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{Baby Anthony}

Lydia — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:03:17 +0000

A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of photographing beautiful baby Anthony. He is perfect in every way. He wasn’t the sleepiest baby ever, but all in all I’d say he did a great job!

Look at his sweet little mouth.

Oh my goodness!

I love love love this image.

Perfection.

Seriously, he already looks like a model.

Keep checking back this week. I have A TON to blog!

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{Beautiful Baby Alyssa}

Lydia — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:14:41 +0000

I can’t even begin to describe how excited I am for Greg and Amanda. Alyssa is perfect in EVERY way. And honestly, I can’t get enough of looking at her adorable full head of hair.

I took this the morning after she was born at the Memorial West Hospital. It makes me want to cry, mother/daughter love.

Her little sleeping smile.

Seriously, how cute is all her hair?

Another one of my favorites. I love the simplicity of it.

This just makes me smile.

What a little peanut.

I love her profile and her cutie nose!

Hello sweet baby girl.

I just had to post this one again, because it is one of my new favorites.

Don’t forget… get your last minute comment in on Craig and Nicholle’s post here and you could win a $10 iTunes Giftcard.

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{Craig + Nicholle}

Lydia — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:35:54 +0000

Yippee! I am super excited to post this engagement session. Nicholle was my amazing mentor when I was a teacher last year and we instantly became great friends. Nicholle met this very handsome hockey player, he kept asking her out, finally she agreed and the rest is history. I CANNOT wait until their wedding. Although I only know Craig a little, I know how happy he makes Nic, I see it all over her face every time I see her. They made my job super easy since they are both… ummm… gorgeous!!! I also must add, I am super excited because on my recommendation Nic decided to hire the amazingly talented husband and wife team, Zach and Jody, of Gray Photography. I can’t wait to meet them and I know they are going to do a rockin’ awesome job shooting Nic and Craig’s wedding. Oh and by the way… we took all of these in Miami, some in the Design District and some on North Miami Beach.

So I decided I am going to do another little giveaway. This time I’ve decided to give away one of my favorite things and I’ve upped the ante a little to a $10 iTunes giftcard! Woot woot!

Here’s the deal. Leave a comment and tell me which image of Craig and Nicholle is your favorite and why. It’s that simple. You have until Friday @ 12am EST.

#1 – I love this one… they used it for the front of their “Save the Dates” I made.

#2 – The Design District in Miami had some awesome backgrounds. This background was my fav!

#3 – I love their happiness in this picture.

#4 – Umm… Nicholle, you are INSANELY gorgeous!

#5 – Oh and I forgot to mention, Craig is not just any hockey player, he is the STARTING goalie for the Colorado Avalanche!

#6 – Nic loves this one! Now you can see what I mean about how happy she looks.

#7 – This is why I live in Florida!

And these are just an added bonus.

They are going to have some seriously cute kids someday. Oh and P.S. Look at Craig’s smile… he is no typical hockey player!

So get to voting, maybe you will win an iTunes giftcard, like Theo won a Starbucks one!

Okay, I haaaavvvveeee to post this one too. More of Baby Alyssa on Friday!

Happy Tuesday!

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{January was one FABULOUS month}

Lydia — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:38:08 +0000

Wow! I cannot believe January is already over. Where did it go? This was definitely the best month of my year so far! So many exciting things happened this month. I am sooo excited that I had 1,230 people stop by my blog this month! Woohoo… that is the HIGHEST ever! So exciting.

On Thursday, I received a totally awesome email from Miller’s Lab asking if they could use my business card in their upcoming newsletter. Needless to say, I nearly fell out of my chair when I read it. I was BEYOND excited. Little did I know that when they meant upcoming newsletter they meant it would be out the day after they asked me! Glad they liked my new design!

But by far the most exciting thing that happened this month… happened at 9:36pm last night.

Baby Alyssa was born and WOW she is BEAUTIFUL.

She is absolutely perfect and I am sooo excited for Amanda and Greg! I cannot believe that a year and a half ago I was photographing their wedding!

Later this week, I will be posting more images of my sister, an actual shoot of Baby Alyssa and some Share the Love photographs!

God blessed me immensely in January and I cannot wait to see what He has in store for February!

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{Ohh La La}

Lydia — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:06:51 +0000

The other day I received this beauty in the mail and couldn’t have been more excited! These are the newest product I am offering for portrait sessions. Why a bunch of individual prints? When you can have them in a beautifully bound album. Love it! Everyone should want one of these beautiful Finao albums.

Lori, great job on the cover choice! {There are many different options, but I love this one}

This is not only a great way to show off your pictures, but come on now, it would be such an awesome present.

Think about Grandma opening one of these on Christmas morning – I’m just saying!

In other news… today is my niece Kayleigh’s birthday! Happy Birthday KJ!

Last update. I have been having the MOST FUN WEEK.

Brett’s college roommate, Jarrod, came in town and we have been having a blast all week.

I.held.an.alligator.today. If that tells you anything. Many many pictures to come.

Oh and one last picture, this little cutie fell asleep on my couch last night! Oh baby Ayden.

Check out his Newborn session here.

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{Finally a Sleeping Baby}

Lydia — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:59:23 +0000

I love this baby so much! Ayden is my best friend, Danielle’s, new baby boy. I knew right from the beginning when Danielle found out she was pregnant. And now… after so much waiting and praying, this PERFECT little boy is here and I couldn’t be more thrilled.

And he loves me! He might not know it yet. But with as much as I love him, I am sure he will return the favor!

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{Baby Olivia was not sleepy}

Lydia — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:27:06 +0000

Oh how I suddenly LOVE babies! They are just so adorable. Until recently babies have always scared me. They usually cry at the very sight of me. But now I am able to hold them, cuddle them, love them, and they DON’T cry. Truly a miracle.

Here is beautiful Olivia. She didn’t feel like sleeping {at all}, but she sure does look cute.

I just LOOOVVVVEEE shooting details of babies… especially baby feet!

Baby Belly Butons make me smile.

I think she is going to be a foot model someday.

Now for some more of her little angel face.

Yes… her eyes are just that gorgeous.

I have so much more to blog about. Here are a few sneak peeks.

Can’t wait to blog about the great day I spent at the park with this little cutie and her family.

Our awesome friends came to visit us and we did an anniversary shoot. I cannot believe it was a year ago today that they were married. Happy Anniversary Bobby and Rachel.

To check out their wedding images click here.

This is one of my new favorite images of all times… ohhhhh how lovely?

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{Baby Stella}

Lydia — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:40:42 +0000

What a sweet little baby girl. Although she decided that she did not want to sleep during our session, her beautiful eyes made each shot magnificent. Congratulations Brooke and Rob!

She slept for one shot… well I think she might have just had her eyes closed for a minute!

Beautiful baby blues

Stella and her mommy

I love these next two… they are SO girly!

Sorry I haven’t written. I have been sooooo busy. I have many awesome things to write about… two of my favorites being: FINALLY meeting Scarlett Lillian and going to the COLTS Monday night Football game!!!!!

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{Baby Lila}

Lydia — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:41:08 +0000

I had the joy of doing a newborn session with Baby Lila. I think she is the closest thing to a babydoll that I have ever seen. She is PERFECT in every way… but I mean look at her parents! And she has the most adorable big brother in the whole world! The day before our photo shoot, Lila spent all day sleeping {she was awake only for 45 minutes}; however, on the day of our shoot she stayed awake almost the entire two and a half hours I was there! Luckily, I caught some while she was in and out of sleep.

Such a STUNNING family

A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E

She loved sleeping in this bowl

This was the only shot I got of her in the basket!

Sweet big brother

Perfection

Look at that beautiful face

I think this image captures the true Lila… she is even cute when she is screaming!

I have much more to blog… check back soon!

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{Yes… this will make you cry}

Lydia — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:00:27 +0000

Hope you like it! Leave me a comment and let me know what you think….. pretty please with whipped cream and a cherry on top!