Alicia Horst Photography take 3

I warned you there were a lot of good pictures and it is very hard for me to choose only a few. There was only a small window of opportunity that Leaf was not screaming and Alicia captured them beautifully. Looking over these pictures, you would not know about all the crying that went on during that day. Everest had fun hamming it up, although he was getting a little jealous that we were putting so much effort into getting Leaf to stop crying.

I am glad we got a few of Leaf with his fingers. It just wouldn't be Leaf without his fingers.

 

 

It is amazing to look at these pictures and see how much my boys have grown in 6 months. Leaf has gotten so much bigger and is talking. Everest has grown at least an inch and has matured.

Alicia Horst Photography take 2

Family

I stressed over what we should wear for our photo shoot. I got a couple different outfits for each of us. We started off with black shirts and jeans, and that is all the further we got. We had fun and it turned out perfect. When we have the baby, we want to do an outdoor shoot with her sometime. She has a nice studio though, her wonderful husband Kendall and her dad Jeff (Nathan’s best man in the wedding), built it for her.

During the session, Leaf wanted to take a snack break, so I sat down and nursed him. I knew Alicia would not mind, she was a lactation consultant and helped me out when I was having trouble nursing Everest in the beginning. To my surprise, she asked if she could photograph me nursing him. I was delighted. We do not have many pictures of me nursing the boys. It is such an intimate and beautiful thing, but at the same time, we do it so often, we don’t think about taking photographs of it. I love these pictures.

 

 

Thanks again Alicia.

Photo session with Alicia Horst Photography

Over Christmas, we visited with Nathan’s high school friends Alicia and Kendall. We had a great visit with them and a photo shoot with Alicia. We were very excited to have family pictures. We tried to keep the day low key before we went, but somehow things did not work the way we planned. When we got to Alicia and Kendalls house, they boys were tired and hungry. We had found out I was pregnant a week or so before this day and the morning sickness was kicking in. I was trying VERY hard to hide the fact that I was so sick. I ended up spending most of the shoot with Leaf and Nathan was with Everest. We did get a few great family photos. Alicia is an amazing photographer and we loved the way they turned out. There are way too many to post them all, but I have included some of my favorites.

2 of my beautiful boys. She did an amazing job. There are so many pictures, I will post more tomorrow.