Roseville Sacramento wedding & portrait photographer

It’s crazy how time flies! It was only little over a year ago when I met Katarina, Joe and Nicolas on a dusty shoe walk for our new home. A couple months later we moved into the brand new neighborhood in town. Nine days later Joe, Kat and Nicolas moved in as our immediate neighbor. We got to know the family better and became really good friends. During that time Katarina was expecting her second child. She asked if I would shoot her maternity session. So, I did! And that was just the beginning!

Her beautiful baby girl was born a month later. They named her Lili Ana. We went to see her at the hospital, I was thrilled to hold her in my arms for the first time! Four days later, I went to visit her again, this time I took my camera for fun and took a couple shots of the newborn. That picture is now hanging as a beautiful canvas art on their wall. Then came Christmas, followed by Lili’s Baptism. I had the honor to document both the events for her. Two weeks ago little Lili turned ONE. And guess who was their to capture her celebration? You got it! They had a party over the weekend, but I was out to SF shooting another session. But I was there on her real birthday to make sure that her cake-eating-experience didn”t go undocumented.

I really can’t believe that Lili is a year a old already! I just saw her yesterday and she was walking all over the place. I don’t know how she can get any cuter, but she is becoming even more adorable day by day. I mentioned it earlier and I have to mention it again, I love this little girl! It’s been amazing to capture the big moments for her first year, I’m blessed to have her around.

Off to the real deal now, enjoy a few images from Lili’s first birthday.

She got a gift, but it seemed like she was more into the gift receipt

She wears a tutu and walks side by side with mommy…

Her birthday cake.
I think she loves the taste…

Look at that smile…

It was her happy hour…
Her joy is in pushing her big brother on a toy-truck!

Things have been pretty crazy lately. But, no matter what happens in life, babies can make everything look simple and beautiful. Just when I started breaking down with heart breaking news from my homeland, baby Ethan made it all good for me for that moment with his one BIG smile. Ethan is now three months old. They grow big sooo fast…sigh! Here’s to you Ethan…

Little Ethan on the couch…

It was an amazing experience for me to attend Lili’s Baptism ceremony last Sunday. The event took place at Saint Anna Greek Orthodox Church in Roseville. It’s a fairly new Church in town, located on top of a hill on Roseville Pkwy. It rained non-stop on Sunday. A lot of the guests including Lili’s God Parents travelled from Modesto, CA for the ceremony. After the ceremony we all went to Old Spaghetti Factory for the reception.

I had the honor to capture this beautiful ceremony for little Lili. I can’t believe she is already so big! She is now crawling all over and trying to say words like mama-baba. Watching her grow so closely has been awesome for me. I LOVE this little girl; I wish her the very best in every step of her journey. Congratulations Lili Ana, may you be blessed with all the happiness in life.

Watch the slideshow here.

One of the great things about having long term friendship is that we get to celebrate the journey of life with our long term friends. We become a part of their joyous occassions like birthdays, weddings, baby births, etc or that of the dreadful moments like mornings before exams!!! Tahseen is one such a friend who I have been sharing my significant moments with. At this point in life I only know that I am going to grow old with her, in a good way of course

This post is not about Tahseen or I, but her baby girl Samaira. Almost seven months ago Tahseen and her husband Ahsan brought in a beautiful baby girl to this world. They named her Samaira. Last month I had the priviledge to meet Samaira at their beautiful residence in Atlanta, GA. My heart melted as soon as I saw her. Tahseen has always been a part of me. Now this little munchkin also holds a special place in my heart. Like the meaning of her name, she is enchanting! She is so tiny. She has a way of keeping her arms when someone is holding her. She is very observant like her mother (as I was told) and has the sharp eyes of her dad. She is a darling!

These are a few of my favorites from her session. You can see the slideshow here

I can’t describe how adorable this beautiful little girl is. All I can say is that I can’t get enough of her

These are a few of miss Lili’s pictures from this morning’s photo shoot., don’t forget to leave me some blog luv More from the Horton family session coming soon…

So many things have happened during the Thanksgiving break! I have been away from computer most of the time, spending time with my family and friends. I had my college friends visiting us from Portland last week for Thanksgiving(we had a blast, wait for the next post), then I spent an evening with the newborn baby Ethan. Ethan was born to Sheila and Ronak two weeks ago. Here are some teasers from his photo session last night.

He was not camera-shy at all to begin with! In fact he was following me as he was posing

He almost had a smile!

And then he was done! Baby Ethan was ready to go back to his mommy

I kinda felt bad that we had to take his warm blanket away and put him on the couch while he was quiely minding his own business, but I had to take some pictures We had fun spending time with the kabir family last night. I wish Sheila and Ronak the very best for their new baby. I bet little Ethan is going to grow so fast that he’ll be going to college before we even know!