It’s a GIRL!!!

When my friends decided to do a shoot for their 15th month old this past weekend, I had an idea.  See, they are expecting another sweet little one and they were scheduled to find out the sex of the baby early this week.  I wanted to create a picture that would reveal the gender to all their family and friends.  

I spent most of the night and early morning, before the shoot, thinking of how I wanted it to look.  I literally lost sleep over this….my brain wouldn’t shut off.  Anyway, I decided I wanted to create this celebration scene taking place outside, maybe under a nice big tree.  I purchased some cotton candy and balloons both in blue and pink colors.  I was also planning on using some bubbles as well, and was surprised that my friends actually showed up with bubbles themselves. 

I decided to just go ahead and do the “celebration” scene first so we could get it out of the way and focus on the rest of the shoot.  So, I found a great tree and Dad and I started blowing up balloons.  Meanwhile, the wind is picking up.    I’m getting a bit nervous at this point knowing that this is harder to create than I thought.  It looked so much better in my head.  There was definitely NO wind or pointy pine straw in my vision, making my balloons scatter and pop! 

Long story short…..we managed to lose or pop most of our balloons, spill the bubbles all over poor dad’s shorts and soon-to-be big brother was impossible to get to look at the camera because he wanted to run after all the wind-strewn balloons!  It was chaos and all we could do was laugh.  I did my best to capture what I wanted, but my beautiful, perfect, vision for this one picture had a mind of its own! 

Just so you know….I’m not perfect and things don’t always go like I want them to go, but sometimes you got roll with the punches and laugh!  We definitely did alot of laughing!  Thanks J & M for putting up with my crazy idea!