Joseph and Erin Harmon: June 2009

Our Favorite out of the samples we have so far.

I have always told Erin that she has a cute butt ... now she knows ;-)

As you can see, we had our engagement pictures downtown. Our photographer, Danielle, was great to work with. We are very happy with the small set of samples she gave us. She posted them on her blog only a few hours after we finished shooting ... nice! We are very excited to have her shoot the wedding. She gave us some direction, and we had to smile 5 different ways. You were supposed to start by just smiling with your eyes and make the smile bigger each time she called out the number. Erin was good at all 5. I could only do 1, 4 and 5. 2 and 3 were way too much work for me. Anyways, we laughed, had fun and didn't even mind all the people walking by while we took pics in the downtown streets. Enjoy!

The Harmon boys are back from the 2nd greatest country in the world, aka Ireland. What a trip we had! It was full of fun, laughs, teasing and horrible stress on the roadways. If someone had done a reality TV show of our first three hours in Dublin, people would have been sitting on the edge of their seats. First we are all exhausted because the flight was overnight and none of us really slept. Next, dad forgets his folder of all our reservations at the car rental desk. Of course he was all stressed about it. We decide to go back to the terminal to get it, but before he can even get through the first roundabout one son screams "right!" and another "left!" Errrrrr ... Dad slams on the breaks and screams at the top of his lungs, "What?!?!?! Where am I supposed to go?" Of course all of us brothers burst out laughing, and Dad is now more stressed than ever. We finally get to the terminal, grab the folder and head for Dublin City Centre. We get to Dublin City Centre without too much fuss, but our map does not include city centre streets. Now we're driving all over trying to find our hotel. We are all screaming at Dad to watch the road and mind the cars parked on the streets. John is in what would be the driver's seat in the states (passenger seat in Ireland) trying to apply a brake that doesn't exist. John tries to avoid the stress by eating milk duds and sharing them with all of us. Dad takes one ... first bite ... his crown falls out with the milk dud attached. Now Dad's so stressed that we just want out of the car. We start getting closer to familiar streets but then head the wrong way. Thinking this would be a good idea, John and I yell for a U-turn ... bad idea!!! Our Kia Sedona van can't make a sharp turn to save a life, and we end up perpendicluar to the curb with our car covering the lane. We can see traffic coming so we all yell ... REVERSE! But, poor dad in panic, puts it neutral and the engine revs like we are drag racing. He eventually gets it in drive and floors it, but grazes a metal post on the side of the road. Now everyone is crying laughing except Dad. Finally, with the help of an Irish lass we arrive at The Fitzwilliam Hotel - we also called it The Fitzsimmon and Fitzgerald. We found it better to just refer to it as The Fitz. After checking in and deciding sleeping arrangment it was "to the pub." I think that story is enough to describe the stress we faced driving. We grazed a parked car on our way to Athny. "Joe, how close am I to that car?" clunk clunk clunk "I think you might be a little too close." It must have just been the mirror because there were no scratches or dents on the side of our van, but we kept a look out for an angry Seamus Finnigan just in case. Anyways, I could go on forever. We loved Ireland and had a blast. Enjoy the pics and video!