The Mom I Want To Be

Since my last post about busy mom life, we've actually had a lot of fun summer adventures with both our babies! At the end of June we took some vacation days and first set up our photo shoot to officially announce we're having a second child! I made the arrangements with our photographer and she met us at a local park that has a beautiful lake backdrop. I sent her some pose ideas and brought along all my props like a sign that read "Our superhero needs a sidekick." Unfortunately, our little superhero was more interested in chasing birds at the park than smiling for photos, but we did get a couple of small smiles and a couple of funny shots too! These photos were saved for revealing on July 4th, which ended up a great success on Facebook and also just made me happy to be have some professional photos to commemorate our upcoming family of four. After the photo shoot but before July 4th, we took a family vacation to San Diego. It was the first time we felt comfortable tr