We are in baby boot camp right now! I am also trying to catch up on business tasks while I am recovering. To add to all that, we have booked 3 weddings since Sarah’s birth! Wow is all I can say! Sarah is the most beautiful girl and I am amazed to be the mom of two. In the next coming weeks I will be putting together a slide show of Sarah’s birth and will give the password for our loyal blog readers to see her special story, but here a few of my favorites! There are more pictures of Cory with Sarah, but I am ashamed to say I haven’t taken them off the memory cards yet! Soon, I promise!

Me, before I am taken for surgery. I am finally excited about seeing Sarah after 24 hours of being shocked and a tad worried about her early arrival.

Her first picture! Poor girl has no idea she was born into a family of photographers!

My first kiss to my sweet girl!

No more pictures please! I am having a rough day…

This first time I was able to hold her. This makes me very happy.

This is the most horrible picture of me but the sweetness of the moment makes me share it with you. This is the first time Elijah was able to see Sarah. I love the look on his face. Poor little guy had no idea what a baby meant! I am claiming my strange looks to the morphine pump I was on at the time!

Thank you for all the support in emails and calls and even visits from friends, family, and clients this week. We were very surprised at Sarah’s arrival 3 weeks early! I was in the process of sending out my last orders and generally wrapping the business stuff up when I was told I was not going home and my baby girl would be here the next day. I will be going home at the end of this week and between Cory and I we will be taking care of everything that wasn’t complete before Sarah arrived. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me (or even call, but you will get Cory).

God is so good and I am so thankful for my beautiful children. Stay tuned for the next few blog posts. We have quite a few pictures to share in a slide show and I still have 6 sessions to share with you!

…Sarah Elizabeth!  10:30am CST, 7lbs 2oz, 20in.

I have been so busy trying to wrap up everything with client’s orders that I have neglected my own portraits. Last night I was thinking that I am getting so close to Sarah arriving and if I don’t edit the pictures from my pregnancy ends, I am likely never edit them once Sarah arrives. So, I took a little time this morning to edit these and share them with you. I love being pregnant. I appreciate the blessing it is to feel her inside squirming around. I am now at that point in my pregnancy where people give me the half smile… you know… “you must be close” smile. And, yes, I am close. I talk to her every day and tell her how excited we are to meet her soon. How her big brother is going to love her so much and how we will love her with everything we have within us. My sweet baby girl will be here before I know it!

PS. Cory took most of these! Give him a shout out and tell him what you think! He is doing more and more photography and I LOVE his style!

Tonight we drove out of town to see a very special baby! I just wanted to see the baby but of course we had to take a few pictures while we were there. WELL, this little guy did NOT like having his picture taken. He was not interested in any of my tricks to get him to sleepy-ville. No, he was wide awake or a fussy little guy! We did get some cute portraits from the session but he sure did make me work for it. As we were leaving, he was SOUND ASLEEP! Figures! I bet if I got my camera back out… he would have started screaming again! There are many more from this session but I wanted to get two of my favorites up to show mom that we did actually get something!