Twin Lovefest

I love the mountains and valleys of their little faces.

My favorite!

Holding hands.

A pile of babies.

Lynn knitted hats for them and all I got was this one photo! I'm sorry Lynn!

I did a little dance after I caught these back wrinkles.

Me and McKay.

He has a question...

Also one of my favorites, shot with 50mm F/1.4.

I still can't believe these boys are a permanent part of our family. What an extra helping of dessert it was to go up and photograph them. YUMMMMMM.

My Matilda -- A Third Boy...

You know you want to kiss that neck!!!

More of this newborn here.

Sunday Photos and Anniversary.

Tonight there is rain ringing my doorbell. It comes toward our house in sheets. Reminding me that some nights, buckets of water just come out of the sky, and there's nothing we can do.

Our life has been like that for us, a storm and a blue sky and a cloud and some wind and a nasty cold front and then the most beautiful day you've ever seen and swear you'll ever see.

Jake and I went away for our anniversary. During which I didn't take one photo. We were completely ourselves and it was fantastic to have uninterrupted thoughts, conversations and laughter.

We've been married for ten years.

Starting out, we were pretty in love. We never spent one day apart. We got married and both worked at the same place, with the same hours, and our classes at the U were at the same time so we could walk to class together. I was expecting Grace before our first anniversary and the rest just seems like it went by SO fast.

We've come into a new realm of marriage. So much more is unspoken. We see each other more clearly. The extra has sloughed off and our souls are exposed. My core is in love with his and nothing else really matters.

Sure there are some tough times and there will be more. But on this heavy, rainy night, I am him and he is me and we are in this together, and I'm lucky.

Last month in Clearwater Beach, FL.

Few from when Rachel was here.

This one of Tada taken by Rachel.

Rache and I grew up as close as any sisters could be. And when she comes to visit, my heart usually explodes. So here I am, trying to pick up the pieces of an exploded heart. It's not that easy. 

It's fun to see freckles on my adult siblings. When we were born my mom must have said to us one by one, "take some freckles and pass 'em down!". I definitely helped myself.

Me and Lillie on a summer day, taken by Rachel.

Finally!

Sean's mom and my mom just after seeing the boys.

Click here to see the birth photographs. 

Click here to read her birth story.

Sunday Photos.

Hannah had her twins! The c-section went great and I was able to be in the OR to photograph. They are beautiful and she named them Brody and McKay. They were 5'13" and 6'14". I will post some photos this week! 

A Sunday afternoon on the swings

The music of my life is slow, emphatic, while the wind always blows their hair. Then the day's gone, the city gets quiet and little girls sleep. The dark comes and reminds me that good days always end. I shiver, but what can I do about time? Change it, stop it? Can't. I can only watch as it plods on at a maniacal pace, jeering at me over its ridiculous shoulder. I cling to it because I only want to hang on, to experience everything with tears streaming and this unshakable, regretful panic. I wouldn't be a mother without it.

To others, we're just another anthill, just another family, trying to make something of ourselves. But to me, TO ME, my life is a fountain of unbridled love and building castles and flying through the sky. It's a pool of emotion so deep my head squirms under the mass. There's electrical currents and unearthly tides. It's the earnestness in their eyes. I can't look away, I can see a million years in them.

To my girls, my family. You are so, so, so important to me. Let's spread this love around the world forever.

First photo taken in August.

My captivating Lillie. All-encompassing. Heart-wrenching.

Tomorrow is twins day! In nine hours, we'll be preparing to hear their first cries.

Beauty.

The girls love to use my make-up (it's on our summer to-do list more than once). This is a photo of Ruby right after she did herself up, found some beautiful frocks in her closet and demanded I take her picture. My favorite thing about her is when she winds her thin little fingers around my neck and to the back of my hair, locks her eyes on mine and says, "I love you, Ma-Ma".

Two.

What mother puts their child to bed with a sugary mouth? Well, me...

Two photos of Lillie's sleeping lips. Two. That's how many new babies I'm getting this week. Hannah's having TWIN BOYS. I can't even get over it. Two fluffy newborns. Two new lives. Two blankies, two binkies, two newborn diapers at a time.

Best week of my life!! I've got family in town so no sunday photos and going to have a busy week but it's all wonderful, it's all bliss. And on Wednesday, the baby-kissing will commence!