Maggie Wendel Photography

What to Wear

admin — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:06:08 +0000

What to Wear is a monthly blog post that shows clothing suggestions for a family portrait session. The purpose of this post is to inspire you…please do not feel you need to purchase an entire new wardrobe for your family! Instead, use the images as a guideline to help you pick one color to incorporate into everyone’s outfits without feeling like you all need to wear the exact same thing.

Maggie Wendel Photography photographs families and their pets in a natural, honest, fresh, expressive way. I serve the Wake Forest, Raleigh, and surrounding areas, and my Wake Forest, NC location specializes in custom portrait photography. Contact me at 919-368-7674 or maggie@maggiewendel.com.

Another New Year’s resolution

admin — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:26:48 +0000

Tonight, Aaron and I took the kids to our athletic club for “Family Swim Time” at the indoor pool. Coincidentally, tonight I made a New Year’s Resolution to start to learn how to swim. Yes, a New Year’s Resolution. Yes, I know it’s April.

Don’t judge.

For those who know me, you might be wondering how I’m a certified scuba diver if I don’t know how to swim. I have two words: Tanked. Air. In all seriousness, I actually know how to swim…I’m just not very good at it. So tonight, my husband, a former competitive swimmer, decided to support my belated New Year’s resolution endeavor and gave me a workout to get me started: 8 x 50 meters, odd laps easy, even laps hard.

Sounded easy enough.

I started my workout. The first 50 meters was relatively successfully, but 75 meters into it all hell broke loose. My right foot cramped, I got a stitch in my left side, I got water up my nose, and I seriously contemplated sinking to the bottom of my lane so the young hot lifeguard would save me. That plan fizzled when the young hot lifeguard sauntered off his post and I was left to my own devices, cramped and waterlogged in the middle of lane 4.

Determined not to fail my (belated) New Year’s Resolution three pool lengths into a work out, I pushed on. About halfway through, I started to feel like I was going to throw up. I think I drank half of the water in the pool via my nostrils, and I’m fairly certain I started to hallucinate from exhaustion because I thought Charlie Sheen jumped into the pool during lap 6.

With that said, I’m happy to report that I finished the 8 x 50 without lifeguard intervention. I’d also like to report that my five-and-a-half year old daughter decided to race me the last length of the pool…and she beat me. (In my defense, I had a cramp in my right foot, a stitch in my left side, water up my nose, I felt like I was going to throw up, and I’m fairly certain I was also racing Charlie Sheen.)

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go find the Bengay.

What to Wear

admin — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 01:03:32 +0000

Mother Nature, it’s April. Just saying.

admin — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:27:49 +0000

Yesterday, my husband and I left the house, and I was wearing a spring dress and flip flops. When we were walking from the car to the Post Office, he did a double-take at me and said, “Where on earth is your jacket? It’s 37 degrees.”

To which I replied, “It’s April. In North Carolina.” As if that response would be enough explanation. And, well…quite frankly it should be.

It’s APRIL.
In NORTH CAROLINA.

I’m not sure if Mother Nature got that memo yet, but I’ll be wearing flip flops and t-shirts even if she’s throwing 37 degree weather at me.

What to Wear

admin — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:00:59 +0000

swinging

admin — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:05:24 +0000

I’m a mom with a camera is my monthly blog post that shows you some of the images I take of my two favorite subjects: my own children. I am so thankful that I get to be the mom of these two amazing little people. In the past, I only shared images of my clients’ children on my blog, but I also take pictures of my own two children. Lots and lots of images. This weekly post allows me to share some of my favorite images of my own children with you to give you a peek into my world.

Maggie Wendel Photography photographs newborns, babies, and children in a natural, honest, fresh, expressive way. I serve the Wake Forest, Raleigh, and surrounding areas, and my Wake Forest, NC location specializes in custom portrait photography. Contact me at 919-368-7674 or maggie@maggiewendel.com.

What to Wear

admin — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:56:59 +0000

Five Facts about Maggie

admin — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:09:03 +0000

Five Interesting Little-Known Facts about Maggie

I went skydiving attached to the man who held the Guinness Book of World Records for the most jumps ever made.
I can count to ten in five different languages. I speak a second language conversationally, and I speak a third language enough to get by if the people I bump into don’t speak English.
I am a certified Scuba diver.
I have been to at least 13 different countries.
I have completed (completed, not run…big difference) one full marathon and five half marathons.

running

admin — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:13:52 +0000

What to Wear

admin — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:49:53 +0000