Some of you might have noticed or not but I have a happily theme going on, Happily Married, Happily After, Happily born and so on because after all I want happy clients and I want to be a Happy Photographer. Not kidding. Laughter, joy, love makes me happy and so I came out with these names for my sessions, trying to be unique with it and it has to do with my Brazilian Culture, more info on that to come. And speaking of Brazilian Culture, one of the first chances I got to professionally shoot at was with portraits of preggies, kids, babies and children’s birthday parties. Remember us Latinos oh yes I am Brazilian and I do consider myself a Latino although Spanish is not our native language, long debate there but that is not what this post is about. Any how, us Latinos, go all out for children’s birthday parties especially 1st birthdays and sweet 15’s and these parties are so full of  laughter, joy, food, so much candy and so colorful. There is always a chosen theme through out from invitations to tags, center pieces, the works.

                           This weekend, I had the pleasure of shooting a Luis Henriques’ 4th birthday party and it was beautifully organized by his mom Jozi. Jozi had taken classes on balloon art ( Brazilians are obsessed with this and pay tons of money to have it at their parties) but Jozi did not need to hire anyone since she knows her stuff. I arrived at the party early hoping to catch some shots of Jozi, Carlos- her husband and little Luis but there were last minute details to be arranged and Luis still had not arrived to see his Thomas the Train back yard just yet. I was happy to assist with filling up the pinata, oh yes photographers do other things besides shooting, and stuffing candy into the pinata is not a bad thing. What made me smile on this windy and sunny Saturday afternoon was  how  well organized it all was and how many people were helping Jozi and above all how calm she was. It was a big event and she kept her cool delegating tasks as needed. She is so cute and almost 3 months pregnant, can not even tell. One thing that really caught my eye was the kids. I mean I was all giddy with the Brazilian candies, the snow cones, cotton candy and the trampoline, now imagine the kids. I love seeing how they play, and beg their mommies for more candy and how they run and I always think and I say ” How wonderful it is to be a kid, not to have worries about life nor bills to pay and just play, they do not even know how good they have it”. So we all need to take some time out and be well kind of like kids, carefree, playful, smiling and eating lots of candy. Here are some of my favorite kid moments from the party. Jozi, thank you for having me on this beautiful day.

Overall view of the Party- Preety neat huh!

Little Luis Henrique- he was amazed by the train set, he really loves Thomas the train and played for a very long time

Daddy gets a warm kiss as a thank you for the party

Last but not least, how cute is Jozi?