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7 for Saturday
1. Some new shots of my favorite band, The Turn. Had a goal of an acoustic shot taken vertically and had some stuff to trade back and forth with them so I went over to see them play last Friday at Longhorns (used to be bbq. inc) in RVC. Beth W even came along for a little while. Of course, it was a great time. I’m supposed to go take some pictures of them up at a festival in Pomona today, so stay tuned for those…eventually. I just hope I can do it without it raining all over my camera!!!
To see the rest of the shots from the night, please click HERE.
2. Things are changing for bsquared photography next year. I”m finding that it’s just not possible for me to keep up this pace. I never get to see the boys on the weekends and am up every single night til at least 2am editing, and I’m nowhere near close to being caught up. And yes, I still love it, but I absolutely have to cut back.
That being said, for 2010, I’ll be working only one day each weekend. I will alternate the calendar so that one weekend will be Saturday and one will be Sunday (as much as possible). I’ll work during my ‘on’ day from 9am until the last drop of light is gone from the sky. During busy season (Sept-end of Nov), I will most likely throw in a weekday late afternoon or two a week for a few shoots as well. (have to wait and see on that because we’ll be starting Middle School and Kindergarten here in September).
Because of the new schedule, there will be fewer spots available so that means everyone should book as early as possible to ensure you get a spot. Right now, I’m taking and holding dates for Communion Season (where I will be working both weekend days from April thru mid May to accommodate everyone’s communions.) If you are interested, please email me at bbeyrer1@optonline.net to hold your time and date. I haven’t quite figured out pricing for 2010 either (that’ll be in December) so I’ll just put you on the calendar and we can confirm once prices are done.
3. In reference to the above schedule changes, the bsquared calendar for Jan-May of 2010 is up. You can view it here: 2010 bsquared calendar
4. While Timmy and I had a dinner date last night, and then proceeded to both fall asleep in his bed at 9:30pm (where I slept until 9:30am today! See what I mean about not being able to keep up this pace), the big boys, Daddy, and Hakka (Grandpa Ken) went to see the Mets at CitiField and caught a foul ball!!!! I have yet to hear the story, as I was sleeping last night when they came home and was still sleeping when they left to play in their game this morning. Here’s a picture from Hakka’s phone of the big moment!
5. All shoots today (except for the Turn) are rescheduled due to the rain. This rain is playing total freakin havoc with my shoot schedule. I have a waiting list almost 10 deep already and this rain is definitely not boding well for their chances to get a shoot in! I used to wish that my superpower was seeing into the future (Alice from Twilight anyone) but now I’m switching to ‘weather control’ for my superpower.
6. I know lots of people are waiting for pictures from my birthday party. I haven’t even thought about editing them yet, and with the current schedule won’t be able to for a while…so hang in there. I’ll get to them eventually. Probably Dec or Jan. Not even kidding. Here’s two from the photobooth in the meantime.
7. Just booked our winter trips to South Florida and to Disney. Now, that’s really something to look forward to! So far, I am loving the Disney Vacation Club. They make everything so easy to book!! Unfortunately, we won’t be able to stay in our ‘home resort’ of Bay Lake Towers cause we booked too late and they are all full. I’m hoping to do that in 2011 though!
Hope everyone has a nice Saturday, rain or not.
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back to school & jujewels
Ya, okay. So the two topics of today’s post don’t actually have anything to do with one another but with so many family shoots to show, they are going to have to be posted together. So live with it.
While the big boys started back to school last week (5th grade for the love of god! Can you believe it?), Timmy just started PreK this week. Everyone is very, very happy with their teachers and classmates and things are going really well so far. I am not thrilled with the making of sandwiches, driving around all day to different activities, and getting up early every morning. Especially not the morning part.
Oh, and Timmy is a total clown lately. Love it.
Jack & Patrick start Fall Baseball this week, as well as drum lessons. Religion isn’t for another few weeks. Timmy started his gym class, OT and PT, and a soccer class this week. See what I mean about the driving?!
And now for the other part of the post…my friend Judy started a new venture called Jujewels- all photographic & silver jewelry and accessories. We have been working together on the jewelry with me/bsquared photography supplying the photos, and Judy crafting them into something beautiful and fun to wear. I’ve been wearing mine around quite a bit and love it. I have gotten so many compliments on my necklace and a lot of people asking where to get it. Such a nice gift for the upcoming holidays, too!
Check out the Jujewels site here: http://www.whiletheyrelittle.com/JuJewelsHome.html And go buy something pretty for yourself or a friend with your fabulous bsquared photos!!!
I’ll be back tommorrow with another family session to share.
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32nd annual beyrer family fishing trip
It’s not really a fishing trip anymore, but after years of it being one, it’s still called that. Now its a baseball game and bbq down at Uncle Dick and Aunt Cathy’s house in Pt. Lookout. The house that I love in the town I hope to someday own a house. Mayberry on the Beach.
It was a weird/bad weather day but the game went ahead as scheduled. Which was good cause it’s always a fun day and always great to see everyone.
Beyrers with a newspaper. Huh? Who woulda thought…
Some baseball with the tons of cousins.
George “running”. Think this one is my favorite of the day.
Chris and Laura, who’s wedding we will be at in October.
Jen & Mike (their first official pictures together) and George with pretty hair.
Uncle Dick and Aunt Cathy and their kids & grandbaby girl.
A little running bases in the backyard too.
The catch of the day (so I guess there was some fishing going on afterall)
And no Beyrer party would be complete without the bagpipes from Grandpa Jack.
I think this is probably the last personal post for me for a while. Well into busy season already and have lots of client sessions to blog. Although there will have to be a back to school one I think being that school starts in 1 more day. Yay and blech all at the same time.
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boys birthday at the brooklyn cyclones
Jack and Patrick waffled quite a bit on what to do for their birthday this year. After a loooonng while (and many ‘discussions’ between the two of them) they finally agreed upon a Brooklyn Cyclones game with a bunch of friends.
All the boys got BC hats, and Grandpa Jack was so generous and bought all the boys BC tshirts. John was great going up and down (and up and down and up and down…) to get all the boys food and drinks and bathroom breaks.
They all seemed to have a really great time. Especially with all the silliness at the end. That’s 8 ten year old (plus one 4.5 year old and one 6 year old) boys for ya.
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NYC day trip 8-24
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.