The Lugo Family {Central Florida Family Photographer}

Ahh....my face hurts. At least, this is what I posted on my dear friend Veronica's facebook page a couple hours ago. This morning I was able to meet up with her and THE FAM and take some pictures for them - what a fun Christmas present idea, huh? I should totally do this next year for MYSELF! haha!

Anyway, my face hurts because as I sat here going through the images my smile got bigger...and bigger....and eventually I had to stop myself and massage my cheeks, reminding myself that I do NOT need to grin like a cheshire cat at the computer screen! Alas, that stern talking-to only lasted about 30 seconds because as soon as I resumed my "work" the smile came back. :)

A quick "Merry Christmas" to my sweet, wonderful friend....I hope your family loves them and that you do too!

Let me start by mentioning how COLD it was out this morning! We met at 9am and it was STILL freezing!!


So we took lots of these...


And then of course some of these :)




And ooh-la-la some of THESE....


And anyone who knows the Lugo family KNOWS that a LOT of "this" was involved! :)




Oh those Lugo kids...they're so much fun :)

Marco + Briley {Central FL Wedding Photographer}

Just a quick sneak peek from a wedding... I have so much catching up to do in blogging, but right now it's just one step at a time. :) Isn't young love sweet?!

A mess of things...

That's what I've made. :) A big messy mess of things. I won't go into detail - at least not right now....but I'm making some changes. Personally, professionally...well, basically I'm taking a big step back and looking at things with some perspective. At least I'm going to try to. :)

I'm the kind of person who can't say no....and because of that I've said yes to about 30 things too many, so now my goal is to get through ALL of those things and then STOP.

Full stop. Recharge. Restore. Remove the unnecessary - that which is keeping me from enjoying moments with my little ones, my husband, my family, my friends...and then Restart. We'll see how it goes but for now, aside from the occasional professional post, I'm going to be me - Elisabeth, mom to Micah, Ella & Olive Juice. :) Regrouping.....

In the spirit of regrouping and restarting - it's about time I share something of Olive Juice, don't you think? She had a lot of fun with a bag of homemade hot chocolate mix that I was given as a gift....needless to say I did NOT get to enjoy it in the way I thought i would. It was still sweet, but in a different way!

Who me??? Yes you, Olive Juice...yes YOU. :)

The Myrick Family {Central Florida Family Photographer}

The Myrick family was in need of both pictures of their one year old daughter and pictures for their Christmas card. Of COURSE this is something I jumped at the opportunity to help them with! :) K is one of the sweetest little girls and also incredibly fun to photograph, and even though it was COLD by Florida standards, she trooped on and on much longer than I expected! In fact, the sun surprised us and set before we were done!

OH! And Cooper joined us...isn't he just so adorable? I want a "Cooper" so badly.....I'd totally let him live with me if he wanted to. :)







I was completely incapacitated when it came to narrowing this next series down...for both showing to the Myricks AND for sharing on the blog. So I decided to just show them ALL. :)



Probably my favorite family picture.....and it's BECAUSE of little K's face :) She did NOT want those shoes on...particularly the right shoe. If this was MY family it'd be big and on the wall when you first walk in the door. LOVE "real" moments! :) And yes, I do realize just how wierd I am. :)

Yes, there are more...but this is it for the blog. :)

Baby Liam {Central FL Newborn Photographer}

There are several people waiting (probably impatiently!) to see these pictures of baby Liam. What a sweetheart! Day 1 of his pictures - well, didn't go so well. :) He was WIDE awake and hungry....and mom and I, "winging it" as we were...well, we weren't prepared. He just happily made googelie eyes at us and sucked on his fingers hungrily. :) We decided to give him another chance....a few days later, during his morning nap.

SUCCESS! Sweet Liam...almost 4 weeks old...slept as soundly as could be while we moved him around in various poses. :) What a snuggly little dude...I thoroughly enjoyed our time together. ;)