Yesterday I spent a fun afternoon with Maria Grazia and Marco, who are expecting their first baby. Mattia.

Maria Grazia was so excited when she learned I was going to be in Italy before her due date, so, even though on vacation {it’s never a real vacation} I gladly accepted her request to schedule a maternity session. I traveled from Milan towards the outskirts of Bergamo and the weather was just perfect.

Little April – who wouldn’t stay anywhere in front of the camera – is so cute, and my son, my assistant for the day, loved being around her. He squealed in delight the entire time.

We took countless gorgeous pictures but I am currently working on my laptop, which is far from calibrated. I also despise editing with a mouse {once you get used to that Wacom tablet, you can never go back} so these are straight out of the camera, minus the black and white conversion.

Stay tuned for a lot more when I am back from my trip.

I had the pleasure of photographing the surprise birthday party my friend Jaclyn organized for her husband Adam. It was an amazing party, with delicious food and fun people to talk to.

While I have yet to finish editing all the images, here are a few relaxed family portraits taken after all the guests left. You might recognize little Miss Olivia…

Three generations.

I think Olivia was tired and done with pictures. What do you say?

There are so many more I would love to share, but not until I’m back from Europe.

Sunday’s photoshoot with Robert was a very interesting one. This guy has so many different talents and interests and he asked me to portray them.

This is just a sneak peek of what we worked on.

Meet Kelly and Morgan!

Yet, another gorgeous mom to be!

And I love this outtake – grandpa playing baby whisperer. He was actually pretty good at it.

I took these portraits of Olivia during her dad’s 30th birthday party. The party was awesome but I won’t share anything from that yet as I am still working on picking a few favorites to blog.

Enjoy the cuteness.

Olivia was less than impressed with everyone trying to get her to look at the camera and smile…

I stole this as she was having lunch in her highchair. Aren’t those eyes gorgeous?

More from Zoe’s 3 months session…

A little tummy time… although she did not tolerate it well.

I will see this cutie again when she turns 6 months!

I was pregnant. We were in Kaua’i, Hawaii.

So, a year has gone by and I have barely even edited a few pictures from that trip. Well, I did take a TON, but still… Here and here you can see something I shared last year.