I know, I know…crickets  for weeks now here on the blog…  But trust me, Momma and Poppa Bear have been very busy bees!  While adjusting to the joys, rigors and follies of new parenthood we have continued to shoot a full season of portraits and weddings: all of which we will share right here just as soon as I am back from leave.   Sam deserves nothing short of a medal for taking over the workload of 2+ during our busiest season of the year while operating on very little sleep for so many weeks now, he is such a super Daddio and my hero.   We want to take a moment to thank our clients for understanding the slower than usual turn arounds and to thank our blog fans for their patience as well, don’t delete us from your feed just yet because there’s lots of amazing weddings and cute kiddos to share upon my return.  I returned to shooting weddings on October 10th and am working on a date for my office return in a few short weeks.

Here are just some of the posts to come:

Baby Brayden at 9 months

Jennifer & Kyle’s Engagement Session

Liz’s Bridal Portraits

Liz and David’s Engagement Session

Jennifer and Ryan’s Wedding

Angy and Chris’ Wedding

Becky and Mike’s Wedding

Jaymi and Jonathan’s Wedding

Jennifer and Terrance’s Wedding

… and with two more engagement sessions this week alone and weddings every weekend through November, the post list is growing fast.  Not to mention the backlog of albums I still want to post here dating back to last spring, we were so busy with shooting and the pregnancy that I may have let our album posts slide (bad monkey!).   So definitely check back with us.

And now, by popular request, a few recent pics of Fiver…  I love these ones Sam got during a recent nap:

So handsome at 6 weeks!  I had no idea he would have those gorgeous grey eyes when I knit him this sweater so I had to take pictures:

We’re just starting to get smiles from him: nothing we’ve been able to capture with a camera just yet but enough to believe that his “potato days”, as our friend Shannon calls the lumpy days of newbornness, are numbered.  Everyone tells you how fast it all goes and its so true.  I can’t wish a day away, even the really tough ones, and continue to love every inch of him so much that I think I might burst.  I’m frustrated that I can’t be both his mom and a photographer at the same time, I can’t seem to step outside of it all enough to document the nuances of our rapidly changing lives but I guess I can just settle for living it right now.  I’m trying to do a mini session with him every two weeks so I’ll post more as we go along, every time I pick him up he seems heavier than the last!

The point of this post?  Simply, to quote the Terminator, “I’ll be back.”

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Hello everyone,

We have such great stuff to blog this week but are currently unable to upload images for unknown reasons, we’ve been working on the problem most of the day but don’t have a fix just yet.  We apologize for the delays and will have everything up as soon as we possibly can… please stay tuned!!!

Thanks for your patience,

Mel

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Hello all!  Just a quick note of apology for the lack of blog activity over the next couple of weeks.  Many have been asking for more pics of my darling niece Jordan as well as a peek at lovely little Leela Devi.  I hate to make you wait but we absolutely must get cracking on album designs, hence a  necessary but temporary blogging hiatus.  Sorry for the crickets but we’ll be back…

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Sorry for the gap between Part I and Part 2 of this post, I had to get old school and scan this page from the magazine because I didn’t have a PDF version to share.  (Did I just refer to scanning as old school?  Sadly, I did…)

In Part 1 we shared the feature on Keri & Andrew’s Wedding in DC/MD/VA regional edition of The Knot magazine for Fall 2008.  Our work actually appeared twice in the mag and we challenged our readership to find it.  A photo from Katie and Todd’s first dance was chosen as the cover image for the article titled, “Your Wedding Soundtrack” by Michele Zipp on page 197.  Here’s the mediocre scan from the mag that we made on our fax machine, the spread looks a lot better than this!

Katie and Todd had a beautiful fall wedding on the grounds of Ford’s Colony Country Club in Williamsburg, Virginia last October where they both danced the night away.  On the way home, Sam told me that when he was 12 of so, his father told him that if you want to be popular with the ladies, all you have to do is learn how to dance.  Like most good advice passed down from parents to their pre-teens, it was tagged with “my dad is wrong” and filed in the back of the rolodex of wisdom.  Which is too bad, because his dad was very right. 

So back to lucky Todd, who could dance with any lady in the room, but got to swing around with the prettiest one to Ray Charles’ “Deed I Do” during their first dance as husband and wife.  Congrats to Katie and Todd for catching the editor’s eye at the Knot.  I think you can tell from just one photo how much fun the rest of the night was too!

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