Teagan is my niece. I should call her my "almost niece", being that Josh and I are not married yet, but I'm so head over heels for the girl it feels strange to call her anything else.
I felt a very strong attachment to Tea long before I ever met her and I started labeling her as my niece months before Josh even put a ring on my finger. I loved her right away.
This is one of the first pictures Josh ever sent me of Teagan when she was just a couple months old!
I met Teagan the day I moved down to Florida, and I stayed with Mandy and Bill for my first 2 weeks, so I got a chance to know my sweet niece very well in a short amount of time.
This is my first time meeting Tea- my first time holding her!
Ever since then I've only fallen more and more in love with the little girl.
I had been admiring other photographers blogs of children for some time, so when my camera arrived, I couldn't think of a better subject than Sweet Tea.
It was a very special evening for us. We headed down to Cape Coral Yacht club to take some photos on the beach, but also have some fun on the playground. The drive there seemed to take FOREVER. Teagan was so patient in my backseat, just reading books. I was stressing we were going to miss all the daylight!
We got to our destination and headed to the beach. Teagan had never been to the beach before. Being that she's had a couple surgeries and some pretty serious UTI's since she was born, she hasn't really been able to be near the sand and surf. Watching her try to stand in the sand and continually fall down was adorable. She'd get sand on her hand, look at it concerned and then show me her hand so I could dust it off. I snapped this picture shortly after I dusted some sand off her hand. The confused look on her face is priceless.
She held my hand, and we walked towards the water. After walking around a bit and continually saying "it's ok" as she looked up at me like, "what the heck is this all about", she was so happy and running up and down the beach while I snapped pictures.
We did a costume change shortly after. Teagan LOVES to dress up so I had no problem putting this little number on her.
People were watching her prance around and be cute, and I could tell by the smirks on their faces they thought she was adorable. A little girl, probably 8 years old, came over and started talking to me, asking me questions about my camera and our photo shoot. She was sweet. She asked if I wanted help making Teagan laugh and I told her if she could, go for it! I don't know what the girl was doing but Teagan was cracking up. Right as she stopped laughing she made this ADORABLE face and I'm SO glad I snapped it!
We took a couple other great shots of Teagan in her little Hula girl outfit! Check them out!
We put on a 3rd and final outfit and headed to the playground. I was more focused on actually playing with Teagan than snapping pictures while we were there- so I only took a couple! This one if my favorite of our play time! The lighting is off, but just look at that face!!
We finished up our shoot on the pier! She looks so old in these shots!!
And that about sums it up! I headed back to Mandy's for some pizza and to show off my shots of her gorgeous little girl. And while these weren't "part" of the shoot- these pictures melt me.....
Teagan Marie- Not only are you the smartest, sweetest, most well behaved little girl I've ever known, but you are GORGEOUS. You've ALWAYS held an extremely special place in my heart, even before I knew you! The kind of special where, sometimes you do something so cute, it takes everything in me to keep from tearing up! You were my first ever photo shoot! I'll always treasure it! I love you SO much! xoxox
Mandy & Bill- thanks for letting me borrow your kid! <3
If you want to see the WHOLE shoot- you can go to my flikr @
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chelsealiz8/sets/72157626074145220
OR if you're willing to let me get more practice and shoot your kids- email me @ Chelsealiz8@yahoo.com
Thanks for stopping by!! Come again soon!!
<3 CB
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