First Breath

  • Ending the Year Blessed and Grateful: Introducing Our Baby Boy

    For most of our New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day blog posts, we have some sort of collage of the babies or couples we’ve photographed that year.  This year we are enjoying time with our own baby who arrived just before Christmas!  He is our sixth baby, and our second home birth, and…

  • Wonderfully Made: Our Baby Girl, One of His Wonderful Works

    As many of you already know from Facebook, we recently welcomed our fifth child into our family!  We announced that we were expecting here on the blog, so we wanted to share some of her birth story here as well. Just like her siblings, she came on her own time…nine days past her due…

  • Introducing Our Newest Blessing

    Most of you who follow us on Facebook already know but we wanted to announce the exciting news that our daughter has arrived!  She was born six days after her due date and was 8 lbs 10 oz, almost a pound more than her brothers or sister weighed when they were born! At ten…

  • Welcome to This World

    I have to admit, First Breath sessions are emotional for me.  I feel the intensity of the excitement and love in the images as I am going through them.  I think they are powerful images because of the emotion they capture.  After her maternity session, Emilia invited Jason to be there to photograph the…

  • Our Gift from God

    Nine days past her due date, our family finally welcomed our new baby.  She was born at 11:03 pm at 7 lbs 13 oz and 20 inches.  She made a dramatic entrance in the world!  I thought I’d share some of the birth story for anyone who might be interested. Jason and I went…