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My new favorite song...so pretty, honest and real!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAKBXBXz1fo

She's already looking perfect!

That's right I just said she...we are having a GIRL!  I am still in shock as I type this out.  Derrick now considers himself the baby whisperer after correctly guessing nearly every baby.  After shooting Baby Annabelle I found myself thinking "I could get used to bows and tutu's" but I honestly thought it would be a boy so when she said girl I started crying.  I also thought "we need a 2nd opinion," but after she continually went back to scan between the legs and 'nothing' showed up I knew it must be true!  Derrick beamed with pride as we walked out and I think my mouth was wide open.  I can't believe I actually have to store Riley's clothes for another few years and maybe even longer!  I can put a face to a boy baby of ours but this girl is so new and exciting that's it's still hard to believe.  This ultrasound was uncomfortable and the tech was literally abusing our little girl.  She was lying super low and the tech wasn't able to get the measurements so she kept pumping my stomach with the doppler and you could see our little baby on the screen getting bounced around violently.  I was on my back for too long and started getting sweaty and nauseous until we finally got around to actually watching our little baby floating around and putting her fists in her mouth.  She was a fighter after so many jabs she started kicking back and hard!  So nearly an hour later we were done and D was pissed at the rough way were we treated.  I am sure it was standard protocol but when your Mommy starts turning green and sweating maybe we should try something else!

  So bring on the fresh paint colors, new furniture, new bedding, lots of new clothing and of course the pinks and purples!  I am so excited to get going on her room and we are just so excited that everything looked great (4 heart chambers, 2 functioning kidneys, great cervical and long spine, 10 fingers, 10 toes and so on) and now this baby feels really real.  We only have 19+ weeks to prepare so I better get going!

Here she is, perfection already and yes Derrick is already smitten (so am I!).

20 weeks 2 days

and just for confirmation I looked up Riley's pictures...

Boy stuff...haha!

Riley boy at 19 weeks 2 days!  Exactly one week before we saw her!  

Tis the season...

Football season that is!  : ) 

Baby Annabelle Rose

So in my quest to take the best pictures possible I am shooting just about anyone that will let me.  That led me to Baby Annabelle who was a mere 6 days old and to my dismay wide awake for the 2 hours I spent with her.  My first newborn shoot was exhausting, hot and left me feeling like a failure but the new Mommy and Daddy love the pictures and I can only get better from here...right Anne!?  Thanks again to Annie Schaber Photography (check out her link on the sidebar) for everything!

Not sure where this is leading but what I do know is that I love to shoot my own Riley and that I want to take the best possible pictures of #2 so any practice I can get will only help me.  I am not jumping into starting a business of it and by no means think I am ready for that (but thanks for the sweet comments everyone!) but if anyone asks me to take pictures or if I am there with camera in hand pictures will be taken.  Anne-after this I once again am amazed at how fabulous your pictures really are.  This is NOT EASY and the pressure I felt from the second I walked in was nearly suffocating.  I was flustered, panicky, and downright nervous and these were friends of mine!  Maybe one day I will make some extra dough with my camera but I bought it for my own pleasure and for the pictures I take of my family and friends to be nice.  Thanks again for all the sweet comments-you are much easier on me than I am on myself!