Victor's 1st Birthday Shoot

Happy 1st Birthday Victor!  

It was so much fun taking your pictures.  I could have stared at those baby blues all day.  

What birthday shoot would be complete without the smash cake??

Hmmm....what do we have here?

 Just one more...

Princess Party

In case you didn't know, Princess Parties are "it' right now.  Little girls come dressed as their favorite princess complete with tiaras, capes, and fancy shoes.  Over the last week, my 2 nieces Alex & Reese turned 5 and 3.  Their Princess Party was at the Elk Grove Village Park District Carousel room - a perfect setting for this magical party.  I love photographing their parties, so check out these favorites. 

Reese was dressed as Snow White & Alex was dressed as Jasmine.

Alex was the belle of the ball as all of her preschool buds wanted to ride next to her on the carousel. 

 Alex & Reese's mom never disappoints when it comes to her sweets table for the parties!

Cookies: Crowns, glass slippers, and sleeping princesses

Check out my little princess!

It might be a combined birthday party but each Princess got to have Happy Birthday sung to them personally and blow out their own candles. 

 Happy Birthday Alex & Reese!!

{L} Family

Every once in a while, I get asked to do an extra special photo shoot.  Last weekend I had one of those photo shoots with the Langridge Family.  I was contacted by Sarah with a last minute request to do a big family photo shoot with her entire family.  Sadly, they had just found out that their Dad, the patriarch of this sweet family, had been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer and were all coming together for the Easter holiday.  Thankfully, I was free Saturday morning so I was able to do this photo shoot for them.  Honestly, if I had plans, I would have changed them so that I could do this for Sarah and her family.  Not only was I able to get some big group shots, I was able to get shots of each of the individual families.  Here are a few favorites...

Frankie & Maddie

Fun fact about this car - Grandpa built it himself!

 When I asked Sarah for any special requests, this was her only one...

God bless this family.

Welcome PJ Caravelli

Just a few weeks ahead of schedule, on March 26th @ 3am, Paul Gustav "PJ" Caravelli entered the world.  5lbs 13oz and 19 inches of pure baby goodness.  I was honored to take some photos of PJ at the hospital when he was about 12 hours old and then follow up that with his official newborn photo shoot 10 days later.  Congrats to Anita & Paul on their new little bundle of joy!

 1st Family Photo

 Just 10 days later...

 "My two Pauls" - Anita's caption for this photo

While I was shooting these photos of Paul holding PJ, he was quietly singing the Chicago Cubs fight song.  PJ was absolutely captivated by his Daddy's soft voice and stared up him the whole time. 

Sportin' a skull & crossbones bow tie like a pro