Facebook Promotion!

In celebration of 8 successful year in the photography business, and to show-off our new logo, website, and location, we're having a fantastic promotion on portrait photography on facebook! Make sure you "like" us on the Grogan Studios facebook page to see what the "big deal" is through July 18th!

Baby Annie

It's been a long time coming, but finally we are posting pictures of our newest addition, Annie McKenna. Annie was born on July 2nd at a healthy 7 lbs 11 oz and 21 inches long. Brian put together a video of a handful of pictures before her arrival, and of her first few days with us, over Fourth of July weekend. Enjoy!

Sisters

Holly first contacted me back in June about photographing her three girls at the studio. After a couple of set-backs (injuries with the girls, me having a baby), we finally found a time that worked for all of us! The girls were fantastic to work with and I'm so excited to show them the rest of the pictures...but for now, just a sneak peak... :)

Joseph is 1-year-old!

We've been so busy the past year that we've hardly had time to post pictures of our favorite little dude--our son, Joseph. We celebrated his first birthday on March 2nd and Brian put together a video of his first year...enjoy!

More showing off of our little guy! :)

We can't believe Joseph is officially one month old today (found out today at the doctor that they consider 30 days to be one month!). So I guess it's time to show off some more pictures of him...Brian put together a beautiful movie (that I have already watched over and over again) from the pictures and video after my water first broke to our first day at home with JP. Enjoy!

P.S. Make sure you watch this with the volume turned up!

JP

Brian and I were surprised to welcome our son, Joseph Patrick, into the world a couple weeks early!  My water broke at home last Sunday and Joseph was born the following morning, March 2nd, at 10:07am.  He was born at a healthy 6 lbs 3 oz, and 20 inches long.  I've been enjoying being at home with him while I recover and the first thing Brian does when he gets home from work is scoop him out of his crib and hold him for most of the night.  

JP is 9 days old today, of course we have already taken tons of pictures...the poor kid is surely going to hate cameras soon enough.  :)  Here are a few of our little cutie...

JP getting weighed in (yes, we've already nicknamed him JP, although we go back and forth between that and Joseph).

Brian and I after being up all night, we hadn't slept in in a looong time!

Proud first time grandparents (my parents).

Proud first time grandparents...of a boy!

JP at 26 hours old.

JP came home in his "future Buckeye" outfit--we never could have guessed he would be so small! He will not be wearing this again until he gains a few pounds. :)

JP's proud cousins, they were really excited we were having a boy!

A couple pictures at home...

A Gift For You!

Don't forget to take advantage of our 2008 holiday promotion! Receive 20% off all portrait packages and sessions, gift certificates, and portrait and wedding reprints through December 24th. Portrait sessions do not need to take place before the 24th, they only need to be scheduled on or before in order to receive discount. Email agrogan@groganstudios.com with any questions!

We are also offering holiday cards starting at only $1.25 each--ask for more details!

Here are a few of 10-month-old Lilly and her dog Oscar from yesterday!

And Britt & family braved the cold for some outdoor portraits...

Ireland Prints

A lot of you have asked about ordering prints from our trip to Ireland this summer and I've finally gotten around to uploading them!

Just click here to see the gallery of the amazing images Brian photographed during our trip!

If you haven't already seen the sneak peaks, here are a few from the trip...many more if you follow the link above.

Ireland pictures!

As many of you know, Brian and I just got back from a two-week vacation.  We spent a couple of days in New York City with my sister before flying out to Dublin, Ireland for 10 nights.  We had a blast, and it was a much-needed break from our busiest year ever!

Ireland is so different than the busy life we have here.  The shops don't open until 10am and they close by 5 or 6.  Many of the restaurants even close by then.  I'm not sure what they do there, but by the saturation of pubs in every town, I have a guess... 

Much like most boys, Brian was obsessed with castles growing up.  It was amazing to be driving along the highway and see the castles from so far away--many of them were from the 1300s or 1400s, some even older.  We would find the back roads to see them up close and stare at them in amazement (and take pictures naturally).  There is so much history in Ireland.

My favorite town was Dingle--we stayed there for two nights after one of our wedding clients recommended it.  It is a quaint harbor town with vibrant-colored buildings lining the streets.  Honestly, there's not much to do there besides walk around, shop, eat, and drink, but there was just something about it's character that made me not want to move on to the next town!

So here are some of the pictures...once we have them all edited, I will upload them to a larger gallery on our website...for now, here's just a small sampling...