Do you have a love / hate relationship with technology?!  I am in my LOVE phase.  I have completely switched over to Mac from PC (hate phase).  This was quite a process, but now I’m enjoying my “stuff” instead of crying and wanting to throw it out the window (check back next week, right =).  I know my husband will enjoy not getting my panic calls interrupting a meeting because my screen just went “blue” or I just got a **#$@% ** error message.

Anyway, I’m finally able to use lots of the fun software that my PC didn’t seem to like.

Check her out - isn’t she so cute!!

Have to share these cuties.  I know it’s going to be a good session when the parents just let us wonder off to play and the 9 year old little BOY says, “hey, look, what about this” and strikes a pose.  Ha!  I was loving it.  At one point I had to stop him because it was getting a little cheezy.  Once I told him to kiss and hug his sister he was suddenly *over it*!

Whew what a crazy season it was.  It was a good year, believe it or not, but since I decided not to hire a new assistant it was a bit hairy.  I definitely didn’t to keep up my blog and FB and photo galleries like I should, but the family stayed clothed and fed and clients got their orders on time (hopefully =)….

A few from the season…

Isn’t this the best Christmas present?!  Two sweet girls…

It seems like the holiday season sneaks up on me every year.  I start designing new holiday cards and it seems like I was just doing beach photographs.  I’d love to post some of the new cards, but my clients will kill me if I put their holiday cards out here for all to see…

 

 

 

The rain has finally slowed enough to capture some of the fall leaves before they are all gone.

Mom was stressed, but look how cute they are!  We had fun and aren’t you pleasantly surprised mommy?!

They weren’t being bad, they were just goofing (like they’re supposed to do)!! 

 

Portraits with Santa

MBP Studio

Friday, December 4th   4-7 pm

As many of you know Halfpints is gone and Barbara has retired.  So I’ve gotten lots of calls “what about portraits with Santa”?  So back by popular demand is our beloved Santa.  He’s coming to the studio and things will be the same as in the past:

-Appointment only - call or email 804.909.2764  missy@missybanephoto.com

-Promotional portrait collections for Santa portraits only

-Portraits will be ready by Wed. 12/16

 

November 2nd at The Mill at Fine Creek mini sessions is almost filled so I am adding a second date - Sunday, November 8th at the U of R campus from 2:30-5:30.  Give me a call at 804.909.2764 or email missy@missybanephoto.com for reserve your spot!

Check out our new holiday cards…

 

As many of you know my little sister got married in Italy last week.  Her new in-laws sprung for a villa in Tuscany for a week for 26 of us.  This was the trip we dreamed of taking when we got the girls out of college, etc., but, of course, we couldn’t miss this opportunity to be with our family.  Needless to say, it was amazing (and all the other adjectives you can think of).  This little sheltered girl from Virginia only had a passport to go to Cancun for a friend’s wedding a few years ago.  Suffice to say I walked around with my mouth open for 11 days.  I cried when I walked onto the lawn of the villa - it took my breath away (cheezy I know, but true).  We visited the Vatican, Colosseum, Roman Forum, St. Peter’s Basilica with a tour guide (incredible) and then on to Tuscany where we toured a olive oil factory in Anghiari, a winery in Chianti, Cortona and drove along the coast of the Mediterranean.  Ugh - breathtaking.

Looking at the pictures now just can’t do justice to the places we visited and things we saw.  I wish our younger daughter was a little older (almost 9), but hopefully she’ll remember some of it.  Someone asked her what her favorite thing was and she said she enjoyed the “center” (aka Colosseum) where the gladiators died (yikes) and the place where there was paintings on the ceiling and the guy, what’s his name, he got paint in his eye.  Hmmm, we need to work on the history lessons.  Now there are so many things I want to see and places I want to visit.  Too bad I’m out of sisters to get married… my other sister said we need to set up a bribe for our girls - if they wait until they’re 28 to get married, etc. maybe they can get married in Italy (I need to figure out how much to save a month between now and then!).

Here are a few of my favorites - also visit the MBP Facebook page  

 

 

More of my new favorite venue - The Mill.  Gorgeous fall weather and the smell wood burning in a fire place (probably just someone burning brush).  Mmmm, made me want to go home and watch a good football game!

Senior season is almost over, but we had fun!