Kim and Sam's Engagement

The days were really starting to fly by, and my wife wasn’t getting any smaller. She even swore that there was no more room for the baby to grow inside her. We had a little over 5 weeks to go until the due date. We had one more engagement session scheduled for Sunday afternoon with Kim and Sam. My wife (Sarah) typically assists me on most of my photo shoots. However, I told her that I had a new person interested in assisting and I thought it would do her some good to kick back and prop up her swollen feet for an evening. I’m still not sure if it was hormones or something else, but that was the absolute wrong thing for me to say. I didn’t mean anything by the suggestion. I was just hoping for her to sit back, relax, and not feel like she had to follow me around while I took pictures. After all, we were doing the photo shoot at an apple orchard and then heading to Indiana Dunes. That is a lot of walking for a normal person, let alone one that is carrying a bun in the oven. Well needless to say, Sarah was not being replaced by “NO D*** ASSISTANT!!” She carried the baby this far and she could carry her through one more photo session. Sure enough she was a trooper… I don’t know if it was the endless supply of Apples at the orchard, or the desire to prove she could still assist that fueled her fire that day. Either way she waddled in and out of the groves of trees, ducking and running to stay out of the shots. Carrying lenses and bags and helping with what ever was needed. My wife was simply unstoppable…

So, it is a known fact that many pregnant women go through a crazy thing called nesting. This nesting phenom is a sudden rush of energy that sends most expecting mothers into a crazy cleaning spree. They have endless energy to clean and scrub their “Nest” to get it ready for the new arrival.
Unfortunately Sarah did not get to do any Nesting. She instead used her rush of energy on assisting.

There would be no dusting and scrubbing the floor with rags,
She was carrying camera lenses and camera bags.
At least that is how I think the story goes,
Is that a fact??? No one really knows...

She was right about one thing... There was no more room for a baby to grow in there. 6 hours after her nessisting, we found ourselves in the Hospital because someone's water had broke.

A truly amazing assistant helped to capture some truly amazing photos...

Here are some of my favorites from the day before the angel was born...