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6 for Saturday {including a little bsquared business}
First, the business stuff:
1. Any of my clients who are interested in purchasing Organic Bloom framing- they are taking about 4 weeks from order to delivery so if you are looking for the frames to be here in time for the holidays (to decorate your house with all your fabulous bsquared images in super cool frames so your holiday guests can ooooh and aaaahhh over them. or to give as awesome gifts!) you should probably place your orders soon. I’m happy to come over and help measure your walls, lay out your galleries and help choose images and frame colors. You know, in my free time!
2. Holiday card orders have come in from a few bsquared clients and are starting to arrive from my printer. And they are looking fabulous! The earlier you order your cards, the sooner you can have one more thing checked off your holiday to do list!!
I will be accepting holiday card orders thru Friday, December 9th for guaranteed holiday delivery. If you order after December 9th, there will be an additional charge for expediting your order. No orders will be accepted after December 16th. Sorry, no exceptions. (**if you have one of the later November bsquared sessions and your gallery isn’t ready to view by December 9th there will be no additional charge to expedite your order and you’ll still have your cards in time for the holidays.)You can find the bsquared holiday card collection by clicking on the b2 products link in the menu bar above.
3. Because I don’t have quite enough on my plate this time of year, I’m working on lots of changes for bsquared photography in 2012. I can’t wait to share everything with you! Watch out for new announcements in December and January.
4. It’s been a very ummm….interesting? month around here with the big boys. We’ve got quite the streak of losses and I’m hemorrhaging money. In the last month they’ve:
lost a cell phone (which I found 3 weeks later after ordering the replacement- of course- but returned the replacement and got my $ back),
lost a kindle (and the person who then took said kindle downloaded the Bible on it. Irony, much? My uncle said they must have been from the church of the 9 commandments. Whoever has it now has a very expensive piece of plastic that does nothing. We deactivated it so nothing shows up on the screen, nothing can be read or purchased. How’s that working out for you?)
dropped a macbook (which then needed it’s screen replaced)
dropped a stapler on my macbook pro and killed the entire harddrive. dead. (it was burning a disc and uploading pictures when that happened so with all the moving parts inside moving it killed everything. and wiped out all of my quickbooks accounting from Jan 1- now. I did back it up but only until mid April so I spent the better part of 2 days this week re-entering all my accounting. Not fun. Especially not in October when I’m already going crazy with busy season. I didn’t lose anything else on it really- everything else is backed up elsewhere. It’s just a ginormous pain in the ass replacing all of it. And the $700 I had to pay for the 2 computers to be fixed was not a thrill either.)
lost ONE sneaker. or it was stolen. But seriously- wtf are you going to do with ONE sneaker?
5. Timmy and I got our flu shots earlier this week (J&P got theirs last week) and this year he only cried for 5 minutes. Which was a vast improvement over last year’s HOUR of hysterics. Literally one hour of hysterical screaming AFTER the shot was over. The kid was pissssssed. This year was much better and he got chocolate lollipops as a reward for being brave. Maybe next year there will be no tears? We also hit Timmy’s BFF Jack’s house last weekend for his JDRF walk party. The kid who cannot stand needles and blood and the kid who is diabetic are BFF’s. Life’s funny like that.
6. Finally some baseball little league photos from the last few weeks. This was the third of a triple header day for the boys- they’ve been playing SO hard this year. That’s a really good thing.
The boys friend Stephen was pitching a few innings for the opposing team, so I caught a few of him for his mom. 
Timmy had the best seat in the house. 
Hope everyone has a great Saturday. I’m off to photograph my oldest friends daughter’s Bat Mitzvah today. How did we get so old?!
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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. -
6 for Sunday
Don’t know if I have enough to make it to 6, but I’ll give it a try.
1. We had a hurricane. Timmy was all prepared. I mean, really. What else could you need besides a pair of comfy Star Wars pj’s, an industrial size vat of pretzels and a pair of flippers? Hurricane preparedness? He’s got it.
2. And then after the hurricane (like a few days after) when it was just a little rainy, we lost power. So, we had hail, an earthquake, a hurricane and we lose power from a little rain. Yeah, I don’t get it either.
3. Due to the stupid hurricane, the boys got totally ripped off out of their birthday party. I felt so bad for them. We were going to have a few friends to the country club for swimming and cake but Irene came and then the club was closed down for a few days. Perhaps the giant tree across the entire entrance to the pool was a problem. And their BFF was coming from Michigan and would have been at the party, but then they cancelled their trip due to the hurricane too. So no birthday party 🙁 John did take them, Timmy and 2 friends (Johnny and Liam) to the Mets game that night and then they slept over. Well, not exactly slept but they were over until 11am the next day.
4. Had a great time yesterday at Heather and Andy’s wedding (my sister in law’s sister). It was so nice to be a guest instead of a photographer. It was a super fun place (a beer garden) and some people who will remain nameless were overserved. Didn’t even bring the camera, all pix from the iphone. And photobooth.
5. I miss the beach and the summer. It got cold so fast and I’m not ready. The wrist warmers are not far from coming back out.
6. I know I’ve mentioned it a few times, but REALLY this time- the fabulous new frames I’ll be offering will be on the blog this week. And a frame giveaway is coming too- so stay tuned!! Hope everyone has a great Sunday.
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the annual beyrer family fishingtripsoftballgame
As many of you know, there is no fishing trip involved anymore but the name still stands. Really short on narrative tonight- it’s 3am and I have GOT to get to bed. Besides, you can pretty much figure it out without any captions. (and this is the day when my camera broke so you’ll see some blackness on the bottom of some of the pictures. it’s all fixed now just in case you were worried.)
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baseball trip 2011- day 6 Milwaukee
Ok, so these are the ONLY 2 pictures I took on our last day of vacation. We said goodbye to the Ziparos the night before since they were leaving at around 6am on Saturday morning and you know we weren’t getting up that early. We had some breakfast, packed up the rest of the bags and hit the road to Milwaukee (only 2hrs this time). On the way, we stopped at Mars Cheese Castle. No, really. Ken bought some cheese. I waited in the car.
We checked into the really nice hotel (they were all 2 story condos) and I made the executive decision that I was NOT going to any more baseball games. 5 in 5 days was enough. The boys sat in the very top/last row in the stadium right under the retractable roof. Good thing too, as it was raining. But the even more good thing is that the game wasn’t a rain out and we don’t have to go back to Milwaukee. (I’m sure it’s a lovely town. Just need to finish these baseball trips so we can start on Europe.)
So that concludes the baseball adventure for 2011. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. And Bob.