Lacrosse love and four years of friendship...West Palm Beach Couple [Alicia + Jon]

This girl. 

This girl is beautiful, gorgeous, gloriously lovely. She's beyond-words-pretty and not just on the outside. But on the inside as well. 

Her family moved from Kentucky to South Florida when she was just eleven. I was seventeen. And though separated by six years, I felt an instant connection to her kind and mature heart. She grew up to be even more even lovelier lady than I could have dreamed.

About four years ago Alicia began casually talking to Jon about common interests. Although they'd grown up in the same church they had little to do with one another until then. He played lacrosse, she played lacrosse. He loved Jesus, she loved Jesus. He ate ice cream, she also enjoyed ice cream. Bam! Match made in Heaven ;)

In celebratory goodness, this session was inspired. We danced, and sang, and snapped (well, maybe that was just me) away the evening around the Flagler Museum and Palm Beach. They celebrate real, true blue, fun-loving, four-year-togetherness. Are NOT engaged, yet. And waiting until they finish college. Please meet this sweet couple and prepare to swoon over their cute faces.

Your story is a beautiful one, Alicia + Jon.
:)Tori

Fort Worth Event Photographer | [ Alayna Turns Four ] Personal

Her mom is the very best friend I'm privileged to know.

Her dad, the music minister at my church. 

Her little sister is a little fairy.

Her eyes are bright blue and her eyebrows have a slight "thinking frown"

Her favorite thing is to listen to her Nana tell her stories about an imaginary mouse.

Her deepest wish is to have hair like Rapunzel.

Her gift is loving deeply, seeing clearly, thinking beyond.

She's sugary sweet and just turned four. 

Happy Birthday to my friend, Alayna.

Thanks for letting me share your cupcake sweet, story, Alayna!

:)Tori

A long time coming...DFW Birth and Beyond Resource Guide 2013

Anyone who knows me, knows I'm a little more than obsessed with the topic of birth. I love everything about it, the excitement leading up to it, and the warm newborn fuzzies afterward. 

Back in September, I was doing a little thinking and a whole lot of praying. God has blessed in so many ways. To even have the opportunity to use this camera for anything other than my own family was an unexpected gift. But after a bit of a hiatus shortly after the birth of my daughter in Feb '12, the business wasn't doing so hot. I had been mothering my newborn (which is exactly where I needed and wanted to be) and Adele Photography was basically sitting out on the sun deck (if I had one) sipping lemonade and reading every issue of BHG from the year 2011.

I needed a sign. And I honestly didn't mind whether it said, "Stop" or "Go". Just to be told what to do by The One Who knew best was more than enough for me.

While on a trip to Virginia to visit my extended family, I received a standard email (along with other photogs) from the Tarrant County Birth Network, asking if I would be interested in having my work featured on the front of the new DFW Birth & Beyond Resource Guide. I was super pumped about it, but knew that many other more than qualified photographer's would probably jump at the chance to be on the cover. So I waited. And prayed. I received another email. And I waited. And prayed again.

I waited two whole days.

Then I called and said, "YES!"

This beautiful couple happily agreed to be a help to us by lending us their sweet bump ;) and we shot the night away around the downtown area of the great city of Fort Worth, Texas. 

Fast forward to January 2013, and we have the resource guide with my first work in print!! So excited for what the future holds for us as we enter into this new year full of promise and clean pages!

Props to Yvette from Paradigm Creative Studio for the beautiful ad for my business in the front of the Resource Guide, to Hannah Reasoner from Intuitive Mothering and all the other rad chapter leaders at Tarrant County Birth Network. Also to Vlad, Danielle, & babe, for putting the frosting on the cake!

So blessed to be a part of something so big, it's literally changing lives and taking the nation by storm.