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Christmas 2009

August 27th, 2010 @ 10:18 am | 0 comments

Yay! I made it to Christ­mas. At least, that’s how it felt. Every sin­gle event that hap­pe­ned in 2009 was fan­tas­tic and won­der­ful but I have to tell you with ALL of it I was just han­ging on til the break bet­ween Christ­mas and New Years to finally start breathing for a second!

Christ­mas Eve, as is tra­di­tion we went to my parents to have a gtg w/​cou­sin Beana & her family.

Ben­ja­min was full of Christ­mas spi­rit while Nichole was just won­de­ring what yum­mi­ness the tins were full of.

Killian & Avery (Dear Killian, I’m pretty sure it was you, not your sister)

I will fore­ver and always love this pic­ture on the left. Note to self, make a print of this pic­ture to actually hang in your house. 

The last Lego advent before bed! (and my ghastly dining room walls which I just rec­ti­fied last month! yahoo!!) 

Christ­mas Morning! 

Then it was back to my parents for more family & mimosas.

And gift bags big­ger than small children!

Nothing says Merry Christ­mas like a bloody fin­ger trick.

After a whirl­wind day… a whirl­wind year! It was ama­zing to cele­brate our first Christ­mas in our new house and our first ever real tree! 

And with that, there are only 116 days left til Christ­mas 2010!

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren

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Katie & Jed 12.11.09

August 24th, 2010 @ 12:30 pm | 0 comments

After mee­ting Katie & Jed at Kate & Mar­cus’ wed­ding in 07.08 and then taking their enga­ge­ment pho­tos on a super chilly day in 11.08, I KNEW that 12.11.09 was going to be an abso­lu­tely fan­tas­ti­cal time! 

I arri­ved at Bed­ford Village Inn as hair and makeup was finishing up with Katie’s mum.

And Katie was get­ting into her dress. I love the hands making their appea­rance in the left hand photo.

Once the dress was in the right place it was time for the veil!

And some s.e.x.y. red shoes. HELLO Christmas! 

It was just about time and Katie’s dad came in to check on her. Just look at them — and her mom & brother in the back­ground. Such an ena­mo­red family! 

Katie was BRAVE and humo­red my idea of hea­ding out on the bal­cony in the pitch black of the windy Decem­ber night. I don’t know — I’m think it was worth it. 

Then it was time. Oh Jed. I heart you. Not like Katie does though — wow-​eeee! :) 

Something about the two of them and the fee­ling of their wed­ding was just so clas­sic. I found myself loving so many of their pho­tos in black & white. 

Short & Sweet, but to the point. 

Christ­mas­time is magi­cal. Christ­mas­time wed­ding at BVI is like a Martha Ste­wart Decem­ber issue came to life. uh.maze.ing.

From the details in the bou­quet to the orna­ment place cards everything was perfection.

They dan­ced very lovely parent dan­ces, but my most favo­rite part was when Katie’s parents took the dance floor and dan­ced like it was their first dance. Katie and Jed watched them with love and awe (and perhaps making some men­tal notes ;) ) 

Then the props came out and the party got down! 

Flash For­ward! I caught Kate & Mar­cus during a slow dance and I knew it loo­ked fami­liar! I love that even without seeing their faces you can tell how in love they are. And, um, how much they are in love with the little one to be — Kate was 5 months preg­nant in this photo! (And I get to meet their CA-​UTE! baby this fall!)

But enough about Kate & Mar­cus — this is after all Katie & Jed’s wed­ding! And here they are one last time surroun­ded by friends and family cele­bra­ting them. As it should be!

Thank you thank you guys. More than you know.

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren 

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Nikki & Co. 12.09.09

August 23rd, 2010 @ 2:46 am | 0 comments

If ever there was a defi­ni­tion of BFF, Nikki, Mindy & Erica are it. I met Erica 9+ years ago when I hired her to replace me at a temp job. She wasn’t able to make it out this winter’s eve­ning but Nikki & Mindy are neigh­bors and Mindy & Wayne and their brood came over to Nikki & Louis’ beau­ti­fully deco­ra­ted abode for some Christ­mas pic­tu­res with Mr. Anthony blue-​eyes.

Anthony didn’t know they were sup­po­sed to be Santa’s coo­kies! I’m pretty sure Santa was more than happy to share though. 

Wha­te­ver the phy­si­cal embo­di­ment of “squee” is, I’m pretty sure I enac­ted it when Mindy wal­ked through the door with Miss Emma dres­sed to the nines! And Aus­tin is going to be a heart-​breaker. He’s got a Dun­kin’ Donuts orna­ment in his hand - he took it off the tree and called it ‘Dada hot’. We really do keep run­ning on Dunkin’s!

BFF’s breed BFF’s I think — Aus­tin & Anthony are already off to a kin­dred start, com­plete with mint oreos & a cell phone. 

This is my favo­rite. Louis & Nikki have so much pride and joy and love explo­ding from them and Anthony looks like he’s just unw­rap­ped a great pre­sent. It’s a very Christ­massy fee­ling to me. 

I had a great time han­ging out with this brood! Erica, her hus­band & her two litt­les were mis­sed — hope­fully next time around!

I’m too late for Christ­mas in July and too early for the actual holi­day (thank good­ness) but Merry Christ­mas just the same!

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren

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