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November 18, 2007

Majesta Valentine – Olympic Gymnast Hopeful

So if you haven’t noticed recently, I have some nifty little links in the column on the right side of my blog….one of those links is to the website of a young girl, named Majesta. Majesta is a young gymnast with hopes of a future in the Olympics. She’s quite a talented young lady! I had the pleasure of photographing some of her athletic abilities last weekend at her first competition (meet) of the year, the KMC Fall Frenzy. Check out her wicked moves below:

A wide angle of the gym at full speed in the middle of the meet:

Majesta on the Balance Beam. She received her highest
score (of the meet) on this event, at 9.40.

Yep, she sure did land on that beam after this move!

Majesta performing her Floor routine:

Ummm…..Yeah. She’s doing a full split in mid-air…pretty crazy.

2nd place All Round for her first time competing as a Level 8! Congrats, Majesta!

Majesta Valentine trains at KMC Gymnastics, in Kennett Square. Go check out Majesta’s Website and Majesta’s Blog to see some cool videos (and pictures!) of her competing from this and other events! Leave her some love on her blog and join me in wishing her the best as she continues her journey to the Olympics.

Also, if you’re in the giving mood (as the holidays ARE right around the corner!) than feel free to donate to Majesta’s training fund, as I have, through the link on her website. Competitive Gymnastics training is very VERY expensive, so her family would be ever so grateful for your generosity!

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November 9, 2007

Fall Family Portraits

I had the pleasure of photographing a wonderful family recently, at one of my favorite places, Brandywine Park. Donna & Trey were actually married at Brandywine Park 5 years ago, so it was a perfect way to commemorate the occasion by having a Sweet Beginnings Session there. Their family has grown by two feet this year, so it was also a great way to celebrate that as well! Of course as soon as Donna said she wanted to do it at Brandywine Park, I was thrilled! Not only is it a beautiful spot for portraits, but Marc and I were married there as well, so it was fun to realize that we have that in common!

**As always, you can click on each image to view it larger. **

What a BEAUTIFUL Family!

Baby Julian…looking ever so adorable in his stylin’ aviator coat!

Mommy & Baby

Daddy & Baby havin’ a good ole time!

We couldn’t leave out Scooby! He’s part of the family too!

Baby Julian’s Best Friend

Thanks guys for hanging out with me in our mutually favorite park! I had a great time!

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October 11, 2007

National Apple Month

Did you know that October is National Apple Month? So this past weekend, Marc and I decided to go apple picking at Milburn Orchards. We invited our friend Christy to come with us and we all had a lot of fun! We picked Red & Golden Delicious varieties and I picked up a little Apple Cookbook to teach me how to make some goodies with all these apples! LOL We enjoyed some amazing Apple Cider Doughnuts from Milburn as well…if you’re in the Elkton, MD area (and even if you’re not!) you should get your butt right on over to Milburn Orchards and try them. They’re soooo good and simply amazing when they’re hot!

We’re also celebrating National Apple Month at work this week. With all this talk about apples, I picked up some cool apple facts that I thought I would share:

- If you place an apple in with your potatoes it will help keep them from
sprouting.
- If you can’t brush your teeth after a meal, than eat an apple. Eating
an apple gets rid of 95% of the harmful bacteria in your mouth. (WHOA!)
- 25 percent of an apple’s volume is air. That is why they float.
- Apples are a member of the rose family. (didn’t know that!)

Well, of course, you know I brought my camera along to go apple picking. I know, I know…I’m such a dork. What can I say? Here’s some pics from our trip:

Marc ate one of the Golden Delicious apples right off the tree! LOL

Lots of colors of fall!

Lots of strange looking gourds LOL…

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September 6, 2007

Marc’s Surprise :)

So today is opening night for the NFL Season. Marc has been waiting all year for football to start again! But this year he has an extra special reason. So here’s the story….

Two months ago I decided that I was going to surprise Marc with an HD TV for his birthday. Well, his birthday is in November, so I figured I have 4 months to save up and it would be plenty of time. With all of the photography work I’ve had lately (wow, weddings every weekend all summer, working with 6 different area photographers!) I was saving much faster than I thought I could! So I decided that he would be so much more excited and surprised to have it before football season! Well all of the plans were in place for last friday….with the help and hard work of our good friend Chris and another friend, Ron, along with both of Marc’s brothers…we pulled it off! I got out of work early for the holiday weekend and so did Chris, so we all got the old entertainment center torn down and a new one put up along with the TV installed….ALL before Marc was home from work! We even finished early and sat patiently waiting for his arrival home.

When Marc got home from work, Chris, Brett, Jon and I were downstairs waiting for him. He came downstairs and realized that his brothers were here – which seemed odd – and then he saw it – a brand new 42″ LCD HDTV sitting on a brand new entertainment center, where his old TV used to sit. (Bonus – we had one of his Xbox 360 games playing on it for him to see the awesome picture quality!)

“What the [insert explicitive here LOL] is THAT?! Where did it come from?!! WHO’s is it?!! OMG! “

ROFL! Who’s is it? Well, dear, to be honest we borrowed it and it has to go back tomorrow…hahaha. (Kidding of course!) He was completely shocked and very excited! So opening night football is extra special – in Hi Def – in our house tonight. It was a lot of work and a collective effort but it was sooo worth it. After seeing me be able to finally buy all of the photography equipment I’ve wanted (and needed!) I felt like it was time to get something for Marc that he’s always wanted. All he’s been sayin all week is “I can’t believe you guys went through so much trouble for ME!”

Who loves ya, babe? That’s right. LOL Now you can play all your Xbox 360 games in Hi Def, and watch football too. (Oh boy….what was I thinking?! Kidding! haha)

Below are a couple of pics of the new system. (Hello?! Can’t have a post without pics, can we?

BTW – Thanks Chris, Ron, Jon & Brett for all your help!!!! Couldn’t have done it without you!!

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July 12, 2007

Logan’s Very 1st Birthday

I know I need to blog some other stuff and I’m a little behind but this was sooo doggone cute that it flipped the trump card.

My cousin, Michelle’s, son Logan celebrated his very first birthday on Sunday and well….we had a party! and boy did Logan party hardy too! Check out this too funny picture of him after having cake for the first time: