It's a Boy! Welcome Baby Caden!

Congratulations to Chris and Tinley Innes on the birth of their second child, Caden Traist. Tinley is a local wedding coordinator (and fabulous we might add!) who owns Jubilations Events! We have worked with Tinley at a wedding recently and noted though even 7-8 months pregnant, Tinley remained on her feet all day and kept everything running smoothly! At that time we told her about our new video birth announcements and asked if she was interested when her baby arrived, she not only agreed but jumped at the chance!

Yesterday morning, we received the call that Tinley was in the hospital and baby was on the way! I called to confirm it was OK to come and grab some footage of the happy occasion, packed a camera bag and was out the door. I arrived when baby was only less than 2 hours old! How cool is that!? I was able to capture her son Chase's reaction to his new little brother and the first time he held him. He did a great job. Just as things at Tinley's weddings go...the birth we are told was smooth and trouble free and Caden arrived healthy and handsome, just the way it should be!

Tinley will be including the video on mini-DVD's in her birth announcements this week!

A Baby Story~ It's a girl!

Congratulations to our great friends, Paul and Megan Misasi, on the birth of their first baby! Sara Michelle arrived on the afternoon of the 9th healthy and beautiful!
We have been working on their Baby Story for several weeks now and we are proud to announce this new service from FCP! The Baby Story is similar to the engaged couple's Love Story we already offer but centers around the excitement of the couple's pregnancy and then the happiness and joy on the arrival of the baby.

As our luck would have it, along with the unpredictablility of arrival of babies, we were unable to get some footage we had hoped for when Megan first arrived at the hospital due to our trip to Little Rock that you can read about on down in the blog- thanks a bunch Sara! (Just kidding) But we were still able to get some great shots of baby at the hospital the next day though and of Sara at home.

We will also be offering simpler Birth Announcements on video as well and we will post Sara Michelle's later tonight or tomorrow, so check back then.

In the meantime, you can see Paul and Megan's Baby Story by clicking here.

Call FCP today for more information on this investment and additional details. What a great way to document the arrival of your child for future generations! Sara Michelle will someday really enjoy seeing her Daddy glowing over the nursery tour!

More new and exciting services to be announced this winter and spring so be a blogger-head and check back often!

Click below to watch the baby story.



Click below to watch the birth announcement.

Alabama boy meets Kansas Girl - Hunter / Maddox Wedding

We just returned from today's wedding. We thank Lori and Michael for letting us be part of their day, everything was absolutely perfect! The wedding was held at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Derby, Ks.

We started at the Bride's house as she prepared with her bridesmaids. After everyone was ready, the bridesmaids took a limo together to the church, and the Bride was then escorted by her father to the church via their own private limosine shortly after. After the ceremony, there was a quick photo session with their photographers who flew in from Alabama to capture the day. It was neat for us to compare notes with them about how things differ in that part of the country!

A beautiful mass followed and flowed right into the reception held at the Petroleum Club- what a great view of the city at night!

The party was Dj'ed by Ron Brown of Another Dimension DJ which kept everyone out on the dance floor much of the night! Shots of 'Crown' all around and heartfelt toasts wrapped up the night.

Mother of the Bride, Marilyn, a frequent blog-reader to our site, had this to say in anticipation of her daughters prequel:

"Don't need any turkey, don't need any pie.

Don't need any cranberries, I'll tell you why.

The best thing I'll get (all things being equal),

Is to turn on the computer and see our wedding prequel!"

Lights! (and they were cool!) Camera! ACTION!

Yesterday was a busy day for the Fat Cat Crew, not just on a personal level, but a business level as well.
Jenny and Thomas are a great couple who hired us to film their wedding this coming January and wanted their Love Story documented as well. They are another destination wedding for FCP, getting married here in Wichita, but currently residing in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The day began about 7 am when we arrived at a local airport to board a Cessna 172 and have our good friend fly us to Little Rock to shoot for the day. One thing we had never thought about was traveling light with mounds of camera equipment. Luckily for us, Thomas is way-connected in the video business in Little Rock and was able to pre-light our interview set before we arrived! This saved us a great deal of weight for the flight (and set up time on the ground). It was by far the best lighting we could have ever asked for- thanks Steve!

We took off for a gorgeous, perfect flight shortly after 8 am and landed in Little Rock right about noon. None too soon for me! It sure spoils you flying commercial with bathrooms on board! :)

Jenny's back yard was the backdrop for some lively interviews as well as our rendition of the newleywed game! And we were treated to a great lunch from Firehouse Subs! Then there was no time to spare and it was off to their proposal site on a wooded hilltop overlooking the river in a convertible BMW for some more b-roll. We can't spoil the surprise, so you'll have to wait to see how Thomas proposed until the final story is complete!

As nightfall came we headed back to the airport for the long flight back home. It sure is a different experience flying at night when your GPS goes out! Thank goodness we could see the ground and Barry has had experience flying with our pilot from previous employment and some aeronautical sense about him as he navigated and acted as co-pilot! Way to go Webby!

A safe landing followed at almost midnight and then the long drive home again. It was a long day for sure, but we had a lot of fun lauging and "hanging out" with Thomas and Jenny. They will be wonderful to work with in January, so watch for their prequel then!

Thomas and Jenny- thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for the prayers for Grizwald before we left.

Steph

In Memory of Grizwald

Many of you may have met Grizwald at one time or another over the last seveal years as Fat Cat Productions has grown, others have only heard of him because the business was named after him (his nickname actually).

It is with great sadness that we post today that Grizwald passed away this morning.

He had been ill recently and sparing the details, we ultimately lost him to cancer. He was humanely euthanized just shy of 11 years old. As I promise all of the creatures God has entrusted to my care, I stayed with him, holding him and hugging him and telling him how wonderful he was and how much we loved him. Such the stoic guy that he always was, he remained purring till the last. He now resides with other loved animals we have lost, waiting for us someday at Rainbow Bridge.

This is not the blog entry I planned on posting today unfortunately, the blog I wanted to post I will get to later about our fun day in Little Rock, Arkansas yesterday!

It will be different around FCP for a while as we still have 2 beautiful cats that remain healthy here at home, and make our guests and clients feel welcome, but none will replace our Grizzy.

A Smashing Good Time!

This past Tuesday, the Fat Cat Crew met with Tyff and Jeff of T&J Studios in Valley Center for my official alarm clock smashing! We enjoyed Jeff's clock smashing so much when he went full time in their business, we just had to do it, too! At that time, Jeff was presented with a gold painted sledge hammer from Tyff.

For me, the only sledge hammer at our place was approx. 2-3 pounds and dinky, just not macho enough to do the job justice I thought. It was more of a glorified hammer than a sledge hammer! So a stop at the hardware store was in order where Barry purchased a brand new, whopping 8-pound sledge hammer! (He needed a new one anyways!)

This was appropriately christened shortly thereafter. (I actually got to use a tool first!) We hooked everything up, prepared to hear the alarm just one last time - and then let 'er rip!

With one good whack, the alarm I have awoke to the last 12 years of my previous employment was immediately silenced forever! (Faster than an atrial kick for you medical folk out there!) But I couldn't just stop there, I had to give it a few more good beatings for good measure (then slam it to the ground by hand which was the final collapse!)

One piece of "something" was saved to frame and mount in my office.. now I get to awake to a brand new alarm clock Barry purchased just days before the final smashing. :)

A short video clip edited by Barry to be posted this week! Check back soon!

Steph