb book
Since the whole scrapbooking thing has fallen by the wayside lately, I had to do SOMETHING to use all those 100,000 pictures I take of us a year. Ok, maybe not really 100,000 but close. So I found this super cool thing online at blurb books where you basically publish your own book. They have a zillion different templates to plop your pictures into, backgrounds, colors, designs, you name it. Plus you can use any font in your computer. So cool, creative and fun. And I got to use all my favorite pictures to boot. I pulled almost all of the journaling right off my blog which makes it so much easier.
Here are a few shots of the book- nothing spectacular. It looks so much better in real life. The whole book is about 141 pages long. Hardcover with a dustjacket and everything. Thanks to Patrick for being my book holding helper.
And for a little sneak preview of my next project: a picture wall for the den. There are currently two small picture shelves there above the couch, but I wanted to do something different. Here are the frames layed out on the living room floor. I just ordered all the pictures for the frames and am waiting for them to come in. Doing a mix of black & white and color. The actual hanging is going to be umm…challenging, I think. I hope it looks as good in real life as it does in my head.
Tommorrow is the wedding- getting excited. I will post pictures on that as soon as I can. The boys finished up their speeches tonight and they are all ready to go. Today I had a shoot for the gup baby- she has her christening tommorrow. I feel so bad that I can’t be there for the actual christening, but that would be a little difficult! So we got in a ton of shots today. Planning on posting those early next week. But here’s one little sneak peek until then…
