Rachel Kate Photography Blog http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress Thu, 17 May 2012 13:40:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Little Cole! http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9353 http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9353#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 13:40:28 +0000 admin http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9353 Morning! One of everything, please. That is all. Just one of every single thing and I feel like I will feel satisfied with the state of my own little union over here. I keep walking around my house and looking at everything and I realized, that if I just went ahead and got one of everything, I would feel much better about life.  This is due in large part to Pinterest, thanks so much, because now I need approximately 1,000 things I didn’t even KNOW I needed until I started looking at that website.

A full wall of sliding glass doors and windows leading out to my deck? Yes. I NEED that. Which in turn leads to the complete and total necessity of a new couch for my living room. Mind you, since I have been married, 10 years now, we have been the owners of 7 different couches. I am certain that isn’t normal. But I NEED a new one. And once the fantastical wall of looking glass is installed I will need a custom entertainment center type thing for my TV. I will need that. There is no other way around it. And just to be safe, I am sure a new rug in that general area will be in order.

Did you know that I can’t go another day without a staircase desk area in the other half of my living room? NOT. ONE. MORE. DAY. Much obliged, Pinterest. Who knew that a) this creative stroke of genius even existed and b)that I NEED it. I feel the need for it like I feel the need to breathe or to eat my lunch at 10:30 am. NEED. When, not if people, when, this happens that will mean that my kid can have his room back that I hijacked when he was about 3 for my office and then the boys don’t have to share anymore. But are you aware then that means that my entire upstairs which is annoyingly carpeted  will need to be fitted with new wood floors? Because if those floors don’t happen soon there is a strong possibility that I am going to move out into my shed with the lawn mower just so I don’t have to look at that carpet again.

This in turn leads to three new bedroom sets, obvi. OBVI.

Not sure if you have seen my bathroom. I am actually pretty happy that you haven’t. Complete overhaul. Enough said.

I am desperate for a new fence and window boxes, shutters and new front stairs, and there is chatter among the men in my house about a basketball court for the back yard (which I find adorably charming because c’mon…the chances…).

Reading this it sounds like I already live in a shed, right? Until about 2 months ago when I started hitting Pinterest full force I was fairly happy with what I had. I did not know the full extent of white cabinet-ed, marbled, bead boarded, hardwood floored magic there was in the world. I also was unaware of the sheer amount of cellulite free asses and thighs there are in existence and did not live in constant mental anguish because on this site that has equally ruined and enhanced my life those same flawless asses are constantly juxtaposed with the most delicious looking melty chocolate peanut buttery cookies/cake goodness that ever was invented. Sigh.

Anyway, in order to stop obsessing about all that I need to do (like sell my body or a kidney or something) to fund my various Pinterest inspired projects I am going to get to the real reason you  are here.

Meet Cole! I love this baby. He is the happiest little munchkin and he is my new friend. He brought his parents to the studio to come and visit me and made me fall in love with him.

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He is just TOO cute!!
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His little smiley eyes kill me.
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Adorable family.
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Thank you so much! It was lovely to meet you guys! Cole-keep smiling, buddy! xo, Rachel
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]]> http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=9353 0 Kathrine and Chris: Rhode Island Engagement http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9314 http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9314#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 14:40:21 +0000 admin http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9314 Hiiiiiiii. Yikes. It is been like a hot minute since I last posted. The rain..the seemingly relentless rain, has been messing with me and pushing all of my shoots back. But I am now on a nice little roll and the frequency of the blog posts should consequently increase. I swear.

What’s funny, is that much like every other January or February I posted that I was going to blog more just to blog. That I would be writing to you just all the time for the heck of it. Remember? And much like every year that I  fill up this screen with my empty and untruthful promises, I lied. I have lied about a lot of things in the slow months when I get a flash of ambition that lasts for approximately the amount of time it takes to write a post  and then quickly fizzles out right along with my will power to eat healthy things and act on my resolution to be a nicer person or something like that.

I also typically resolve to spruce things up a bit in terms of my business (which you have painfully had to bear witness to these past couple of months with the blog redesign) and along with reminding myself of how alarmingly weak of will I am I have ‘complete and total ambivalence’ to add to my list of attractive personality traits and I can’t decide on anything. I can tell you that the blog now, isn’t what it will end up being and again..you nice folks are just along for my indecisive ride.

 And then, wham! All of a freaking sudden it is May and I am in the thick of things and I am still chubby because I haven’t eaten as healthy as I should have, I have not blogged a single picture of my family and wrote some funny story about something that has nothing to do with photography, I haven’t sent my grandmother a thoughtful card because that would be a nice person thing to do and everything is exactly the same as it has always been over here at Studio Rachel Kate because I have gotten nothing done. Impressive, no? What I can tell you is that I am VERY happy with my newly acquired Scramble with Friends abilities and that may or may not have been the way I have been filing up the minutes while waiting for the God forsaken rain to quit so that I can bring my camera out into the world and take pictures of people.

Last week, even though weather.com SAID it was going to rain, I still packed up my stuff and took a ride to Rhode Island College to meet my Kathrine and Chris for their engagement shoot. I didn’t have any pretty sunlight to play with, but it didn’t matter. I had the adorable, seriously, adorable Kathrine and the handsome Chris to hang out with and a cool sky full of clouds behind them.  These two will be getting married in August, and you all know about my Cranston beauties, the gorgeous ladies of Rhode Island that I have the pleasure of shooting. Now I can add Kathrine and Chris to my list of Rhode Island couples. RI, the gift that just keeps on giving….

I met Kathrine and Chris at Rhode Island College where they met and ran track together. And I mean like ran track and broke records and stuff like that. I am slightly obsessed with these two. We had so much fun hanging out, styling was awesome, and even though it wasn’t sunny, I wouldn’t have changed anything about it for the world.

There are not many times in my life that I can remember wanting to be a blond. When I am near beautiful Kathrine, I want to be a blond. I really, really do. I also want her shorts.

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They really are very cute together.
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This was right about the time that I almost killed myself by tripping over a FULL sized trash barrel that was directly in my path and I managed to NOT see at all. I feel sorry for my couples who probably feel embarrassed for me when I trip incessantly over things and bang my head on stuff while shooting.
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Adorable outfit change.
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Really. Is it at all possible for Kathrine to be cuter? I doubt it. I highly doubt it.
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Yowza, Chris.
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They are just PERFECT together.
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Chris is ALL about yellow. Which is fine by me since the wedding will have tons of yellow and I really feel like every wedding should have tons of yellow.
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Thank you guys!! I really had SO much fun and I am SO excited to be there in August with you. You guys are the best! xo, Rachel

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]]> http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=9314 1 Allie and Steve http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9184 http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9184#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 15:17:49 +0000 admin http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9184 Hi there people. Won’t you join me in a quick prayer for the cancellation of baseball tonight? Just quick. Throw one up so that I don’t have to be tortured for 2 hours in the cold damp gloom that will be this afternoon. Thanks a million.

The one day this week that hasn’t made me want to get directly back into bed after my kids get on the bus was sunny Monday and that was the day I had my grownup engagement session shoot with Allie and Steve. Allie is one of my many Cranston Beauties..the gift from Rhode Island that just keeps on giving…love these girls.  She will be marrying Steve in July and I am so happy that I will be there to shoot it.  At first when we first decided that I would be the lucky girl who got to shoot her wedding, Allie was all..”We don’t want an engagement session..no thanks…”.  And since I am friends with Allie, I was going to let it slide..but someone, somewhere, I think, wants a picture of these two and so they changed their mind.  Monday was the first time I had the pleasure of meeting Steve, and while I guess saying that he showed up to the shoot kicking and screaming would be a bit of an overstatement..it wasn’t that much of an over statement.  Poor guy…getting his picture taken was pretty far down on his list of things he wanted to do..probably right under pull out his own fingernails with a pair of pliers. Not kidding, pretty much after each shot I took he was all…”Ok then! That good? You got it? Can we wrap this up??” It was  very funny and even though in front of my camera isn’t where he wanted to be..the three of us hanging out was actually quite enjoyable. Really enjoyable, in fact, and it just makes me look forward to their wedding (where so many of my Cranston Beauties will be in attendance) even more than I was already.

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Isn’t Allie gorgeous? HOW are they all so gorgeous?
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Remember when the sun used to shine? That was nice, wasn’t it?
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This could be my fav. Love it.
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I  love this one, too.
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Thank you guys!! SO much fun..(for me at least, Steve:). Can’t wait for July so we can do it all over again! xo, Rachel

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]]> http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=9184 2 A couple of my favs..Lindsay and Ronan http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9130 http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9130#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:24:51 +0000 admin http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9130 Morning! Kind of running crazy today..I actually have plans to shoot some grownups today, and that is kind of exciting for me. Love my kids and babies..especially the ones that you are about to see, but it will be nice to do a shoot standing upright and not on my knees  having to worry about my underwear hanging out the back of my jeans.

I have said before how my job just accentuates how fast time flies. For some reason this family in particular, and especially my little Lindsay, makes me SO well aware of how blazing fast it is going.  I see them every year about this time and every year I find it hard to believe how big they are getting. Like, Lindsay is in FIRST grade. I just don’t get it. She is in first grade but she is way more mature than me and I could shoot this child ALL day long.  Little Ronan is 2 and where 2 year old boys usually like to run in the opposite direction of my camera he was actually surprisingly cooperative and made my job easy.  Just like always..these two kids helped to remind me just why I love my job so much.

I mean..there is no other way to say it besides…her parents are in TROUBLE.

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I just can’t even deal. CANNOT deal.
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Hi Ronan! Why are you so cute?
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I kind of love you, Ronan.
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Stop it. Just stop it right now.
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Not hard to see why this was my favorite shoot so far, right?? Thanks guys for being as awesome as always! xo, Rachel

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]]> http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=9130 0 My good friend, Liam! http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9066 http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9066#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:40:26 +0000 admin http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9066 Morning! So, yesterday I ran my first 10k in honor of Charlotte Rose and I have to say, I feel pretty happy with myself. Considering that a little over a year ago the only way you would see me running down the street was if there was a knife wilding criminal hot on my tail or maybe if the elusive ice cream truck that is stingy and mean and hardly ever comes down my road made it’s melodic appearance. Running? Not something that I understood. I mean, if God wanted us to run around and do all sorts of physical activity then WHY would he a) make it so incredibly painful and b) make it so incredibly enjoyable to sit down? It just didn’t make sense to me. My running sister? Running, running, running all the freaking time. Ran a marathon. Huh??

I. Don’t. Get. It.

But then, last year, for reasons that still basically remain unknown to me I started running. Where my sister can run a cool 7 miles and barely bat an eyelash, I would run for 30 feet and feet pretty damn proud. I kept at it, and then the guilt of NOT doing started to outweigh the anguish OF doing it and I stuck to it. Listen, there was no part of me that looked at running like a series of accomplishments and no part of me had a desire to run a far distance so that I could then tell people how fantastic I was because I ran a far distance. What my main goal, is and always has been, is to avoid having my heart explode at a young age and I hear that cardio is a good deterrent for heart explosion.  To be honest, 80% of the time that I am running the ONLY thing I can think about is how much I want it to be over and how not really enjoyable it is. This is directly related to my piss poor attitude and it is something that I am trying to work on in terms of this whole exercise thing.

What I do know about running is that there is no better feeling than when it is done. It makes every, single, step worth it to have my brain flood with all of those happy little endorphins and keeps me in a good mood for the remainder of the day. Sorry for the poor children who belong to me if I let it go more than two days without going for a run…call me Crabby Patty. Unattractive, really.  So, the bottom line is, that despite the fact that I got here kicking and screaming, I think that I do actually consider myself a runner at this point.

If you follow my blog at all you know how important that Charlotte and her family are to me. Beautiful people who, even though the unbearable sadness of loss, have made such a difference.  The Prayers for Charlotte road race was held yesterday and to be there and witness the over 3000 participants who were there to help raise money and show support to this wonderful family was amazing. Our great friends, Linda and Eddie with their two kids, our great friend Eric and the four of us signed up and were a part of something beautiful yesterday.  Linda is a “real” runner and signed up for the 10k while Eric and I signed up for the 5k. Eddie and Eric walked with the kids (old man knee problems). At the point where the 10k split off from the 5k , pushed by an unbelievable amount of positive pressure from Linda, Eric and I went the 10k route. It was one of the most enjoyable things that I have ever experienced. At no time did I allow myself to find reasons why I didn’t want to do it, and instead just enjoyed the run, every second, every step.

Anyway, I am done patting myself on the back for now, but if any one of “Charlotte’s Angels” reads this, just know how UNBELIEVALBE the work you did was and how THANKFUL I am that I was a part of it.

Onto other orders of business today. One of my FAVORITE little people in the world, Liam.  I just can’t even tell you…this child warms my heart in ways that I can’t even stand.  There is just something so awesome about this kid and being able to spend time with him and his equally awesome mom, Kelly just makes me ridiculously happy.  Like, it is just hard for me to handle how adorable this boy is..it is too much.  I met them the other day on a beautiful afternoon and COULD not be more psyched with what we got. While most boys Liam’s age are avid members of the Secret Society to Sabotage Rachel Kate, Liam just does what I ask and does it in such a cute way that it is hard for me not to squish him right on the spot.

 

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I mean…really, Liam?
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Finding pockets isn’t the easiest thing in the world.
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Just “fixing” the car.
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I. LOVE. Liam.
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Thank you guys!! It COULD not be more of a pleasure to see you. I can’t WAIT for baby girl…

xo, Rachel

]]> http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=9066 5 Welcome Baby Dean! http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9048 http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9048#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:06:25 +0000 admin http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=9048 Hello there. I am writing to you from my office which is nice because last about 7 o’clock last night I was certain that there was a distinct possibility that I would have been writing to you from a jail cell today after being arrested for some form of child abuse perpetrated by me on my own two INCESSANTLY fighting, crying, whining children. Oh, April vacation? Over you. Waaayyyy the hell over you. Honestly, I need to know. Do everyone’s kids fight like this? Is everyone’s oldest kid a mean jerk that makes everyone’s youngest kid turning a screaming, sniveling, puddle of pain in the ass on the floor every ten minutes? Or is it just my kids? Which would mean that in some way I am failing as a parent and should be arrested anyway, right? How can the two people that I love more than anything in the world and are the reason that I exist, can, in under a minute, make me want to heat up a hot metal shish-ka-bob poker on my grill and then subsequently shove it into my eyeball?? Howwwwww????

Some nights there just isn’t enough wine.

I know the blog is in various stages of development, instead of putting it under construction, I am leaving it up and having you join along in my little ride of indecisive horror that I am dragging the poor, sweet designer on these days. I am currently the BANE of her existence. Even if she is really cute and tells me that she doesn’t hate me, I know that somewhere, deep inside, she does. She has to. Poor girl. Anyway, bear with it..I am getting there and some day I am going to update the pictures on my website, too. It may or may not be around the time that Aidan heads off to college (which, these lingering days of April vacation, can’t come fast enough) but I will do it at some point. Maybe.

Want to meet my new friend? My old friends, Sally and Tim, just had their second baby boy and I got to go visit them the other day.  Dean is beautiful. And giant. He is like a 3 month old. He came out that size.

It is amazing, really. 

His big brother Luke rocks and it was so good to see my girl, Sal, who I just simply don’t get to see enough.

Such a little boy doll.

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Love Luke.
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My pretty Sally and her boys.  Congratulations you guys! Love you and those babies!
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]]> http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=9048 0 My Charlie girl! http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=8812 http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=8812#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:20:06 +0000 admin http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=8812 Morning! So, you can see that my blog is starting to change..I am working on getting a little bit of a new design and freshening things up a bit around here. Plus, I had my website designed like over 2 years ago and have never updated a single picture on it so I actually have no idea how or why people even hire me at this point to take pictures of really important things. I have some sort of crazy mental block when it comes to sitting down and trying to pick pictures for display. It is impossible because I can’t narrow down any because I love all of my clients so much and then I get overwhelmed and then I stop and then I typically go get food or something.

I have a lot of mental blocks. Quite a few if I am being honest.  Not as many as my (what I consider to be) ADD inflicted husband who will start a project, spot something shiny in the corner of the yard and then act as thought the first project he started grew a force field impenetrable by human strength and in particular by men who are 6’4 with blue eyes and whose name rhymes with Derik. Like as if he were Superman and the unfinished walkway that he started and SWORE to God and all things holy that he would have done in a weekend was actually kryptonite. Which, if he in fact WAS Superman and the brick, instead of being brick, was actually a pile of green glowing crystals, would be why we are approaching 8 months with approximately 1/4 done of a brick walkway leading to my deck. Mental Block.

Mine are more like the inability to just pick up the freaking telephone and make a doctor’s appointment. CAN’T. DO. IT. I also typically have a REALLY hard time with all things registry related. Registration renewals..inspection stickers..things of this nature. And without fail I get caught and have to pay a price for it but for some reason I just CAN’T do it on time. I think this is my subconscious version of living on the edge. To see JUST how long I can go KNOWING that I am over the amount of miles that the oil change people suggest that I should go before getting a new one. Oil changes. The BANE.

Anyway..I am kind of rambling and what I really want to show you so that my friend Kylee will keep her pestering slash bordering on restraining order texts to a minimum is my baby girl Charlotte.  You all know and love her. The insanely cute offspring of one of my best friends, Kylee and her husband Joel.  Remember..they are really annoying and live in stupid upstate New York and it irritates me to no end? Well, they came for a visit  a couple of weeks ago and we got to visit thankfully. Finally.

I am IN LOVE with this baby girl who is only like 13 months but somewhere along the line has confused herself for a 24 month old boy and is SOO busy and smart I can’t stand it. All of these people just make me happy and I find myself often wishing that the tectonic plates beneath the Earth’s crust would do some of that fancy shifting it did back in the day when we were all one big giant continent so that upstate New York would actually settle somewhere near my backyard. By the way, I have no idea what a tectonic plate is, if they still or ever existed, but it sounded good to me so if I am wrong, I am fine with it.

Charlie just makes me laugh. I love how she is all..”What the h*ll IS that thing on your face, auntie Rachel?”

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Really Charlie?? REALLY??
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This is how Charlotte does ‘completely unamused’.
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These KILL me. I love how she is all baby bad ass….”what..you think I WON’T show you my belly??…dare me…go ahead….”
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“I’ll do it, sister..I swear, I will DO it….”
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Could she think that she is any funnier??
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Tried something new with the backdrop.
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Who me?
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I love when I told her to get against the wall she took it VERY literally.
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Kissing me good riddance.  Love you all so, so much. (also can’t figure out how to make this text underneath the last pic, new blog and I kid you not I have been trying to get this post done for the last 3 hours) so I am putting it here for a chancge). XOXOXOX, Rachel
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]]> http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=8812 0 Bridget and Nick: Venezia Wedding http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=8693 http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=8693#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:02:57 +0000 admin http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=8693 Morning friends! I hope you all had a very enjoyable holiday weekend. I know I did. Might have had too much enjoyment because trying to string together more than two words at a time is proving to be a challenge and forget about how I am attempting to type right now. It isn’t pretty. I wish, I really, really wish, that someone would gift me with a magic BLT right now, because it is 9:35am and all that I can manage to think about is how soon I can eat my lunch. Mmmm…bacon….that is all I want right now…..

Normal.

Anyway..to try and keep my mind of food I am going to share with you my first wedding of the season. Yay! Right? The babies are cute, really cute, I know this..but I am happy to have people that can make their own breakfast up on the blog after what seems like a really long time. Pretty wedding pictures…exciting.

Bridget and Nick are awesome. In front of my lens is not necessarily Nick’s happy place, not really at all, but for this day, his wedding day, he hooked a sister up and played nice for me for a little while. Not that long, but long enough;).  Bridget is a total doll and is one of my brides that I feel like I have known for a lot longer than I have. This day was beautiful and seamless and smooth and I loved it.  One of those weddings that just seem effortless and it is because it is a reflection of the two great people who were getting hitched. The weather was perfect, even though rain threatened RIGHT as we were about to take pictures. Instead of ruining the moment, it actually held off and provided us with a perfect cloud cover and ridiculous sky to work with and again, I think that is simply because the weather gods knew that Bridget and Nick deserved it. The pretty reception was held at Venezia in Boston.

I started the day with the girls and my buddy, Jeff Kobel, met the boys at the church.

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I am pretty sure that Bridget could fit inside a teacup.
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Hellloooo beautiful….
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I heart her dad.
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Here is handsome Nick that Jeff got just waiting patiently to say “I do.”
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Thanks to the world ending freakishly warm weather in March the flowers were in bloom. Thank you God. And really, Bridget?? You are stunning.
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There was definitely not a shortage of pretty bridesmaids that day.
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Married!
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See? Perfect sky. Love these pictures we got at Hingham Harbor on our way to the reception.
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They just could not look any better together.
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Ohhhh…Bridget.
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 Jeff got this angle.
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 Congratulations you guys!! I am so happy for you and SO happy that I was there to see you get married. I wish you nothing but the best life has to offer.

xo, Rachel

]]> http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=8693 0 Reese Emma! http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=8668 http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=8668#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:36:07 +0000 admin http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=8668 Goooood morning! Fabulous mood. Really, if I just get up and move my chubby butt in the morning it makes for a much more enjoyable day for me and all of those people around me.  My two boys hopped on their bikes and went with me for my run before school. Which was great until Aidan’s pedal fell off his bike that I bought him 2 days ago.  One of his best lines ever, while referring to the teenage kid that tuned up the bike in the bike tune up section in the back of Sports Authority before they let us take it home, was “Wow, great job tuning up the bike Mr. Awesome in your happy shack there..” Mr. Awesome. WHY is that so funny to me??

 Happy shack. Hysterical. 

 So as enjoyable as it was to get some fresh air with them this morning before school the last quarter mile spent pushing Aidan’s bike and listening to him moan about what a piece of crap it is (which it isn’t but he has yet to accept fully the fact that he is a Buckley and this, unfortunately, is how things roll for us) could have been a little more enjoyable if Mr. Awesome had checked that the pedals were securely fastened before we left the store.

Today, while I sit here and drink my coffee and marvel at what a good mood I am in, I am going to share with you Reese. Prepare yourself. You all know how I feel about a hairy baby and Miss Reese is lucky that I didn’t pick her up  in the middle of her shoot, run as fast as I could toward the train tracks next to my building, jump on board a train and head out of town never to be seen from again. Love this baby. And what makes her even better is that she is the daughter of Michelle who I went to high school with and recently reconnected with. Michelle is BEAUTIFUL and she is just as sweet of a person as she is gorgeous. I am so happy for her and for her pretty life and for how in love she is with her perfect baby girl.

Reese JUST turned 6 months and makes me melt a little.

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Her crazy hair kills me! It is so her and just TOO adorable.
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Gorgeous family.
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Michelle..you are stunning…
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Daddy’s little girl.
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Love this.
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Umm…a feather tutu and leg warmers? Yes please.
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This was right around the time I wanted to steal her.
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I mean…..
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 Thank you guys SO much for coming over! Reese you rock and Michelle it was SO great to see you again. What perfection you made!

xo, Rachel

]]> http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2&p=8668 0 Welcome Olivia Jane! http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=8631 http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=8631#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:41:02 +0000 admin http://rachelkatestore.com/wordpress/?p=8631 Morning! Thought I would take a break from Scramble to visit with you for awhile. 80 degrees today? Ok. Yes, please.

There is a solid chance that I am going to download a new book on my Nook and go to a beach for awhile today. There aren’t many days left that I won’t want to cry because I am so swamped and I might just very well do that. Plus today REALLY is !!Neide Thursday!! so I could go read my book, get some vitamin D and then come home to a clean house. I can’t really think of much that is better than that.

Before I do that, I wanted to introduce you to  my new little girlfriend, Olivia Jane.  Remember when I posted my friend (and former bride and current second shooter) Emily and her husband Shaun not that long ago? Back then they were waiting to meet their perfect little angel and now the three of them make up one of the world’s cutest families ever.

I am so happy for all of them. For Emily and Shaun because their dreams came true and they are OVERFLOWING with joy and love for Livvy Jane. And for Livvy Jane. Because she picked herself some pretty awesome parents.

Prepare yourself for the cute. It is almost too much. There is no aggravation, irritation, sadness or depression that a hairy baby can’t cure.

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Sleepy angel.
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This is Olivia’s best yoga pose. Ohmmmmm…..
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She threw me a tiny eye opening bone here for about .5 seconds.
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What is better than a hairy baby? A hairy baby IN A BASKET!!!
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 Love you already Livvy Jane! Love you too, Em and Shaun. So very happy for you all.

xo, Rachel

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