Brandy Lewis Photography

Today we took Mya to take some pictures in the bluebonnets.  Because taking her pictures is usually such a nightmare, I decided to combine these pictures with her birthday pictures since her birthday is coming up on Cinco de Mayo.  All day I was a little sick just thinking about the last time that I took Mya’s pictures.  It was awful!!  Ryder was just as nervous as I was.  I finally decided that I wasn’t going to tell Mya that we were taking her pictures.  We were “just going to play in the flowers”.  Uh huh, that’s right.  Why did I have my camera on me?  I was “taking pictures of the beautiful flowers”.  😉  When we pulled up to the spot, there were a ton of people there and the flowers were everywhere.  Mya said, “Mya too!!  Awesome!!”  Good sign!!  So we got out in the flowers and I just pretended to take pictures of the flowers but told Ryder to get behind me and act crazy.  So he did and it worked!!!  Mya wanted to lay in the flowers and was looking right at me.  She wanted to dance, she laughed, she smiled.  I almost cried it was so perfect.  I kept showing Ryder the pictures saying, “Oh my gosh!  Look at these!”  I was so giddy and happy that we really got some good pictures of her and she didn’t even know it.  She didn’t know it until I asked Ryder to take a picture of Mya and me.  Then she started fussing.  lol Silly girl!!  So I will post her birthday pictures soon, but here is my favorite one of her today in her Easter dress.  I love you, my little honey bunny!

Today was such a crazy, busy, exhausting day!!  I did a first birthday session in the morning, rushed to the grocery store and then home so that we could take Mya to the neighborhood Easter party.  Then we got home, I ate lunch faster than I’ve ever eaten, packed up the car with my newborn session gear and raced out the door.  I was going to Pflugerville and had my google maps directions, but wow, were they ever wrong.  I got sooo lost.  I don’t usually ever get lost going to a session but I got so lost that I almost started crying on the phone with Ryder who was trying to help me out.  Our GPS system was still packed with our stuff from our Miami trip.  My phone was beeping at me that it was about to die and I had no way of getting a hold of the mom from my session.  I was in the middle of NOWHERE land!  What a nightmare!!  I finally found my way there and things worked out great.  Thank goodness.  What a day!

So here are a couple of pictures from my morning session.  This was a morning of firsts.  We went to some property that  a friend of mine owns. (Thank you, Amanda, so much!)  They have some animals there on their property:  goats, donkeys,…and there was a horse on the lot next to theirs.  So in the middle of taking pictures, a horse came up and stuck his head right in the picture.  LOL  Weird, but cool.  Later the dad had to herd a few donkeys away from us so that we could take pictures without them being in them.  I was laughing so hard.  Thanks for your hard work, dad!  So this little boy was the happiest little thing.  I fell in love with him!  Thank you guys for a fun morning!

I love the way he just stopped and stared at this horse.  It cracks me up!  😉

I love you, bluebonnets!

Here are some pictures from my newborn session.  I loved hanging out with this family.  I met the mom through some old teacher friends that I used to work with.  I loved talking to her today.  I have a feeling that if we weren’t moving, she and I would become good friends.  She’s just so cool and easy to talk to.  And she had lots of great ideas for different pictures.  I love that!  Big brother was there too.  (Pictures of him coming soon.)  He was so sweet and apparently is the future version of Mya.  They were very similar babies and have personalities that are a lot alike.  It’s good to see that she will probably mellow out someday.  But this baby!  He was a dream child!!!  He slept the entire time that I was there, until the end.  If he woke up, he would stretch and instantly fall back asleep.  He was so adorable.  Congratulations on another perfect child you two!

More later, but now it’s bedtime.  The Easter bunny will be here bright and early in the morning!

We are heading back home tomorrow.  🙁  So sad to leave this beautiful place but anxious to get packing and get the move on!  We have so much to do that it almost makes me sick just thinking about it, but it will all be over and done in a month and a half.  It will fly by!  Today on our way back from the beach we heard the Alicia Keys “New York” song just as we pulled up behind a car that had a N.Y. license plate.  It was such an exciting feeling!  Mya was singing with me  from the back, “New Work!!!”  Precious!