Expecting Baby Jacob

Sometime in the next 11 days my newest nephew, Jacob Allan, will enter the world, and I can't wait to meet him.  Today I went to my sister Emily's house and took pictures of her very pregnant tummy and her happy little family to document this special time in their lives.  

There is something so precious to me about taking maternity photos.  Having been pregnant to this point only 3 times and realizing now that I am probably beyond that stage of life forever, I wish that I could live it all again.  I wish that I could have realized how incredibly miraculous it was. I wish that I could have absorbed it.  Frozen it.  Appreciated it even more than I did. Maybe all women feel like this once this amazing stage in their lives has passed.  So in taking these pictures for my sister, I hope that I have helped her to preserve this little moment in the span of her life forever.  

~ Emily ~

my beautiful sister and friend expecting her second baby, first son, very soon

~ Allan & Emily ~

Jacob's parents

~ the happy family ~

~ Big Sister, Claire ~

~ the proud parents ~

~ waiting in Jacob's nursery ~

~ Em in her room ~