I was honored when Heather, the boys ISR instructor, asked me to take her daughter’s senior pictures. Honored, elated, and so excited!!! Luckily, I had taken Mckenzie’s pictures with her brother and sister last summer, so I knew we would have fun. I am thrilled with how these turned out, and hope they don’t look like everyone else’s
Look for big things from this one ladies and gentlemen, I can’t wait to run into Dr. Fee one day. My one piece of advice to you Miss Mckenzie: Don’t ever give up on your dream. No matter the time, blood, sweat, tears, and money it takes to get there, it will be worth it. You are going to be awesome.
2011 Seniors! If you like what you see, give me a call! Here are the details:
We went to the Outer Banks (NC) for the 1st time with Nate’s family in June. It was awesome. Go there.
I wanted to hire a photographer to take our photos, but couldn’t find one suitable (to my standards) that was available when we were visiting. So, these were all taken by me, self timer, or my wonderful brother & sister in law (if I happen to make an appearance!)
I am pretty sure I have a better chance of getting struck by lightening than having the boys cooperate for 1 family picture…
Attitude at its finest
Stay tuned – lots of fun stuff happening in August. And my next blog challenge: Since I obviously can’t keep up, I am forcing myself to pick my 1 favorite shot from every shoot since the last time I blogged clients! YIKES!
I think we can agree on a couple things during this post.
#1 – It’s H.O.T. Outside
#2 – We all love SALES!
Soooo…I am announcing a Summer Sale at My Bluegrass Baby Photo!
It will work in a couple ways. But first you have to look at some pics of my family from Vacation
Nate’s parents take the family on vacation every year. Whether it is the beach or the lake, we always have an good time (although I have to admit, vacations with your kids shouldn’t be called vacation – I think I was more tired when I got back than before I left). The trip was so much more special this year because the WHOLE family was there, and it was Nolan and Leigh’s first vacation with their aunts and uncles!
We went to the OBX (for those of you without a license to chill, that is the Outer Banks, North Carolina) The history there is amazing. I would not hesitate to go back.
More from this later…
Ok, Ok – on to sale details!
CURRENT CUSTOMERS:
If you have had a session since January 1st, I am giving you a 15% coupon on all prints and products!** Go to your gallery and use coupon code SUMMER15 – Feel free to forward to your friends and family.
YOU SAY YOU WANT A BIGGER COUPON?
Refer the My Bluegrass Baby Photo Facebook page to your friends! Have them reply to my post that says “Who Referred You?”. The current customer who gets the most fans to the page by Sunday, July 11th at 11:00pm EST will get a 50% coupon for prints!
E-mail me at mybluegrassbaby@gmail.com and book a session for September or October 2010. If you book before July 15th, 2010, your session fee will be reduced to $50**** and you will receive a $25 print credit! You must book by July 15th, 2010.
Alright.
READY.
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**Sessions must have taken place between January 1st, 2010 and July 8th, 2010. Not valid with any other offers or coupon codes. If your session took place before April 1st, 2010, you will receive an e-mail from me with a link to your new gallery by this weekend.
****Session includes: Travel up to 30 miles from zip code 41017 at an outdoor location of your choice :: Up to a 60 minute session :: Up to 4 persons per session with no outfit changes :: Private Online Gallery for viewing and ordering :: Professionally retouched images. You MUST be a NEW customer of My Bluegrass Baby Photo in order to qualify for this discount.
Please excuse my lack of wittiness in this blog post. A crazier weekend with an even busier week ahead has resulted in an extreme need for some ibuprofen.
Once again, life has gotten away from me. Swim lessons 5 nights a week, demanding times at work, soccer, personal stresses, lots of photo sessions!, and an insurance legal battle have left me running on fumes (not to mention in pain – insurance has stopped paying for my neck/back therapy).
So I am going to stop promising that I won’t do this, and once again, crush everyone’s hopes and dreams of a blog post all to themselves I promise that I will make an attempt to try harder! But until something gives, I must get my beauty sleep or I am pretty sure I will grow horns. Red ones. With glitter…
Here are a few of my favorites from the past few sessions
Meet Jordan. He is going to be spending alot of time with us starting tomorrow!
Please excuse my watermark on this pic – I just can’t control the darn thing!
This is Bekah, and her beautiful family. She is amazing with kids, and we are so lucky that we found her.
Does this cutie look familiar? She should
I got both of the dogs to look at the camera at the same time. I gave myself a pat on the back.
It is hard to believe that Grey is 6 months old!
And Tate is already 3 months! These babies are growing way too fast
It is hard for me to look at him and not call him Cooper! He is his big brother’s mini-me!
And a few maternity pictures for good measure! Little Amos Jr. is now 1 month old, they live in Louisville, but I can’t wait to meet him.
is getting MARRIED! You heard me right, little Mud found himself an amazing partner in crime (And I mean really amazing. Seriously. We are still trying to figure out what is wrong with you Katie…) Just kidding!
They live in this amazing little house in upper Michigan, and they are so happy. I hate that they are so far away. But they love it up there. But a 3 hours trip to even get to a Target? Count me out. City girl at heart here, no matter how much I hate to admit it! Visits. Lots of visits are hopefully in our future once our kids are all old enough to handle the long car ride.
The wedding will be up there on the lake. It is going to be so beautiful and I can’t wait!
Scott wanted to wear his camo ballcap. I gave him 1 photo. For the rest, I always pulled it off his head once they were posed Embrace your baldness brother! LOVE YOU!
I think this one is my favorite
No, no. This one is my favorite – My future nieces and nephews are going to have AMAZING eyes, don’t you think?
Have to add Mom’s favorite
And this picture is what he gets for complaining and calling his sister a goober.
I love you both, and I am SO HAPPY for you. Wishing you a year full of amazing wedding planning and a life full of wonderful.
-Disclaimer- This happened months ago. I am a total slacker.
Well, Nj got his first haircut. He was looking a little shaggy, so it was time! He wasn’t sure about the whole process at first – he couldn’t find his hands through the cape, he wasn’t sure why Ashley was coming at him with sharp objects…But he was fine once she gave him a new toy to play with
Before
During
After
And BECAUSE I am such a procrastinator, it is already time for haircut #2! I promise, I am going to start blogging more often. I am serious!
And a big shout out to our amazing stylist, Ashley Strotman, Owner of Perfectly Posh Salon and Boutique! Check out their awesome stylists and NEW nail salon!
Miss Aniston’s arrival countdown has begun! 4 weeks or so and I will get to meet the little girl that has been draining my wallet for about 6 months! Of course, not her fault, I am just so excited to see her in bows and dresses and tutus, and of course, take her pictures!
I can’t wait to see my best friend become a mom. I can’t wait for her to see her daughter for the 1st time, and feel that love and bond that she has yet to feel in her life.
Her mom, aunt, Katie, and I threw her a pickles and ice cream shower. It was adorable and so much fun! Miss Aniston was of course spoiled rotten, and I don’t think she needs a thing before her arrival. Everything is ready to go but baby!
I also drug Erin outside to grab a few photos before she wouldn’t let me anymore E – you are beautiful. I love you!
We lost a dear friend today, one of the best men ever to be blessed to walk this earth. I am finding it difficult to put together my thoughts about David. He was an AMAZING man. He would never hesitate to help someone out. He was a quiet, strong, and caring. He loved what he did, he lived to be outside. And most of all, he loved his wife, Amy. I knew David before and after he met Amy, and they were two different David’s. Amy brought out everything amazing in Dave that he was too shy to share with the world. They were the definition of soul mates, an example of what married life should be.
Dave fought a horrible cancer, called Soft Tissue Sarcoma, that attacked him in multiple parts of his body for over 3 years. This is a very rare cancer, and much research is still needed. He was determined to beat this, but God ultimately decided he needed our soldier with him instead, and with him, a little piece of our hearts went too. Amy once told me that she found comfort in knowing that, since they could never have kids of their own, that her David would be up in heaven comforting and helping the children who had left their families too early as well. I hope those parents know that their children are very lucky to have him.
The arrangements of his life celebration will be on Monday, March 15th.
Reception, 7:30PM – 11:00PM located at the South Hills Civic Club – 10 Bluegrass Ave. Ft. Wright, KY 41017
Please consider making a donation to the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative. 98% of donations to this Sarcoma fund go straight to Sarcoma Research. There will also be multiple benefits today and in the next few weeks to help with David’s bills.
TODAY – Saturday, March 13th, 4:00pm at Zazou Grill and Pub in Covington. $1 of every food and drink sale will go to Amy.
Friday, March 26 at the Brickhouse Bar and Grill on Limaburg Rd in Hebron from 7pm -12am
If you cannot make any of these events, but would still like to help, please send any contributions to:
Bank of Kentucky
c/o The Benefit of David Dearinger
111 Lookout Farm Dr
Crestview Hills , KY 41017
Godspeed David. We love you and miss you, but we celebrate that you are HEALED. There will always be a CASE of beer in our fridge for you.
I am in denial that I will be 29 this year. I am in denial that BB is so grown up lately. I am in denial that my mom might be moving away, and that my baby brother is getting married.
I am in denial that my baby is 1 today.
I find it so ironic that our boys couldn’t be more opposite. I always said this about Nate and his brothers, I just couldn’t understand how 4 boys who grew up in the SAME house with the SAME parents could be SO different! Ben is the lawyer, the analyst. Nate is the giver, the builder, the rock. Dennis is the teacher, the philanthropist. And Mike is the thinker and the quiet one. All wonderful qualities, with the same set of values.
Nolan is laid back, LOUD, and carefree. He does things on HIS time. (I should have known that would be the case from the beginning!) While Brayden is organized and structured, and always ahead of his time. The best example is the train table. They both love trains. For 2 years, our train table has set in the toy room exactly how the picture shows it. That is how Brayden likes his things, neat and organized - where it belongs. Don’t move it to the left because he will know, and he will hate it. Because he hates change. Well, his baby brother is now mobile, and the train table will never be the same. I am finding pieces of track upstairs, in his highchair, and in laundry baskets. It makes BB a nervous wreck. Big brother is just like his mama, and has a lot to learn about patience and not getting things his way all the time! I see so much of Nate in Nolan and me in Brayden that it is exciting and scary!
Exactly 1 year ago today, I did the most empowering thing a woman could ever do. I wanted to do the absolute best thing I could for my baby the second time around. The baby I prayed for every day for 2 years. Little did we know, God had a plan for Nolan. A plan for our family. And we are so blessed and grateful, no matter how difficult the road was to his arrival.
He has brought so much joy to our lives. I love you Nolan Jude, and I am SO PROUD and blessed to be your mama.
Here are a series of photo collages from your first year!
And oh yea, Happy Birthday to Nate! Without you, my precious baby would obviously not be possible And thank you for turning 29 before me!In all seriousness, he jokes that he will never have a birthday ever again, but I say it just makes every one from now on a 1,000,000,000x more special.
Slideshows are one of the perks of my new ordering system – let me know what you think! Do you want to see slideshows, or just my favorites from each shoot on the blog?
I met Lori and her beautiful family in October at my mini shoot marathon! Grey was only a few weeks old, and of course it had to be the coldest day of the year thus far! When she contacted me to shoot Grey’s 3 month photos she suggested an amazing location last minute – The Blue Manatee in Hyde Park. What is that, you ask? An AMAZING children’s bookstore! I had never been there before. It is cute, colorful, and full of amazing children’s books, and attached to a little cafe. Not to mention next to the Spotted Goose, and adorable children’s boutique!
What a PERFECT way to kick of 2010 @ My Bluegrass Baby Photo!
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Thank you Lori, for introducing me to such a wonderful Cincinnati treasure. BB will love it when we get the chance to make it back up there! I can’t wait to see your family (and the dogs!) again in April!
I always get nostalgic when I travel to my old stompin’ grounds. A flood of emotions & memories, and this time was no different – Except for the realization that I am getting old.
I went to high school with Jill, and she now owns a house in the city where we grew up. I travelled there today to meet her baby girl, 13 days old, but still 2 weeks from her original due date.
Mom and Dad are so proud of their precious Emily, and you can now see why.
I have to admit. Newborn shoots are my favorite!
And the awesome cocoon, you ask? Another amazing creation sent from my friend Anne Marie of Ambernee Crochet!
I promise that I will make an attempt to try harder! But until something gives, I must get my beauty sleep or I am pretty sure I will grow horns. Red ones. With glitter…
