Friday, April 09, 2010

Breakfest with mickey

First full day at disney!
The weather was beautiful, already in tanktops and shorts. We had a 7:10am breakfest with Mickey so I arranged a cab to drive us since the resort buses were not running yet.
This is a view of the pool early in the morning.
We arrived at the Contemporary resort and waited until we were seating. It was a yummy breakfest buffet.
Best part about it......the fab five.
Goofy was the first one to come out. Liam's face was priceless. He was in such awe at the real characters.
Of course Mickey...
Then donald...
Minnie...
and finally Pluto.
Off to ride the monorail to Magic Kingdom......

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Disney Trip Report Part #1

This was our living room tuesday morning, before we left. The kids were extremely excited with anticipation.
Our Magical Express luggage tags.
The kids had some time to play at the airport before we went through security.

Finally.....at 3pm our flight took off. This was Aidan and Liam's first flight. (cassidy has flown before) Liam did get a big scared as we were being taxied out to the runway.


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We finally arrived in orlando at around 8:30 at night. We made our way to the magical express counter and got on our shuttle to the airport.
It was late and dark so I didn't catch a picture of our bus.....but this was it.

We arrived at the Disney All star Music resort at about 9pm that night. I checked in and although we had a little mixup with our groceries order, we got it sorted out. The kids had special baskets waiting for them. Complete with autograph books, pens, light spinners, stuffies and personalized mickey ears! They were all set for our Mickey breakfest the next morning.

Stay tuned for day 2 at the Magic kingdom....

Thursday, March 18, 2010

we miss you mickey




When can we go back?

A full detailed trip report is coming once I tackled the 2000 photos I took


Thursday, February 18, 2010

Princess Cassidy

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Last night Cassidy got all dressed up in a special sleeping beauty dress. I took her to see Disney princess on ice. She LOVED it. I think she felt extra special dressing up, with sparkles, a tiara and even some pink lip gloss!
It also got her extremely pumped for Disney in 19 sleeps!

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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

I'm back...

I know!

Its been like forever since I have blogged. NOt sure if anyone even reads it anymore.
Its been a blur since I blogged last. My fall was nuts with business. Wonderfully nuts! So wonderfully nuts that we are off to Disney World in 28 sleeps!
I love my job!
My kids are so thrilled. I have been planning like made.
We are going for the entire disney experience.
Staying at a disney resort, breakfest with Mickey and crew, a supper with the princesses in a castle.
We are all giddy with excitment!
My goal is to start the blogging world regularlly when we get home.
So much has happened in the last few months.
We enjoyed Christmas.
We started a new year.
Aidan turned 8 and we celebrated with THREE parties!
I am shooting in my new studio with my new 5D mark2.
My business has been amazingly steady, my summer is allready booked up with weddings. We are so very blessed to see how it has come along the last year. I love creating my own hours and working when I want.

so I will post some pictures....soon....I have so many....

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Wow, again, way to much time since I posted last.
I just don't know when to find the time....
so much has happened and gone on in October and it is hard to believe tomorow will be November.
I have been extremely busy with photography and I am still trying to find a balance between everyday life and business.
The kids had three days of school off last week so we headed to Thief River Falls, MN for a few days at the waterpark. They had so much fun, we spent another night at Grand Forks and then came home to a very full schedule.
I have yet to go through the pictures I too there, I have been to busy processing wedding and portrait sessions.
I did grab a few of the kids in there costumes though

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Friday, October 09, 2009

Liam&pumpkin


Liam&pumpkin, originally uploaded by erinkeownphotography.

Granny brought us a little something from her garden

Friday, September 25, 2009

We survived our family photos
so strange being on the 'other side' during a photoshoot.
I understand why parents get so stressed about the whole picture thing.

click here to view some

Monday, September 21, 2009

Birthday wishes for an angel

Noah's birthday is today.

He would be 4.

I thought I would take today to share a few more images from his funeral. Feels like forever ago, yet just yesterday all at the same time.

I remember a year ago, you opened up that Baby einstein 'noah's ark' movie and you got SO excited!

Happy birthday little angel.

I am sure you are enjoying EATING your birthday cake for the very first time up in heaven!










Sunday, September 13, 2009

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This post is going to be full of pictures and not much writing! I have so many pictures still from summer of the kids I have yet to convert, so I will slowly post them as I do.

The week before school started I took the kids out to Granny and Grandpa's farm so Aidan could help with harvest.

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We had a great relaxing visit, the weather was amazing.

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One evening we went and visited Levi's grave. It was 8 years ago that we buried this little guy. We actually had a very interesting and educational visit as my mom and the kids and I toured the Margaret cemetary.

Levi's grave

Levi's grave

After the visit to the cemetary we went to a local farm for some horseback rides. The evening was incredible, and there were NO BUGS.

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On the way home from Granny's, we stopped at Noah's grave. It was the first time we have been there since he was buried. The grave yard is near Oakbluff, off of the south perimiter. You can see the tiny clump of trees from the highway.

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Still so fresh.....

Noah's grave



Noah's grave



the kids at Noah's grave