Rochelle, a friend of mine whose family I have been photographing for quite some time approached me with an idea, while I was actually in the middle of a photoshoot with her family. She told me how she was always impressed with my skills, friendliness, my kind nature and how clean my studio was, that she needed me to photograph a very dear friend of hers. Her dear friend Avi who is almost like a child to Rochelle, was a few months away from turning one! But Avi was born with an extra chromosome, accompanied with some extra health challenges and being exposed to any photographers studio she didn’t trust was not of the greatest idea. Rochelle wanted me to capture Avi’s cake smash session. She also set her heart that Avi’s first cake smash milestone birthday would be at his surprise party and she was going to be the party planner. Of course he needed a cake smash session like every other child does to celebrate their first birthday but naturally everyone wanted to be present to watch this cake smash go down and there was no way we could throw the whole birthday bash in my studio. We sat and thought how we can make this happen and knew exactly what we would do, I would bring the studio to the surprise party! So we sat and planned a few more details and logistics, set the date in my calendar, sent out invitations and both anticipated the surprise unfold….. All my photography gear packed neatly into my SUV and all I needed to do was show up at 4:30 pm. Avi was quite the center of attention, the room was filled with family and friends as they all stood around and watched Avi smash that cake!