Love These Guys {Sanibel Family Photographer}

Meet some of our best friends, Lauren and Josh (and their beautiful baby, Jordan!). Eight years ago (YIKES!), I met Lauren in graduate school (I bet you didn't know I am a former School Psychologist and I went through THREE years of grad school and training to be one! it's serving me well right now...haha). I knew immediately we would become the best of friends! We had so much in common and our conversations were very fun and relaxed. We and our future husbands often hung out, played games, went ice skating and had dinner together. We had to be creative with what we did since we were all poor but we always had the best time together! I was in Lauren's wedding, and she was in mine. Despite the fact that we live miles away from each other, we still remain close. About two months ago (yeah, I'm a little behind), they visited us and also vacationed on Sanibel Island. Of course we had to squeeze in a mini session during their vacation! It was so much fun and Jordan was such a trooper!

LOVE his expression here!



I love to photograph feet. Just call me Tanner from last season's The Bachelorette (all you Bachelor fans know what I'm talking about!).


Jordan is SUCH a happy, little guy!




I just adore the "learning to walk" stage!


I hope you love the images I captured of your beautiful family, Lauren and Josh! We miss you guys!

First comes love...{Fort Myers Maternity Photographer}

then comes marriage...




then comes...












Remember these guys? I did their engagement session last summer, their wedding last fall and now they're having a baby!

Next up...one beautiful newborn! I can't wait!

Fields of Gold

While planning our trip to Michigan, I had this vision to get some pictures of Emma in a wheat field. I told her she was going to do a photoshoot w/ Mommy and she was beyond excited. Once we arrived at the wheat field, she said 'where's the photoshoot? I want to go to the photoshoot!'. I told her she was at the photoshoot and she was the model. She obviously had something different in mind.

I often hear 'oh it must be SO nice to be a photographer and take photos of your children'. Disclaimer: not so much!

There was a lot of bribing and running around before getting some of this:



or this...








Of course there was a lot of this:


Which led to a bit of (cough)... bribing. **sigh**



When we told Emma we were going to get ice cream she said, 'I want blue ice cream'. We said, 'good luck with that'...guess we were wrong.



They had BLUE ice cream!



And lots of it...



Anybody have some wipes?



Moral of the story: sometimes you need to offer a harmless bribe to get what you want!
(don't worry, I only bribe to get that perfect photo...haha)

Sweeties! {Estero Children's Photographer}

I LOVE LOVE LOVE these kids. They are SO sweet, easygoing and generally easy to photograph! PLUS, how cute are they?!?!?

I've been photographing Bridget aka Bree since she was a newborn...in fact, that was one of my first paid sessions!

Thank you, Melissa, for allowing me to capture images of your gorgeous children! Enjoy your sneak peek (at this rate, you're going to see the entire gallery!), proofs coming soon! :)

Beautiful Bree


This is Bree's brother, Cam. He was so excited to tell me stories about fishing!



Seriously? I would absolutely LOVE to have eyelashes like these! SO jealous!