Just saying hello {Puggle}

Happy Thursday everyone!  Things have been a bit crazy around here so I just wanted to take a moment to pop in and say hello.  With me today is Miss Stella, who has almost doubled in size since she last visited the blog!  This poor girl has had a rough start to life and most recently was diagnosed with Cherry Eye.  She will be having surgery soon, but her spirits haven't dropped.  Neither has her appetite!!  Below you can see her begging for cookies!!

Thursday nights I take a break and indulge myself with a little drama on the television.  I eat dinner on the couch, now with a Puggle under both arms, and I watch Grey's and Private Practice, back to back, with commercials!  Usually I record anything I sorta like and watch it when I can, but Thursday nights are the exception!  I've been watching both since the very beginning and I just can't give them up :)

What do you do on Thursday night?  A little TV drama addiction as well???

Happy Watching and a Happy Halloween as well ;)

Aubrey

Wedding Workshop: Harvard vs Yale {Gloucester, ma}

When I was a little kid I always said I was going to be a doctor.  I would sit in front of the television and watch medical shows until the cows came home.  As I got older, I dropped the doctor line and went with something equally as impressive like "I am going to go to Harvard."  At 16 I dragged my parents to Cambridge and toured the campus and it was then that I fell in love.  It was my home away from home with the H.H. Richardson buildings, lively downtown area and hippies...It really was just like Burlington, Vermont.  I even bought a sweatshirt...which I still have :)  But alas, I did not go to Harvard...I went to a school near Harvard and got a Professional Degree of Architecture.  Years later Harvard still held a special place in my heart and I seriously considered it for grad school.  But tons of unpaid loans from my first degree helped me focus on my other hobbies and interests and pointed me in a different direction.  A direction I have never been more sure about.  A direction that has filled me with so much happiness that I wake up every day on the brink of bursting...and isn't that a fun way to live?!  This decision also led me to the warm-hearted and enormously talented duo, Justin & Mary.  Two people that brought Harvard back in to my life through a preppy, vintage shoot full of ivy league rivalry.  Thanks to all the photogs who modeled and a big thank you to Lara Kimmerer and her fiance, Peter, for doing a practice run for the real 2011 wedding!  You two are GORGEOUS!

Enjoy :)

Introducing Stella Belle {personal}

We have had Rupert for 3.5 years.  I can't believe how quickly the time has passed.  I still recall anxiously waiting on the baggage claim floor to see his little tiny head and hear his puppy squeak.  Well, Rupert was 2 hours late but not the least bit phased by the trip.  He reached his little pink tongue out of the crate and gently claimed my husband as his father.  He patiently waited to be let out of his crate and then walked out, totally calm and cool.  I then held him, all 6.5lbs, with his head against my heartbeat for the entire drive home.

Picking up Stella was completely different.  She was was right on time and arrived at the cargo building of Logan Airport.  A place with far less seats and glamor.  I was so nervous and the only comfort available to me was a Twix in a vending machine.  I decided to wait outside with Matt and my friend Nicole, who naively drove all the way up from Brooklyn to share in this experience of "bringing home baby" and the probable first night of endless crying.  I saw a little boy come running out of the door grasping every hair of his new pup..."His name is Rigby!"  Matt went up to the locked door where personal handed his a small crate.  Stella had arrived right on time and covered in poop.  I think we have and will continue to learn that this will continue to describe her personality in the days and months to come.  This time, Stella reached out her tongue and her painful chompers and said "Are you my mother"?  To which I picked her up, all 4.8lbs, and held her so close to my heartbeat...poop and all...and said yes.

Here she is, weighing in at 5.75lbs this morning, Miss Stella Belle Greene.

And here is Rupert being introduced to Stella.
 

Maia {portrait : swampscott, ma}

The next couple of weeks are going to be loaded with blog posts!  I had the busiest September EVER, full of beautiful weddings and stunning portraits.  I can't wait to get them up here.  But give me a few days haha.  I just got back from taking a mini vacation...I attended a fantastic workshop up in Gloucester, MA, I had my best friend up for a visit AND my husband and I welcomed another Puggle puppy in to our home.  Just wait 'til you see the pictures of her...ADORABLE! 

But right now it's Maia's time!  I met up with Maia and her parents for a morning shoot at the beach...My favorite.  Even though we had to play hopscotch around giant poison ivy bushes and got drenched by some unexpected waves...it made the day that much more fun! 

Enjoy!

Aubrey