Haven’t done one of these in a while and figured it was time.

 1. Our 2 week vacation in Florida was fantastic. The weather was fantastic the first week and we spent everyday at the pool or the beach. The second week, not so much. It was cold!!

2. I like being tan and feel pretty relaxed. Hope both will last but I’m not hopeful on the relaxed part.

3. I am also blonde again. That’s much better.

4. I had my first shoot of 2010 on the beach on Sanibel Island in Florida with a friend from high school and his family. It was definitely a great start to the year!

5. Being a snowbird sounds better and better.

6. Only 37 more days until our next trip to Florida. Disney this time.

7. are you noticing a trend here?

Lots of pictures from Fla to follow soonish. I am currently without a computer (again. typing from the boys laptop). Making the plunge to the imac with the 27″ screen and everything gets picked up later today. Exciting!!

All the ‘menfolk’ except Timmy went to the Orange Bowl last night.  Grandpa took a picture with his phone for me.  And do you notice what the boys are doing in the below picture?

We were all supposed to go (including Mom, Timmy and me) but it was so freakin cold here in Florida last night (36 degrees) at half time, we decided to take a pass and just watched at home.

High only in the 50’s today so looks like the pool and beach are out for the rest of the trip. Oh, well. There’s still the balcony.

While the first half of Columbus Day weekend consisted of a shoot and a wedding (not shooting, just as a guest), the second half was the traditional Beyrer family trip to the ‘east house’.  Which has been called the ‘weist house’ and now is referred to as the ‘easter house’. Either way, it’s always fun!

The wedding was FAR up in Poukeepsie and was for John’s cousin Chris and his new bride Laura. It was a lot of fun, especially the car ride with Inez & Uncle That Guy and Joe & Gail. The cousins parade was quite the spectacle- especially Billy as Rowdy Roddy Piper in a kilt with nothing underneath and then the mooning of the bride and groom followed by the cartwheel in the middle of the dance floor. Oy. At least I got to wear my crown. There are no pictures- I couldn’t find the little camera to bring (it’s still missing) and I wasn’t bringing the big guns.

Anyway, did the whole out east adventure. First stop was the Coronet for lunch, and most importantly chocolate milkshakes.

Oh, the anticipation…

And the real (thick) thing.

Love it there- so 1950’s.

Then to the ‘duck store’, and over to the carousel for a ride and jumping. I did try to get a shot of them jumping over me but the focal lenght of the lens was too long and it didn’t work out as planned.

I took some really cute pix of the three of them in Greenport, at the east beach, in the park and by ‘my’ truck, but if the photoshoot I have in my head for our Christmas card dosen’t work out  I’ll use these shots for the card. So I can’t post them yet, but I will  if the other shoot works out.

Went to the park for some fun and pictures. Can’t show you those yet, just in case I need them, but here’s a nice sunset.

Then it was Elbow Room for dinner (with marinated steak…yum!)

When we finally made it to the ‘easter house’ and settled in, Timmy opened the fridge and found milk that had been in there since June. Uh….yuck? It smelled like nothing I’ve ever smelled before and was then deemed ‘the stinking milk’ by Timmy. It went outside in the middle of the back lawn til we could make it to the garbage the next day.

And later that night after the stinking milk fun, I took all the boys outside, we layed down on the front lawn and just stared up at the millions of stars. It was incredible!! And we all loved it. (the picture is way blurry because I didn’t have a trip0d out there to use, but you get the general idea of the amount of stars).

Next day, Uncle Nelson met us out and we went pumpkin picking, hay riding, corn mazing (where every once in a while, Timmy would yell out “hey, corn!” like he was continually surprised to see it in the corn maze), pie purchasing (at Briermere), Elbow rooming (for lunch), and back home again.

And that was my last weekend off until December.

So, are you totally sick of seeing pictures of my boys yet? I hope not, cause theres still a few more shoots of them left to post. Then you probably won’t be seeing much of them until after Christmas as busy season for me has officially started.

We took a day trip into the city in August to go to the Museum of Natural History and a detour over to Times Square for some additional birthday presents for the big boys. Uncle Nelson came along for the museum part of the day but had to get back to Long Island earlier in the day so he only was able to stick around for that part.

The museum was a big hit although the boys were a little disapointed that there was no “diarama room” like in the movie. We did see Rexy (and again, not in his movie spot), DumDum (not in his movie spot either), and hit one of the many gift shops.

Drove down to Times Square where I dragged (pretty much literally) the boys thru Sephora and then onto ToysRUs for a little shopping and Ferris Wheel riding.

Met my friend Rich at his office at Nickelodeon for a quick visit and some dinner at BubbaGumps.

Exhausted but in a good way by the time we got home (and after watching Night at the Museum on the way in and on the way out). Have to take the big boys back to the Planetarium but think I’ll have to leave Timmy at home for that one- I remember parts being scary.

Did a shoot in Kismet Tuesday and it’s sad but I have to admit it was my first time to Fire Island (well, other than a school field trip about 100 years ago). It was so pretty- kind of a Key West meets New England vibe. The pictures of the family are coming soon, but I wanted to post the scenery ones today.

A big thank you to Beth W. for watching the boys this afternoon/evening so I could go do this shoot. And big kudos to her too… Patrick and Jack both got stung by bees today going into the neighbor’s yard to get their wiffle ball- Patrick got stung 7 times! There was drama and tears, but Beth was on top of all of it with benadryl lotion and motrin. Thankfully, they aren’t allergic– but we only found that out today!

I walked about 100 miles all over the island. Going to be paying for that today for sure. But while the ferry schedule wasn’t exactly what I had hoped to time the light right for a beach shoot, it ended up all good. I had some delicious lunch (just me and my kindle-ahhhhh!) and finished up at the perfect time to cover the rest of the destinations in fabulous light!! There was a time I would have been freaked out about eating alone, but it was so nice and relaxing. And I read a lot, too!

I have a newborn shoot this morning and then off to Conneticut to see my friend Robin and baby Eoin. For those of you who follow the blog, you’ll remember that Eoin (pronounced Owen) was born almost 4 months early and spent almost 4 months in the hospital before coming home this past weekend! Go little man!! Pictures of him coming soon…

The ferry:

A little wake taken from over the side of the ferry.

The lighthouse and a deer that was no more than 4 feet away. Cool!

Bike would’ve been better if it was blue or pink, but purples okay too.

And the view on the ferry home. Niiiiice!

And one funny note- I saw a high school friend on the ferry back to Bayshore. Small (and random) world!!