This beautiful, little girl just turned one.  She has the most beautiful, milky skin and brightest blue eyes.

Her parents, whom I've known for many years, invited me to make her first birthday portraits and do family portraits, as well.  It was a little like a family reunion, with lots of laughs and old stories and catching up on mutual friends and extended family.

As I was going through the photos from this fun session, I realized a few things:

1. A big family is a wonderful thing.
2. This family is one I'm glad to know.
3. This little girl doesn't yet realize how very good she has it, as the youngest in this group of loving, giving people.

I had so much fun.  I did some portraits of the birthday girl alone, with her parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles and then the whole group all together!

Thank you, Marc and Suzanne!