SWEET THIRTEEN.

Have you ever met someone who has no idea how beautiful they are? I mean head-to-tippy-toes inside-out a genuinely beautiful human being? Someone who innately gives the world generous proportions of their heart on a daily basis and never once pauses to realize their worth?

Meet Andrianna. Someone who is all of those things. Incredibly intelligent, funny, caring, mature, driven, sweet, soft and beautiful. It's her birthday, and she has become 13 years of age. Wow. I'm finally at the point in my life where I can say, " Where did the time go?... Remember when she was a baby?... She's so tall!", and actually have grounds to mean it. EWWWWW.

I remember when my mom and aunts would say those exact things about me and I always thought people who talked like that had age behind them. I guess that's me now. With age behind me. I do remember when Andrianna was an infant – and I should – I spent more than an average amount of time with her. For that I am grateful.

I wanted to capture her at this exact moment in her life. Right here, right now. I have hope that one day she will stumble across these old images and be able to reminisce.

I guess my birthday wish for her, is not far off from a wish a mother would have for their child... I wish for her to be utterly happy.

This next photo takes me somewhere. Somewhere sublime and dreamy and happy all over. If I had only captured one image of Andri – I would have wanted it to be this.