Levan & Stephanie

As promised, here are a few of my favorites from my cousin Levan's wedding last month. Despite the rain, snow and hail it was a beautiful day. My aunt and uncle's house is truly breathtaking. They held the ceremony and reception at the house and really kept everything in the family...my uncle wrote the ceremony and performed the wedding, my aunt did all the cooking and I was the photographer. It really gave the whole day a cozy feeling and I'm so happy for Levan and Stephanie. They are so happy together and I wish them all the happiness in the world!






One of their vows was to keep each other laughing, so my cousin pulled this little stunt right before the kiss...






These are the ladies who pulled off all the cooking and setting up. My aunt is in the middle. Don't you love their aprons!

Catching up I: Columbia River Gorge

This post is over a month overdue. At the beginning of March my east coast family made a long overdue trip to the west coast for my eldest cousin's wedding. (Wedding photos coming tomorrow!) On Friday we decided to drive along the Columbia River, which separates Washington and Oregon, and visit the waterfalls along the way. It was gorgeous and the waterfalls were truly breathtaking. Photos just don't do them justice, but here's my best attempt.

Quincy

I'm in CT for the extended weekend and I had the great luck to spend the day catching up with one of my best friends in the world yesterday. And even better, I got to meet her new baby...an adorable cocker spaniel named Quincy. I couldn't resist snapping a few shots of him, even though he was no easy subject!

I mean seriously...how can you resist that face?! Check back throughout the week...I have a lot of catching up to do, so there's plenty more posts coming.

Alex

I can't believe Alex was a full month old before we got to take his formal portraits. But here he is in all his adorableness. There's plenty more, but these are my favorites :)

This is his "Here's looking at you kid" impression

I love little toes!!

They're hee-re

On Friday the 13th of Feb our family got two new members: My brother's son, Alex Julian Nigito and my mom and step-father's black lab puppy Pete. Since Alex and family spent the weekend in the hospital getting to know each other, I'll be posting more photos of them later when we get a chance to do a real photo shoot. This weekend Pete dominated my camera when I wasn't too busy fending him off. Too cute!

Isn't Alex awesome!!

And here's Pete:

Annie wonders what she did to deserve this.

Snow!

Me and the roomies took a nice long walk into center city to get some delicious Italian hot chocolate from Capogiro and to enjoy the snow. I wish I could have brought my camera the whole way, but it was way too wet out. It was gorgeous though. Here's a few shots from our front porch when we got back. We were inspired to build a snowman to celebrate the first real Philly snow : )

Sweet baby girl | Philadelphia Area Newborn Photography

This is my last scheduled newborn before I inundate you with photos of my nephew, and what a good model she was. There was hardly a peep out of her the entire session, she just wanted to see what everyone else was up to. It'll be no time before she's on the heels of her big brother.




And here's a rare still moment with the new big brother: