I’ve been cleaning out some files in an effort to get ready for wedding season 2010, and I ran into these photos from Jose Villa’s workshop last May. The workshop was wonderful, Jose was everything I expected–gracious and talented and funny, and the models were gorgeous. But the morning after the workshop I found out I was pregnant…hence the nine month delay in getting these processed and online!
Switching to a different look for the post processing…
Makeup and Styling: Jessica Shinyeda Flowers: Fiori Flowers
The last couple of months have brought a parade of gorgeous wedding albums through the office. Here are a few of the beautiful albums we’ve sent to our couples!
Andrew and Ellie were our first couple to order an 8×10 traditional album (albums with just one image per page). I love the images they chose for it and am a huge fan of how it came together–it inspired me to use a similar album for Ellie’s birth pictures!
Jessica and Joe ordered a metal photo cover album with a white patent leather spine, with a leather mini album as a parents album.
Lisa and Dave picked a cream leather with a textured brown accent strip for their cover.
Melissa and Dave chose a glass cover with metallic silver spine.
Three weeks in, and he still completely adores her. If you ask him what he thinks of his baby sister, or what she is like, he says “beautiful.” He runs to check on her when she cries, and he smothers her in kisses. We are so lucky.
Monday, February 8, 2010 Posted in Personal
Ellie is here! She was born on January 28th at 10:02am, just 2 days past her due date and 10 hours after her aunt arrived hoping to catch her birth! She was very accommodating–I went into early labor in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, but Ellie held off kicking things into gear until Thursday morning–long enough for us to get a decent night’s sleep Thursday and long enough for my sister-in-law to hop on a plane! Active labor began at 6:30 am Thursday and by the time we got to the hospital I was already at 8cm.
I used the hypnobabies hypnosis for childbirth self study program for the birth and would highly recommend it to anyone planning a non-medicated birth. With Will, I used the “whine and beg for death” method of natural childbirth, and it certainly had the same end result (a baby), but it was a lot less pleasant for all involved. :P The hypnobabies program kept me positive and patient during those traditionally impatient last few weeks of pregnancy, and focused and calm in labor until it was time to push (at which point I admittedly dropped the hypnobabies and switched to the curse/panic/beg for a c-section method of natural childbirth). If any preggos have questions about the hypnobabies program, just let me know–I would be happy to share more with you!
One of the very cool parts of Ellie’s birth is that we had a photographer to document it. Charlotte Geary, a Colorado Springs photographer I have admired for a long time, photographed the birth and she is now an honorary member of our family. Not only did she capture the most beautiful photos, but she was the perfect attendant at such a time–she was very discrete, but I could still feel her pulling for me. And when Ellie poked her head into the world, I think Charlotte cried just as much as I did! We are so grateful to her for creating my new most favorite photos and for being “on standby” for weeks as we waited for Ellie!
Here are a few of her amazing images:
(relaxing through a contraction as Nic checked us into L&D)
Meeting Eloise Marie:
The moment I’d been looking forward to for 9 months finally arrived: Will got to meet his baby sister! It was love at first sight–he completely ADORES her.
And then the amazing Charlotte finally got to hold Ellie!
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We are home and doing very well. Will continues to adore Ellie–I think the biggest obstacle in her life right now is just getting sleep around all of the kissing and petting. At any given moment, the scene at the Turchin household looks something like this:
I’m behind on email (as you can imagine) but we will be slowly getting back to normal in the next few weeks.
We saw some incredible wedding receptions this year, so this episode of the best of 2009 series is dedicated to the tables that made us go “ooooooooh!” Here’s to more gorgeous wedding reception table decor in 2010!!!
by Colorado Springs Wedding Photographer
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