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  • Welcome to my Blog!!

    Hello! Thank you for visiting my blog! I'm thrilled you're here. I'm Nikki, photographer/owner of Nicole Simon Photography and doula/owner of Nature's Way Labor & Birth Support. I'm blissfully married to my best friend and we have two little boys, Cooper and Cade. I'm absolutely addicted to two things (well actually several but for the sake of time...) 1-Photography and 2- Birth. So, you'll find all sorts of fun things on my blog, everything from photography and birthing to the everyday life of a WAHM. If you're interested in booking a photography session or looking for a doula, just click on the contact button to send me a message. Thanks again for stopping in, hope you enjoy your stay :)

Spring Break Family Vacation

My in-laws are living the retired man’s dream.  I think I’ve talked about it in previous posts but they are snowbirds, spending half the year in upstate New York on Lake George and the other half down South on the gulf side of sunny Florida.  This is awesome not only for them but for my boys, my hubby and I because it means our family vacations each year are booked and guaranteed to be on the water.  For our family this is perfect!  My husband and I both love, love, love the water.  And apparently both boys do too!  The beach, the lake, the creek, the river, our back-yard kiddie pool or sprinkler…:) I love taking the boys to see their Grammy Sue and Grumpy and they love it even more.  As Cooper gets older it gets a little more fun each visit.  Of course now we have baby Cade but things are honestly so much different with baby number two.  Poor fella is thrown up in the mix all the time but he can hold his own!  We spent ten glorious days in Florida tanning, drinking, eating, sleeping, reading… you name it.  It was so much fun that by the time we got home I felt like I needed a vacation from my vacation!  It didn’t take long to get back into the swing of things… now I’m counting down the months until we get to visit that beautiful, crystal clear Lake George.

Here are a few of our family pics!

brotherly love | Richmond VA Newborn Photographer

I have had so much fun photographing new babies recently!  I especially working with this family because I had the honor of being their doula at baby Grayson’s birth.  Can I just say how amazing this Mama is?  Holy cow.  She is a birthing goddess.  I’m not gonna tell her birth story but I will say that it was fast, intense and this Mama rocked it.  She is one strong lady!  I took a few pictures of her, baby Grayson and Daddy immediately after the birth (service available in addition to being your birth doula, see information, pricing) and then a couple weeks later I stopped by their place to take some more shots of big brother Charlie with his new baby. Spring is here in full effect so we decided to take advantage of it and get out into the color.  Of course, I’ll always love my black and white shots too so a few of those are scattered in there too.  Head over to my pricing page (under information) to check out a couple shots I took of Grayson right after he was born:)