WOW!!! Time surely flies and kids grow so very quickly. The first time I met this little one was last year and she has grown so much since! I remember her as a little toddler so small and sweet. Now, her face is changing so quickly and her sweet toddler face is turning into that of a child’s! It is SO amazing how quickly they grow and how their faces mature in such a short time! We had a blast this morning at Leu Gardens. We met up early and within an hour we were boiling but we still managed to take some great photographs that I am sure mom will treasure for years to come. So, take some time, stop and smell the roses and photograph your children as they don’t seem to take a moment off from growing up way too quickly!
Gin
I am having such a hard time choosing my favorites tonight but I will stop here before I share the entire shoot! :) I will share the last photograph I took today as we were leaving the gardens with one tired little girl who did three clothing changes in HOT tempatures and still managed to smile the whole time! Thanks to my little friend once again for giving me such beautiful pictures to share!
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.
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! 
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!
As promised I am going to update teh blog this week with some of the sessions I had while it was down!
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! 
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! 
