Madi, you may remember, is the daughter of my dear, dear friend Stephanie.  We’ve known each other since our teenage years, and have managed to keep in touch & in one another’s lives.  Miracle.  I’m so glad to see her fall in love, get married, fall more in love, and welcome Madi in to her & Brad’s lives.  And it’s so hard to believe over a year has flown by & Madilyn is one!

Steph really wanted a session with Madi when she was walking, so we waited…and waited….and waited.  Finally, at about 15 months she began walking!  So we headed out to Historic Ellicott City & Steph made one of her amazing cakes.  Brad got balloons.  I borrowed a table & chair.  We made some memories.

Check out Miss Madilyn!

This week I’m going through all of the weekend’s portrait parties I did.  In all, I completed 6 sessions for 6 different families.  What I love about portrait parties – everyone is all in one place.  What I don’t love, EVERYONE is all in ONE PLACE!  Some kids do great in a confined area for 20 minutes, and other children need more space & time to warm up to the idea of their photo being taken.  It’s definitely a new learning curve for me.

These two girls, however, did amazing.  Anna & Kate are our sweet neighbors & friends.  Thanks for coming by girls – we enjoyed playing with you!

Um, did y’all survive that wicked storm that blew through here?  It was crazy!  I thought for sure my session for Sunday evening would be canceled.  And I felt awful because I know how hard it is to orchestrate eleven people for a photo shoot!  Luckily the Goldbeck family was still willing – and wonderful – even in the humidity of the day.  Here are a few of my favorites.  And special thanks goes out to Catherine, Lilly, & Declan for being so so so so awesome!  You all are the best little people models I’ve met lately.

As you may have seen, my family just returned from our annual vacation in Corolla, NC.  My mother in law really wanted us to get together on the beach for a family session – all 13 of us!  Here is what we came up with.  And many thanks to my brother in law, Matt, & his wife, Emily for snapping photos of me too!

I recently came across this website for the Paperie Boutique and was AMAZED!  Robyn has so many awesome ideas and resources for packaging your products for your clients.  I literally sat and went through one year of blog posts & links and could not get over all the wonderful ideas out there.  Thanks Robyn for putting it all together!