I fell in love with this little girl before I even met her. Her and I have a few things in common, one of them being we share the same birthday! I met her and her mom a couple months ago at her session, and they are both just as sweet as they are beautiful. Little “F” is celebrating her First Birthday today. Happy Birthday baby “F”, I hope you have a very special first birthday and I hope to see you again, as you continue to grow into a beautiful little girl!
I’ve always loved this famous quote from Dr. Seuss, however I’ve recently fallen in love with it. My oldest has always loved to learn, loved school and this past school year she absolutely fell in love with reading. She had the most wonderful teacher who encouraged her and her classmates to read, who allowed them to take daily trips to the library, taught them how to write & illustrate their own stories. I was overwhelmed as I watched her blossom this past school year and become so eager to read more and more. If she wanted to learn more about a particular topic she would go the library and find a book in that subject and then tell us all about what she had learned. Fast forward to the present day, summer 2011 and she begs me daily to go the library, I had to make a deal with her that I would take her once a week and as long as she would read them she could check out however many books she wanted. Well, the first week it was 8, then 10, then 12 and for the most part she has read them all each week, occasionally she finds one that doesn’t interest her and she won’t read past Chapter 1. I’ve tried to get her to read some of the more popular books for her level and she politely replied “Mom, if the author doesn’t make me feel like I’m there I don’t want to read it, I’ve tried that author and she doesn’t make me feel like I’m there and part of the story…” I could only reply with “well okay then….”.
It has been such a busy summer for me, seems like there has been some great baby boom, lots of my newborns who are now approaching two are becoming big brothers and sisters. I absolutely love to watch the families I’ve come to know and love grow and become families of 4, 5 and even 6. I’ve been busy photographing all these babies, toddlers and families in the Tampa area, traveling to the beach to photograph some families vacationing in Florida and all the while trying to keep my promise to my little reader. I decided to snap a few pictures of a recent trip the library, one thing that I love most about my daughter’s love of reading is that she is passing it along to her younger twin sisters. Although they can’t read yet, they check out their own books and we cuddle up for story time, its is my favorite part of the day! So if you are looking for something cool to do this summer to beat this Florida heat, try a trip to the library and open up a whole new world to your little one.
And this is her most recent stack of books, lots of fiction books and a few non-fiction ones…. a nice mix of Mother Teresa, Taylor Swift and Justin Timberake, lol!
Then finished off the day with some old fashioned cherry sodas….a first for my girls and they weren’t too sure about them, as you can tell from this photo.
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For those of you that follow my blog, you know I specialize in Children and Baby photography and have been photographing babies in Tampa for many years now, but occasionally I am asked to do senior pictures and more often than not, it is for a senior that I have a relationship with, as is the case with this young man. Meet Corey, I’ve had the pleasure of watching him grow from just a little guy into a such a handsome, polite young man. My husband and I have been friends with his family for over ten years and it was such a pleasure to photograph this special time in his life as he graduates from Strawberry Crest High School, class of 2011.
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I’ve had the pleasure of photographing this family on more than one occasion, they are truly beautiful inside and out. I photographed their oldest when he was first born, he is now almost five about to start kindergarten, where does time go? I was thrilled to capture these photos of Mom’s second pregnancy, isn’t she absolutely beautiful? The images were taken just a few weeks before she delivered baby B and she looked amazing! She might look a bit familiar to you local folks for a couple reasons, one she has an identical twin sister (who you might also see on my website, blog, facebook, etc) and she was the Strawberry Queen a few years back. My oldest daughter was fooled when I was proofing her session, she said “where are the other boys’ and that other man?”, meaning her twin sister’s family my daughter had seen me proof a few months earlier, it was pretty funny. I love to hear their “twin” stories being a twin mom myself I find it all so interesting. It was really funny this holiday season when they both picked out the same Christmas card, I have a feeling there might be a race this year to get first picks on their Christmas cards.
It will be fun to photograph this family this as a family of four for their cards. Little B came to me at only two weeks of age, just inside the two week window I like to photograph newborns and he was an angel for the session. Big Brother E was so cooperative and I got lots of great sibling images, the one below is my favorite I think….
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I had the privilege of photographing this beautiful family on the East Coast near Daytona Beach during their family vacation to Florida. Mom has a passion for photography as well and had fabulous outfits selected for her family, perfectly coordinated but not matchy-matchy, my favorite! I just love little *D*’s Mini Boden dress, I’ve been eyeing it for a couple months for my girls. Apparently the dress was *the* piece that Mom used to coordinate the family with and would you believe it was left at home in Arkansas and had to be overnighted to FL for their session. The boys were equally as adorable and well dressed! We had a session planned full of fun which included photos at the house on the beach they rented which was the coolest most eclectic beach house ever! We also ran down the street to grab some ice cream and then back to the beach for sunset. It was jam packed and so much fun to photograph this family, they are truly beautiful inside and out! Thanks *S* family for inviting me to the beach to photograph your beautiful family, I hope you enjoy these couple teasers until your gallery is ready.
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