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A quick baby update

October 7, 2008 – 7:25 am

Thank you so much to everyone for the warm words of welcome for our little peanuts!

This has been a bit of a tough week for Ben and I, the babies are both still in the NICU and we have been at home without them since I was discharged from the hospital last Sunday. Amelia and Paul are both doing fabulously, but the doctors wanted to keep them in the hospital until they were absolutely 100% sure that they would be eating well and gaining weight on their own at home. We still don’t have a solid date on when they will be released, but we’re getting hints that it might be this week, which would be VERY exciting!

I can’t believe how much they have both changed and filled out (getting chubby cheeks!) already in less than two weeks! I am running out the door now on the way to the hospital but I thought I’d post a few more recent photos of our lovely babies before I go.

Beautiful Amelia


Handsome Paul


And the fabulous duo together!



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Introducing our little peanuts!

September 27, 2008 – 7:05 am

Wow!! What an unbelievable day (and night) yesterday! Being pregnant with twins is tough stuff. If you’ve been following my wedding posts you’ll know that I had to have some great backup shooters cover my last weddings for me since I was put on bedrest a few weeks ago. The idea was to stop any signs of preterm labor and keep our babies growing inside as long as possible.

Well earlier this week our doctor decided that the bedrest at home just wasn’t enough and I was checked into the hospital on Tuesday. They had a hunch that the babies were on the way, so they wanted to make sure that they (and I) got as much attention and monitoring as possible. Since they were going to be early I was given a series of shots to help mature the babies’ lungs and we are so glad that I did because the babies are breathing fabulously!

Long story short(er) at around 2:00 in the afternoon yesterday the doctors decided that my mild preterm labor contractions had transitioned into full blown labor and it was birthday! The whole experince from that point on was a complete whirlwind. Apparently when I go into labor I REALLY go into labor :) The doctor’s first estimate was that the babies would be born between midnight and 3 am, so he went home planning to come back later. By 6:30 that evening they were frantically paging the doctor to come back because the babies were ON THE WAY!! I can’t believe how fast the whole process went, the babies were born at 7:50 and 7:57, completely shocking everyone with their speedy arrival!

And now the part you’ve been waiting for…. photos!! The little guys had to go to the NICU for a checkup even though they were looking great, so Ben went with them and took some super cute photos for me to see them… meet our peanuts!

Amelia Ann, weighing in at 4lbs 13oz, 18 inches long


and Paul Joseph, weight and height EXACTLY the same as Amelia :)


Ben and I are over the moon! I can’t believe our little ones are here and I can’t wait to bring them home with us. I will be in the hospital for a few days, and the babies will be as well. Hopefully we will all be together at home in a week or two. Thank you to everyone for your well wishes and encouragement, we really appreciate it :)

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Coming Soon…

July 16, 2008 – 11:35 pm

I’m back in the office after a relaxing week with family. I’ll be putting up a few of my favorites from our family reunion in the next day or so… but I just couldn’t resist sharing this one as soon as I saw it. I think my sister in law might have the second cutest dog I’ve ever seen (second only to my own of course :) )


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Out of Office!

July 10, 2008 – 5:02 pm

Just a super quick post to let you know that I am out of town from today until Wednesday of next week. I won’t have any cell phone access and I’ll only have very limited internet service so please be patient and I’ll get back to you as soon as I return!

Have a fabulous week (and weekend!) and don’t forget to check out the new engagement photo post below :)

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Oh Boy! (and Girl!)

June 29, 2008 – 12:17 pm

This afternoon my lovely husband and I headed out in the sunshine to shoot a maternity portrait session. I absolutely love maternity portraits, and this session was extra special…. because the subject of all of the photos was ME!!

Yes, you read that right, and yes, that means I’m pregnant! But that’s not the end of the story, the other half is that I’m pregnant with TWINS! We’ve always known we wanted to have kids and we were completely overjoyed when we found out that we were going to be expecting a little one in November, but now that we know it’s two we feel doubly blessed :) At our most recent doctor’s appointment we found out via ultrasound that we are going to be having one boy and one girl, which means for all of you wondering out there that they are fraternal, not identical.

Having a due date in November means that I’m actually still in my second trimester, which is normally too early to do maternity photos, but since I have these TWO babies, my belly has made an appearance rather early :) I will definitely be doing some more “official” maternity photos with another photographer once I’m farther along and even bigger but for now here are a few shots that Ben took. I love my little belly :)


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I will probably be making periodic baby/belly updates from now on, and I’ll definitely be posting my “official” maternity photos once I have them taken. I still don’t know who will be taking them yet, so any suggestion or volunteers are definitely welcome :) Picking a photographer is just one thing on our very long list of things to do to get ready for our babies!! I can’t wait to meet them!

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