Month: February 2007

Delaney!

Most people don’t know this, but one of my most favorite outfits to wear is pigtails and pink cowboy boots! Well, actually quite a few people do know this, but they pretend that they don’t know about it, because it creates weird situations when it is mentioned.

So, you can only imagine the great joy I was filled with when the one and only Delaney came into the FunCenter dressed in my favorite outfit! I wanted to tell her about our common ground, but I figured that it would only distract her from the awesomeosity she was about to create in front of the studio lights (I know, I’m speaking like some sort of an actual photographer there, but I can not deny what it is that I am…and I’m pretty sure that I’m supposed to be an employee of White Castly in St. Paul on University Avenue), and the last thing that I would want to do would be to distract her from the greatness about to unfold!

Delaney came in, tore it up, showed us how it was done, and then headed on out back into whatever world it is that exists outside of the FunCenter (I hear it’s nice in July), and it was all too fleeting! We had a maahhhhhhvelous time working with this lovely young lady, and we would like to thank her (& entourage) for giving us just a li’l bit of their sweet sweet time! MuchLove to them, and to all you out there tucked in their lovely blog homes for the night – Enjoy!


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You Better Git You Sum MacBook!

Ahhhhhh shucks…lookie at who got himself a new MacBook! None other than friend of Otis/Brother of James, the Master of Disaster, the King of Pain, the Saipan Salami, Andy!

Dang, brah…that’s sweet.

MuchLove!

:: click the image below to see a larger version of the ceremony ::


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Serena & Sheldon!

Here we go. Mic Check. Mic Check. Alright, I think this thing is on. OK. So here goes.

Ladies & Gents! I come to you today with some good news, and this good news is not that I’ve finally figured out that I prefer dijon to yellow mustard, and it is not that I’ve discovered an alternative to fossil fuels, and it’s not even that I’ve finally figured out what they dilly-yo with the Loch Ness Monster is. No No No NO!

The good news that I come to you with is that after a delay during which the ever-lovely Serena & Sheldon languished in some sort of a blog nether-world, one that was neither here nor there, they weren’t up, they weren’t down, they just kind of were, well…after being in this world for a while, they have finally made it to the part of the blog that is visible to the outside world! They are free from the nightmare that has been the unpublished world of blog! Welcome to this new version of reality, my friends!

The reason that this wonderfullypatient couple first entered the doors of the FunCenter was because they needed some supersweet e.pics (remember, you know what that means now!), and since we were offering some supersweet e.pics on the day they stopped down, this seemed to be a perfect match!

We had a totally goodlygood time working with this fantastic couple, and we wished that our time together would never end, but I’m pretty sure that after hour number fourteen of Otis telling stories of his ‘wild years’, they would have given anything for our time together to end, so it did, and it was, and it shall be. What? I’m not sure if that worked, but sometimes my fingers move, and I can’t control what is going on. Well, enough of this chit chat. MuchLove and ManyThanks to Serena & Sheldon for giving us some of their sweet time, and to all of you out there in your pleasant blog homes – Enjoy!


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Jill & Ben!

How does that old song go, that old standard…this is how you do it, baby? Is that it? Didn’t Sinatra make that famous? Judges? What’s that…not Sinatra? Oh well. Could have sworn that it was. Yeah…uhhhh…so that takes us to…where was I…OH YES! Jill & Ben!

The reason that I was thinking of that ol’ chestnut was because the totally awesome Jill & Ben stopped down to the FunCenter the other day for some righteously sweet e.pics (and my period of what e.pics are has come to an end, you’ve got to figure this out on your own…I know you can do it…I know you can!), and they – as the song implies – showed us how it was done, baby!

Jill & Ben, by the way, are the Grand Prize winners from the Fianceé Bridal Show this past January, and we couldn’t be any more excited to be a part of their wedding! In life, you are rarely the prize winner, but we’ve found that being a prize giver can be just as good!

Well, I think you’ve all had enough of these words, and it is time for us to gaze at the pictographic sweetness that is…Jilly & Ben – Enjoy!


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Nancy & Dave!

Now let us all sit back and relax.
Take a good breath in, and breathe out.
There…do you all feel bettah?

Good!

Because I’m here to tell you about a visit from the every-lovely super-couple that we are going to call Nancy & Dave (and, we are going to call them this because these are the names that they have chosen in life, and it only seems appropriate that we would call them by this), and about how they decided to come down to Ye Olde FunCenter for some SuperAwesomePostWeddingShots!

They came into our lives, and for the short time they were in the FunCenter, they reaffirmed our faith in all things good, wonderous, and sweetlysweet! We had a totally great time working with this fantastic couple, and we wish them all the best in their life together!

Well, I don’t want to get all mushy on you, my faithful people of the blog, so – Enjoy!


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The Family Fagerland!

There’s an old song, well, old is a relative term depending on where you currently happen to be. Take, perchance, some of the people that I know and perhaps even work with. I can think back to the year of 1992 (perhaps the year that I graduated…but I don’t want to reveal too much about myself here), and it seems just like yesterday! I can reagail them with stories of love & jocularity, and the memory is so close it seems like you can still reach out and grab it! And then, I realize that to the people I am speaking, this time seems like a lifetime ago, as they were only four at this point.

I am not here to speak of the elasticity of time, as that blog post would surely drive most of you to seek out another picto-snap blog (of which, there are some, but there is only one original…yeah baby), and we wouldn’t want that to happen, now would we. I come to you instead at this fine hour (and the hour that this is being written does not have any sort of real bearing upon the final outcome of the story, I’m just trying to give it some context) with a story of an evening visit from a very fine family…The Family Fagerland!

It’s a story that involves laughter, love, and all around good times! Again, I could continue to go on and on with this crazy story, but I don’t want to make our good friend/good employee Brittany angry because she had to read all sorts of these silly words. So, I will now stop, and just say Thank You to the Family Fagerland for stopping down to the FunCenter on such a lovely night, and to all of you out there in the land of blog – Enjoy!


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Joseph!


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