I once again had an opportunity to photograph this sweet one this weekend.  I was in AL visiting and I had to take her out for some pictures.  We also HAD to get her brother in as well.  We would not want to leave him out for the second time!!!  They are just too cute.  Now being from FL one would think it can’t get much hotter but I was surprised to find Birmingham a bit warmer than here!  So we met up at 8 to take these pictures and the heat was already upon us!  :(  But we did what we could with the gorgeous background.  I was LOVING the background!  Hope you do as well.

Enjoy,

Gin

I even took a few of my son, he is just too cute not to!  Here he is striking a pose for me.

As many of you know my oldest daughter had Neuroblastoma stage IV, a rare form of pediatric cancer,  when she was a baby.  Thankfully she is well today and in complete remission!  But because of this we make annual trips to NY to have her long term follow up appointments to ensure all is good.  We just went on June 7th-10th.  I booked the flights knowing that the weather in NY is gorgeous this time of year and that we would already be growing tired of the FL heat and would enjoy the spring crisp in the air!  We flew in with the hottest heat wave NY has seen in YEARS and we flew out as it left as well.  All my planning out the window!  Anyway, I had looked up some places to go in Central Park to get some good shots of Payton and so we attempted it though the heat was unbearable and we were sweating.  I am sharing these pictures because I just LOVE the background and wish we had things like this near us!  Anyway, hope you enjoy, if you knew how hot we were you would really be able to appreciate just how decent these came out!  :)  FYI - Payton rarely smiles for me as her teeth are a bit yellowed from treatment so she is not in love with them.  It took me some time to get used to her closed mouth grin( I tried for the longest time to convince her to smile for me) and now I have come to adore it!  It is truly just a part of her.  One day, when she is older, we will have her teeth fixed all up and she will smile for the world to see her pearly whites…until then I will cherish every picture she will let me take; smirk and all! 
Gin

Oh, did I mention she got to take her very best friend with her????  What a lucky girl!!!

This is the third shoot I have done with this family in the last year.  We started out in October with some maternity shots and then again in November with the new born pictures.  Now we are all the way to the six month old family pictures.  I am planning on meeting up again soon to do some pictures of just the baby.  We did this session in two groups.  The first was of all three family members and then I met up again with just mom and baby a few weeks later to surprise dad for Father’s Day with some shots.  I love the colors in these pictures!

Enjoy!

Gin

As promised I am going to update teh blog this week with some of the sessions I had while it was down!

I love that we live in FL and have so many beautiful places to take pictures.  Everyone loves a good beach shot and its fun for the kids as well so you get more real pictures.  I love this group of kids.  I took their photographs around Christmas and then again this spring.  They are such pretty kids and so much fun to photograph.  Hope you enjoy!

Gin

There are several more I’d love to share but I’ll stop here!  If you want a beach photoshoot let me know.  It is TONS of fun!

I took my daughter out this afternoon for a little session so we could remember how darling she is without her front teeth.  Luckily her teeth have come in slowly as I have been saying for over a month now that I needed to get her out before they grew back.   I would have been very upset with myself had I missed the opportunity to take these pictures!  But it is so easy to get caught up in life and forget to document those special things!   I am so happy I did!  What a treasure these pictures will be for me in years to come.  My best advice for anyone is to take lots and lots of pictures so you can look back years from now and remember each moment of their lives!  I can’t wait to get some of these printed and hang them up in my house! 

ENJOY!

Gin

I’M BACK!!  I was having some issues with my blog that stopped me from being able to post pictures so I have been unable to share anything for a few months!  At last we have resolved the problem and I am back up and running.  My dear husband is amazing and really once he looked at it he had it up and running again in no time!  But with three kids, a few birthdays for them, end of school year activities and a trip to NY he was just able to sit down and get it all straightened out for me until this week! 

Anyway, I have had several shoots since the last time I posted so I will upload a few posts over the next few days to share some of the pictures with you. 

So, for now I will start with some pictures I took all the way back in March for a first communion.  I believe the next set of pictures that I will post on Monday or Tuesday are also from a first communion.  I loved taking the first communion shots!  The girls looked so beautiful in their white dresses and veils!

 Hope you enjoy!

Gin

I had fun once again photographing this beauty! I took her pictures in December for Christmas and once again I was able to do it this weekend as well. She is absolutley gorgeous with those big round eyes. She refuses to look at me and she walks constantly never sitting for long. I am always amazed that I am able to get such beautiful pictures of her when she is up and about the whole time…but I guess she is just too cute to take a bad picture! I had so much fun with her this weekend exploring our surroundings and playing with her while I photographed her. She is simply amazing and looks like she belongs in an Ad for a baby boutique! So, thanks to my little friend for allowing me to take such fantastic photos and for having fun with me while we did it! Hope you enjoy them!

Gin

I don’t often share pictures of my own kids with you as I figure you would rather just see my “real sessions”! This weekend I took my three kiddos to the beach for a session. We met up with their best friends who they have been friends with since birth. What an amazing bond they all share! We had fun, crazy fun!!! The kids were not necessarily giving me their best but in the end I am so happy with my pictures; especially the ones of them playing on the beach and just having a good time with one another. So without further ado, enjoy!

Gin

I know there a quite a few pictures here but I had a super hard time picking my favorites! I am a bit biased, I’m sure! I hope you enjoyed them.

Here are some photographs from a session I had this morning. I had the pleasure of photographing the boys in the fall for their Christmas pictures. I went back today to do some pictures with their mom. It is amazing how quickly they have grown and also how green everything is this time of the year compared to the pictures in November that we took. I can’t decide though which season I like best! I think I like them both equally. We met up bright and early(8AM) to beat the sun and I think we were able to capture some brilliant photos using the sun to help with lighting but not having to be concerned with shadows or squinting eyes. Hope you enjoy the natural setting surrounding them as well as the beauty of the family.

Thanks so much for having me over again! I had a great time with this loving family.

Gin

I love this selection of photos where we don’t have the “perfect” portrait but where we were able to capture the personality of both mom and the boys. I am just in love with all the warm colors that are surrounding them.