Lucy & Lexie :-)

Every Thursday morning, my sister Andrea and my cousin Beth come over so their daughters, Lucy & Lexie, can have their weekly playdate. We have such a close family and I feel so lucky that I grew up so close to all of my cousins, so it's just so awesome to see it continuing with Lucy and Lexie. They are just the cutest!!

This morning the playdate took to the outdoors so I grabbed my camera and fired off a few shots of the girls playing. Here are just a few super cute ones! :-)











Happy Thursday everyone! :-)

5 Years already?!

That's right. I've just been reminded by one of my favorite friends Katie that it is officially 5 YEARS this month since we graduated from our alma mater, Muhlenberg College. I don't even think I can put into words how much I loved college, and I loved it because I made the most amazing friends there. Graduation week was quite possibly one of the hardest weeks of my life (ugh! I'm tearing up just writing about it!) because I knew we were all going to go our separate ways and it would never be the same again. And while we don't get to see each other every day, meet in parents plaza for lunch, skip class (GASP!) to lay out on the front lawn, or buy each other heaps of candy after a terrible breakup and binge into the wee hours of the morning, we still all manage to do a pretty good job of keeping in touch. I love them all sooo much, and I wouldn't be who I am without them.

Here are a few images I stole from Katie's blog from a day when we were having a little too much fun in the photo studio and Katie decided to make it a photoshoot extravaganza! Be sure to hop on over to her blog for some more of the fun!!

Twitter

So after watching the B school blog today, I've decided to go ahead and add twitter to my blog here. You will notice it over there on the right. Say hi little twitter guy!

I've decided to give it a trial run and see how I like it, and how my blog readers like it. (Let me know if it gets the big thumbs up or thumbs down!) I'm not totally sure I need something new to occupy my time on my computer, haha, but we shall see! :-)

Jess: Portrait

As promised, here are some of my favorite images from my portrait session with Jess on Saturday.



Not only is Jess actually this gorgeous, but she's soooo nice too! My brother always makes fun of me for saying that people are "troopers" in like every blog post, but Jess really was a trooper, traipsing through prickly foliage and braving the much colder than we thought it was going to be morning air. She was smart and wore sneakers, I was not and wore sandals (as of last night I was still pulling microscopic prickers out of my toes!) Thanks Jess for being such a major TROOPER! You rock my socks!!























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Jess: Portrait (preview!)

Today I did a portrait session of the beautiful Jess and I just wanted to post a sneak peak really quickly before I head down to the shore to celebrate Mother's Day with the fam! :-)



Isn't she gorgeous?! More to come in a couple of days! In the meantime, if you are a model looking to expand your portfolio, I would love to hear from you!!

Have a Happy Mother's Day everyone! :-)

Holly & Matt: Engagement :-)

This is Holly and Matt, probably one of the sweetest couples on the planet. I went to high school with Holly and we reconnected through Facebook (isn't that thing so much fun?!). When we were in high school we both were in the color guard in the marching band and also in indoor color guard. Holly was a sabre, I was a rifle, and we totally rocked it out! :-)

Anywho, Holly and Matt are getting married this June and already have a wedding photographer, but we thought it would be really fun to do an engagement shoot! Holly decided she wanted to do the photos at Highland Park which is not only where Matt proposed, but where their wedding is going to be taking place in June! So here are just a few of my favorites of Holly and Matt :-)





Matt liked the randomness of those rocking chairs. :-)







These two are just sooooo in love. I hadn't met Matt before the day of the engagement shoot, but he and Holly are just perfection together.



This next one is my fav. :-)







The ring!







Holly & Matt, I had such a blast with you guys! I wish you both all the happiness and love in the world. Have a fantastic wedding day! :-)

Happy Birthday Mikey!!!

Yesterday was Mikey's birthday, and since I had been sick all week (thank you all so much for the well wishes!), I had so much work to catch up on and didn't get a chance to do a birthday post before the evening birthday festivities began! Sad. :-(

Every year I make Mikey re-tell me the story of his birth. Back in 1980, Mikey was delivered 3 months early by emergency c-section. He spent the first couple months of his life in an incubator and it was very scary there for a while, as the story goes. But that story isn't enough for Mikey. He feels the need to...embellish a bit with every telling and it cracks me up! This year the story not only contained one emergency airlift by helicopter and Mikey weighing under 1 pound at birth, but also the Pope himself was flown in direct from the Vatican to Baptize him. haha! None of that is true by the way, the actual story goes more like, emergency ambulance ride, 2 pounds at birth, and a priest brought in for the Baptism. Still very scary, but not quite the impact Mikey is looking for. :-)




HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEAN! I love you so much. :-)

Today I am off to shoot a wedding in New Hope that I am sooo stoked for, and then tomorrow morning the birthday weekend celebrations continue!! :-) Have a fantastic weekend everyone!