Adrian’s 1st Birthday Session

105 degrees is not ideal photo shoot weather, but even with the terrible evening heat, Adrian managed to surprise us with adorable smiles and expressions in his session to celebrate his upcoming first birthday. Adrian, his mommy, aunt, and grandparents met me last week at Fair Park to get some photos  taken. I’ll admit, we all had to work together with Adrian to try and keep him cool despite the heat, and happy… well, despite the heat. At first, I think his family was worried because baby Adrian didn’t seem very excited about getting his picture taken, but some of the best images we got, I think, are of him with little bits of his family in the frame. I’ll even say that it made the pictures better, because who loves him more and wants to celebrate his life more than his family, right? We started out taking some photos of Adrian and just getting him comfortable in front of the camera, and then his family brought out a little birthday cake and a big balloon and let him go at it! I love the whole smash cake thing. You can’t sit a one-year-old in front of a cake and not have the most adorable images ever. You just can’t. Here are a few of the images of the day. Hope you all like them :)

 I think this one is so sweet. Adrian’s grandpa was holding him just to keep him close to the cold air coming in from a door next to them, but Adrian just happened to lean into his grandpa and when I called to his attention, it made a sweet moment. 

 His eyes! That’s all I have to say. 

 See? Baby + Cake = Adorable

It really was soooo hot outside! Adrian was having a good ole time with the cake frosting, until he accidentally grabbed a bite of cake, and he did noooootttt like it. At all. So, his mommy and aunt Jennifer quickly cleaned him up with wipies and water. He wasn’t quite done yet when his mommy picked him up to soothe him and calm him down. I took the photo on the left while Jennifer continued to clean up the area and while his mommy held him. And it’s my favorite picture from the whole session.