weekend recap & the barr family
Saturday was SO busy with 3 shoots which took all day and took me all around Nassau County. Saturday night I went out to dinner with my friend Beth and we had a great ridiculous time. Her husband also recently had surgery so we both needed a night off (with no working, no errands, no carpooling, no kids, no recuperating husbands). Had some sushi (duh!) and went to see Brian play at a local bar. He was great as always and it was nice to see him. Then on the way home we were listening to my ipod in the car and Beth was saying how much she loved the songs on it- it’s probably 90% of 80’s music. So we ended up driving around town (just like highschool in the 80s) blasting the music and singing at the top of our lungs and dancing in the car. It was so stupid and immature and SO FUN! You gotta love friends that you can be stupid with like that. Beth said that I should post my playlist on here, but it’s so long that it would take forever. Suffice it to say that it’s tons of Cure, Depeche Mode, Beastie Boys, Erasure, Yaz, English Beat, The Call, and some Nitzer Ebb and other crazy stuff. But there is some newer stuff too so I’m not totally stuck in the 80s- some Dave Matthews, David Gray, U2, some dance stuff too. I’m all over the place when it comes to music.
On a more somber note…Patrick’s crayfish met an early demise on Saturday night. It was very sad when I went into his room to put away some laundry and saw the little lobster floating upside down. Patrick was crushed and spent a lot of the weekend quite upset. We will not however, be getting a replacement. Timmy was concerned that his fish, Lewis and Goo, were going to die too. Let’s hope not. I can only handle one pet death and one hysterical kid at a time. Oh, and Timmy accidentially called them Gewis and Loo the other night and that just might be their new names. It goes back and forth.
Patrick also came along with me on a photoshoot on Saturday as my assistant and did a great job! I had 5 month old twins and a 2 year old, so I really needed the extra entertainment factor. Jack gets to go next weekend. They are both so great with babies and little kids and anything that keeps the little ones smiley and focused works for me. And it was really fun for me to have him along (he had a great time too he said. And of course loved the $20 he made!)
More shoots today and a quick trip to the park for our family. Timmy got his first subway sub (the teeny tiny one) with apple slices and actually ate both! Now editing like crazy for the forseeable future.
Now on to the Barr family. I donated a bsquared gift certificate for a raffle prize for a fundraiser for a friend’s sister who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. The winner of the bsquared gift certificate made it into a whole extended family shoot so everyone could be included and have their christmas photos done. Loved their whole coordinated green and red (you will be seeing a ton of red & green here on the blog over the next few weeks). Hope you love the pictures "aunt chicken" and thanks for the family insider info to make the kids laugh! (all of the pictures are in an album on the left).
