Hot Summer Days and Loving Families..

Stephanie contacted me about pictures for August, family pictures, a boy 'almost 7' and a gal only '19 months'....Give you, I love Florida...it is my favorite place to call home, but August + family + photography session = a possible hot mess.  Especially when it is your first beach shoot.  So, I suggested to move it up, she gladly did and we opted for an early morning shoot.  Well, I may be the only one who feels this but, it has been UNBEARABLY HOT for an early June shoot.  Regardless, we met at Honeymoon Island.  And of course, I was drenched in sweat thinking, 'how do these kids not notice we are running around in a sauna?!'  They did great, and lots of beach exploration, digging, bird/boat watching happened as I wiped the sweat of my brow and tried my best to capture it...here are a few I edited.  Have a great Monday!

'Miss Jessie, did you know that you can hear the ocean in this shell?...'  'Aww, you are just the cutest, but please don't call me 'Miss'' I feel old.

Emily had no problems showing the boat passing by the shell she discovered!

This is my favorite (the mom and me pic), Emily was so cute with her lil pigtails.

Disney, Princesses and a Girl's trip...

Sisters are such a blessing. When your sister has kids it's a double wammy (that how you spell wammy??) My sister wanted so badly to take her daughter, Ella, to Disney for her first encounter with ALL the princesses, mickey and friends, specifically a girls only trip. Of course, living in Florida, I had to take Ella to my beach (oh yes, the beach I take everyone) Ft. Desoto. I didn't bring my fancy shmancy camera to Disney (who wants to lug that around all day when you have so many characters hands to shake?!) so here a couple from our beach trip...and one from Downtown Disney. All I have to say is, I love my sister and all her kids...:)
'Ella give me a smile!' ~me 'Aunt Jessie, here is your smile, now let me play!'

I love this one and the one below it!

Counting her seashells.

It Ain't Easy Being A Princess.

I went to the Rotolo's household to see the latest addition. When I say latest, I mean only a week old to this world. They named her Ava. She is a beauty, and being a week old (literally an exact week) I expected her to be sleeping at least one point of our shoot. Nope. She knew there was a party and being the life of the party, Ava had to make sure she was alert for the whole thing! Like her sign says 'It ain't easy being a Princess'.

Feather boa for the princess....It's pink and pretty like Ava. Even though the picture is in sepia.

I LLLOVEEE this dog. Plain and simple, I just love her. She watched over like it was her own sheep...get it? get it? German Shepherd? OK, I will stop.

But I won't stop, cause even though this picture isn't 'tha bomb' look at her lovingly 'clean Ava'...or for us humans..give her kisses. Muahh.

Gerber, Disney?? Model, anybody? Anyone?

OOOOK, til next time folks! Ava out, nap time! Only a week old, what do ya expect?!

Good ole Florida, St. Pete to precise.

It was such a gorgeous day here in good ole St. Pete...A nice breeze, the sun was shining and I had to grab my camera...My intent was to capture a bit of the Saturday Market, but we got caught up in all the goodies, so I just took pictures on the way back to the house, and some at my absolute favorite beach (the clouds came by the time we got there though, still just as nice:))...Here are a few of one of my favorite cities ever!

My absolute favorite tree....It is in bloom only for a bit once a year.. The flowers are just huge and as beautiful as they are big!

This pipe says 'Ohhh, I am too old for this'

I see this tree everytime I go to the beach and am blown away at how it was uprooted completely, you could say it was nearly blown away too.