Sorry it’s been a bit since I’ve blogged - our house seems to have been struck by some sort of flu (again!) and I’ve been down for the count….but fortunately pepped up enough to shoot a fun wedding yesterday (I’ll post about that later!).

I did want to share this funny story and photos though! Part of our county-wide reading program incentives was to reward kids who read enough books with a free ticket to the Orioles farm team, the Bowie Baysox. Now, we have never taken the girls to a game (and honestly, we don’t watch baseball, so it’s never even occured to us prior to this…) but it’s really close to where we live and the tickets are pretty cheap, so we packed the girls up last Saturday evening and headed to the ball park.

The title of this post is “Bowie Bowie Baysox” because my daughter has called it that ever since she heard she could earn a ticket by reading, which just totally cracks me up! I don’t know where or why she calls it that, but it’s hilarious when she says it - you know how it is when kids say something completely wrong, but you let them cause it’s so cute?

So, we got there in plenty of time for her to participate in the ‘parade’ out on the field with all the other kids, but she didn’t want to do that, so we grabbed some seats pretty low - which she didn’t like! So we moved up to the last row….and then the begging began…popcorn, cotton candy, lollipop, ice cream, hotdogs….and so goes the entire game. As soon as the begginng started Greg and I wondered how many innings the girls would last - the game started at 7:05 and that is pretty close to bedtime for our girls….and then we laughed about how many innings WE would last! Even with the promise of fireworks at the end of the game we didn’t think they’d make it til the end.

How many innings do you think we made it through? I’ll tell you that it was enough for me to take some funny photos, but if you want to leave me your guess I’ll post the answer later this week!

Here are some of our funny photos - enjoy!

This shot just cracks me up - mostly because of my daughters face in the lower right corner…priceless!

They did LOVE the cotton candy - she couldn’t decide if she wanted to eat it or snuggle with it! LOL!

It was a beautiful night for a game!

I’m not too good at the self-portraits, as you can see we cut off the little ones head, but at least part of her is in it, right?! I guess I better start doing more practicing with this fancy technique!

This was outside the stadium as we were leaving, and it was really dark out, but I thought it looked fun! The girls were just excited to be headed to Rita’s Italian Ice for one last treat on the way home!

Thanks for looking!

Finally we got to do Heather & Chris’ engagement session! With only a few weeks to go until their May wedding and one weather-related cancellation I was SO glad that we had a beautiful morning for their session in Annapolis! We wandered around the area and had some fun. Here are some of my favorites from our session.

To see a complete slideshow from Heather & Chris’ session CLICK HERE! 

Thanks for a fun morning Heather & Chris - looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks for the wedding! It’s going to be beautiful!

I just LOVE when I get to go to cool spots with adventurous couples! And today was no exception. Lisa, Brad and I met up and had SO much fun during their engagement session. I knew on the first shot that they were going to be fun and EASY to photograph. Turns out that Brad used to model back in the day and Lisa works it like a model too, so they made my job extra easy! You can see how much fun we had below. I can’t wait for their wedding this fall - it’s going to be a blast!

One of the things we were talking about at our workshop in Vegas was how those Mid-West and West Coast photographers always seem to have those bright blue skies and that here in Maryland it is very rarely bright and blue - usually more like light blue or just overcast….but I realized today that’s not a bad thing as long as you embrace it and work with it. I mean, sure bright blue skies would be awesome, but I have really learned to enjoy the ‘moodiness’ that our slightly overcast skies can get you! Today’s session was no exception to that!

Enjoy a few of my favorites from the day below, but if you want to see a complete slideshow CLICK HERE!

No lie - this is the FIRST shot I took of them and I didn’t even tell them to do anything besides climbing up on the brick wall! I knew they would be rock stars!

See the model? Brad had no problem striking a pose on request!

This next couple are some of my favorites….I love the mood they evoke.

Isn’t Lisa just gorgeous - I LOVE this one of her. She is a classic beauty.

And no session is complete without some clowning around…

Lisa and Brad - it was so fun today! I can’t wait for the wedding!