I was honored to have photographed Baby Shiloh in her first, of many, portraits. Getting to captures these little peanuts during this stage in their life, during a newborn session, is something i am so blessed to be trusted with.
I have known Brittany, the person Baby Shiloh refers to as mom for years! Around San Diego she is known as a few things; the ever talented make up artist behind Brides By Brittany as well as our very own Miss California! Spending time with Brittany and getting to know her on a deeper level (B and I went to the same high school…10 years ago), has been an honor. She is a sweet friend, a Godly women and an amazing mother! I am lucky to call Brittany a friend!
Little S is following in her mamas footsteps. Maybe we have a future Miss USA here!
Check out our session with Baby S below and the sweet little love note from Mama to baby!
“My sweet Shiloh Grace,
Six Months. Half a year. It’s a blink of an eye.
I think back to where we were six months ago and my eyes fill up remembering those first sacred hours: The way my heart exploded into a million pieces when I first touched you. The indescribable feeling of you lying on my chest as you took your first miraculous breath. Your soft, sweet coo as your eyes met your daddy. Watching your tiny chest rise and fall in perfect rhythm as you slept in my arms and thanking God for his gift of your life. Nursing you the first time and being overcome with an unbreakable love for you. Gazing on as your daddy rocked you tenderly next to my bed and seeing his blue eyes well up with sweet tears over you. I remember barely sleeping that first night because I didn’t want to take my eyes off of you.
I remember six months ago like it was yesterday and I am amazed at how quickly that yesterday became half a year ago.
I remember thinking that first night, as I cupped your perfectly round head and held your precious little hand, that I couldn’t love you any more than I did right then. And here I sit in a spit-up stained sweater and my hair that hasn’t been washed since last Friday piled atop my head, cold coffee next to a mile long to-do list and you resting perfectly, beautifully in my arms, and I think… it can’t get any better than this. I can’t possibly love you any more than I do right now.
You have made my heart know love deeper, higher, wider and more purely than I ever knew existed and I am so thankful God chose me to be your momma. I am so lucky.
Happy first half-birthday my sweet little wonder. I love you.
Thank-you, Bethann, for capturing Shiloh’s beginning so perfectly. Not a day goes by that I don’t pass one of those framed photos in our home without stopping to wonder at how tiny she was not too long ago. It’s so easy to get lost in the blur of all the changes that take place so quickly and having those precious images is a constant reminder of where it all started. You are absolutely amazing at what you do and gave us the most amazing gift in capturing her precious beginning so perfectly. Thank-you!”