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the barr’s
Father & son and Asbury Park. I’ve waited a zillion years (ok, more like 4 or 5) to shoot down in Asbury but never got the opportunity. We even had this shoot scheduled for last summer but the week we had on the calendar it rained constantly. So I finally, finally got to shoot there with a totally awesome father & son duo- all worth the wait.
We were all over the boardwalk area- the wonder bar, the casino, the beach, the pinball museum, everywhere. If I waited a zillion years to shoot there, you know I wanted to cover it all.
The colors were awesome and everywhere!
There were not a whole lot of smiles with teeth given freely but he’s so cute it didn’t really matter that much.
Rich had to mention that he had the t-shirt long before the show. 
Rich said his work photo is too corporate. Tried to get him some new ones. 
Pinball wizard maybe? (i’m so old!)
The poor kid was such a trooper stopping everyplace I asked up and down(and up and down) the boardwalk. He was exhausted.
The water was a little colder than anticipated.
Yay, teeth! I have my funny moments. 
But I think his dad has more.
I’ve known Rich since I’m 15. I just make fun of his old not-red Nova to get him to laugh. Works every time. (or he just gets progressively more annoyed.)
Those sneakers & laces couldn’t have worked out better. 
I think they love each other just a bit.
Thanks for a great session and it was totally worth the ride to NJ. Ok, who’s booking Asbury next?! -
the last of disney 2012 (really, i swear…)
This has been going on for entirely too long with the Disney posts, so I promise this is the last of our trip from February. Or in my world, “alright already with the Disney”. Now you’ll just have to wait until Feb 2013 for the next installment.
Our last night in the MK- got prime viewing for Wishes. My favorite. Can’t wait for the construction to be done so that bump out building on the right is gone. Totally in my way.
Regardless, Disney has the best fireworks. Ever.
Our last day in the MK before catching our night time flight home. Of course we start and end with Breakfast at the Crystal Palace.
Best part of the day was meeting up with Timmy’s BFF Jack and his family. They couldn’t have been happier riding all the rides together.
And I got to hang with one of my besties in our nations capital too. Awesome way to end the trip!!
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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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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!