Issy Schmid Imaging

Last weekend we went down to shoot Melissa and Adam’s engagement session at the Bellevue State Park in Wilmington, DE. As soon as we were driving in I knew I was going to love the location that they selected, because I fell in love with these gorgeous yellow fields. I am currently replacing my obsession with whispy’s with tall yellow fields and Willow trees after this session. Melissa and Adam were so much fun to work with. They are an absolutely adorable and silly couple. They started off the day wearing their wedding colors and finished up the shoot in their Phillies gear. We always love working with some Phillies fans.. espcially since we are so excited about the playoffs starting this week. There was a lot of laughter during this engagement shoot, which was totally fine with me, because Melissa has the best smile. Her smile completely lights up her face, and I can’t wait until their wedding next July.

So, anyone who talks to me on the regular has heard many of stories about the adorable kids who come to visit their grandparents next door to us. Austin and I are so fortunate to have such great neighbors who have returned my runaway dog when I was shooting a wedding one Saturday, have saved my car by letting me know I left the top down in the rain, share their Phillies tickets, and being Italian.. are always trying to feed us.. So, when their daughter Michelle told me that she wanted to give her mom a family portrait session of her kids and grandkids for her birthday, we were more than excited. There are 5 grandkids in the family, and they are all so cute, that I have spent plenty of Sundays on the front lawn with them playing tag and picking flowers. I love being around little kids, because everything that they say and do makes me laugh.

We decided that the beach in Sea Isle would be a great place to take the photos, and it happens to be where they spent their family vacation this summer, so it was a perfect setting for a family photo.

One thing that only took about 5 minutes to realize was that being at the beach in September was quite confusing to the little ones. Clearly, there are much better things to do at the beach like:

Look for shells:

Or, Run around:

And of course what would the beach be without some time in the ocean:

But we were still able to get some good portraits and fun candids along the way…

I know that I haven’t blogged in a while because I have been working on albums, thank-you cards and edits from all of this summer’s weddings. I figured I would take my Saturday night to put together a new blog post.

I second shot Megan and Mike’s wedding with my friend Nate Juliano . Nate had recently had MCL surgery, so part of my job for the day was to carry all of our equipment. I knew my P90x weighlifting skills would eventually come in handy for a wedding! I have to say though, the next day was a sore one. Nate snapped this photo of me on the wedding day, and then he labeled the equipment that I was carrying. He tagged me on facebook with this photo, and I thought it was too funny not to share here. So, here is a pic of me being hercules on Megan and Mike’s wedding day.

Megan and Mike’s wedding took place in Marlton, NJ and then the reception was held at one of my favorite reception locations, Adelphia’s in Deptford, NJ. These two are adorable together. Megan looked gorgeous, and the day was perfect.

Its crazy that it was a full year ago that we sat in the hospital through the night waiting for this little guy to arrive. Our nephew turned one on Wednesday, and we celebrated yesterday at Austins dad’s house. The Mickey Mouse themed party turned out great, and it was nice to share the day with family. Now, I may be a little biased, but I really think that we have the cutest little nephew ever. As he gets older I seem to think he looks more and more like his dad, but he was also lucky to get his mom’s gorgeous green eyes. Don’t you just want to squeeze him? So cute…

Happy 1st B-day Alex!