EB Photography

I've recently challenged myself to find something every single day that inspires me to see things differently. As you grow older things become routine...familiar. You start to look at things without really seeing. As a child your eyes are wide open... everything is fresh, new, and different. A box is no longer just a box...it's a race car, a space ship, a castle....whatever you want it to be. My 7 year old has an amazing gift to see things in ways I would never imagine and there is no limit to his creativity. He loves art in all forms (drawing, painting, making something from nothing) and he does it all so effortlessly! So today my inspiration is my son! I pray for God to open my eyes so that I can stop looking and start seeing...to have a brand new fresh take on the world around me...to give me the eyes of a child.

Ok, first off I appologize for this being the longest blog EVER but this was my very first time shooting a birth story and I'm super excited about it!!! It was the most amazing experience and I took a few hundred pictures (all of which turned out great) so narrowing them down for the blog was next to impossible for me!
Thursday morning I received the phone call letting me know that my favorite preggo, Holly, had gone into labor so I hopped in my car and headed out to St. Johns. By the time I got there I think I was as nervous as if I were about to give birth myself but once I saw Holly and Bob I was immediately at ease and ready to do my job (I seriously have the best clients in the world) Holly is superwoman and decided to go through labor and delivery completely drug free!!! She is now on my top ten list of people to never have on my bad side!!! This is Holly's third time giving birth but the first time doing it all natural (she has a 12 year gap between the 2nd and the 3rd so I think she may have forgotten the pain over time...lol). She was completely amazing though and never once asked for any meds!!! What made things even more exciting was the fact that Holly and Bob decided not to find out the sex of the baby until he or she was born so we were all placing bets on whether they would have a boy or a girl...I bet on a boy but obviously I'm not a gambling woman :) Ivy made her entrance into the world at 11:09 and I feel so blessed that I was there to witness something so beautiful!!! Holly and Bob, I love you guys...thank you so much for letting me be a part of such a significant day in your lives!!! Oh, and Holly...now that I've seen all of your woman parts I think we may qualify as BFF's :)

Being the Diva that she is Holly insisted on having her eyebrows done before giving birth! HA!

Since Bob wasn't able to make it to our maternity session Holly really wanted to get a few pictures of his hands on her belly before the baby arrived.