I imagine it makes her mama pretty happy to see her daughter glow like this. She's already graduated and will be moving on to bigger and better things, I'm sure. It makes me a teeny bit nostalgic to look through all of my Class of 2011 seniors and see on my calendar that I'm starting sessions for my Class of 2012 students in just a few weeks. My word! Where does time go? These are truly some of the best times of your lives, seniors. Make as many memories as you can!

They flew in from out of town. She said she loved Austin. She said she loved the Hotel San Jose. She said this was just to celebrate her birthday. She had style and grace and this classic, unassuming beauty. The connection between the two of them made me so excited to see their future together play out.

No, seriously...LOVED this session:

...I'm guessing she has officially graduated and moved on to all of the incredible things that await her life after high school. She's got it all, that's for sure...sharp as can be, confident, a stunning, natural beauty, and a go-getter. It was a real treat to meet her and work with her this spring.

Walking up to her at our session this week, I kept tearing up. I was having flashbacks to here...and then to here (sigh)...and then this...and to these from last fall...

I admit it's a little tough for me to watch these kiddos grow up. It reminds me of how fast my own children are growing. But it does make me happy that families are documenting each of these milestones in photographs...something I promise they will never regret. It makes me excited to see how much she's going to change even over the next year. Thank you guys...from the bottom of my heart..it has been a beautiful, beautiful year with you!

This session will definitely go down in the books for me. First of all, look at all the littles!!! We were definitely on our toes keeping everyone in the same zip code while we tooled around town, but gosh, we had a blast! Just loving the way mom put together their outfits (so impressive) and the random doggie that showed up in the middle our our shoot ;-). It was mom's idea to do the ice cream at the end--she definitely took one for the team and the kids were totally thrilled.