I’m like a month (or two) late on this post, but this is certainly a blog worth sharing – late or not! My beautiful little cousin (always my little cousin even if you’re absolutely grown now – HA!) graduated this year, and of course I shot her graduation pictures. I laughed throughout the entire shoot because her baby girl is SOOOOOMETHING ELSE!

I am beyond proud of how hard she worked to get her degree! I feel like it was a struggle for me, and she did it with a little one! As cliche as it might sound…the sky is the limit. Continue to set a positive example for your baby girl and knock out those goals! We’ve done a horrible job at spending as much time together as we should, but I see you and again – I’m so very, very proud of you! Love you! XO.

Take a look at a few of my faves!

This is my FAAAVE! In fact, I might print and frame this one for my place. 😉

Thanks for looking! Peace&Love.

Welllll, here’s something that you’ve never ever seen on this site, a senior shoot! My little cousin is graduating this year, and decided that she wanted me to do her shoot. I kind of thought they’d end up finding another photographer since they don’t live in the same city, but they sure shocked me, and I am just thrilled and pretty honored that they choose to pay me a visit for her session. Needless to say, I’m pleased with the outcome and Lexi was SO SO SOOO easy to work with. She’s got me pretty excited and open to the idea of welcoming more seniors in the upcoming year!

Lexi has plans of going into the military, and I have NO doubt that she’ll excel, she’s got her mother’s (one of my FAVORITE cousins) footsteps to follow in.  Best wishes little cuz, I hope we can meet up again soon, but if not, I’ll see you all at the graduation.

Enjoy your pics! 🙂

 

Shortly after I did this shoot, I had a major family emergency come up so I wasn’t able to blog this session or any others when I’d intended on it. So I’m back tracking before moving on with more holiday sessions. I just had to add my little Lam Lam to the blog. He was a few weeks older than most of my newborns and he thought sleep was over rated. It worked out that this happened to be a session of a friend…we talked and talked and waited and waited…and then we just gave up. I actually like the way that it turned out. It was a fortunate situation because Janet was so willing to be in majority of the shoot with her baby boy.

A few months ago I shared Nunu’s maternity session here on the blog….fast forward a few months and here we are. 🙂

He smiled and I melted.

Yelling at me on the left…”Sleep is for suckers!” Lol!

Thanks for looking!

 

That amazing person happens to be MY mommy! I’m always on a social network talking about how much my mom means to me, and I don’t mean to gloat or be annoying, but I just love and appreciate my mom SO SO SO very much. So often we see people running to their social networks to vent about their parents or giving them credit only on special occasions. I know that each day we have with our loved ones is a blessing, and I do not take that for granted. Is every day perfect with us? Uh. NO! but there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t end with … “I love you, mom.”

Anyway, I’m going to try not to sit here and sob or write a book about my mom, but I just want to acknowledge her birthday on my small space on the web. My mom has been through SO much in life that when her book comes out, I’m sure she’ll be a top seller (Go, mom!). I’m always extremely thankful on her birthday that God has given her the strength another year to continue being the “hard fighting soldier on this battlefield” that she is!

I’m excited to see what this year has in store for you, my love!

SN: These are the pictures I took for my mom’s audition. She just needed a headshot, but we turned it into a little mini shoot. 😉

How did I NOT blog these pics?! AH. So Pey, my God daughter turned one earlier this year. Having a cake smash was just not even a question. Her mom and I collaborated on the perfect props (tutu’s) and things of that nature for her Cake Smash. Her birthday celebration was a “Winter ONEderland” theme.

The cake smash was going great, and I was just loooving the shots I was getting up until we brought the cake out. I was told that kids either love or hate the texture of the icing. Well, she showed us immediately which spectrum she was on. I should have known that my girl would bring the tears at some point. I still adore the pictures, and it taught me a valuable lesson. ALWAYS get shots (baby and detail) juuuuust in case they don’t like the idea of smashing their cake.

Check out these facial expressions! LOL!

“What is THIS?!”

I can’t wait to have my own kids and put them through this type of stuff, but until then…It’s more than a pleasure to subject my God children to my idea of “fun” (Check out my God son’s HERE) ! LOL! These are the pics that parents will always adore and pull out to embarrass ya! HEHE!

 

Thanks for looking!