Mrs. C. Alicea | Southern Maryland Portrait Photographer

When Cami got in touch with me a couple weeks ago to tell me that her birthday was coming up and she wanted some portraits done for herself, I knew we needed to start planning her session right away!  Cami has become a friend of mine and I had the honor of having coffee with her right after our session.  The planning was in the works and knowing we had a short amount of time to work with (her birthday was coming up, after all) we decided that a sunrise session on the water at Solomons Island would be more than perfect.  And after freezing our butts off at 6am in what felt like 20 degree weather, that coffee we grabbed was much needed!  Hahaha.  

Happy birthday to a woman who is beautiful inside and out!  

I had such a great time taking your portraits, Cami!  Thank you so much for spending your morning with me. 

Where's My Baby Boy?! | Southern Maryland Child Photographer

Me: "Ethan.  I hardly have any pictures of you!  Let's get dressed and head out to take some pictures."
Ethan: *face in the DS - slowly looks up at me* "Moooooom.  Do we HAVE to?"
Me: "Yep! Let's get out of this house!"

It took quite a bit of coaxing on my part.  He HATES any reason to 'have' to fix his hair.  But after several minutes of begging on my part, he complied.  I'm glad he did because I captured THESE! 

About an hour after leaving the house I sat down to edit them and my mouth dropped open.  WHERE did my baby boy go?!?!  Seriously!  Just last year he was still holding on to some child-like features.  And now, even though his shoes are untied, his jeans have holes in the knees, he laughs at talking muffin jokes and farts...he's clearly growing up.  And these pictures of him are evidence that I no longer have a baby on my hands.  I have a young man!  This scares me.  

And it also means that I absolutely HAVE to take more pictures of him.  As he is.  RIGHT. NOW.  Because I seriously feel like I blinked, and he was grown.  

A Day at the Park | Southern Maryland Lifestyle Photographer

I needed to run some errands today and since I've been working hard at shooting my kids more (I know...sounds horrible - LOL!) I thought we'd stop by our local neighborhood park for about an hour.  It gave Thea some fresh air and time to chew on the dirty swing and eat leaves.  All kids need to do that, right?  Hahahah.  

If it wasn't 38* outside today and breezy, we could have stayed there longer!  The sun has finally decided to pop out from behind those rainy clouds and it was nice getting out of the house for a change.