Beach Pregnancy Announcement and Portrait Session
I’ve known Cosette for 15 years. We grew up together. She is outgoing, creative, fun, and not afraid of sharing her talents with the world. We danced at the same studio and were in musical theater together. My grandma was a prima ballerina and I grew up with dance and music in our home. Cosette has an incredible voice (you can find her on Spotify and iTunes) and I always admired her ability to sing in front of people with ease. While I love singing (and consider myself to be somewhat good) I was not comfortable as a soloist, but super comfortable in a choir.
During high school, we would stay up late talking about our future husbands and kids and all of the many dreams we had. We would joke about how our husbands needed to have similar jobs and we would need to live near each other and have babies at the same time so that they could be friends, force our husbands to be friends, and cook meals together while our kids played into the afternoons before our husbands got home from work.
Fast forward. Cosette’s husband, Landon, and Michael are now attending the same medical school (Landon is a 2nd year, Michael is in his 1st year). It’s been the biggest blessing and coincidence for them to be at the same school. And we didn’t even force them to be friends, they just are. So when Cosette called me a few months ago to tell me she was pregnant with their first, I couldn’t even control my excitement. As a young, teenage girl, of course I wanted my dreams to all play out exactly how I envisioned them, but knew that was a LONG SHOT. But this feels like a dream better than anything my 12-16 year old self could have ever come up with.
It’s no secret that the last few weeks have been filled with unknowns, anxiety, and maybe a little bit of fear. And because I have a husband going into the medical field, I am not at all downplaying the seriousness that is happening before us. But I do know that joy and positivity are more important than ever. So Michael and I have been looking for all of the joy and positivity. Personally, I can’t think of anything more joyful or positive than our best friends awaiting a sweet, new, perfect baby BOY.
I was so honored to photograph this beautiful portrait session and was thinking of the many years to come, photographing their growing family. THESE are the moments that bring me to tears, fill my heart with gratitude, and confirm to me my ~why. We headed to the beach; it was chilly and windy. The sun was hidden for a little while. We were just about to wrap up and the sun made it’s way through some breaks in the clouds. So we kept going. We were all chilled to the very core but then got to warm up at Flower Child over good food and good conversation.
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