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the nevi christening
My very good friend Jen’s baby Brady was christened last month and we all were invited to attend.
Although I wasn’t officially on duty this special day, I couldn’t very well go to the christening without my camera! I got off a few shots at the church and then a bunch at the very fun party.
Timmy and his BFF, Jack. Big brother to Brady. And my son refuses to look at the camera anymore.
You might recognize these two. The little girl is one of a set of twins (green dresses) that I did a shoot for a few months ago, and the little boy I also did a shoot for over the holidays. Jen is a really good PR agent!!
That’s Jen’s sister Stephanie on the right in the white dress. She is Brady’s godmother and the bestest babysitter.
I love this baby. I can make him laugh like crazy (then he throws up on me, but it’s so totally worth it to hear that belly laugh).
Much love to you guys! Hope you like the few pictures I took. To see the rest, please click HERE.
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happy 4th
Yes, I’m alive. No, I have nothing new to post really. Well, I should be posting a lot but nothing’s ready yet. Been editing like crazy and soon I will have LOTS to post. After the weekend. I hope.
Still to come: Ivy & Steve’s wedding, Garrett & Susan’s trash the dress session, The Atlantic Beach Club Opening Gala, two highschool friends shoots- one from CT the other from St. Louis, and a few shots from Timmy’s best friends little brother’s christening, and then I have two newborn shots tommorrow. So, if you just keep hanging in there, it should be worth it.
And in other news…Robin’s baby (baby Eoin who was born at 25 weeks) is doing so wonderfully. He’s now over 4lbs (born at 2lbs), almost completely off the ventilator (at the lowest setting on just positive airflow), and is now in a regular crib instead of the isolette. His grandma got to visit for the first time and hold him too! Here’s a new picture of Eoin (pronounced Owen- it’s the Irish version) I stole off their webpage.
And my good friend from college, Nate will be moving back to the US after living in Australia for the last 3 years. Can’t wait to see him, his wife Colleen and their two girls (one of which I met when she was about 2 weeks old and the other I have never met as she was born in Australia- how cool!) and take tons of pictures for them. Guess we’ll be heading down to DC in August!! So excited!!!
Hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of July. We’re off to the beach in a few…
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baseball bedlam
It’s everywhere…
My friend Lois came down from CT last night for a sushi dinner and a photography lesson. We had a great time and I really hope she learned something inbetween us catching up and laughing. She’s so sweet and a regular blog stalker so she brought the boys some awesome baseball cookies (which were devoured minutes after the pictures were taken). Thanks, Lois!! They loved them!
We are at a fever pitch level (pun intended) with baseball around here. John took all the boys to a Brooklyn Cyclones game last night, they’ve had baseball camp every morning this week (and next week too) , a travel team practice Monday night and an away game tonight.
I’m so behind in editing, processing orders, cleaning the house…everything. New pictures coming soon. And my shoot today for another highschool friend who’s back ‘home’ from St. Louis is in limbo with the weather.
Hope everyone is having a good day.
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6 for saturday
1. Feeling absolutely SO totally overwhelmed lately and realizing that there are not nearly enough hours in the day to get even half of what needs to get done, done. And going to that bad place where you can’t even figure out where to start as there is just so much to do. Need to breathe.
2. Realized that since I’ve been so busy that I haven’t really taken any pictures of the boys where there wasn’t an event. Just taken out the camera and started snapping away at home. So I did. We got a 15 minute break in the rain so went outside to take a few.
It’s quite a look, dontcha think?
3. About 20 minutes after taking these, Timmy took a header down the ramp at my parent’s apartment building while running at full speed and hitting a patch of sand at the bottom. He scraped his nose and lip really good and was all scabbed up for a while. But these were favorites all taken with the 135mm L lens. Yum.
4. If it keeps raining, I’m going to really seriously and totally lose my mind. And I’m not even kidding. So glad we put in a brand new inground sprinkler system (that has not turned on once since installation 3 weeks ago) and paid for the beach and country clubs for the summer. What summer, I ask you??
5. The boys made it to the playoffs (to the 3rd round) for Little Leauge this year and I was so happy that I actually made one game that I could watch! I left Timmy with my parents and got to see Jack pitch and both of them hit singles. There are tons of pictures below to make up for all the games I missed this year! Unfortunately, they lost but they played really well (and bummed I missed the game where Jack pitched 3 innings, 2 of which were no-hitters!) and they left pretty happy with what they accomplished this year. They will also be playing on a travel team this summer as well as doing a 2 week baseball camp and playing in the Summer SandLot games too. It’s all baseball, all the time here. Funny, but you know how I loathe baseball normally? I actually like watching them play!
6. All of my shoots today except for one rescheduled. I had one family reschedule cause the baby has one rainbow colored black eye, and the other family was going to be an extended family shoot where everyone was coming in from DC and Atlanta. The DC contingent made it, but due to the crappy weather (of course) the Atlanta family flew out, made it to N. Carolina where they circled til they ran out of fuel and landed right back in Atlanta instead of LaGuardia. Heading up to Conneticut to visit Robin and drop off a crib to her and then over 2 towns to a shoot for a highschool friend and her family.
Hope everyone enjoys their weekend and that it dosen’t rain. Again.
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7 for sunday
Since I never did my 5 for friday, here’s a makeup post. But, that means I have to come up with 7 things to post…pressure!
1. Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there. And a special Fathers Day wish to my wonderful husband, John. I couldn’t ask for a better daddy to our boys. We had a great brunch down at the beach club with (almost) everyone. (aunt nez is home sick, and feather went down to NJ to help out her sister in law).
Since all 7 cousins were together, I also took the Beyrer grandparents Christmas card shot. But I’m not posting it so it can be a surprise at the holidays.
2. Took these at a recent beach shoot. I always get the best sunsets down there. Do we all even remember the sun??? Same picture, seconds apart, just with different processing.
3. Timmy finished up school last week. Took some pictures of his fabulous teachers and friends on his last day. He really had a great year and learned so much. His teachers just loved him to bits and I’m pretty sure he felt the same about them.
4. The big boys had their spring concert last week also which was so fun to go to. Just wish I had better seats so I could’ve seen Jack singing too. Why they insist on putting the twins on complete opposite sides of the chorus, I still don’t know. Patrick also played the sax, but was in the waaaaaay back. So much so that I could only see the top of his head. He’s such a goood boy and knows his mommy so well- he stood up at the end and smiled right at me so I could grab one shot. And then there was the traditional celebratory carvel run. With lots of ice cream all over their white dress shirts. Whatever, it was worth it!
5. My best friend from college, Robin and her husband Joe had their baby on April 28th. At 25 weeks. His name is Eoin (pronounced Owen) and he was born at just about 2lbs. He’s doing so well (it was very rough at the beginning as you can imagine, including being transferred to Yale Hospital NICU which is about an hour away from the hospital and town where he was born and in which they live. So add on an hour commute each day, each way to the stress of a micro-preemie) and he is making great progress. Robin shared all kinds of good news today: Eoin is now about 4lbs, his brain scan yesterday was all clear (there was concern about some oxygen deprivation/damage on a previous scan), and his eyesight developing better than they had hoped (eye damage is another area of concern with babies born that early because of immaturity and because of the ventilator). He was also taken off the ventilator via mouth today and put back on the nose only version. So the big man is making lots of progress. I can’t wait to visit him! Here are a few pix I stole off of their website. I can’t believe he’s such a blondie!!!
6. Jack got his palate expander in this week and he’s doing surprisingly well with it. A little garbled speech still and a lot of extra spit, but he’s a real trooper and not complaining about it at all. This week we start the expanding process, so the pain part should kick in. It’s not going to be pleasant…for any of us. But he did surprise me so far, so I guess you never know.
7. and a little bsquared business….the calendar for July is really filling up (and I’m taking August off). So if you are interested in booking a shoot, you might want to do it soon. If you’d like to start booking dates in Sept-Dec, please shoot me an email at bbeyrer1@optonline.net and we’ll get you set up.