my fave time of year...

Lindsey & Corbin

I recently did a mini photoshoot for a friend of mine who is due with her 2nd baby boy within the next few weeks.  Her first baby boy is 8 days older than mine.

Yeah.

THAT'S CLOSE.  :)

Anyway, she and her husband are super-excited about Carson's arrival but Lindsey wanted to get some photos of her and Corbin together before he gets here.  I got some pretty good shots down at Soundside Park in Surf City, including these:

3/4 of a year gone already!

Just poppin' in to brag a little bit...

[sweetest 9.5 month old EVA.]

Happy 3rd birthday, Cora Beth!

Hard to believe, but my sweet little niece (who I swear was just born yesterday) turned 3 years old a couple weeks ago!  Poor sweetheart has a hottest-month-of-the-year birthday so my brother & sister-in-law are always trying to think "cool" for her birthday parties.  :)

This year, they had a POOL PARTY!

I promise you it was close to 120 degrees that day but everyone was happy to get together and celebrate this precious girl's presence in our lives for 3 whole years.  We all gathered to sing "happy birthday" to Cora Beth before the cute-as-a-button cake melted into a blob from the heat...

[baby girl is sometimes shy so she's "hiding" behind her hands while we sing -- *whispers* that's so we don't see her :) ]

And then we hit the POOL!

Cora Beth's "Nonna" (my SIL's mom) has a pool and it was quite big enough to accomodate as many adults as wanted to come in and the kiddos, too.  Honestly, I don't know how everyone wasn't jumping into the pool, as hot as it was.  With their clothes on, if need be.

Or off.  That's how my nephew, Bear, rolls...

[pweshus wittle bebe -- ::muah::]

But that's just me.  To be sure, I was in that pool just as much as I could be.  :)

And of course, Deacon enjoyed himself -- and everyone enjoyed him, too.  Eddie & Donna had a couple of floaties that we put him in and he just had a ball floating around to everyone, mingling, socializing.

Then it was time for presents!

At every party, Cora Beth gets more & more into all the different aspects of the parties, including the presents.  It's fun to watch her interact and show how much she's grown from last year's party.

[Bear was catching some zzz's while sister opened her presents]

I wish we were closer so we could see my brother and his family more often but we take what we can get and cram as much time as we can into the weekends that we do get to visit.  Cora Beth is such a joy and we're so blessed to have her in our lives.  Happy birthday, Cora Beth!

a few more from the Harvin family...

Okay, I have just a few more I want to post from the photoshoot I did of the Harvin family last weekend.  Some with some special effects...

Harvin Family...

I did a photoshoot last weekend for some good friends who used to live in Wilmington. They were in our Sunday School class at church before they moved to Greenville a few years ago. It was great to see them and meet their youngest little girl. Their oldest little girl had grown so much since the last time I saw her -- both are just beautiful. :) Love this family!

Here are some of my favorites from our shoot...you'll notice that I don't have any special effects in any of these.  That's because I love, love, love how the colors of what they wore look with the colors of the beach -- perfect!

3 mos old!

Look at my big 3 month old!

favorite subject...

If you read one of my other blogs, Our World = Rocked, then you know that I've had our baby.  Deacon Josiah was born October 26, 2010, so we've had him for almost 12 weeks now!  Hard to believe.  Since he's been here, he's become my favorite photography subject. 

No surprise there.  :)

We take photos of him almost every single day.  It's ridiculous, really, but I can't help myself.  He's so.dang.cute.  And he's changing so fast daily, we don't want to miss anything!

Since I do have the other blog, devoted solely to him, I just wanted to post a couple a bunch of photos that I've taken of him that I consider "artistic":

Okay, I can't take credit for this awesome photo (obviously since I'm in it :) but I wanted to post it anyway because it's just...it totally depicts... well, it makes me cry.  Every time.  This was probably one of the very first moments that I got to spend with my son and it was captured by our doula and good friend, Kelley.

Love me some baby feet!  1 month old

This is probably one of my all-time fave photos, so far.

4 weeks old

Love how our Christmas tree looks in the background.

And his precious profile.  :) 

7 weeks old

Aw.  8 weeks old

My little guy in jeans.  Love it.  And I love how his...um, crotch

makes a heart.  Well, it does!  Just look...

9 weeks old

You gotta love little baby body parts. :)  9.5 weeks old

He's not a huge fan of tummy time,

but he did good on this day...

9.5 weeks old

What did I tell you about baby feet?  *muah*  10 weeks old

Oh, hi.  10 weeks old