Orange County Wedding Photographer | Photography blog of eric j. cotter » My Family http://www.ericjphotography.com/blog Eric is an Orange County Wedding Photographer in Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Losangeles Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:13:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Brady Joseph Cotter – Our newest addition http://www.ericjphotography.com/blog/brady-joseph-cotter/2993/ http://www.ericjphotography.com/blog/brady-joseph-cotter/2993/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:41:35 +0000 Eric Cotter http://www.ericjphotography.com/blog/?p=2993 Welcome into the world, Brady Joseph Cotter, born 8/18/2010 at 9:49am. He was 9lbs 1oz and 21″ long


]]> http://www.ericjphotography.com/blog/brady-joseph-cotter/2993/feed/ 2 Vacation in the Desert part 2 http://www.ericjphotography.com/blog/vacation-in-the-desert-part-2/325/ http://www.ericjphotography.com/blog/vacation-in-the-desert-part-2/325/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:41:44 +0000 Eric Cotter http://www.ericjphotography.com/blog/?p=325 We decided to head over to the Knot’s Soak City water park in Palm Springs.  I’m usually not one for theme parks, but when you have a 5&6 year old melting in the desert, you can only do so many pool days in a row.  We had a blast and I was so proud of how daring the girls were.  Also my wife looks pretty hot in a bikini so there is also that ;-)

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Can you tell a lifeguard took this????
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The girls Chil Laxing after lunch (ChilLax is Madeline’s favorite new word = Chill + Relax)
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Yah they were not too happy about taking this photo
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Maddie and Kaitlyn were so tired they both took a nap i the chase lounges by the wave pool (Impressive!!)
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Rockstar!
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I need to post a crop of this pic so you can see the awesome look on their faces. I LOVE IT!!!
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These pics scare me cause i wonder what 14 yrs old will be like!! :(
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we got super cold around the end of the day
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I do better than the lifeguard and I cant see the viewfinder to take the pic
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Madeline was SOOO AWESOME.  We tried to go on this once but Madeline had to back out.
Right before leaving the park I asked if she wanted to go.. she said…
“daddy i thought about it and…  yes!”  haha she was amazing, this must be super scary for a 6yr old
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p.s. here is the blown up part of that pic i mentioned, I love their expressions!!!!

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All packed up and ready to go!

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The first thing our girls do when we get somewhere is make sure their babies are taken care of

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The seccnd thing our girls do is hit the pool!
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Maddie LOVES to swim, she’d stay in their from dusk to dawn if we let her
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My Ladies!

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Grilling some chicken and shrimp!

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Rough end to a great day! ;-)
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The funny thing is that we ended up right next to Jim on our way out as he was headed to London (computer geeks Unite!)
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Us on the Plane
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In front of the pool
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Isn’t the water amazing?
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Im sooooo a NINJA!!!
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We missed our girls so we wrote them a message
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Heather Laying out on the beach
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My favorite photo of the trip. This is us on the Kai Kanani boat out to Molikine to snorkel (best boat trip ever!!)
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It was crazy I was swimming 5 feet from about 6 turtles!!
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Another one of my faves with my hottie wife ;)
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I could not believe the water. This was actually someone’s private backyard beach!!
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I ran Heather ragged
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I had a chance to take a few pics of my beautiful wife so i can have a new one on my desk.
(Isn’t she so beautiful!?)
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Here we went to a litle rain forest type place
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And we’re OUT!! See YA!
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More to come soon from Doug and Laura’s Maui wedding and also Toby and Shea’s sweet shindig in Palm Desert at the Rancho Las Palmas

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I’ve kind of slacked on my fatherly photography roles, so it took a bit of bribing to get them to actually look at the camera. That said I think they/we did ok. We are truly blessed by our kids and thank God for them soooo much.

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]]> http://www.ericjphotography.com/blog/cutest-kids-ever-and-their-mine/39/feed/ 2 My Night. (Rain, Tagalongs, My little models) http://www.ericjphotography.com/blog/my-night-rain-tagalongs-my-little-models/12/ http://www.ericjphotography.com/blog/my-night-rain-tagalongs-my-little-models/12/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:05:20 +0000 Eric Cotter http://www.ericjphotography.com/blog/?p=12 Ok, I just launched my Blog a few days ago and as you can tell by my lack of photos, I have tried to be a “true” blogger. I know there isn’t a rule against going back in time and posing pictures that have already happened, but I wanted to try and keep my blog reserved to what I was ACTUALLY up to.

So that leads me to tonight. I have (maybe had) an engagement session tomorrow. I was stoked that I would have some content for an “official” blog post. It is RAINING like Oregon and I find out from weather.com the more rain is in store. So i do what any man would do…

I pollish off a box of Girl Scout tagalong cookies

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Ok first of all, these things should be ILLEGIAL, ya they are that good!!!  So I didn’t mention that my wife is out doing some areobics so im watching the girls.  While I devour the last cookie (well I didn’t eat a FULL box, but it WAS close) I start to wonder why my youngest (kaitlyn) is so quiet.  I look over to see that she had grown whiskers..  Did she become a cat? a mouse? ingrown hairs?  No to ALL these..  SHE FOUND MOMMIES MAKE-UP!!!!

I start to freak out, but to make a long story short I go with the flow and bring out a light and have some fun…

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