Month: August 2008

Ladies and gentlemen of Blog.  I have very important news for you.  We have entered into a new era at the o&j.  This new era is an exciting time that will be filled with fun, and excitement, and all around wonderfulness!

This new era shall be called the ‘Era of Ivana!’  Because when we had the good fortune of working with her at some point in our not all that distant past, we were overcome with feelings of fun, excitement, and all around wonderfulness!

I declare that as we enter into this new era, there shall be less words.  So, without any other interruption….wait…gotta give MuchLove & Many Thanks to Ivana for being so awesome…I present to you Ivana – Enjoy!

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Hello world, this is Brittany!  Do you know what Brittany does?  Well, I’m sure she does many things, but one thing in particular I can think of is that she takes totallysweetlyawesome SeniorSnaps!  And you want to know something else?  She does all sorts of other things, but we were only with her for about four hours, so it’s kind of hard to put an entire life into that period of time.

What does this mean to you?  It means you should get to know her…because she’s awesome!

MuchLove & ManyThanks to Brittany, and to all my good peeps out there in Blogland reading this – Enjoy!

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Troy was the name of a mythical city that was built on rafters somewhere near Norway in the 1970’s.  I think.  You know, it’s been a while since I’ve been a history major.  But I’m pretty sure it’s something like that.  The rafters broke, and they called it the ‘Fall of Troy’.  Yeah…it’s all coming back to me now!

Troy is also the name of a Senior we had the goodgreat pleasure of working with sometime in our not so distant past.  He is not built on rafters, and I don’t think he falls down often (really, who does?)   Wanna know something else?  He’s righteously awesome.  Straight up.  No bull.

Enough of these words.  MuchLove & ManyThanks to Troy for stopping on by and letting us snap a couple of pics, and to all y’all out there in Blogville – Enjoy!

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Alrighty there now, my good friends of blog.  I come to you at this fine hour of the night with a story about someone that we have had the good golly good pleasure of working with for just about as long as we can remember.  His name is…Mike.  Michael.  Whichever.  Perhaps he has a nickname.  The Master of Disaster.  The King of Pain.  The Sultan of Swing.  The Voodoo Economic.  It doesn’t matter.

What does matter is that a long time ago, when Mike was shorter, and perhaps younger, the very first time we met him was for some sweetly holiday pics at his family house.  This was way back when we were nobody’s.  The term ‘o&j’ only stood for people with the last name ‘Simpson’ or ‘Orange Juice’.  For some reason, we got the call, took the pics, and have continued to have the good pleasure of working not just with Mike, but with his whole family as well!

But, my dear friends, I’m not here to tell you about the entire family, I am only going to talk about Mike.  And what I’m going to tell you is that he was great to work with, and that’s an understatement.  Maybe it’s because we’ve been doing this for a few years now, but whatever it was, he tore it up.  In addition to looking good in front of the camera, he also handled it in stride when – due to the incompetence of Otis – we went for an unplanned off-roading adventure in a Nissan Maxima, which is normally not considered an off-road vehicle.

He totally took it in stride as we (mostly he and a kind jogger that happened by did all the work – and the kind jogger turned out to be one of our very first Seniors…small world…named Andrew ((MuchLove to Him!))) got us unstuck from the muddy goo, and as one of our camera’s fell apart during the shoot.  The Gods of all things technical were not on our side, but the Gods of looking dead good in your senior snaps were.

And that’s all that matters.

MuchLove & ManyThanks to Mike for being so great to work with, and to all my other peeps out there in Land of Blog – Enjoy!

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Oh…where do I even begin with Nicole?!  How about I just end it there, and that way we don’t have to have the parting words of sweet sorrow.  We’ll just know from the sweetlysamplesnaps that she was totally awesome, and our time together couldn’t have been any more wonderful!

So that’s that.  MuchLove to one and all, and to the citizens of Blogville ravenous for more wonderful snaps – Enjoy!

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When Kelsey walks into a room, it gets brighter.  If she lives in your house, scientists project there will be a 25% savings on your electric bill due to less demand for a typical lighting source.

She’s also totallyawesomely wonderful!  And we got to take her sweetlyseniorsnaps!  MuchLove & ManyThanks to Kelsey, and to my fine family in Blogland – Enjoy!

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In case you were wondering, Jadea is pretty much awesome.  All of the time.  Just in case you were wondering.

MuchLove to Jadea for giving us some of her sweet & precious time, and to me good peeps in Blogland – Enjoy!

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Kylie…why you gotta be so good?   Just wondering.  Let us know, unless you don’t want the secret to get out.

That’s all.  Oh…almost forgot…MuchLove!  And to the citizens of Blogville – Enjoy!

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When Megan isn’t busy being awesome, she also as lovely as could be.  As if those aren’t enough, she also manages to make it look easy.

Dang, girl.  You’re good.  MuchLove & ManyThanks for stopping by and letting us get some pictosnaps!  Oh, and to me peeps out in blogland – Enjoy!

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