Home is Where the Heart Is | Tampa Bay Lifestyle Photographer

We are onto the second month in our blog circle journey over at TWELVE BY TWELVE.  This months topic was chosen by the super talented TIFFANY WALENSKY.  

Home is where the heart is.  

My entry for the month was the last picture of this sequence.  

My family.  My Home.  My heart.  

Continue on our circle by heading over to check out the incredible Melissa from CONTEMPORARY CAPTURES TAMPA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER!  

And Eve Makes Three | Tampa Bay Lifestyle Newborn Photographer

I don't do too many newborn sessions, and the ones that I have done have been lightly posed and mostly of the baby.  This year, I have decided that I am only going to offer lifestyle newborn sessions in the clients home from now on.  I want to focus on the connection between you and your new precious miracle.  I want to capture you snuggling and kissing and loving on that sweet baby.  I want to stand back and let you guys do "your thing" and let me be there to freeze time for you.  

Which brings me to this session.  I first met B & W back in December, when we did their MATERNITY SESSION AT THE BEACH.  They welcomed their gorgeous baby girl in January and we were all set for our newborn session.  They brought me into their nursery and I was in love.  Nothing better then a good rocker next to a window.  

B & W were NATURALS with sweet baby E.  They loved on her like they had been doing it their whole lives.  Baby E still had her days and nights mixed up, so she didn't want to do much, other then sleep.  Dad tried desperately to wake her a few times to show me her gorgeous eyes.

She only peeked at us a few times... for a very short time... but when she did... it was magic.   

is there anything cuter then a baby yawning?
I didn't think so.  

I loved that we were able to get in a few pictures with Eve's Grandparents, who were all in town to help the new parents!! 

out of focus picture taken accidentally.  edited and posted intentionally.
i really love the feel of these... perfectly imperfect! 

y'all see that right? She looks up at her parents giving her kisses....
.... and smiles! 

An Evening at the Beach with the Z Family | Tampa Family Photographer

It was 2007.  I walked into a building on Madison Avenue in Manhattan for an interview.  I had NEVER wanted a job so badly in my life.  I was SO nervous.  I had NO idea what I was in for.  She conducted the first interview... and I'm pretty sure she let me through because she loved my skirt.  Two more interviews after that & I eventually landed the job.  

We didn't "click" right away, but eventually... over time... things changed.  

And we grew an incredible bond.   

Here we are, 8 years later.  She is "my person".  

We were in each others weddings.  I was in the waiting room when her son was born... and when I met him it was love at first sight.  He was so incredibly delicious, that I couldn't even wait to have my own sweet little squish to love on.... and wouldn't you know, nine months later, we were welcoming Kalia into the world.  We had already moved to FL when Little G came into the world & I hate that I have missed so much.   But.... that's life I suppose.  

They are my family.  I love them like crazy.  

Daily, I wish that we didn't live thousands of miles away from each other.  I wish we could have play dates with our children, go for lunch or a cup of coffee, family trips to the beach... you know.  But for now... we depend on our (very) frequent phone calls.  

My heart exploded with excitement when she told me that they were driving down to Florida from New York for Christmas this past year.  They stopped here before ending their drive down in Miami... and we snuck in a little family photo session... because... it just needed to happen.  

Because, seriously..... how GORGEOUS are they!?!?!?! 

that smirk.
it kills me.  

Kalia & her Boobie Shani..  xo.