• personal

    7 for Sunday

    January 30, 2011 /

    This week’s installment.

    1. Timmy and his BFF Jack. They are inseperable. It’s so nice to see and watch them always look out for eachother. With all the crap weather, they’ve been spending lots of time inside but at least there’s been a lot of Star Wars playtime.

    2. This kid needs a haircut. As does the brothers. However, Jack & Patrick are going to be doing the St. Baldrick’s Fundraiser this year and shaving their heads raising money for kids with cancer. So proud of them!! But so not looking forward to seeing them all shaggy for the next few months!

    3. Those of you how know me, know how I feel about salad. But, I think I had a breakthru this past week, having salad 3 times this week for lunch. (trying to get back into Weight Watchers recently. It’s hard.) Even made it myself (baby greens, tomato, pear, goat cheese & fat free balsamic). It’s still hard but at least this tastes good.

    4. Should we even discuss the snow? I don’t think I have anything nice to say about it. That, and the fact that there’s more coming this week and the snow that we have already isn’t going to melt until July. Well… maybe the pictures just sum it all up.  5. Ok, I thought of one nice thing about the snow- it acts like a giant reflector for pictures even on cloudy days. But that’s all I got. And really, I’d rather carry around a real reflector than have to deal with this sh*t.

    6. Lots of new blog posts coming up this week. One 1 week old, some Education Foundation honorees, a new to bsquared family with two adorable little boys, a repeat client with a beautiful baby bump, a two month old and his family and I’m sure some other varied stuff coming too.

    7. Timmy’s birthday vegetable coming up starting Saturday (for those of you unfamiliar, we usually have a weeklong ‘birthday vegetable’ (that was really a birthday festival, but someone couldn’t pronounce it right) for the boys birthdays). Looking forward to lots of fun. And presents too I’m sure!

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    a house divided

    January 24, 2011 /

    I was thinking of that quote when I took the pictures and Jack started quoting the whole line (a house divided against itself cannot stand…) I had to look it up to find that Abraham Lincoln said it. I’m sure Jack already knew that (and the year, the venue and varied other tidbits of info regarding the quote). And sometime after the pictures below were taken, Patrick put on his new Jets jersey. So Timmy was all on his own. But he’s the one who won. I’m sure he’ll have a great time rubbing it in all day today.

    I went out wedding dress shopping with my cousin Jen, but was back in time to watch the game. Boo. Would’ve liked to have seen the Jets win. Well, at least someone in this house is happy.

    And I’d just like to add that it’s going to be 5 degrees out tonight. Five. FIVE. Why bother to be any?? Summer is never coming.

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    5 for Friday

    January 21, 2011 /

    1. First, let me apologize for the lack of blogginess lately. It’s definitely not busy season around here shoot-wise and while I do still have some stuff to edit and post, it’s not like how it is in April-December. So just hang in there with me thru the slow season where there may or may not be new blog posts everyday until I’m posting so much you get sick of me. Again.

    2. Spent the entire day up at the middle school yesterday for the boys Open School Day. I was so happy that they actually wanted me there (we’ll see what happens with that next year) and it was interesting following them around for the day to all their classes. I skipped out on lunch though. And a few thoughts on the day:

    -I didn’t bring the camera cause I figured it would embarrass them. I really, really wanted to bring it but I didn’t.

    -I’m so glad that the school part of my life is over. So glad.

    -I kept asking them when the “nap period” was. That was so exhausting. Holy crap.

    -It was totally the Jack (& Liam, pictured below) Show in Social Studies. Wow, I mean I knew he was smart, especially in that subject but it was ridiculous just how smart and what he knew.

    -we ended the day with a sushi dinner with their buddy Liam. So glad they are making such nice friends this year in middle school.

    3. Welcomed my newest nephew yesterday! Quinn Richard was born to Gail & Joe yesterday at 8:50am. 8lbs, 7oz. 20 inches long. So he makes the 8th cousin/grandchild. And the 8th boy. No girls for the Beyrer clan. I will be taking some pictures of him really soon as will post them to the blog, but in the meantime here’s a cell picture from Joe.

    4. I could seriously vomit from all the snow. And the cold. Hate all of it. And now I have what feels like razor blades in my throat, ear pain and swollen glands. Off to the doctor later this morning. Good times. The next trip to Florida can’t come soon enough. It’s quite possible that I will not make it thru this winter.

    5. What my life looks like right now, and another reason for the non-daily blogging. Quickbooks. Getting info off of the big imac and putting it all in the macbook pro. This whole business end of business is SO not for me. I’d much rather be taking pretty pictures and editing. Not spending the days entering receipts, reconciling bank statements, etc. I’ve never had a head for this end of things. And I hate it. A lot. A big, huge thank you to my friend Gina who drove in the crappy weather all the way out here to help me learn Quickbooks and answer my asinine questions. Repeatedly.

    Hope you all have a great weekend!

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    J-E-T-S

    January 19, 2011 /

    Jets, Jets, Jets!

    This is what my den looked like during the game. John actually was excited. Can’t you tell?

    This weekend’s game should be interesting, we’ll have a house divided. John likes both the Jets and the Steelers, Patrick is also between the two, Timmy is totally Steelers and Jack is totally Jets. And I’ll be out wedding dress shopping with my cousin Jen. I’m so excited for that!!!

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