A few weekends ago I got to celebrate my best friend and bride-to-be, Taylor at her bridal shower and bachelorette party! It was the perfect weekend filled with family, friends, mimosas, no sleep and mechanical bulls…aka the best time ever!

I am photographing Taylor and her fiance Doug’s wedding in May, so I decided to bring my camera along to capture Taylor’s shower too! There were delicious cupcakes, fun games and so much love to celebrate the gorgeous, almost bride. I can’t wait until the big day in May when we get to celebrate all over again with Taylor and Doug’s amazing family and friends! Love you, Taylor!

-Michelle 🙂

Here’s some bonus iPhone photos of my beautiful best friends!

Not only did I get to have a great engagement session with an awesome couple a few weeks ago, but I got to photograph their beautiful engagement party last weekend! Geralyn and Patrick were surrounded by their wonderful family and friends to celebrate the start of their new life together.

With the perfect and elegant decorations, the fun music that the kids loved dancing to and everyone in attendance smiling from ear to ear with love for the happy couple, it was the best day! The more I get to spend time with Geralyn, Patrick and their families, the more excited I get for their wedding. They are just the sweetest couple and it’s so much fun to share in this special time with them! Congrats again you guys!

-Michelle 🙂

I had my first session of 2017 last weekend and it. was. perfect. It was a lovely engagement session with the perfect rustic backdrop and the perfect couple! I have known the gorgeous bride to be for a while so I was so excited when she asked me to do her engagement pictures. Geralyn, along with her awesome fiance Patrick, were so much fun to work with. They braved the cold weather and were super agreeable to all of my ideas and places to take pictures.

They snuggled up and were so in love during our whole session, it was honestly just so sweet. They were either laughing or smiling the whole time and it made my job pretty easy! 😉 I loved getting to photograph their engagement session and I am beyond excited to photograph their wedding in November! Congratulations Patrick and Geralyn!

-Michelle 🙂

I always love getting to photograph families that I babysit for and I had such a blast with this crew! We met up the day before Thanksgiving in the beautiful Allaire State Park and the lighting was absolutely amazing.

This perfectly coordinated gang were excited to take pictures and they eagerly followed wherever I brought them for each new setting. While mom and dad were awesome models, the kids really turned on the charm whenever I picked up my camera! They had silly poses, serious poses and their very best poses to probably start a modeling career! As always, it was a great afternoon with another awesome family!

-Michelle 🙂

Last week I was back at the best place on Earth, the beach, for another beautiful Christmas session. This gorgeous girl and her sweet little dog were so much fun to photograph! It may have taken us a little while to get the dog to look my way, but when we got it, it was perfect!

Unfortunately, there seems to be a pattern in my sessions lately that we always pick the cold day, or the windy day…the day of this session, of course it was both! The wind was blowing like crazy and we had sand hitting us so hard we had to stop a few times to cover our faces! However, this girl, like all of the awesome kids and families that I get to work with, was an absolute trooper and smiled through it all! Happy December!

-Michelle 🙂

I’ve known this awesome family for many, many years…way back when I was as young as these two cute boys! So of course I was very excited to get to photograph them at one of my favorite places.

It was extremely cold the day of our session, but this family toughed it out and the boys were on their best behavior! We walked all around the park and collected a bunch of giant leaves along the way! We even got hot chocolate at the end of the session to warm up for the ride home. The boys kept us all laughing and it was worth every minute of being out in the cold!

-Michelle 🙂

I am obsessed with Island Heights! It is just adorable, the river is beautiful and it always provides a perfect backdrop for photos. I was so excited to do this session at Island Heights and the lighting and scenery did not fail! Not the mention, the kids looked absolutely perfect!

As the sun was setting, we took advantage of the perfect light and we explored the boardwalk to find the best places for our next picture. These kids and their mom were so awesome to work with and it made for a great session at my favorite place!

-Michelle 🙂

I always know it’s going to be super cute when I get to photograph my beautiful peanut and her beautiful sisters! Gabriella is the little girl that I nanny and I just love her and her sisters. This is our second year taking pictures for Christmas and it’s so fun and exciting for me to see how much these girls have grown!

We decided to head to the beach and bring along all of our Christmas spirit. Even though it was chilly, these cuties snuggled up together and gave me the sweetest smiles. They made each other laugh, they made me laugh, and best of all, mom was doing all kinds of silly things to get them to laugh! Overall, it was a great session to celebrate the holiday season!

-Michelle 🙂

I knew there would be more of this sweet baby and his awesome family in my future! It was such an honor to be able to photograph James’s Baptism a few weeks ago. Dressed in his dad’s Baptism outfit, and surrounded by his family and friends, baby James was absolutely adorable. And not to mention, he took getting water splashed on his head like a total pro!

James was Baptized at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church and he was the star of the show. Whether it was snuggling with mom during the ceremony, or staring up at dad while being Baptized, little James was calm, cute and precious the entire time!

This little guy took a quick snooze at the start of his party, but once he woke up, he was ready to go! Hanging out with his family, meeting new friends or just having a bottle, James’s celebration was perfect. Congratulations on your Baptism, James!

-Michelle 🙂

I’ve been going to Double Trouble State Park since I was little. The trails are beautiful all year round, but it’s pretty special in the fall! I had so much fun photographing one of my favorite families there last week.

I was lucky enough to babysit these two cute girls this summer and we had the best time! It was so fun taking their family pictures because they loved posing and being my assistants too! We did some hiking and exploring of the park and stopped plenty of times along the way to take pictures where we found the perfect background.

I just love everything about this session; the color of the leaves, the beautiful light, and the perfectly coordinated outfits that mom picked out! This session had been rescheduled so many times because it kept raining on the day we were supposed to shoot! Luckily, the weather held up this time and it ended up being another perfect fall day for pictures!

-Michelle 🙂