The Envelope

Hi!

I just want to thank everyone for emailing me to see how I've been doing. I'm feeling great, other than being extremely tired all of the time. The beginning was definitely a little rocky, but it's been so much better and I'm in the last leg of the pregnancy.

So, we never found out with Kailee what we were having. I feel that there are very few surprises now in life, everything is SOOO planned out, that I thought we'd just leave it alone. James completely blew me away when we got engaged. I had no idea, and we were in Vegas after a work trip of his. He had kept the ring in his pocket all week until I arrived. It was on Valentine's day, and everywhere we went there were brides and bridesmaids running around. Seeing all that made him completely nervous. Other than that, I didn't even know he had bought a ring or anything. The ring and the proposal were a complete surprise. And it was awesome. I can't really explain it, but you just get blown away and completely caught up in the moment. So when the time came to find out for Kailee, I just didn't want to know. So now that there's a second little one on the way, I really didn't want to find out again. I said if James really wanted to know, we'd definitely consider it. And he wanted to know, but he could have it either way.

So let me take you back to January, when our ultrasound was. We're in the room saying, well do you want to know or don't you? So the ultrasound technician decides she is going to take a picture completely showing was the sex is, she writes on the back if it's a boy or girl, puts a piece of paper around it, and seals it in an envelope.





This envelope to be exact. As you can see, it looks a little tattered. This has been terrible that we have this envelope! At least if we had made the decision to not know back in January, it would've passed and that would've been it. But now we have this envelope. This envelope has been the topic of more conversations than I care to tell you. It seems like everyday someone is saying, have you opened that thing up yet???

So for everyone that keeps asking, NO WE'RE NOT OPENING IT!! (at least I don't think so)

Little Madeline

Hi Everyone,

This weekend I did a baby session with little Madeline, who just turned 5 months.
She was so cute, and now I can't wait for the new baby to bless us with his/her presence. Everytime we would get her set up, she would look at anything, but me of
course. As soon as her mom picked her up, she would look at me and just smile. I was like, hey, where was that when I was trying to get some photos! She did really great though, and this is one of my favorites from the session. I love her little smirk.
Hope you all enjoy!

Terry and Steven's E-Session

Hi Everyone,

Okay, long overdue, I know I know. I have a lot to talk about! Okay, first, I wanted to blog about Terry and Steven. They are getting married this June, and it's a good thing, b/c this engagement session, it was about negative 9. Yes, you heard me, negative 9. I have never shot in that cold of weather, and so I didn't blame them when they wanted to do most of it inside. So we chose something close to their hearts, an indoor arcade. We later went outside for a few shots, and I swear I was the happiest girl alive that I owned heated seats in my car. I couldn't feel my thighs for about 15 minutes! Check out their pics.









So I was so busy in late summer and fall, that I left out some of the weddings I shot. So in the following weeks, I will be showcasing them.

In the meantime, thanks for everyone writing to see how I'm feeling. I've actually been doing really well, and just trying to get all of my ducks in a row before this baby shows up. I feel like I'm running out of time!! Anyways, more on that on the next post.

Talk to you all soon!