At the end of August, Abbie asked me to take some photos of her and Nick in honor of their five (!) year anniversary.
We decided to head to Newcastle for a prime backdrop as I tried to capture the evident love between these two…
After our shoot – Nick took us all out to dinner where there was plenty of food, good conversation, and of course lots of laughter.
I had no idea that this photoshoot would soon come to represent so much more than these two people that I love so much.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago.
My family gets together a lot. A whole lot. It’s one of the things I love most about them.
On this particular evening, we were all sitting around eating pizza and playing Apples to Apples.
Abbie got up to get something out of her bag for my parents. She said she had a photo printed from their recent shoot for my mom’s photo wall. She handed the photo to my parents and, realizing that there was something written below the photo, my mom went to get her reading glasses. My dad looked at the photo for a minute – then looked at Abbie – then back at the photo…
“Has anyone else read this?!” he exclaimed.
My mom rushed over instantly “What!? What is it!?” and as soon as she looked at the photo – the tears started coming.
There was a lot of hugging, laughing, and happy tears going on.
Please excuse the minimal photos that I took of the occasion. The bad lighting mixed with all the emotion made shooting a bit difficult but hopefully you get the idea :]
Congratulations to my big sister and my favorite brother-in-law. Your child is already loved more than you could possibly know.
I cannot wait to hold that baby in my arms and tell him or her that they were wanted and cherished and adored long before they entered in to this world. He or she will be the luckiest child in the whole world to be born to such amazing parents and to have the love of a family as big as ours.
Little one,
You are precious. You are already beautiful and perfect and I can’t wait to meet you. I can’t believe that you already have feet!
You are growing up so fast ;]
I promise I will spoil you forever… I will love you until my bones hurt… and then I will love you some more.
Keep growing and getting stronger in your mommy’s belly. We will be patiently awaiting your sweet arrival.
Loving you so very much already,
Auntie Rachel
