Meet four-day-old Maximus — Xavier’s new little brother! It’s been a pleasure documenting Ruth’s family every few months for the past two years. I was so happy to meet this little guy and as you can see, so was his big brother!!

Lots of kisses and snuggles and TONS of love 🙂

Eric’s mother was in town, so the family and I met up again in San Jose and had a family shoot at Doerr Park. Lillian is now 20 months old! She’s grown up so much since I last met her for her cake smash photo shoot! She’s such an adorable independent little lady – loves to run around, especially away from us, making that cute “come catch me!” face. Can’t wait to see you guys next year 😀

Baby Meera is six months old! I took photos of her and the family around the house and wow! Vaishnavi and Prashanth have a beautiful house with amazing indoor lighting! Meera is surrounded by so much love and it makes her a really happy baby 🙂 So many smiles in the photos thanks to Prashanth, who kept making silly faces and doing silly dances and it totally worked!

Another round of the Norwoods’ yearly family photos — how time flies! This year Peter and Jeanette decided to have the photos taken right at home. The landscaping in their backyard was done right before we had their session, and what a beautiful place they had, both inside and out!! And my favorite little model, Aaron, simply rocked this session again!

Meet one-week-old Vivian! She is such a great little model with a good temper and she sure knows how to smile at the camera! Bonnie and Judson were constantly amazed by Vivian’s daily change. Let’s see… Vivian lost her umbilical stump to reveal her new belly button on the day of the photo shoot, and she had just learned to put fingers (sometime her whole little hand) into her mouth and make funny sounds with it. She has so many facial expressions and I got some really cute ones!

Bonnie and Jud’s puppy, Miss Georgia, joined us at the end of the session and she was soooo happy but very gentle towards Vivian — it melted my heart! She gave out lots of sweet kisses and we got some great family pictures for the four of them 🙂