Pregnancy Photoshoot & 9 Months Later

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I love looking at photos. It may sound weird, but it’s been a hobby of mine most of my life. There’s something so beautiful about looking back to look forward. I did it even as a kid- I would see the threads of commonality in my appearance and my personality. Photos also remind you how much things have changed. I love photos! Taking them. Developing them. Organizing them. Doing projects with them. Looking at them. Photos are my thing!

I recently looked at these photos that our dear friend Meredith took for us. You can look her work up here: Meredith Groat Photography! We took them on a little island owned by Detroit- right between Detroit and Canada.

I was 34 weeks pregnant and it was super chilly that day for what we were wearing! It was in October of 2017.

The next photos were taken in August of 2018 when our son was just one day shy of 9 months old. This was right around the time I lost my pregnancy weight so the photos show my physical transformation too! Every celebration of a baby being a month older is a celebration of me being one month older as a Mama too! I had a vision of retaking the same photos I took when I was pregnant with our son in them! Meredith worked with us and made our vision come to life. You can check out more of her work: here!





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