Lily Bella Photography

The Lavorenti Family

I had the pleasure of meeting Erica and her husband, Mauricio along with their son, Gabriel as my fourth and last session this past weekend. Erica is expecting a little girl in the next couple weeks and she wanted a few maternity photos to document this pregnancy. She especially wanted a few photos with Gabriel and a family photo as well.

Dad wanted to get a father/son photo too, so we threw that in the mix.

Erica also specified to me that she really liked sepia-toned and black/white photos a little better than color. So I had fun playing around with these in different tones.

I tried the one above in both black/white and sepia. But there was just something about it in color. I love the very sweet but slightly devilish look on Gabriel's face. :-)

The last two are my absolute favorites. So GORGEOUS!! Erica, you are one beautiful pregnant woman! All the best in the next few weeks and I hope I get the chance to meet your little girl very soon! Looking forward to editing the rest of these pics.

Baby Time Soon!

Our third baby is due to arrive in a week or so. I've never had any maternity photos taken other than profile snapshots just to document belly growth. I thought it would be fun this morning to take some photos one last time with just the four of us. The girls were only cooperative for a short while. So we didn't get as many as I may have liked. But here are a few. We used a timer or my hubby Andrew was behind the camera. I even braved a bare belly shot!

    I really like the above photo of the girls. So cute!

Andrew did a great job of trying to get the shots that I wanted. We took a few with my head in too, but I didn't like those nearly as much. Oh! And I got a new camera for Christmas! A Canon 7D! I'm so excited. I haven't really been able to do a session with it yet, other than taking snapshots at Christmas. But if how these turned out is any indication of how the new camera works, I'll be plenty happy with it. So look out Baby, you'll be my first official session with the new camera! Can't wait!

Autumn Afternoon

I met up with Stephanie, Mark and their boys at Hyland Lake Park yesterday. It was a gorgeous fall afternoon with trees at their peak color and tons of leaves to play with on the ground. Stephanie is due any second with their third child (we almost had to cancel for a false alarm on Friday night!) and wanted to get pictures of the boys in before their new arrival makes her debut. Lukas and Taylor were so patient with me for an hour and half as we walked all over the picnic area and down by the lake. I really had a good time trying to get Lukas to smile. He certainly wanted to test us out with "Let's see how long I can NOT smile." But, we snuck a few smiles out of him and ended up with quite a few fun photos! Here's a sneak peak.

Just the girls

My husband, Andrew went off to Wisconsin this weekend to play golf with his buddies so I thought it would be fun to have a girls weekend. I invited our friend Amber along with her daughter Brianna to spend the weekend hanging out with me and my girls Amber's husband was playing golf with Andrew. I figured why should we be golf widows on our own. We might as well have fun together and let the kids entertain each other.

I snapped a few photos of Amber and Brianna while we were hanging out in the backyard. I was hoping to take a few photos of them because Amber is expecting her second baby and I thought it might be fun to take some maternity photos. Brianna wasn't incredibly excited about having her picture taken, but she did oblige for a few shots. I think they turned out adorable!

I have a session with Ann and Luke and their five-month-old, Daniel next Sunday. I'm looking forward to doing another family shoot. Stay tuned!