After a weekend much needed to relax and catch up on work and family, I am back at it!

I ended my weekend in Philly with one of my closest friends in photography – the lovely Bernadette Uzcategui of BU Photography.  You have seen her and her family on here a few times now.  Her son is just absolutely darling and I adore him with all my heart.  He adores me equally.  Although he likes to call me Jamie.  I forgive him for that though.

I love shooting Bernadette and her family because, well for one the pressure is off.  And I get to have more fun and be more liberal in my editing.  But mainly it’s because there is just so much love there.  I have told them before that the two of them (she and her husband) have this closeness that not many couples have.  Remember when you were first in love, when you first got engaged or when you were newlyweds?  Remember the feeling you would get when you caught each other’s eye or touched each other’s hand?  These guys still have it after 11 years (it’s either 11 or 13 I am blanking at the moment) of being together and 6 years of marriage.  There is a love they feel for each other, a closeness and silliness and intimate relationship, you just see it when you watch them.  And to watch them with little E. (and their dog, Kia who has been with them forever) it becomes even more apparent and takes on whole new shades.  They are this perfect little nucleus of a family.  We should all be so lucky 🙂

As I mentioned before, I realized while shooting these sessions that four of the six families had first come to me for newborn photos.  Little miss J. was one of them.  I had not seen her in 15 months when she was about two weeks old and she looked like this:

And look at the beautiful little girl she has become!!!

It was SO great to see her mom and dad and see what a cute little family they have become.  J. was walking all over the place and definitely gave me a run for my money with her moving but we managed to snag her quite a few times and got some beautiful images that I know mom and dad are going to LOVE when they see.

Now normally, I would put the black and white in between the color photos.  I am just picky like that in that I like to evenly alternate and distribute things as much as possible.  BUT the reason I did it this way is for the last photo.  Dad had J. standing there on that rock looking at the ducks while Mom went back to the diaper bag for something.  Before we knew it, J. had kicked off her shoe and sent it floating out into the pond!!  So I couldn’t help but capture the moment as dad laid flat out with the stick to get the shoe 😉  No shoes, ducks, dads or children were harmed in the making of this moment.  It just shows you, always be prepared for anything when doing a photo shoot!

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More to come tomorrow!!