I’m back!  I know it’s been a long time since I’ve updated my blog.  7 months to be exact.  Sigh…  As always, I get so busy during the warm months that my blog suffers.  But get ready – I’m about to catch up and show you all the amazing people that I was blessed to photograph in 2016.  I thought it would be fitting to start things off with a birth session.

Now, I don’t normally offer birth sessions.  It’s not that I don’t love babies coming into this world – on the contrary, it’s one of the most amazing things to witness and photograph!  It’s just so hard to know how to schedule for births especially having 3 kids of my own and a husband who works full time.  But when one of my beautiful brides (check out Lensi and Jeremiah’s wedding pics here!) asked me if I could photograph the birth of her precious baby – I said yes!  And I’m so glad I did.

It was a beautiful summer day in June.  I got a text from Jeremiah letting me know that Lensi was dilated to 8.  So, I hopped in my car and rushed over to the hospital.   Lensi pushed for hours, but, unfortunately, her doctor informed her that they would need to do a c-section to get the little guy out.  I’m so thankful that the doctor and hospital allowed me to go into the operating room so I could photograph the birth.  Wow!  What an amazing thing to witness!

Praise Jesus that baby Rowan and his beautiful mom were both ok.  I came back the next day to get a few more shots of this adorable little family.  The last photo in this blog is my favorite.  Rowan is so cute!  Hard to believe he is already 7 months old!