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Welcome to our blog!

We appreciate you stopping by, and we hope you do often!  We are the Bloggersocks, er Bowersocks, and this is the place where we blog our socks off.  And where we share our thoughts and works on life, love, family and freedom.  On many weekends we're given the honor of recording one of life's biggest blessings - marriage.  Seriously, what's better than photographing beautiful, happy people in love?  Other times we're allowed a glimpse into the love and joy that abounds in so many families.  That's pretty awesome too.  And in between, we can't get enough of our family, friends, good food and the outdoors. Life is good, indeed!  

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And we're pretty crazy about our Indianapolis Colts!!  GO HORSE!!



Best of ‘09 Volunteering!!!

In addition to photographing wedding and families, we like to offer our services to different organizations/groups that are helping others.  We combine two of our favorite things in life, photography and serving others.  And after all is said and done, we always feel like we’re the ones walking away with so much.  Here’s some of our favorites from this past year’s volunteering adventures!

One of the best I got to attend was the Special Olympics Opener here in Indianapolis.  The event was hosted by the Indiana Law Enforcement who raised money for the games through their Torch Run.  The excitement for the games to begin showed on so many faces.  I really enjoyed being a part of it!

This next event is one that we’ve been involved with for a few years.  A Noble Evening in the Garden presented by Noble of Indiana.  Jennifer started out volunteering for them a few years ago, and now we help out by supplying photography for this amazing event.  Great food, great music and a whole lot of live/silent auction items.  This year’s event will be held on March 12th, 7-11pm at the State Fairgrounds.

Oh, how we love Pipers!  One of our favorite Southside restaurants.

Hello YATS!  Chili-cheesy-delightfulness!

It’s Raphael, the best in the Midwest for caricature drawings!

The Terre Haute Kids Triathlon was a first for us!  We didn’t even know it was happening until we ran (literally) into one of our past brides (Emily) during the 500 Festival Mini-Marathon.  Emily and her husband (Ryan) were hosting a triathlon for young athletes at Deming Park through their business Forward Motion Athletics.  Jen and I have dipped our toes into the triathlon world recently, and so we were really excited to get an opportunity to photograph one.  The kids were really determined, and the support around them from the adults was amazing!

There’s Ryan to the far right.  He was a mad man on the bullhorn!

The eventual overall winner passing everyone on his bike!

We got the call from the next charitable organization, and jumped at the chance to help.  It was from The Horizon House, who hosts the Tackling Homelessness.  Yes, tackling… which means an event with Colts players.  When we started covering this event Hunter Smith was the one in charge, but since he left Dallas Clark has taken over the reigns.  Check out how much fun this event is!

Haha!  I love it!!!  Perhaps this boy’s first pig roast?

Although this next one was not for a big organization or charity, it was personal.  Not because of what they were doing, but who was doing it!  Our cousin Catherine was doing a really fun project with her college students, which happened to include her son’s grade school.  This science-specific teaching project included demonstration of the actual size of a blue whale!

Best part of this whale is that you can go inside it!

Did you realize before seeing these photos how big a blue whale was??  And while the whale may be the same size as a real one, it’s not the same weight. :)  And this is what happens when the wind is blowing hard, and all of the “whale-handlers” are taking a photo!

Last but not least was for our parish, St. Barnabas and sister parishes, Holy Trinity and St. Anthony on the near-Westside.  We participated in a cleanup of the sidewalks and streets for the event dubbed “Saints in the Street”.  It was amazing to see all of the people working so hard for neighbors they’ve never met.

This was one where we didn’t just take pictures; we got our hands dirty too!

If you’d like to help one of these amazing organizations, click on the links and find out how.  If you participate with or know of an organization who might benefit from photographic records of their events, please let us know!!  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!!!

February 4, 2010 - 6:39 pm Kurtis - Thanks Al! We had such a great time at all of these events. And I know what you mean about all of the amazing encouragement and support given at some of these events. Thank goodness I always have a camera to hide my face behind!

February 4, 2010 - 12:46 pm alison - I loved this post! Mostly because I remember over the last year almost all of these events when they happened. So it's fun to reminisce with you guys! I knew a couple of people in the Noble event. Weird, I wonder if they were staged?? Haha! Just kidding! Also I really loved the Triathlon photos! I am a huge sucker for kids competing and doing events like this. I seriously had tears in my eyes looking at the photos. Seeing the dads or whoever it might be running next to them or high fiveing them. It is so awesome to see kids do those sorts of events! Great work this year guys!! Love you!

T.H. Bridal Show Appearance

Look out Hautians, we’re coming back!  We’ll be at the Tribune Star/Hulman Center Bridal Show this Sunday 12-4pm (yes, Superbowl Sunday)!  And if we’re going to be there all day, you’ve got to stop by and say “hi.”  We even have about 10 free tickets to hand out, so send me (through email) your home address, and I’ll send you a set.  We’re really excited about our new booth design, which we feel is a huge upgrade from the old (old booth shown below).  And if you stop by Jen will dance for you (see below again)! ;)

We look forward to seeing everyone!

What Knocks Our Socks Off? – Colts v. Saints in Superbowl XLIV

We couldn’t have asked for a better matchup!  Two great teams.  Two wonderful cities.  Two super QBs (though we clearly give the edge to #18).  There’s much to be excited about, and our nerves are already jumping.  YES, THE COLTS ARE IN THE SUPERBOWL (that’s us just pinching ourselves)!!  We love this team and love this city.  And we want a WIN!

Last Sunday for the AFC Championship game, we watched and celebrated downtown @ Scotty’s Brewhouse.  Cheers to good wings, big tvs, rabid fans, and clanking beer glasses!  If a car horn has a life-span, we certainly shortened our Honda’s after the game.  It was no 06-07 AFC Championship celebration, but it was still very thrilling.  The last time we were amongst crazed fans celebrating a Colts win downtown was on February 4, 2007.  That’s when we won the big one, and it was a feeling like no other!  Below is footage from the post-game celebration.  The first ten seconds make the whole video.  I’m sure there were some dead car horns after that night.

Enjoy, and get ready for 2/7/2010!