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Christmas 2008

December 29th, 2008 @ 2:13 am | 0 comments

Christ­mas!! Our Christ­mas con­sists of Christ­mas Eve at my parents, then back here for a few hours of sleep, then we have Christ­mas Mor­ning with Ben­ja­min at our house and head back to my mothers and wind up at my Grand­mothers house. 

Nichole acting as the Tic­kle Monster!

My son, nephew and 1st cou­sin once remo­ved (what a weird family rela­tion term). But as far as their con­cer­ned, they’re all cou­sins. I wan­ted to get a pic­ture of all the boys, but the youn­ger ones weren’t so inte­res­ted in cooperating. 

Oh, no! Does he have a fever?

My brother and my son — two peas in a pod. My brother is 6’2″ and my son is only 8– yet they look about the same size. I’m in SO much trou­ble! :)

Ok, I’m obses­sed with this face, but wouldn’t you be too?

The cute­ness!

Every year be gets new PJ’s for Christ­mas, this year he got a new mood glowy thing too — he was psyched. 

My brother found these mar­bles with real bugs inside. I love this shot!

Mums tree :)

My favo­rite part of Christ­mas. Every year, since I was born, my dad has read The Night Before Christ­mas to us, for a book that he’s had fore­ver and was published when he was a todd­ler. Boy has his audience grown! Look at my kiddo, he’s nearly too big to sit on my lap :(

Our tree, for the first year ever we deci­ded to get a real one, I loved it!

My son is a bit of a dork, and he asked for a lump of coal from santa. So santa, not wan­ting to let him down, obli­ged, and also sent him something a little more inte­res­ting than just a lump of coal.

I love Christ­mas mor­ning hair!

We got a wii, and a wii fit, but the most exci­ting game for B was the Car­ni­val games

Sophie the Christ­mas chihuahua

My dads Christ­mas con­sis­ted of gui­tar loot to grow his rene­wed obses­sion with guitar.

My mom’s christ­mas con­sis­ted of whis­key. Hmm. 

Killian in his christ­mas PJ’s & new robe!

We got my brother the book “stuff on my cat” .. it was a hit.

Unless you’re my mothers cat… 

Spy night vision goggles.

Sorry, its that face again.

Nichole roc­kin out on the mini guitar

All the tech­no­logy and noi­ses and toys in the world and this sim­ple spi­der man toy was what he kept going back to and play with over and over.

…and to all a good night!

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Thanksgiving 11.27.08

December 1st, 2008 @ 3:28 am | 0 comments

This year Thanks­gi­ving (as most things are) was at my parents house. The table was set so festively!

My dad has star­ted to acquire quite the collec­tion of guitars!

My cou­sins baby — she’s got intense eyes!

Mum & Nichole.

Killian roc­king out and marching to the beat of his own.. casio.

YUM!

Killi takes on the tur­key leg.

Taylor’s baby bump is star­ting to show — meanwhile Killian gets a hold of the whip­ped cream beaters.

It was a great day!

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The scoop

October 28th, 2008 @ 7:49 pm | 0 comments

Boy do I owe some posts. Where have I been, slac­king? Lazy? Igno­ring you all? Never!

Busi­ness has been boo­ming! I had everything under con­trol until I had the mis­for­tune of get­ting a virus on my com­pu­ter. Not the file eating kind, just the so anno­ying and you can’t open anything with out it taking 400 hours kind. On the plus side, I had already pla­ced an order for my new super fast lap­top, on the down­side, I lost over a week of pro­duc­ti­vity (and eating and slee­ping) get­ting the virus off my old com­pu­ter (at least to the point where it was func­tio­ning enough) and set­ting up my new computer. 

So now I’m pla­ying catch up on pro­duc­ti­vity (the eating and slee­ping will have to wait) but in the mean time, a sneak of all the posts I owe!

In no par­ti­cu­lar order, here’s what I’ve been up to the last 2 months..

Ronna & Joe had a GORGEOUS wed­ding at Pres­cott Park in Ports­mouth, Holly & Will had a fall barn dance — com­plete with fidd­lers, it was so quaint and New England. 

Myriah & Tim invi­ted me up to Cam­den, ME to shoot their spec­ta­cu­lar event — they were all so happy they jum­ped for joy!

Nicole & Bryan got married at Zor­vino Vine­yards on a VERY humid Satur­day in Sep­tem­ber there was a lot of rain too, but we still mana­ged a few out­door shots, stunning!

And their bling wasn’t too bad either ;)

Heather & Dave tied the knot in a won­der­ful back­yard cere­mony with Heather’s beau­ti­ful daugh­ter ser­ving as the maid of honor — what a good loo­king family!

Rachel & Michael rehear­sed — then tied the knot — all during the rem­nants of a hurri­cane, nothing could put a dam­per on their per­fec­tion though!

Susie & Gus had an inti­mate cere­mony & recep­tion at the York Har­bor Inn and Jeni­lee & Bryan had a touching & emo­tio­nal cere­mony at the Spring Hill Lodge both in Maine.

Kris­ten & Laura tied the knot at a great get-​together at the Crowne Plaza in Nashua, there were so many sweet moments, but this dance bet­ween Laura & her daugther near about did me in. 

Stepha­nie & Todd had a pirate/​beach the­med wed­ding with some great sur­pri­ses. And in my final wed­ding so far this year, my baby brother and his fiancé had a won­der­ful cere­mony in our family’s backyard.

Also — Molly and Drew are gor­geous, and engaged!

Jack & Gavin are brothers for life.

Liz is a Senior! And a fan­tas­tic equestrian.

Rachel is a senior too! And Reed is a spit­fire — that boy is just FULL of stories!

And here’s the other Reed, my cou­sins baby boy, ready for Hallo­ween, or is it Thanksgiving?

And Ethan & Emily who’s smi­les tell you they’re up to something, but they sure have fun doing it!

That’s the sneak peek — this wee­kend, 3 enga­ge­ment shoots and a family shoot (and my dad’s birth­day, happy birth­day daddy!)

Full posts to come just as soon as I can!

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren

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Benjamin’s First Day of School

August 28th, 2008 @ 11:33 pm | 1 comment

Yes­ter­day my boy star­ted 3rd grade – 

“Third Grade; Just Do It”

I can’t figure out how time pas­ses so quickly — it feels like just yes­ter­day was his first day of kindergarten:

But at the same time, he’s only 8 — life is so oddly jux­ta­po­sed sometimes.

And these were in a pot­ted dis­play on our walk to school — I loved them.

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What I want to be when I grow up; by melissakoren

August 27th, 2008 @ 8:53 pm | 0 comments

It wasn’t until recently as I approached my 30th year, that I knew what I wan­ted to be when I grew up. I’ve been ama­zingly bles­sed in the past year and I may well be full speed on the road to those hopes and dreams.

What I’ll add to the mix though, is to have a group of collea­gues that equal, or bet­ter yet, inc­lude the ama­zing­ness that is this:

Never stop drea­ming friends — Never!

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Cider Hill 08.17.2008

August 22nd, 2008 @ 1:59 pm | 0 comments

Cider Hill Farm in Ames­bury, MA is one of our favo­rite pla­ces. It’s where we ‘offi­cially’ got enga­ged, and we go down at least 3 or 4 times a year for veg­gies or apple pic­king, and ALWAYS donuts!

I only brought my camera with my new 50mm 1.4 prime lens just for some fun prac­tice with it. Sadly, we were only there for a few minu­tes, as I had to get back and edit edit edit, but we visi­ted with the goats and chic­kens and got some good stuffs to eat — only I ate the donuts before I remem­ber to take a pic­ture of them. Hehe.

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The Mac Family Shoot 08.18.2008

August 22nd, 2008 @ 1:59 pm | 0 comments

Alli­son wan­ted to get some family por­traits of her, her hus­band & her brother done for their mom’s birth­day. Her hus­bands sis­ter just hap­pe­ned to be up for the wee­kend and came along for the ‘ride’ — we met at the beach and knoc­ked these out before sunset.

When I was a fresh­man in high school I knew senior Alli­son Mac­Ken­zie from cho­rus and her youn­ger brother Came­ron was in my grade — but we never exchan­ged anything more than plea­san­tries. Tim MacAu­lay was a foot­ball pla­yer in Allison’s class — I only knew his name, and she only knew him mostly from homeroom.

Fast for­ward some-​odd years later Tim & Alli­son meet and fall in love and get married. Then Came­ron beco­mes the bar­ten­der at our local wate­ring hole, and Tim & Alli­son come round visi­ting him. With in 3 or so months time we all become fast true friends and the rest is his­tory.
Tim & Alli­son were the atten­dants in our wed­ding, Cam a guest. Tim’s baby sis­ter Vanessa (who just tur­ned 21 last week) was in Italy stud­ying abroad or she would have been there too -

They are the “Mac” family and we adore them more than words!

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