the fre family & the hoi family and an important note

First, the note. John is going in tommorrow to the Hospital for Joint Diseases in NYC for his back surgery (discectomy). He will be having one disc removed and the spot filled back in with a mesh cage with bone from him and cadaver bone (ewwww), and then the cage will be secured with rods and screws. Sounds fun, huh? Due to these festivities I will be "out of the office" all day Thursday and possibly Friday as well. He’ll be in the hospital for at least 5 days and I will be running back and forth and doing shoots in between with lots of help with the boys and home stuff from my parents and my in-laws (THANK YOU SO MUCH in advance!). So if you email me and/or are waiting to see your pictures or have me upload your pictures to Rockville Camera, please be patient and I will get to it as soon as possible. I will be checking my email and messages throughout the day both days, and will try my best to respond as soon as I can. Thanks for your understanding and patience. I’m anticipating that it’s going to be nuts around here for quite a while.

Moving right along….The fre family is next up. This is the mom who owns www.uncommonlycute.com kids clothes and accessories. So I did a family shoot along with a product shoot the same day (the product shoot is about 4 down below on the blog, so you can scroll down to check it out). They have a tradition of sending out a family picture holiday card every year so the pressure was ON for me to capture a good family photo. Which was a little challenging since the little girl really didn’t want to do it! I think we managed to squeak a few out though.

The hoi family was gifted a bsquared photoshoot by the lef family (the lef family is featured back on the blog on september 18th if you want to take a peek) as the new mom is one of the teachers at music together. So I got to meet their newest family member at about 2.5 weeks old and what a cutie pie. With that strawberry hair and unrelenting gaze, I couldn’t stop taking pictures of her (which is probably good since that was what I was hired to do!). This baby however, did not want to sleep. At all. But she made up for the cute squishy sleeping shots with amazing eyecontact and some smiles. So it was all good.