dreamy maternity pics

i was a bit anxious over our maternity pics for the new babe because i haven’t done professional photos with olive before! i wasn’t sure what to expect. she is great one on one with me but i didn’t know how she would react to someone else taking her pics! she is usually fussy, shy, and stubborn around people she doesn’t know.

well, our day had come and we were ready to go. we met tricia at a place called gomper’s park in chicago. tricia has been our photographer for awhile now. she took olive’s maternity pics and all of her first year photos. we were so excited to have her onboard with our second babe’s journey into this world!

it was a cool, humid evening. it was funny because i had curled my hair and olive’s was just a bit wavy…as the photo session ensued, my hair became straighter and olive’s hair got super curly! her hair looks so darn cute in the pictures that way!

we started out, right away, taking some shots in front of the lagoon area and then moved onto the bridge and area by the water. i was right, olive was super fussy and uncooperative! ugh! she eventually subsided her stubbornness and became a bit more comfortable and relaxed as the session wore on.

i was distracted by olive and felt a bit discombobulated, so i was a bit nervous on how i would look or how the pictures would turn out but i shouldn’t have worried! i know tricia takes amazing pics and boy, all that worrying was wasted energy because the pics turned out amazing! i was so happy with everything!

olive looked so darn cute and she captured her so perfectly! i love all the family pics, individual pics, and the all the bump pics. so many, many great ones…i can’t choose a favorite!

i really wanted this photos session to be romantic, dreamy, and surreal. like a midsummer’s night dream and my dream definitely became reality through these amazing pics!