Behind Again... I Blame Hurricane Ian This Time!

Well... I was on a roll with the blog but now I have fallen behind again! I blame Hurricane Ian!

The Category 4+ eyewall of Hurricane Ian hit our city, North Port, for many, many hours. The massive wind destruction was only part of the problem here though. We also had horrible flooding throughout our city. You couldn't navigate the roads for several weeks. Bridges were washed out, etc. The school I teach at (5 minutes from our house) had water damage in almost every classroom. My students' and coworkers' homes flooded. Most of the flooding occurred in places that are NOT flood zones so most people didn't have flood insurance. Things are starting to look a little more normal every day but it has been a LONG road. The city has collected over 2 million cubic yards of yard waste! Driving around our city you can definitely still see the effects of the hurricane even though it was almost 3 months ago. 

Having said all that, we were VERY lucky. Our home held up to the storm quite well - we lost a few roof shingles and our property did NOT flood, even though most streets around us were under water. We lost a LOT of big, beautiful trees. And our fence was demolished which is not making our dog a happy camper at the moment. (Looking forward to the rebuild in February!) But in general we did ok and we were very thankful for our new house with the latest hurricane codes and shutters. 

We were without power for a while and without internet for longer. Luckily all this happened during a slow time for our business so we didn't have to cancel too many sessions. But the cleanup around our yard and home has taken up a lot of our free time and I have fallen behind on the blog once again and also missed my usual holiday card post... oops! 

Here is a drone video showing the damage at our house - my next several posts should be me catching up on the blog!

PS - Don't forget, you can also follow this blog on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, or through your favorite feed reader

Catching Up - October through December 2021

So clearly I am WAY behind on our blog. I have been quite a slacker with our social media presence since the start of the pandemic... I am going to try to catch up a bit at a time! 

We REALLY appreciate our customers, especially those who continued to show up and trust us with their memories and their safety during 2020, 2021, and beyond! 2020 was a slow time for our business (as was 2021) but we definitely feel like we are back now! We especially value and love our repeat customers who really help carry us through tough times like we experienced in 2020! Thank you!!

I will be sharing photos from some (most? all?) of our photo sessions in 2020 and 2021 in a series of posts, along with some personal photos and such to explain my lack of posts, perhaps? LOL.

Enjoy!

Finally towards the end of 2021 we were able to take our nephews to Disney World for Halloween (tradition) and we were able to take a Disney Cruise over Christmas with Jason's family (another tradition). We also hosted our first Thanksgiving in our new home (we host every year, just the new house part was different!).

The holidays are a busy time for us personally and for the business, so... you guessed it, no blog posts! I had now gone about 18 months without a post... (Other than a brief one about holiday cards in November 2020) It was getting harder and harder to get it going again. And as you can see now, I went another six months til now... 

This is probably my last "catch up" post - I will hopefully now go back to blogging each session starting with January 2022! Thanks for reading!

Like what you see here? Find out more about our Siesta Key Beach Portraits and schedule a session with us for your next visit to Siesta Key, Longboat Key, Lido Key, Englewood Beach, Venice Beach, or Anna Maria Island! 

PS - Don't forget, you can also follow this blog on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, or through your favorite feed reader

Catching Up - July through September 2021

So clearly I am WAY behind on our blog. I have been quite a slacker with our social media presence since the start of the pandemic... I am going to try to catch up a bit at a time! 

We REALLY appreciate our customers, especially those who continued to show up and trust us with their memories and their safety during 2020, 2021, and beyond! 2020 was a slow time for our business (as was 2021) but we definitely feel like we are back now! We especially value and love our repeat customers who really help carry us through tough times like we experienced in 2020! Thank you!!

I will be sharing photos from some (most? all?) of our photo sessions in 2020 and 2021 in a series of posts, along with some personal photos and such to explain my lack of posts, perhaps? LOL.

Enjoy!

In August, 12 days after the start of school, I got COVID. After making it all the way through 2020 and most of 2021... this was SUPER frustrating. Jason never got it (and still hasn't as of this posting).

Luckily it coincided with a slow time for our business and we didn't have to miss any photo sessions. I went back to work after Labor Day and that missed time caused a lot of "catching up" I needed to do at school, home, in the yard, etc. 

So yep, blog posts took a back seat AGAIN...

Next "catch up" post will be up tomorrow!! Thanks for reading!

Like what you see here? Find out more about our Siesta Key Beach Portraits and schedule a session with us for your next visit to Siesta Key, Longboat Key, Lido Key, Englewood Beach, Venice Beach, or Anna Maria Island! 

PS - Don't forget, you can also follow this blog on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, or through your favorite feed reader

Catching Up - April through June 2021

So clearly I am WAY behind on our blog. I have been quite a slacker with our social media presence since the start of the pandemic... I am going to try to catch up a bit at a time! 

We REALLY appreciate our customers, especially those who continued to show up and trust us with their memories and their safety during 2020, 2021, and beyond! 2020 was a slow time for our business (as was 2021) but we definitely feel like we are back now! We especially value and love our repeat customers who really help carry us through tough times like we experienced in 2020! Thank you!!

I will be sharing photos from some (most? all?) of our photo sessions in 2020 and 2021 in a series of posts, along with some personal photos and such to explain my lack of posts, perhaps? LOL.

Enjoy!

After moving into our new house, we spent the rest of the spring/summer working around the yard. I found out I was actually really good at landscaping and gardening! Who knew? Allllllll of my free time was being funneled into working around our new yard, or just hanging out outside, watching the birds. So again, no blog posts...

Next "catch up" post will be up tomorrow!! Thanks for reading!

Like what you see here? Find out more about our Siesta Key Beach Portraits and schedule a session with us for your next visit to Siesta Key, Longboat Key, Lido Key, Englewood Beach, Venice Beach, or Anna Maria Island! 

PS - Don't forget, you can also follow this blog on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, or through your favorite feed reader