I met up with this sweet little girl and her mom and dad on Sunday, when she was just ten days old. Although she wanted to be awake and hang out with us and not miss a minute for most of the time I was there, she did give us a few sleepy shots that mom and dad are sure to treasure. 🙂 I know they are excited to see the pictures so I will just get right to it!
It was great meeting you guys – enjoy these days!!! 🙂
Just about a year ago, J&J contacted me to setup a maternity and newborn session for them. Little did I know their session would become possibly my favorite newborn session EVER. The image below is hanging as a 20×30 canvas in my office and is probably one of my best known newborn images. LOVE.
So earlier this fall, they contacted me to do a session with them again, this time a family session for their eight month old. No more teeny newborn but still absolutely a gorgeous baby and family. We met up on a Sunday evening and sweet baby girl did not disappoint. Lots of smiles and SO many wonderful expressions. It was so wonderful to see how she had grown…I hear mom has quite the plans for her first birthday and knowing her, I don’t doubt it. 🙂 It was SO great to see you guys again; she is still as absolutely perfect as she was when we first met!!!
This image started a an outtake but I love it so much, especially the more I look at it. 🙂 Totally going in their gallery.
When I first moved to Rhode Island a little over two years ago, I started holding my Get Manual class. One of the first times I held the class, this gorgeous blond showed up with her camera and her notebook. And she had a baby in the house!! And I made sure that Matt didn’t see how gorgeous and put together she was with a little baby in the house. (Just kidding. Kind of.) But she was a total sweetheart and since the class was really small that time, all of us really hit it off. She and another mom and I all kept in touch mainly through Twitter and then just being moms all involved in various forms of digital media in Rhode Island. While I am still trying to figure all of that digital media stuff out, Joanna has it down with her blogsite BabyGatorsDen.com and being super active on Twitter. She is amazing – two kids and a husband, a new house, a dog and still doing it all! When she told me she wanted me to do her newborn session I was thrilled!! So over I went when baby S was all of six days old. A full head of hair, chubby cheeks, she was just adorable. And big brother was also as cute as could be and did such a good job with his new baby sister! I had so much fun at their session. I am still not sure how I got out without any University of Florida gear being involved but maybe she’s saving it for the next shoot. 😉
This blog post is bigger than normal. Mainly because I just kept saying “Oh but I love that one! Oh and that one!” I don’t think anyone really minds though…
Joanna and family she is absolutely precious and you guys make such a perfect, adorable family!! Congratulations again!!!
My second newborn session was with the beautiful, teeny tiny Mia. You might remember Mia’s mommy’s maternity session, particularly this shot:
Well, she decided to come a few weeks earlier than originally planned – but it worked out perfectly. At under six pounds she was definitely a small one but had no problem making herself heard loud and clear. 🙂 You’d think an early baby would sleep better but it’s not always the case. Once she settled down, however, we got some gorgeous shots of her. And I love love love the family shots. Look how small she looks in her dad’s hands ::melt my heart:: Congratulations, R family, she is perfect, N is an adorable big brother and you guys are a gorgeous family!!
I ended last week with an amazing four sessions in 48 hours. It was craziness!! But I survived and it was only because I have truly wonderful, amazing clients. All of this means you get four sneak peeks this week. Yippee!
I started with the M family and sweet seven day old baby Jack. At seven days he was just perfect. He slept, he loved to be curled and swaddled, he was just totally adorable. It had been over a month since I got to snuggle a newborn so it’s *possible* that I took some extra snuggle time during the session. 
Congratulations, M family, he is wonderful. Enjoy these moments – it’s going to go by so so quickly.
