Are you ready?

So I am WELL overdue for posting on here – it’s been a week already I think!  But I needed some time off to recover.  🙂  SO this week we have lots of things ready to go.  Shots from North Carolina.  Some awesome, adorable animals from my zoo shoots (and some not so adorable but amazing nonetheless).  And photos from my first couple shoot last night at Brown.  Sweeeeet.  In fact I am trying really hard to NOT edit Lauren and Jay’s session.  I am.  I swear.  I have other things ahead of them to edit…but it’s hard to resist the pull, especially when I have photos like this:

So stay tuned, there are lots of pictures to come this week!!

Mine on Monday | Rhode Island Family Photography

Well, we are back from vacation.  Not without adventure, however!  We were supposed to fly home Saturday from Raleigh and get in around 9:15.  Our first flight out of Raleigh was so delayed that we were going to miss our connection in Baltimore.  Our airline told us that they would be glad to put us up in a hotel, but only if we traveled to Baltimore on the 8:20 flight out, not in Raleigh overnight.  So we took our two kids, our three carryons, our stroller our two car seats our (Matt’s) golf clubs and our two suitcases and checked in for the 8:20 flight.  Keep in mind, our children go to bed at 7 or 7:30.  We get to the gate and the restaurants that are open are only serving appetizers.  So we had takeout premade sandwiches from a stand.  On the floor in the airport.  We flew to Baltimore and got in around 9:30.  Had to claim all of our things – the suitcases, car seats, etc. By the time we got the shuttle to the hotel and checked in (to our one room for all four of us AWESOME but the Westin so it was at least nice) it was 11:00.  Yup.  11:00 at night was when my kids went to sleep.

We woke up at 6 in the morning for our 9:25 flight out.   Hauled on and off of the shuttle (again) and checked (again)  the suitcases, car seats, etc etc etc.  We finally got home at 11.  We had missed mass.  We had no milk.  We had no Easter dinner and we were all tired and grumpy.  I convinced the kids (Nolan) to take a nap by saying that the Easter Bunny was leaving town soon and would only come to houses where the kids were sleeping.  Then once they got up, I insisted on dressing them in their Easter outfits (which at least, thank goodness I bought last year for Layne on super post-season sale) and dragged them outside for a hastily thrown together easter egg hunt. And then we had pasta and meatballs for dinner.  What an Easter….  But at least the pictures still turned out cute even though they are the only snapshots I could get of my overtired, half-asleep, underfed children.  Ignore if you can the messy backyard, rolled up kicked out of the way all-weather porch rug, clutter on the floor glory.  🙂

Follow Friday {blog style} | Rhode Island Family Photography

A while ago I started doing “Things I am Liking” for posts on here.  Then I got away from it for a long time.  Nowadays I have found a few different people and shops to highlight instead.  Today is a combination of the two 🙂  I have a new thing  that I looooove.  I cannot express my love for it enough.  And it comes from a wonderful shop on Etsy called “a la mode stuff.”  A la mode is run by the awesome Linda Demers and is based right here in Rhode Island.  (I met Linda at an event a month or two ago and she is incredibly sweet in real life as well!)  Her shop is a delicious mixture of fun things – from jewelry to custom (fun) switch plates to seat belt bags.  Seat belt bags you ask?  Yes.  Seat belt bags.  And that is where my love comes in full force.  For I own one of these delicious bags.  They are made from repurposed seatbelts.  Literally, these are seatbelts (she terms them “post-industrial scraps”) from cars that were destined for the trash / landfill but have been recycled into modern day beautiful products.

I have not carried a real purse in close to five years.  I fell into the trap of carrying a diaper bag everywhere.  About two years ago I finally invested in a cute small leather bag from Nine West that was on sale because if I ever went anywhere without a child I would undoubtedly panic about the fact that I did not HAVE a purse and would end up just carrying my wallet.  I was a sad, sad case of mommy.  And then I stumbled upon a la mode stuff.  And I found her bags.  And I fell in love.  I got the chocolate brown woven envelope clutch with a copper handle.  It has a magnetic snap closure and the cool part is that as I have the purse and as I carry it, the copper handle will naturally patina so the look will always change.

When I opened the package I immediately felt prettier and more stylish.  For the first time in a long time, I felt like an adult and not just a mommy.  And when we went out to dinner with friends a few nights later, I eagerly grabbed my bag (which by the way holds a full wallet, cell phone and lip gloss easily) and headed out the door.  It’s silly, possibly, to feel like a bag can make you better, but eh, maybe it’s something just a woman understands.  So go and check out her store.  There are a few more things I am also lusting over if anyone needs a gift for their favorite photographer 😉

You can find Linda’s work at:

http://www.alamodestuff.com

http://www.etsy.com/shop/alamodestuff

http://www.facebook.com/alamodestuff

A few more | Rhode Island Baby Photography

So I can’t help it.  I keep coming back to baby C.  And I want to share more and more with you.  It just happens that my last two shoots I have been overwhelmed with the photos I have come away with and want all of you to see ALL of them!!!  So today, more pictures of baby C. and tomorrow some more of Calvin  🙂  And now, I’m going to stop talking and just show you the photos!



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