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Sunday soccer day

Friday night I did a photo shoot of a really cool dance performance called Venus.  I knew many of the women in the show, the photos are pretty cool, check them out here:

www.kcassens.smugmug.com/theater/venus
 

Steph had a soccer game on Sunday at noon.. here she is:

Jeff was working all day Sunday with some other guys from the Little League board on the baseball feild rebuild.. here's Steph helping out before Christopher's game:

Chris had a game at 3pm, on the field right next to where Jeff was working on the baseball field.  Here he is:

Working on lots of CD and photo orders.. more tomorrow!

Happy Monday!

 
 

TGIF

Happy Friday everyone!

Yes, I know I promised to upload photos earlier this week.. 

Let's see, Tuesday I photographed the Veterans' Day assembly.   It was really very nice.. here are a few photos:

I good friend of ours who was in Iraq spoke at the ceremony:
 

 

 

Yesterday I took some photos for the art teacher.  She needed pictures of the 2nd graders with puppets that they made at school.   Boy do they love to have their pictuers taken!

Tonight I'm shooting a dance show (dress rehearsal)  at the performing arts center.  I know quite a few of the women performing in the show, should be fun! 

Steph used the Bendaroos that Nana And Papa got her to make a new decoration for our wall.  She told me "don't worry mom, it doesn't leave a mark on the wall!"

Have a great weekend!!!

Happy Veterans Day!

The Veterans Day assembly yesterday was very, very nice.   I am still working on the photos I took.  Will post some tonight.   Since Chris is new to the middle school, I didn't know too many teachers there, so they didn't know about my picture taking obsession.  Well after I photographed the circus and shared them with the parents and some teachers, I am being asked to photograph other school events as well.  The teacher who runs the yearbook is espeially happy with the photos, ha!   I enjoy photographing the events so it works out well.  And there are always a few parents to order some prints, a CD or a collage as well.

Chris' team won their soccer game on Sunday (after winning a double header on Saturday), happy boys.    I took some pictures there as well.. will post them soon too.

No school today, I think the Livesey's are coming over.  Dilynn also has a book club meeting later today.   I think our neighbor across the street is coming over.. and maybe another of Steph's friends since Dilynn has to leave early.

Did I mention Chris and Derek are playing on the same CYO basketball team???   They just started practice last week.. Chris is happy to have Derek on his team!

For those who heard the crazy hostage story on the news yesterday... not our school district thank goodness!  But not at all very far away either, yikes!

Have a great Veterans day!   Pictures tonight after all the extra kids go home!

Tues Morning

Quick post here before the day gets started.

Today there is a Veterans Day Assembly at the middle school.  Chris will get to introduce 3 of the veterans.  I'm guessing Dilyn will as well.  I will be there taking photos..

Steph's class went on a field trip to Mohonk Mountain.  Beautiful place if anyone is looking to get away for a weekend, great place to visit.  They do have rustic hotel rooms with no TV and I hear it's expensive.  But it's beautiful, over looks the Catskills.. they have a progam about the native americans at Mohonk.. here are a few  photos.. these were taken with my old point and shoot camera...  I still do love that camera :-)

 

 
 
 Have a great Tues!
 

Matthew and Connor on Halloween

Here is Matthew the race car driver (takes after his Grandpa Allen!) and Connor the cutest frog ever:

Busy day today.  Jeff and Chris spent all day at the baseball and soccer fields.  Luckily they are both in the same location next to each other.  Jeff is working with some other people on the Little League board to build a new field.  So they were off early this morning staking out the field and were done just in time for Chris' double header soccer game on the next field over.  

Chris' team won both games and are currently in 2nd place in their league with a chance to take first place if they win tomorrow!

Steph had soccer practice this morning, then I ran her over to gymnastics practice and I headed off to photograph the Discovery Festival at the Middle School.  It is a science festival with many fun activities for the kids.  Unfortunately Chris and Steph didn't get to go, but Derek and Dilynn were there.   Here they are:

Derek launched a soda bottle rocket:

Derek built a cool huge structure out of spagetti and marshmallows.

Dilynn did surgery on a banana:

More soccer tomorrow.  Steph's game was cancelled because too many kids are sick on our team!

So, the good news is that Steph and I get to go to Chris' game with Jeff and Chris and I get to see Chris play socer which hasn't happened in a while!

Have a great Sunday!

 
 
 
 
 

Vincent's Halloween Costume

He's dressed as a graduate from High School.  Only it's not a costume, YIKES!   Can you believe is he going to graduate from High school?  Here he is the hansome devil:

(for those who don't know, this is Regina and Bill's oldest)

Field Trip and Color Guard

Today I went on a field trip with Steph's class.  We went to a site in Rhinebeck, way, way back behind our rec. center and through a huge farm.  It is a site where they recently dug up some old bones and tools that they believe date back to the Mohican Indians.   The kids had made fishing nets in class last week and they used the nets in the stream to try to ...

we interrupt this story about the field trip to inform you that it is currently 9:15 pm and Chris just puked..   more on this later.

.. so they used the nets to try to catch fish like the Mohican's did.  But as you will see in the photo, the holes in the net are a bit large.  They also learned to crack nuts with rocks and they dug in the dirt and sifted it to see if they could find any rocks that might have been used as tools by the Native Americans.  This was all run by the Archeology group at Bard College, so they took the potential Native American tools back to Bard to study them.  The kids had a blast.  I was actually the official photographer for the Rhinebeck Science Foundation who I believe sponsored the event.  It was a beautiful day for the kids to be outside fishing!  Here are a few pics:

One of my favorite photos..

 
 OK, so back to Chris.  The boys scout troops in both Red Hook and Rhinebeck were having a recognition dinner for a local family who runs a local business and who give a lot back to the community.  Chris was asked to be one of the 4 color guard guys.. (not the techical term I'm sure).  He got a really nice dinner out of it, although he said he only had 2 slices of meat (prime rib he thinks) and some bread, because everything else was "salad kind of stuff".  He loved doing the color guard and was given a color guard badge for his uniform. 

After the dinner, he went right to religion.  I picked him up after religion at 8:45 (yes, very late!) and he said his stomach was not feeling well..  so he went right to bed.  But.. well.. at 9:15.. you know the rest of the story.  Poor kid.  Not sure if he's sick or it was something he ate.. we'll find out in the morning.

Well, I finally finished processing all the photos I took at the 6th grade circus.  There are a LOT of them!  If you are brave enough, you can look here:  (click on Galleries -->  School Events --> BMS events).   Look at the clown photos, they are cute  www.kcasssens.smugmug.com

Have a great Thursday!

 

Rory

Here is Rory on Halloween.  What a cutie!

 

Laura Funke (Rory's mom) was my roommate for many years while I was a co-op and then a new hire at IBM.  Now Laura lives up in Vermont   We get to see each other from time to time, definitely not enough!

Back to photos.. I'm trying to get these circus photos finished tonight!

More tomorrow.   Hey Gina, Chris, Rob, Chrissy, waiting for photos of your cute ghosts and goblins!

Monday

Here are the Cobb kids on Halloween:

Jillian is a hobo clown.  Johnny is a clock, or a reminder to set your clocks back!  ha!

Keep sending Halloween photos!!

I've been doing a lot of photos shoots lately.   I did graduating senior photos for a neighbor.   Here is one shot:  You can see the rest here: http://kcassens.smugmug.com/Portraits/Graduating-Seniors/Julia/9970716_euSGq#681230354_yhwiS

I did a photo shoot at a dress rehearsal for Hamlet.. I was able to go down to the dressing rooms before the shoot to get the cast getting ready.. that was fun.  They were all very nice.  Here are a few shots below, you can go here for the rest:

http://kcassens.smugmug.com/Theater/Hamlet/10013431_m8WPs#685842681_kVFQx

Then I did a photoshoot of Derek's tennis tournament.. More Derek tennis photos here (you may have seen them already).

http://kcassens.smugmug.com/Sports/Tennis/Derek-Oct-2/9933054_S5As5#680805108_2wMA7

  

   Today Chris had an interesting assembly at school.  The father of a teenage boy who committed suicide came to tell the kids about the effects of cyber bullying.  His son was being bullied so badly online that he took his own life.  We talked to Chris about it ahead of time; not surprisingly it is a very emotional presentation.  Let's hope it hits home with the kids..

Here is the website if you want to read the story:

www.ryanpatrickhalligan.org

Tomorrow the kids have off from school, we're going to have friends over to keep them busy all day. 

More tomorrow, have a great Tuesday!

 
 

Trick or Treating

 
Went trick or treating last night with 15 boys and 3 girls... doesn't seem to bother the girls at all.

Here are some pics.

If you want to see all of them, go here: http://tinyurl.com/y85hdae

 

Dilynn is a yip yip martian from Sesame Street.  She is the orange one.  This photo is from last week at the middle school Halloween dance.   The pink one is Dilynn's friend Addie.