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Wow! Wow! Wow! is all I can say about this FABULOUSLY GORGEOUS family! I had the best time photographing them against the urban backdrop of downtown Hollywood!

Let’s hope these two kiddos always get along so well!

I love this shot!

This little cutie looks just like his Daddy.

Look at that smile when she is with her Dad!

Downtown Hollywood had some AMAZING color walls. This one looks like it was made to go with her outfit.

This is one of my favorite family photographs EVER!

This one melts my heart

She is soooo beautiful.

And now… as I promised yesterday… this is one of my new FAVORITE images.

I think it perfectly captures the love between this Mommy and her baby girl!

I feel very privileged to have been part of Share the Love event.

Thank you to all the amazing photographers who organized it and donated their time!

And thank you to the wonderful families {like this one} who came to support this effort!

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I was so fortunate this past Saturday to help with an AMAZING event, Share the Love. Along with some of South Florida’s top photographers, I was able to shoot a family session with ALL of the money going to Sow A Seed {a foundation that supports the people of Haiti}. I met some wonderful photographers and had a perfect day. Share the Love was hosted by a WONDERFUL women’s photography group here in South Florida called SoFly Photographers I have looked at each of the women’s sites and they are all extraordinary. Sorry, I am going on about it, but I am trying to suck up, because I TOTALLY want to be part of it! I have to try to have the patience to wait allll the way until July when they have their next “allow new photographers” meeting. I’m sure it will be here before I know it. I was blessed with a BEAUTIFUL family to photograph. Now I have to admit, I was pretty nervous considering they are best friends with Courtney Ortiz, a fantastic photographer who was instrumental in putting on the Share the Love event, but they were the sweetestfamily. I am sure glad Courtney shared her friends with me!  Thanks you!

Now on to the photographs. Seriously… we only had 30 minutes… but I got sooo many great shots of them.

This is the Black and White Edition:

Seriously… she couldn’t be any cuter!

Love it!!!! They are so happy together!

This is one of my favorites. The bond between this mommy and her daughter is undeniable.

Tomorrow I will be posting the color photos from the shoot and one of my FAVORITE shots of all time!!!

Please leave me some comment love!

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When I was about 12, I started my first baby-sitting job. Funny thing is my Mom still wouldn’t let me stay home by myself, even though I could be in charge of children alone at someone else’s house. Mr. and Mrs. Steiner would come pick me up at 5:30 or 6am every Saturday morning, so they could go running. I would sleep on their couch watching cartoons {the only thing on that early} and wait for their adorable kids to get up in the morning and cuddle on the couch with me. The Steiners are some of my all time favorite people.

They are some of the nicest people in the entire world! When Mindy and I were about 15 or 16, we talked to our parents about the fact that we did not want to move to Alabama if anything happened to them {where our fabulous Aunt and Uncle live}. Our parents asked us who we would want to be with, our response was instantly the Steiners. And they agreed, they agreed that if something happened they would take in two teenage girls, even though their children were years younger than us. Thankfully, we never had to take them up on that, but I wanted to give you background into the AMAZING people they are. I really can’t even begin to describe what I think about them!

While I was in St. Petersburg {where our family is from}, I was able to take just a couple pictures of them in my parents backyard. Not quite my normal scenic location, but they worked it anyway.

He could not be more handsome. I can’t believe the man he is becoming.

He is one of the best runners in his state – takes after his crazy parents who use to get up at 6am on Saturday to run.

I remember the first time Mindy {my sister} and I babysat this girl. She cried like a baby when we mentioned clowns.

She is such a wonderful girl and definitely  will always be our little sister!

They are thinking about using one of these for his senior pictures.

I pick this one!

Oh and I love this one. So pretty!

And this last one is a shout out to Jasmine Star.

She always shows pictures of people laughing to prove she is funny!

So look at this… I am totally funny. See Brett.

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