the world stopped, stood silent, they hung on every breath...baby nathan | newborn

It was a rather chilly day outside but full of sunshine and smiles in the home where I met Baby Nathan. He was cuddled so sweetly in his mama's arms. Dressed in a sweet little gray playset and wearing the chubbiest baby cheeks. His teeny fingers curled up into his palms and long legs stretched out along her arm.

Beautiful mama and daddy so in love, so much in awe. This wee life had captured them heart and soul. The World stopped. Stood still. Silent. They hung on every breath, grinned at every sound.

I got home after their session and could hardly stand the time in between getting their images onto the computer and editing them. As the photos loaded and I began to thumb through them I couldn't help but smile. So much beautiful love came from each frame. I had my first baby fever moment since being pregnant with my daughter.

T h a t  is what Baby Nathan did.

Congrats to you both, Mom and Dad. I wish you the sweetest little blessings on that precious miracle you hold in your arms.

Your story is just beginning, Nathan. And I'm sure it will be such a special one.
:) Tori

Eva's favorite blue-eyed boy but he's a man now...Alan | Senior

We trampled over dirt and grass and broke branches with our feet and faced the clouds and the coming storm. I watched as he skipped rocks and stood under the trees and laughed at his mom beside me. I am seeing him in my mind's eye. Watching his shuffle his feet as I get the angle I'm looking for. He probably wonders when these senior pictures will be finished. But he doesn't act like it.

His mom grins ear to ear as she watches everything he does. That boy that has now become a man. He's her "favorite blue-eyed boy" she tells me. Her "favorite brown-eyed boy" already off at college finishing another year, working hard during the summer to pay his bills.

Alan's her baby. He's a man now, but he'll always be her baby.

I'm not your mama, Alan, but I am so proud to see who you have become. You have faced some great trials and come through better than anyone could expect. You've traveled the World to give to others what they did not know. Christ's love burns bright in your heart. May it always.

"If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!"
Rudyard Kipling, If