I love capturing newborns' first moments of life in a newborn lifestyle session.  I love walking into someone's house and seeing how this little eight-and-a-half-pound being has just thrown the family's life into total utopic disarray.  Even having never met the family, to be there for such a precious time of life is such an honor and joy, I look forward to it every time I get the call.  

This session was no different.  Seeing how this little woman has changed her parents' world, seeing how her older brothers achieved a joy their  toddler brains had no idea possible, it was a magical day.  

But, this session was different.  This session was as different as can be.  

Because this time, this family, this newborn, this opportunity to document life as it is happening...was for one of my oldest dearest bestest friends in the world.  The girl whom I met and became lifelong friends with almost twenty-five years ago was the subject of this session.  Well, her newest offspring was, but I'm taking some poetic license.  

I wish I could find the words to explain the magnitude of my joy over being able to do this for one of my best friends.  To be able to capture her life as it happens.  I know how full of gratitude she is for these pictures but I don't think she knows how full of gratitude I am to be given the honor.  

She doesn't realize this but half of these pictures were not taken because of my photographic vision nor my desire to document her family in a proper newborn lifestyle session.  No, these pictures were an extension of my love for her and her family.  I took these pictures for me.  Every time my camera clicked, my heart filled with joy.  Ever little detail I captured, every moment of love and joy I witnessed behind my viewfinder was food for my soul.  Their joy was my joy.  

Please sit back, relax, and take a peek into the life of my loves.

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