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Babies on the way?!?!?

Posted in Personal by Donny


As you all know, we are expecting a couple additions to our family…. it seems as though they may be coming early.  We had quite a scare on Friday and Saturday where Holly went into pre-term labor and an emergency c-section seemed imminent…  but, as of this writing (11 pm Sunday night) its looking more hopeful that we can let them bake for a day or two more (and hopefully much longer).  Thank you to everyone who has been praying for us and checking in with us.   We apologize ahead of time for taking a little longer to follow up with phone calls and e-mails.   We are definitely going to be at the hospital all week this week without internet service.   We’ll check back in with you as we can.  Thank you for your understanding.



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Good luck and be safe, our dear friends. Let us know if you need anything.

denise olson
6.07.2009

lots of wishes for all of you!!!!!

Holly, Ever present is His watchful eye, and if ever there were a family deserving of the blessings He bestows it is yours. I will keep you and yours in my prayers! It was a pleasure meeting you and your family and you’ll always be one of my favorite memories when I think of RightStart Rancho Cucamonga!
-Karen

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Big Announcement!!

Posted in Personal, Portraits by Holly


Well, from the picture below, it may not be that big of a surprise what our announcement is!  We are pregnant!!  However, the bigger surprise is that our family will be growing this summer by not just one baby, but two!  Thats right– twinsies!!  We are incredibly grateful and excited!  The past months have been such a whirlwind of trying to get things ready for the kiddos and adjusting to a twin pregnancy (fyi: very different from a singleton pregnancy)!  The picture below was taken about a month ago at only 24 weeks!!  Crazy, huh.  My belly wasn’t even that big when I delivered our daughter!  LOL.  Donny and I have been having fun recently and have done a couple photo shoots of my big belly.  Here is just one photo from one of the shoots. Hope to post more soon!

holly-24-weeks-blog

Funny story behind this shot.  We were on a somewhat major street and had pulled aside to get shots in the yellow flowers/weeds.  Donny wasn’t really liking the shirt I was wearing and suggested I take it off…. I kinda laugh now, because I normally am pretty conservative on these matters, but… when it comes to cool pictures… the picture wins, right?  — Cars definitely started slowing down!!  LOL…   So moral of the story is that I know we ask a lot of our clients to do funny things and ask that they trust us — we even have to take our own advise sometimes! (Disclaimer:  We generally do not ask clients to take their clothes off :) )

We can’t wait to share more with all of you as our family grows!  Thanks for being a part of our lives!

7 Comments

Tiffany
5.19.2009

Congratulations!!
And that shot is amazing!

Wow…love that shot! Congrats again!

Kristi Klemens
5.20.2009

You’re so beautiful, congratulations you two, can’t wait to see them!!! :)

Jenn
5.20.2009

Amazin! and Holly, you are so beautiful.

Kristine
5.22.2009

Yay!!! Congrats! You look gorgeous!

Erin
5.27.2009

WOW!!! Congrats! Can’t wait to see the pictures of theses little ones! God Bless!

Beth Armsheimer
7.10.2009

really beautiful light and location!! :)

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Cousins

Posted in Personal by Holly

I had such an awesome time visiting my new little niece!  She is adorable.  Being an auntie is so great.  Little Hadyn is such a good baby.  I was there for several days and I never even heard her cry!  I found myself missing the cute little sounds that babies make — my favorite is the little humming sound they make when they are nursing.  Ohhh… so precious…

Anyway, our little one was so excited to see her brand new cousin.  I can’t even explain the look of complete adoration that she had in her eyes for Hadyn.  She held her so well and would pat her kindly.  Her first comment was “cute mouth!”  What made her think that, I have no idea.  Then she would move the baby’s face by pushing her cheek softly and turning it toward her saying, “Wook (look) at me.”  

Her sweet smile is precious!

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Jenn
11.17.2008

Insanely cute…I love the smile in the second pic…beautiful girls. What blessings!

harmony
11.17.2008

I agree…the smile in the second picture melts my heart! It’s easy to see the love in her eyes and smile.
The stories about her patting Hadyn, saying she has a cute mouth, and telling her to “wook” at her are wonderful. You have a very cute, intelligent, and mature (can I say that about a 1 year-old?) daughter.

denise
11.19.2008

oh my….I can’t help but notice their lit’l hands….your daughter is so little and young, but next to Hayden’s, she looks like a such big girl….totally adorable…you’ve really captured the adoration…so beautiful!!!

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Traveling…

Posted in Personal by Holly

This month is insane.  Between the two of us, either one or both of us is out of town for 15/30 days this month.  Crazy.  This past week we had the opportunity to go to Shoot with Beckstead in Santa Barbara and then we were in San Diego right after.  While we were in Santa Barbara, my sister had her baby!  I am so excited to be an auntie!  So… this morning at 4am, Donny dropped off our daughter and me at the airport and we flew up to Washington, which is where I am at now.

Let me just throw out some information — traveling by plane with a toddler — by yourself — is a task for only those who are a bit looney.  Seriously, what was I thinking?  Since I am planning on doing a photo shoot of my new niece, I had one shoulder bag on one shoulder full of camera gear, another bag on the other shoulder for my laptop and assorted diaper bag items mixed in (both really heavy bags).  On my hip I had our daughter who just “couldn’t” go without her “green blankie”.  Add to that a huge bag containing our little one’s car seat which I basically DRUG (literally) throughout the airport because I had no other way of carrying it.  All of those items I had to carry on.  Then I had a suitcase full of our things and a backdrop which I was able to check.  I know I must have been quite a sight!  Quite surprisingly almost no-one offered to help!!!  I was kind of surprised!  It was a fun trip… so glad Grandma will be flying back with us on the way home!

Donny took a few pics for us to laugh about before I left.  These are taken from the little point and shoot…  Honestly the picture doesn’t do it justice compared to the sight it was trying to see me carry all this stuff.  I literally had our daughter dangling in my arms! :)

And one of our Little Monkey with her monkey on her first plane ride!

Since we are traveling so much this month, please be patient with us if we are unable to respond to phone calls or emails immediately.

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denise olson
11.13.2008

oh my I just love the car seat shot…..and I totally feel for you….I think my husband and I took our LAST plane ride from Boston to SFO in July with our 2 and 3 yr old….(the flight attendents were actually giving me complimentary shots of vodka just to make through the last 2 hours of the flight!!!)…its not easy just not easy :) Can’t wait to see your niece’s photos….have fun!!!

cherie yost
11.13.2008

did she sleep the whole time? I can’t wait to see the new pix!

cherie yost
11.13.2008

oh and PS- you are crazy!!! I love you!

harmony
11.13.2008

I’m so excited to see new Hadyn pictures. Yay for being an auntie-welcome to the club. I suppose that’s one thing I’ve done before you. :)
I love that S’ hand found the “sweet spot” in the picture of the two of you. :P

holly havenhill
11.13.2008

harm — she always does!
cher — she was awake for the first 15 minutes, long enough for her to point out the other airplanes and look at the cars and homes from above before she knocked out for the rest of the trip.

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Santa Barbara

Posted in Personal by Holly

So, right now we are sitting in a hotel room in Santa Barbara using a borrowed computer!  We came up last night to attend one of David Beckstead’s seminars!  (totally awesome, by the way) However, once we got here our MacBookPro decided it won’t boot up.  Not fun.  …it doesn’t help that all of our installation software is at home and there isn’t an Apple store nearby… 

We were hoping to be able to blog some of the AWESOME shots we got while we were up here, but it looks like that won’t be able to happen for a few days.  This has rendered us unable to answer email as well, so please be patient and we will get back to everyone on Monday.  

Enjoy the weekend!  

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