A Future Gator- Meet Will!

3 1/2 months is such a fun age to photograph- especially when the baby is Will (who happens to look like he is 5 or 6 months old!)! What a cutie pie! And even better- his parents are Gators, met at the University of Florida, and bleed orange and blue! Gotta love that!! This boy is destined to greatness! Will did so well throughout his session, then reached that point- and the game was over! Sleeping baby! Enjoy your "teasers" Jen and Jack and GO GATORS!! (Saturday was a rough day for Gators nationwide...) :(

Jim and Pam- ENGAGED!

OK, so this is not an engagement session- it is Jim and Pam- from The Office...my favorite show, which premeired tonight! This show is hilarious! HILARIOUS! It did take Pete and I a couple episodes to get into it, but then we were hooked! I cannot get enough! And Jim is my celebrity crush! He is sooo cute (do I sound like a teenage girl??!!) So, here is to my fellow Dunder Mifflinites! The season is on- yippee! Oh, and check out Jan's candle site (yes, that have a website for Serenity By Jan! ) Click here- it is a riot!

Dancing With the Stars is back!

I LOVE Dancing With The Stars! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! And I am thrilled that Maks- the bad boy of the dance floor is back! So my early favorites are: Lance Bass and Lacy Schwimmer (any relation to David from Friends??), Rocco DSpirto and Karina Smirnoff, Cody Linley and Julianne Hough (OK, she is a favorite of my husband. She is adorable!), and Misty May-Treanor and Maks (moslty because I am still going through an Oylmpic withdrawl since it ended and I love Maks! Too bad they could not get Michael Phelps! ha!). So we will see what happens, but I can promise you that I will be glued. For more updates, click Dancing With the Stars.

Stephanie and Paul...expecting!

When Paul got to their photo shoot, I asked him what their baby's name was going to be. He said Pizanno (I think?!). Uumm, OK I thought. Must be a family name, right? Ha! He said that Stephanie wants to keep it a secret but that she craved Italian food all throughout her pregnancy, so Baby Pizanno is what they are calling him in the mean time! That makes me laugh! Staphanie and Paul were my first couple who had the "honor" of being photographed in my new studio space! I was super excited (they probably thought I was nuts...but an additional 10 more feet by 17 more feet is HUGE to me! HUGE!!) I was so happy to really be able to move around without stepping on myself! I could have done a dance I was so happy. (It's the little things in life, right?!) OK, enough about me....back to this adorable couple! Stephaine had to re-schedule; her original session was supposed to be 3 weeks ago. All I could think was- she is this small now...three weeks ago her tummy must have been a tiny little bump! And she is almost 36 weeks!! I looked like this at 7 months! So great to meet you both. Can't wait to photograph Pizanno (hopefully he will have a different name by then...). :)

Laura and Bruno- Engaged!

They met on a plane on they way back to the US from Italy. Their seats were not next to each other...but one of the other passengers was kind enough to swap seats. They felt the connection immediately. Laura and Bruno knew it was true love. So they got married downtown....a month later! And now they are preparing for the "real" wedding (which I get to photograph next month!) Here are just a few of my favorites from our engagement session (which I guess I could technically call a "marriage session"? Ha!) Can't wait for the big day, Laura and Bruno!!
These two are so beautiful- and so photogenic! It was definitely a hot evening, but even as we melted we got some hot shots!
Bruno tried to act all shy....but I knew he had an inner super model! Work it, Bruno! Work it!!

Meet the M. Family!

Meet the M. Family- Shea, Brent, Madeline, Morgan...and Chloe! This session has been a long time in the making and I am so glad that we were finally able to get together! Shea was referred from one my very first clients- Melissa H. She was so excited for our session- as was I! Her girls are adorable!!
And just too sweet!
My favorite out takes: Just look at that face! Hysterical! Do you think she is over it??!! ha!

And what do you get when you mix a photo session with a 2 year old, a one year old, and a dog? Some laughs! That's for sure!



It was so great to meet you, M. Family! Can't wait for you to see the rest!

My Studio Renovation! YEAH!

The studio demo has begun! (and thanks to my hubby for grabbing these snapshots with his point-n-shoot camera). So here is a run down of all the fun "stuff" that comes along with renovations and demos.
Day 1-4. Some of Pete's staffers tore down the old garage door and put up siding on the outside. The they hung those awesome french doors (which will get painted one of these days)!
Day 5. It rained, and rained, and rained...and flooded the room. About 2 inches of water. So that was not too good. Fortunately no water got into the other side, which is currently my working studio.
Day 10 and 11. All dried up and ready to be emptied! This building was constructed in the 1920's...and I think some stuff from back then was still housed on this side! ha! There was alot of junk in what I used to lovingly call "the dungeon". My mom and Ethan were great helpers. (Though I am not too sure if Ethan helped or just made things messier- but he had fun!) Here is how the rest of the day went: empty out as much junk as we could, scrape up my legs, get attacked by mosquitos, cover everyone in Off and sunscreen (probably would have been better as step #1), knocked over the beautiful pedestal (and broke it) that was supposed to hold the sink in the bathroom that will eventually be built), curse, sweat, install subfloor, knock down wall between current studio and "the dungeon", sweat some more, bring dry wall and wood scraps out to the curb, continue sweating, step in poo, curse some more....done for the day.
Lots more to get done, but at least I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! My next scheduled studio session is in 1 week- plenty of time...right??!! fingers crossed.....