Well, friends!  I am finally off to have my baby!! He's not due until the end of August, but with this heat - going on shoots is becoming more and more difficult! So, I have a few more sessions then I'm off!  I will be back in September, hopefully!  Keep checking my facebook to see when I'm back in action and taking clients for fall pictures!! 

Now, on to the good stuff!  I HATE getting my picture taken - with a fiery passion hotter than the sun!!  However, I regret so much not taking maternity pictures with my first son.  I talk the talk about "everyone is photogenic" and "a picture is all you have of this moment", but believe me when I say I don't walk the walk!  Especially being pregnant, I don't want ANYONE to have proof that I once looked like this.  But, really.  Being pregnant is one of the most beautiful things in this life.  Finally, I snapped out of my stupor and decided I needed to document this pregnancy better. 

And less than 24 hours later, I am already SO happy that I did! I will NEVER forget that right before I had this baby there was a heat wave in Washington county so hot I swear I almost went into labor - 8 weeks early ;)

I'll never forget that my skin was AMAZING this time around - last pregnancy, my skin would have rivaled that of a grease loving 15 year old.  I'll never forget that Cruz (my oldest son) was so hot we stripped him down and put him in one of the horse's watering buckets because he was such a champ during pictures.  I'll never forget that while I was working and needed a babysitter, my amazing brothers and dad would take Cruz to the farm almost every day to see the horses and cows. 

All of that from one hour of shooting.

And, I have to say - thank you all so much for your kind words on Facebook and Instagram.  It made me realize that I am so much more beautiful than I give myself credit for.  So, the next time you come on a shoot with me and you're feeling insecure - believe me when I say that YOU are beautiful.  YOU are perfect just the way you are.  The big man upstairs knows what he's doing - and he doesn't make ugly things!! 

So, here are some randoms to hold you over until I make my glorious return!!  I say it all the time, but I have the BEST clients in the whole entire world.  I love you guys!!