Blueye Photography http://blog.blueyephoto.com Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:48:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! http://blog.blueyephoto.com/2009/12/30/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year/ http://blog.blueyephoto.com/2009/12/30/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:48:34 +0000 Troy http://blog.blueyephoto.com/?p=516 In all of my traveling over the past 2 weeks I neglected to make a Christmas post on the 25th (oops!). Here’s a make-up post to cover Christmas and New Year.

I hope that you and your family had a wonderful Christmas full of warmth, love, and surprises and that you found some time to just lay back and look at the lights. Best wishes that 2010 proves to be even better than 2009 for you and yours!

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There are few events in a man’s life that can move him to tears just by thinking of them:

  • The day he got his first car
  • The moment his wife agreed to marry him
  • The day he said I do
  • The day his grandmother passed away
  • The day his child was born

On 8/28 I had the pleasure of being witness to the birth of my son and I am forever changed. The strength that my wife has is immeasurable and our love has deepened over the experience of creating a new life and we’re blessed to be able to go through this wonderful journey. A post wouldn’t be a post without photos so here are a few to commemorate the event.

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Take a few minutes to watch this video… some of the statistics are eye opening.

]]> http://blog.blueyephoto.com/2009/08/15/the-social-media-revolution/feed/ 2 Where oh where have I been? http://blog.blueyephoto.com/2009/08/11/where-oh-where-have-i-been/ http://blog.blueyephoto.com/2009/08/11/where-oh-where-have-i-been/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:54:33 +0000 Troy http://blog.blueyephoto.com/?p=478 I think Ferris Bueller said it best: “Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

Things in the Schneider house have been going full steam ahead. Our little one is expected in the next few weeks so Melanie and I have been working on the house… last minute preparations… and working on choosing a pediatrician and childcare/pre-school. It’s much more daunting than we thought, but the best we can do is make an informed decision and see how it goes. We can always change if something doesn’t feel right.

Due to the imminent arrival of our son I’ve also been trying to fulfill any open orders and close up my open albums so if you are a client and want something printed in the next 3 months you should really try to get your order in now.

Speaking of photos Melanie and I had a session with the awesome Wiebners (Joel and Rita) while in Lancaster in June. Here’s a sample from the session and if you click on it you’ll link to their blog where you can see more of us.

Also, if you are interested in seeing a couple of the maternity photos that Michele at Pinkle Toes Photography took of Melanie check out this post on her blog (hint: she’s the beautiful one in the bright green dress). Michele is awesome and will be doing our newborn session once the Peanut arrives. You can bet we will be sharing all of the wonderful photos from that session along with the many, many, many (did I say many?) photos that I will be taking once he’s here.

That’s all for now. I’ll post some photos of the nursery once we get it all finalized… it still needs a few more things (couple of wall shelves and curtains)

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Location: Laguna Gloria

Here they are… all 9 of them! Aren’t they a great looking family?
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Top: the girls (2 sisters, 1 sister-in-law, and 1 daughter)
Middle: the whole fam (3 siblings, 3 spouses, 3 kids)
Bottom: the guys (1 brother, 2 brothers-in-law, and 2 sons)
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Love it when families are into having some fun :-)

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Happy 4th everyone!

A post without a photo just isn’t right so here’s a couple of photos of the nursery in mid-paint-state. Hopefully I can get the painting finished up tomorrow and we can start decorating next week.
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