The 'Lowe' Down: Life, Love, and Lesson Planning: Pregnancy Pictures

Clint and I were so blessed to have one of our good friends, Joe Smith, come all the way from North Carolina to take some pregnancy pictures of us.

I really wanted some couple pictures of us when I was showing enough for the pictures to be cute.... but I didn't want to pay an arm and a leg to do it. It just so happened that I saw some pictures that Joe took of his family vacation and commented that I wish he were closer so that he could come take some pictures of us. Thanks to his fantastic parents who had frequent flier miles, Joe was able to fly down for the (very hot) weekend and snap about 1000 pics of us. From there, we weeded out the bad ones and he edited them and Joe recently told us that we have about 600 great pictures of us. (I am still trying to think of a great thank you gift for him..... Still thinking)

Here are just a few that I have received from him.

Our first stop was to my parent's house. My Niece, Ryleigh, was in town for the week and I really wanted to get some pictures with her. She is just too cute!

Here is a great picture of me and my dad.... a "Fly By" picture. For most of the pictures, we took multiple ones to make sure we captured a great shot. Well, my dad was in fly by mode and we took only one picture of the two of us. I think that it turned out great!

Joe and I returned to the house on Monday morning to take a few more pictures. I really love my parent's back yard. It was such a great place to take pictures.

I am so excited that I live so close to my parents. I know they are already Nana and Papa, but I am excited to see them be grandparents to MY children!

(In reality, this bow is really red. The power of digital photography!)

If you know me at all, you know that I LOVE children's books. In fact, Blake's nursery is decorated with children's books and I had a fantastic Book Themed shower. I love this picture because the book I am holding is my dad's original Cat in the Hat book published in 1957. His name is written in the front in his handwriting from back then. Such a cool book to add to our collection!

From my parents house we headed to the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens. It looks wonderful in the pictures on the website. But remember, we are in a drought here in Texas, that didn't stop us!