Yes, it’s the back of her head….but isn’t it just so fuzzy and adorable???

Snuggles from Mommy:

Now this is one of the best parts about being a photographer.I loved seeing this collage that Becky put together of some of the photos I took of Bailey as a newborn.

Yay, love me some babies!

I got to visit with my cousin, her hubby and baby Bailey who is 8 months old now and as cute as can be.

I think Scooby is wondering what the return policy is on babies:

I also got to hang out with Julian this weekend, who is 20 months old now and super-energized.  In this first shot, I imagine that he is challenging me to try and get a nice holiday shot of him.

Gotcha!

More later!

Here is the pool on the ship.  I think we’re actually still docked in Baltimore in this photo, so you can see that nobody wasted time getting their vacations started.

Here is a photo taken by budding photographer, Caroline, using my camera. It looks like something I would take, doesn’t it?  That’s me and my sister in the background.

My sister, Amy, took this one of me and the kids. We’re all dressed up for dinner onboard, and no, Caroline and I were not trying to match.

After 2.5 days at sea, our first stop was San Juan, Puerto Rico. Here is our foggy view as we entered the port.

This is the bow (front) of our ship with a Carnival ship in the distance.

I made Caroline and Scott go stand in this apartment complex entrance.  It just grabbed my eye.

My fave pics of this stop were taken at and around Fort San Cristobal.  The stone walls and breaking ocean were breathtaking.

A rare, quiet moment for Scotty, who recently turned 5:

Still San Juan.  You can see a cruise ship docked in the distance if you look close…not sure if that is ours.

This guy on the street was putting his parrots on people and selling photos that he would take. I have to apologize for taking this shot as I didn’t realize at the time that I was stealing his business!

After San Juan, we headed to St. Thomas. Rather than stay and shop there, we went on our own adventure to Trunk Bay on St. John. I didn’t take many photos as it was raining on and off, plus I was in the water most of the time!  Here is my mom lounging on the beach with my dad.

Here is a pic from Labadee, which is Royal Caribbean’s private beach in Haiti.  So, technically we went to Haiti and the Dominican Republic, but we didn’t actually see much of either….just these guarded tourist traps, lovely as they were.

The other budding photographer:

Here are my mom and dad on the evening I squeezed in some posed family photos.  Thanks for a wonderful trip!

I didn’t get even one shot of Scott behaving.  Not one!  What a goofball.

My sister has a Creative Memories T-shirt that says something like “Be nice to me, or I’ll crop you out of my photos.”  Scott was axed from this one, though I think he was actually hiding.

Here is me trying to get a nice photo with my darling niece and nephew.

]]> http://jmyersphoto.com/2009/07/21/my-familys-caribbean-cruise/feed/ 1 http://jmyersphoto.com/2009/04/27/welcome-bailey-baltimore-baby-photographer/ http://jmyersphoto.com/2009/04/27/welcome-bailey-baltimore-baby-photographer/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:24:12 +0000 Jill http://jmyersphoto.wordpress.com/?p=399 I was so excited to meet my cousin Becky’s new baby last weekend.  That makes Bailey my cousin too, right?  Yay!  She is a sweet little baby doll with a head full of luxurious dark hair and she gave me a variety of expressions at just three weeks old. 

Love those little hands!

I think I caught a little smile!

Here are my parents. My facebook friends may have seen some of these pics already. By the way, if you’re not on facebook yet, get on it! 

Caroline is almost nine…I can’t believe it.

One of my favorite parts of the day was visiting FAO Schwarz. I can’t decide if this muppet pic is funny or creepy.

I don’t know what this building is, but it has this crazy curved design.

We had a few hours of free time before the show, so we visited Central Park, ate lunch at a cafe, and checked out the huge Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. They just put the tree up, so it had scaffolding around it so that they could decorate it.   The outdoor ice skating rink and Rockefeller Center were behind me when I took the photo of Caroline below.  I liked this view better.

Showtime at Radio City:

Any guesses on what this is?

Here my sister lit by the dim, warm lighting at Cowboyz Saloon where we ate an unnaturally large amount of fried bar food and did a little line dancing.  Yeehaw…

Sleepy-head in the morning eating his pancakes with M&Ms. = )

Here is a pic my sister took of me and my niece playing skeeball at the Boardwalk. 

Here are the kids meeting our dinner on lobster night. As tradition dictates, my dad gave the victims little crying voices as he put them into the steamer.  Disturbing, yet funny at the same time. Really.

Ice cream at Dumser’s….yummy.

Anywho, I’m rambling. Here are a few shots of my family from when we had steamed crabs at Crossroads Pub in Dayton. This was in honor of my 31st birthday and my brother-in-law’s bday which is just two days after mine. I love me some steamed crabs. Yum. Note that these were NOT taken with a point and shoot…no way could I get this super shallow depth of field with one of those.  My 50mm 1.4 lens rocks.

Here is my sister checking out the pics she took on her camera. Note that she’s wearing a Creative Memories t-shirt (she’s a consultant), so this should count as a product placement shot. I should get paid for this.

My nephew Scott had a good time…especially playing with the crab mallets. = )

Here is my dad. He was picking crabs and giving the meat to my niece who hasn’t mastered the art of picking yet….he used to do the same thing for me when I was little!  He was missing out on eating the crab himself, but will do anything for his babies. 

Caroline looks so old to me in this photo. It actually freaks me out a little bit. It seems like just yesterday I was helping my mom take care of her while my sister worked when I first got out of college and moved home for awhile. She was just a little, helpless baby-doll.

Yep, we bring our own knives as serious Maryland crab eaters.  These are actually my dad’s. I bought him three of these for Christmas that I found on e-bay as he had lost a few over the years. They were made by a company called Carvel Hall in Crisfield, MD which is no longer around.

Here’s my mom showing off her next victim:

We should have crabs at least one more time before the summer ends….maybe in Ocean City next month!

The first pic below is Becky with a beehive. We actually didn’t meet until we were both in college at the Savannah College of Art & Design. My dad said, “hey, you know you have a cousin at that school?” before I left for Savannah and gave me her name.  Becky and I were even in the same dorm, so it was great to have someone to connect with right away. I was a mid-year transfer student and she already knew the ropes. We’re both back in Baltimore now (she and her husband are architects here) and reconnected via Facebook. 

I admit that I photoshopped the heck out of this, but I still like it:

I’m cheating. This next photo is from last year when I took my niece and nephew.  I feel like I’ve posted this somewhere before, but can’t think of where. I didn’t have my blog yet. Hmmmmm…mystery.

This photo cracks me up. I don’t know why that girl is jumping like a crazy woman…apparently Scott and Caroline are wondering the same thing. 

Cowboy Scott

The kids all got a chance to ride a horse, of course.

Here’s my brother-in-law striking a pose unknowingly:

Caroline looking cute. They’ve both always loved cowboy hats like their daddy…it’s not just for the horse farm.

I think Scott was crying just a couple minutes before this pic, but he managed to pull himself together for a little playtime with his gift from Nana before leaving. Boys will be boys!

I like Caroline’s face here….she looks peaceful: