Academy SkatePark

For about the past month now, myself and a few friends have been hitting the skate park every week and of course I have to bring my camera along. Some of the people that hit this place are extremely talented. This weekend the Gatorade Free Ride Tour will be there and of course so will I with camera in hand. Here's a little bit of what happens there.

This is the half pipe all the way in the back.

This is the front half

There is some cool graffiti all around too.

Dropping in the pipe

Riding doubles, doing a under over

Kick Flip

Wheel Slide

Hand Plant

Girlie Air

Jumping the gap

Forward manual

All in all this was a good time, with good people, and there are many fun adventures to come.

Jen and Joe

Some teaser shots from Jen and Joe's engagement shoot at Light House Point!

~Maggie

PS. stay tuned for more pics from this couples awesome engagement shoot!!!!

Miss. LeeAnn

Jay and I love when our friends call us up and say something to the effect of, "what are you doing tonight, because I have an idea for a photo shoot!" And when it comes to some of our fun and crazy friends that could mean just about anything!

Well that is just what LeeAnn did on Wednesday afternoon and as soon as I got out of work. Jay and I got our gear together and headed over to the beach to meet up with her anxious to see what we were going to be in for.

And since Jay and I have been spending a lot of time at the skate parks photographing she wanted to try a different take on the skater idea so she got some clothes borrowed Jay's skateboard and we had some fun!









Thanks Lee we had such a great time and look forward to trying out some of your other ideas... (especially since you told me about a few but don't worry my lips are sealed!) Stay tuned for Jay's take on the evenings events!

~Maggie

Frankie!

You have all met our super loveable dog Frankie and at the Henriques household Frankie is considered more like a son. He has his own toys, his own bedroom and pretty much gets whatever he wants. However he has one habit that absolutely drives me nuts. Frankie loves socks. I mean LOVES them. It is like he searches them out and then you hear him tip toe back to his room with his prize in tow and tries to rip them apart.
But Frankie isn't the only part of the problem since we know that he loves them we try to hide the socks and Jay likes to hide the socks on the couch and on his desk and of course Frankie only sees that as a challenge and nonetheless after some stealth 007 maneuvers generally ends up with socks!! Anyway last night I was able to catch the sneaky ninja like dog with his prize and I just had to share it with you guys and gals!
-Maggie

Happy Fathers Day !!!

Calling all dads, grand-dads, and soon to be dads, Happy Fathers Day. I am only the daddy to my doggy ;) (for now).

But as for my dad and Maggie's we took them out for a fathers day dinner to Captain's Galley in West Haven. Its close to home and they have awesome food, especially their crawfish, mmmmmmmm yummy. We deffinatly had our fill.

I grew up with not only my father but also my best friend and hero, the person I look up to and admire to be like.



Maggie and her dad (my soon to be father-in-law) are great too, we decieded it would just be us two and our fathers to make it a bit more meaningful, and I beleive we accomplished that.

Maggie grabbed the camera from the car and wanted to grab a few pics of us with our fathers, so I saw this big 'ole puddle and told them to stand in front of it and as they thought I was crazy, I thought the photo came out pretty cool ;)



Well we had a super awesome fathers day, spent time with our dads, had some great food and now its time for a movie and bed.

Happy Fathers Day to all you DADDYS!!!

Support The Troop Drive

OPERATION FILL THAT TRAILER

Status: Mission Completed

Saturday we held the Support the Troop Drive starting at J&A BrakeMasters in Milford that then led to Shoprite on Cherry St. in Milford. We started at around 9am when 2 hummers arrived with a good group of Troops (Iraq Veterans) to pick up our trailer.

Also when we got to the shop in the morning we noticed something rolled up on the tongue of the trailer. We opened it up and found this awesome banner that was left sometime before we showed up. Its so great to see people who care in this world. In the banner was a few cards by Hankin Print, so a big THANK YOU to them.

This is the trailer we wanted to fill.

When the Hummers showed up we had a really cool reflection of the banner in the windshield, so we had to get that shot.

Here's my Father, waiting in anticipation for the troops to show up.

This is Bob on the main person who set up and organized this drive.

Time to hook up the trailer to the Hummer.

Let me tell you these Hummers are a Bad A$$ piece of machinery.

Trailer is attached and ready to roll out. ;)

Once we arrived at Shoprite we had to set up the tents and all to get ready for the donations.

Here is the set up. The banner made a great impact.

We also had another booth set up right outside the exit of Shoprite.

When people made a donation, we had flags set up on the tables for them to sign. The troops really enjoy little messages from us back home.

The Milford Fife and Drum corps showed up as well to play some tunes, while dressed in their pirate attire.

The opposite side of the parking lot, along the street is where the Hummers, trailer and tents were set up. We were hoping to just fill the bins. Well the bins were filled, so was the trailer and half of a Hummer. It was awesome!!!!

The Troops had a great time hanging out and helping. They were an fantastic group of people. ;) Thanks to them!!!

A few people came over with full carriages as donations, it was great.

There was lots of donations along with lots of little messages on the flags for the troops overseas.

This whole drive came together because of these people. Thanks ;)

Again THANK YOU to the Troops, The Vietnam Veterans of America, and of course all the people that took a little time to show support, those are the things that still make USA a great place.