{The Espejos}

 Counting sisters fingers.

{Isla Emmanuelle}

I spent part of my Easter afternoon with the Rice family {Lindsay & Mason....AND sweet baby Isla}.
It was fun to hear these new parents relive their birth story as they excitedly told me all of the details. Lindsay hired a doula {yay!} and was in labor for 33 hours. She delivered naturally-drug free, at the hospital {with Dr. Harter} and Mason got to catch his baby girl himself (it's kind of neat to be able to say that your husbands hands were the first to touch your baby.) He said it was one of the coolest things he's ever done, and YES.... he cried like a baby. I LOVE it! I feel so honored to have been there to see these two get engaged, get married and now welcome baby Isla into their family.

{I am obsessed with her!}

{Baby Tenley}

Remember {this} gorgeous Momma to be? 

Well, she had her beautiful baby girl Tenley! Elle came with me to Kelly & Eddie's house for a play date with Tenley. She mostly just sat in a bumbo chair the whole time, she can't quite "assist" me during photo jobs just yet..... I had SUCH a great session with these new parents. You wouldn't know they were "new" parents because they aren't the typical nervous, paranoid parents (like Dustin & I were with our first!) Ed even knew how to shush Elle and bounce her just right when she got fussy. You should never doubt a daddy's instinct, even first time dads. They know some stuff! Maybe I'm just a big baby, or maybe it's the hormones, but I had a hard time keeping it together during our session. Seeing these two with their new baby, how natural they were and SO in love, it was overwhelmingly sweet. Congrats, you two on your beautiful baby girl.