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Missing you.

I'm sitting here at O'hare waiting for my flight home from a few days in Chicago.  Oh, how I miss my Jillian.  I think the only thing that will cheer me up at this point is her adorable little face.  Just wanted to share a few from a few days ago.  It really doesn't get much cuter. 

A cautionary note:  I may be a little biased.

 

Paul + Kim

What an incredible wedding I had the honor of shooting this weekend for Paul & Kim at the Henry Ford Estate.  The details and personal touches that went into this intimate and special wedding were simply breathtaking.  I think so many brides are told "...oh, the little things won't matter...".  To that I say, yes they do.  I wanted to share just a few tonight. 

Kim and Paul have so many reasons to celebrate.  Including the birth of their first child, this August.

 

The girls!  The georgous one in the flower dress is Paul's daugher, Danielle.

He was there too, Kim.

Kim makes her rounds to her guests.  "Look at my shoes!"

My co-worker...my friend, Maria and her husband, Joe.  Maria, thanks so much for introducing me to Kim and Paul.  I'll see you tomorrow in Chicago!

The food alone was magnificent.

 

Jillian

Finally, the weather's getting warmer everyday.  I love it.  Jillian loves it.  Actually, we think she loves wind.  The first time we saw her do this was on our trip home from Florida.  We had the sunroof wide open and the wind was blowing in her face.  She stuck her little hands out and started giggling like crazy - as if the wind were tickling her.  Well, this morning we went outside to test out the 24-70L (woohoo!!) and it was really windy.  Same thing, she was "playing" with the wind, and lovin' every minute of it!

It's here...

I'm up and live with my new site.  Same address, different look, and something for everyone.  What a relief.  And I know you'll never read this, but to Harald and Wade at Blu - you are my heroes!  Thank you so much for your hard work.  And if anyone is really reading this (hehe) I'd love to hear what you think of it.  Or if you find any typos (haha).  As always, thanks for stopping by.

                                             New Bliss Website

Oh, and a post isn't a post without a pic, right?  And yes, I'm aware it's not Halloween.  But it's one of my most favoritest pics of Jillian.  Makes me giggle inside every time I see it!

Bizzy Bee

My poor blog.  I've been neglecting it... for good reason, though.  I've been a bizzy, bizzy bee!  Work (you know, my "real" job) has been insanely hectic,  Jilly and I have been going for nice long walks now that the weather is warming up, and lots of new things in the works for Bliss. 

A new site is coming.  Yes, you read that right.  I'm designing a new site and they will probably be live later this week.  I've learned that many of my clients still have dial-up (ok, guys, welcome to 2008)  so my new site will actually be be two.  One for flash and one for HTML.  Whew. 

Speaking of warm weather, here's a few pics from a session last weekend with the Taylor Fire Fighters.  It was a great session that I did for my firnd, Jill and the guys kept joking around and asking if I would come back to shoot their calender.  Uh, ok!  I'm just now getting around to these, so I only have a few to share.

and... we have flowers!  A few crocus' I had to get a few pictures of.  It's so nice to see a hint of color peeking though the mud :)

 

 

Back up

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Website down...

The Bliss website is temporarily down.  Not sure why, but I'm trying to get to the bottom of it with my webmaster.  If you have any questions or need to schedule or confirm your session or order, please contact me directly on my cell or at bliss.photography@live.com.  Your patience is appreciated!

We're home.

After a long, warm, sunshiny week in Florida, we are finally back home.  We had such a great time and really enjoyed ourselves.  Our "mission" was to get down to see Grampa Geo in Lakeland, spend some time on the beach, golf, swim, visit the mouse and just plain 'ol relax.  Mission accomplished!

We even made time to squeeze in our first "official" family photo session.  We were so lucky to hook up with the amazingly talented Anas and Amanda from Heartistic Foto and had our session on the beautiful sandy beaches of Anna Maria Island.  Little did we know just how sandy our beach session would be! We can't wait to see how they turned out.

Our first stop was in Charleston, SC.  Jeff and I have been there many times and it is one of our favorite places to stay.   We both get so swept up in the southern charm with all of it's history, beautiful gardens, haunted cemeteries and everything in between.  We could have spent the whole week there, I think.

And now onto the Magic Kingdom.  Jillian loved every minute of it and actually froze when she saw Tigger, Darby, Pooh and Piglet in "person" :)  It was so cute.  Oh, and Jeff got a little creative with the camera, too... I taught him how to shoot in manual, and away he went!  Not bad.  We may have to work on his comp a little, tho.

Did I mention already that she loved every single minute of it?

Some quality time with Grampa Geo...

And lots of quality time in the pool! 

Bye Grampa...We'll see you soon.

   

 

There's a mouse in our house

                                  

The Disney kind, not the rodent kind.  Yep. Jillian gets to meet Mickey next week, and do you think she's excited....

 

Oh yeah, she's excited :)