After seeing our maternity pictures a few months ago I didn’t think the newborn pictures would be able to come close to being as easy to take or that I’d love them as much…but oh I was wrong.
When I have babies, for some reason I get some major anxiety. When I had Owen I didn’t realize that it was “anxiety” until after a few months/years of discussing what I was feeling I realized that I suffer for anxiety issues, ESPECIALLY when I’m post-partum. When we had Ella I thought maybe since I knew what was coming my anxiety would be much less…nope I was wrong. Its a weird feeling that I just don’t know how to change. We had newborn pictures with Ella and I remember driving to our photographers house in the pouring rain so the anxiety was at a high! But that shoot was pretty easy from what I remember.
So when Maggie was born and I knew I’d have to leave my house with the whole fam just 9 days after Maggie was born I was nervous. I’m not ever sure WHAT I’m ever actually anxious about but I just start sweating and dread leaving my house. And as soon as I get to a location I’m pretty much ready to be back in the safety of my home. The morning of our newborn shoot Drew had mentioned about how important it was being on time since we had a time limit as she had to pick up her son from school and she wanted to make sure she got all the shots she wanted…I thought OH SHIT..pressure was on! But everything went fairly smoothly. I was kinda shocked actually that we were only 20 minutes late.
First time out of the house as a FiveFamily!! 
I was worrying about Maggie staying asleep and cooperating for the pictures…you know its all about timing with newborns! I was worrying that my big kids would get bored and start acting up, running around and driving me crazy. But when we arrived at Drew’s studio everything went smoothly. Very smoothly! Thank the Lord. I didn’t sweat too much, I didn’t freak out and want to leave right away…the environment was calm and I was able to relax…shocking right?! Maggie slept almost the whole shoot…until the end when she pooped on Yosh and Drew…I did a quick feed and she went back to sleep to get the rest of the pictures. The “big kids” behaved too…and when it wasn’t their turn they were content playing their ipads. lol 
I loved watching Drew work her magic…she makes taking pictures look easy!!
Her studio is beautiful…I felt that everything looks MORE beautiful in that bright room and I couldn’t keep my eyes of my children! I know all moms say this about their kids but darn…Yosh and I make some pretty gorgeous humans!
Again I seriously LOVE LOVE LOVE all the pictures and have major problems narrowing down my favorites…so I’m posting lots of them. YesI want to share these but I also want a place to be able to go back and look at these pictures at any time from anywhere. This blog is used to help keep my family memories alive!
I watched my kids love on their new baby sister. The love in their eyes was so genuine and I can’t believe that Drew was able to capture it. Owen and Ella just watched Maggie…they were so excited that Drew was asking them to hold her without their crazy helicopter Mom being 2 inches away. They had been dying to get their hands on her! haha Drew had little direction for them, they just naturally loved on her and it was amazing to watch. These pictures are as good as bottling up feelings and emotions…I’m lucky I’ll be able to look at these pictures and get those feelings flooding back forever.
All her little details…caught in photos that we’ll have forever and ever. I can’t stop looking at all these beautiful pictures of my beautiful family. I think to myself…how did I get so lucky to have 3 stunning children, an amazing husband and the happiness to fill a house.
Our little Maggie Mae will be the last little baby in this house…well until in many many years I’m lucky enough to become a grandma. Oh my god that better be in a LOT of years…a LOT!
Thanks again DrewB for taking these pictures and helping me “bottle up these emotions” to last a lifetime!
No comments:
Post a Comment