Some preview images for her mom and dad who were kind enough to drive up to Bronxville from Manhattan.

I love this cradle – it was her mother’s when she was a baby.  I hope it makes this image even more special!  I love the little grin she’s giving in her sleep!

This lace was the wrap her mother wore on her wedding day – I love when parents include heirlooms during the session, it makes it special for me too.  Kudos to Grandma for bringing it out and covering her face like this – I probably wouldn’t have done that and I love the lace on her face – both so delicate!

Some baby bits closeups…  can’t you just cuddle her???

Thank you for bearing the heat Mom and Dad!  It was a hot one and you guys were good sports – as always!

much love, C

Their parents are very patient and so adorable – I’ve known their dad Mike from long, long ago days at Westchester Country Club.  He’s my brother’s age so he’ll always be a kid to me!  Now look at him, grown up and a great dad to three boys.  Although, I did have to promise not to post any images of him on the blog – somehow he is convinced my brother will send around…  hmmm – he might be onto something.

Thank you so much Liz and Mike for a fun evening!  Your boys are just fabulous.  These Adirondack chairs were occupied when we first got to this location – I was so happy when we were walking out and they were free for the boys to play on.  My favorite shots of the day!

These little cuties are celebrating their one year birthday soon.  Mom told me their party had a twinkle twinkle theme and I thought it would be really fun to make some star streamers!  A quick trip to Micheal’s, and out came the scissors and glue gun.  I love the way they came out – perfectly colorful and their chubby hands couldn’t get enough of them!

Look at these peepers! 

and this adorable chubbiness just makes my heart sing…

Happy birthday girls!  You were such a pleasure – every minute of it!

Introducing little Ela.  She’s been born into a lovely family and I know she will add nothing but joy to their lives.

I found this amazing purple scarf and I’ve been dying to use it!

Lovely nursery details in a beautiful home for her to grow up in!

Congratulations Ela!  Your parents are going to love you a whole bunch!

I have one and I’m always impressed with the moms who have two.  Then three?  They deserve some sort of peace prize as it’s constant negotiations, I swear…

These three were polite and sweet, but give ‘em a second and they would be acting exactly like they should!  I got such a kick out of their brotherly nature.  Playing beautifully side by side one minute, then tossing wet newspaper boats at each other three seconds later.  LOVE it.

For example – I wanted something sort of beachy/brotherly without getting too cutsie.  I made these newspaper boats and it was really cute for a moment.  Then the boat fight began!  Made the photos even better.

This guy usually wears glasses, but he wanted to show me the bump on his nose.  He’s pretty darn handsome, don’t you think?  I wish he had his glasses on for this picture, as I just LOVE his expression.

Happy guy!  Too cute!

And his older brother told me this was his “Blue Steel” look.  It works.

Thanks for a great evening Shannon and Joe!

Seeing it’s my last day, thought I would post my annual mini session with my best friend Kelly and her beautiful family. You can see last year’s session here.  We do one every year during our last week in Cape Cod.  Kelly lives in London and it’s one of the reason’s I’m so sad to leave the Cape – I know I won’t see their family until Christmas and it just seems like forever.

They are just too cute.  Really, get a room kids. 

Thanks for a great summer K family.  I love you all so much!  Bye bye Cape Cod.  sniff.

This year’s trip was a bit bitter sweet for Becky’s family as her husband Greg is getting ready to deploy for Afghanistan for a year.  It was their last family vacation for a while, and I was so honored that Becky asked me to capture their family for some photos for Greg to take with him.

First we started on little Ian at my house.  The light in my guest room is AMAZING, and little Ian was happy to play with me while mom needed to do some work.  Yes, this is what I do when I babysit!!

There are about 20 more looking just as cute, but this post is about the family, so I’ll continue there.  Although I would really like to show you all dang 20 because they are so adorable!!

Later that afternoon we headed to the beach – when we got there (literally, like right when we got there) a ton of fog rolled in so I didn’t get to play around with the sun like I wanted to.  That being said, an overcast sky is like a huge lightbox, so it worked out with Becky’s oldest running me all over the beach!  I got her sitting still at one point though!

Shouldn’t every little girl have a picture like this with her dad?  I think so…

I love this one, I hope you guys do too…

I’m always so amazed by the humble nature of these men and women that voluntarily serve for our country.  It’s second nature to them – a calling that only a few hear and answer to.  It’s just what they feel they have to do.  In a strange way, it completes them.  It just impresses the heck out of me and I hope Greg knows how much I think of him and what he’s doing.  Lots of love and luck to you, Greg and God Bless!

As my husband and I are a few months from our ten year anniversary, Marg and Shep (he’s Scott, but he’ll always be just Shep to me – and Uncle Shep as he’s now known) are getting closer too and they asked me to take some 10th anniversary photos to replace the wedding photos on their walls.  Apparently they’ve grown older or something?  Strange, because I look exactly the same as I did 10 years ago.  Righhhht.

So, being the good friend I am, I put these up straight away on my blog to embarrass them.  Ahhh, friendship.

Also, I had to do this before sending them to her, because I know she’ll find something wrong with about 90% of them.

She doesn’t like this picture.  I mean, really.  Sorry bud, it’s one of my favorites and you look amazing.

My favorite of the day.  Last shot before we left the place we sort of were trespassing on.  Sort of…

Thank you for being such wonderful friends for ten years, you are amazing!  Happy Anniversary!!!

Had such a great time with this family.  I’ve seriously been so blessed with consistently amazing and cool clients and these guys were no exception!  Especially a margarita after our session was over – I mean, really – what’s better than that???

I loved that they were up for anything.  This was shot in their backyard and it just had perfect light at every turn – I love when that surprises me!

We’ll start with my favorite of the day.  One of the last shots – typical!  I love EVERYTHING about it – the holding hand, the yellow clothes, the sunshine peaking out the trees…  love.

My favorite shot of the day.  Wait, I said that already.  I can have two right?  She was so beautiful and her eyes are just incredible!!

And her little brother’s weren’t too shabby either…  Look at these things!  {swoon}

Ok, I’ll give your some color so you can see what I’m all gaga about…

Love this apple shot!!  Apparently she eats too a day, so it’s pretty appropriate to capture her personality!I had such a lovely time!  Thank you so much for being fun as anything and the yummy margarita!!

I’ve known Mia since she was little – she is my best friend’s cousin so I’ve watched her grow up into a stunning young woman. I have been thinking about getting into High School senior photography and so when Mia’s mom asked me to photograph her I basically jumped up and down like Tom Cruise on Oprah. Seriously, wait til you see her…

I had to trick Mia into doing this… if her mom had told her she wanted me to take her picture she never would have gone along with it… so I sort of told a little fib and said she was doing me a favor. Being the sweet girl she is, she went along with it and was a total trooper. She knows the truth now, and even though she wasn’t thrilled initially, I think she *sort* of ‘fessed up that she had a good time and I am hoping and praying (and kind of sweating) that she will like these!!

So here is Mia Dawn. She gets lots of previews because I had to tell her a fib and I feel bad.

I wanted to try a bunch of different locations, the beach was her favorite…  (oh, and she likes the one on the right because she looked tall.  hee hee)  I’m kind of digging these Jcrew inspired sea glass colors if I do say so myself)

Really, how freaking pretty is she????

I told her these wouldn’t be corny.  Hmm, maybe they are but they make me happy, ok?

Love this blue wall I found!!

Thank you Mia for letting me take your picture.  And no, you’re not awkward silly.  Told ya so.