While there are so many images of baby Gabriella I could share, these ones are stealing my heart. These fleeting moments with a newborn preserved with a timeless grainy black and white.
Flowers In Her Hair || Emily, Quinn & Avery
To decorate a woman, remind her of her beauty, is always powerful. We are all broken, and there is healing in doing something simply for the purpose of extravagance and self love. And without going anywhere, but right in your own home, the tapestry for the beautiful woven mess of it all. This project is becoming close to my heart.
But this session has me thinking Flowers In Her Hair may have been meant for Mothers.
Because THIS WAS PERFECT.
Because show me one new momma who hasn't cried right along side her baby on tired late nights, or who doesn't have piles of clothes and diaper boxes piled up or hidden in back rooms. She looks at this human, this tiny new life in the world, and is filled to the brim with each and every piece of it and begins to pour out her heart.
Brave new momma, you deserve all the extravagance and self-love.
The Day Family
Spent my morning with the Day family, and they are simply the sweetest. I am still gushing over the grainy morning light coming in as their daughter showed me her favorite game of jumping on the mattress, or how she wanted her own coffee cup, just like Dad, when sitting at the table. Or those big round baby checks of little sister!
So thankful the invitation, to be let into this home, as is. Simply allowing me to come be a witness of their everyday, and capture the heart of who they are.
