Adam, Meagan, and Baby

My sister Cassy Sage is married to a guy named Aaron who has a brother named Adam who is married to a girl named Meagan and they're having a BABY!!!!

Adam and Meagan live out of town, but came in town this weekend for a baby shower.  I was honored when they asked me to take some maternity pictures!  The weather has been so mild - and when I saw a high of 56 I was thrilled.  Well, let's just say that 56 dropped really quick Friday afternoon and the wind picked up like crazy!!  Adam and Meagan were troopers.  We hiked quite a bit, shivered, and smiled - Meagan still glowed even though it was cold. ;)

I cannot wait to meet their baby boy - I'm so excited for them to become parents!  That boy is blessed.

Here are a few of my favorites from yesterday:

New Arrival : Jericho Mark

So... my sister and I both had babies.  Baby boys.  Seven weeks apart.

I completely and totally love it.  Love her, love our boys, love sharing this.

Because of this incredibly wonderful chaos that is our lives... I'm behind on posting.

Sigh...

Jericho Mark was born on December 4th in the wee hours of the morning.  My sister was amazing.

We did an official newborn shoot a couple of weeks later... and I totally blanked on posting about it (new mommy brain... does it ever get better??). :)

Here are a few of my favorites from our session... though it was hard to pick.  He's just so stinkin' cute!

He was awake for our whole session... Cassy Sage thought that if she fed him he might get sleepy...
Nope. :)
I do love the bit of milk left on his face :)

Welcome to the world, Jericho!!

New Arrival : Jorja Leigh

Omygoodness there is something about little girls!  Perhaps it's because my little girl isn't so little anymore... but getting to meet tiny baby Jorja and hold the sweet girl melted my heart.  Her mommy, Carrie, is a good friend of mine.  We enjoyed being pregnant together and it's so fun to share new-mommy-ness as well. :)

We set up a makeshift studio in the front room of my house... and I think it worked pretty well!  Jorja did amazing - slept through most of it, gave me some smiles, and graciously didn't piddle on me when she was in her birthday suit. :)

Here are a few of my favorites from yesterday:

Brent, Ashley, and Jasper

Brrrrrrrr!!

It was so cold on Saturday morning, but these three were troopers!  The forecast had said no wind... but this is Kansas, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that it was cold and WINDY! :)

Brent and Ashley have an adorable son, Jasper, who is almost 2 1/2.  They hadn't had family pictures taken in a long time, so I was excited when Ashley contacted me!

I was also excited because this was my first shoot with my new camera!! (Thanks to the hubs for an early Christmas present :))

Thankfully, we did a mini-session (I don't think any of us would have lasted an hour...).

Here are a few of my favorites:

Chris, Ginny, and Emmalyn

Chris and Ginny are very dear friends of mine.  You may remember them from their maternity session, or from when their daughter Emmalyn Grace was born.  It's hard to believe that Emmalyn is one year old now!  My how time flies...

Ginny wanted some family pictures this fall, and I was more than happy to help out!  It was a bit chilly, but Emmalyn didn't seem to mind.  She kept us busy - she's so adventurous, and so cute!  I'm sure you'll agree, this is a beautiful family!!

Here are a few of my favorites from our Wednesday session:

Liam : 1 year

Can you believe Liam is ONE??

Liam is the first kiddo that I've consistently taken photos of from birth through one year (besides my own of course :)).  It has been so fun to watch him grow!!  His Daddy (Brent) recently came back home from serving overseas, and it was wonderful to see Liam with him.

Brent's grandparents let us use their property for the shoot.  It was perfect!  Liam got to hear a real cow moo (right behind us) for the first time, and it suprised him (and us)!  He was a bit scared of the cow (who kept following us), but really liked the chickens.  Between the cows moo-ing, chickens clucking, and rooster crowing, we had quite the background music for our shoot! :) Liam has become a pro for our little shoots... as you'll see below.

In case you don't remember, I thought I'd take us on a little trip down memory lane...

Newborn...

3 months...

6 months...

9 months...

And that brings us to my favorites from our one-year session on Monday:

Seester Belly

I cannot put into words how much I love my sister.  I won't go too mushy on ya, but let's just say that there were never such devoted sisters... literally.  Is the song in your head now?

Anywho, one of the most precious things I share with my sister is being a mom.  We were pregnant together with our first kids (though we didn't overlap much).  Malachi was born 5 1/2 months before Avery.  They're best friends and it's awesome.  This time, we shared almost our entire pregnancies... we were/are less than 8 weeks apart!

I just had my sweet baby BOY (still surprised :)) on October 14th... and my sister is just shy of 35 weeks, but it looks like her boy (Jericho) will come a bit early - yay!  I can't wait for our baby boys to grow up together.

Oh yes, pictures!  Cassy Sage, Aaron, and Malachi met me at the park to get some maternity pictures before this little guy makes his appearance.  I'm honored they chose me... though they're pretty much stuck with me. :)

As soon as we got out of the car, Cassy Sage made a new friend.  A squirrel.  She even named him... but my mommy brain is blanking on the name. :( We joked that the squirrel wanted to be in our pictures.  Guess he heard us, because he stuck around!  He came up really close and we have quite a few pictures with our new furry friend in them!  Hilarious.

Can you see him??

Now for my favorites from today...

I love you, SEESTER!!

I truly cannot wait to meet Jericho and share yet another thing with you... mothering TWO kids.  Let the crazy fun years begin! :)