This is the very first picture of my little fertilized eggs (taken by the microscope of the embryologist):

Under our infertility doctor’s recommendation, we implanted two healthy embryos. Due to my age (yes, I know 44 is old, LOL!) my doctor monitored me weekly, and my initial beta/hcg levels were through the roof. At our first ultra sound at four weeks, we immediately saw two gestational sacs… yup, you guessed it, twins! Oh, but wait!!!  Here is the crazy part… one of the eggs had gone ahead and split. Meaning….OMG! TRIPLETS!! This means we will have two identical babies and a third fraternal triplet.  Michelle went with me to the ultrasound and took this photo (with her little point and shoot camera) right after the doctor gave us the news… haha, can you tell that I was definitely shocked?!

We are sooo very excited and scared to death at the same time. This has been a long, hard, emotional roller coaster for the past four years, and I am so thankful to my family and friends for their love and support through out this time. You do not realize the emotional heartache that goes along with infertility. Month after month, year after year, disappointment after disappointment… which is why I am so thankful to God for sending me to Dr. Barry Donesky with My Fertility Center. He has a satellite office here in West Knoxville, but their main office is located in Chattanooga. The entire staff, from receptionist to doctor, are absolutely amazing. These people all went above and beyond my expectations of kindness, sincerity, and love. Basically, they were all wonderful! I would recommend them to anyone who is having any sort of fertility problems. These people go out of their way to make you feel like you are not alone on this incredible (and sometimes heartbreaking) journey.

Some of you may be wondering why at my age and the ages of my children, would I want to start a family all over again? All I can say is that I am finally at a place in my life where I have true honest to God love from a man who is the kindest, most loving man I have ever met. He is my best friend, he means everything to me and I am totally madly deeply in love with him. Oh, and the fact that he adores me and treats me like a princess isn’t bad either! One of my friends had said to me “Why would God put this desire in your heart if it wasn’t meant to be?”  So, my answer to the “why’s” is, who says you can’t have everything?! Did I mention that I surprised him with our midnight wedding? I will save that story for another time….

Thank you to all of you dear wonderful friends and clients who have become friends, for your prayers and support. I have the BEST job in the world, where I get to work with and meet the most amazing people! And now I am truly BLESSED x 3!!
Can you tell I’m a big bucket of love these days? hormones…..

Oh and by the way, there is only a 1 in 30,000 chance of this happening. I think I need to start playing the lottery

xx,

We’re also offering a special for our Baby First Year clients… discs are only $500 each AND buy 3, get 1 free. So, you could get your entire Baby’s First Year Program on disc for only $1500!

And, to give everyone the opportunity to purchase their images, we’re going back into the archives. So, also until August 31st, clients can purchase a CD from any digital session… sorry, not ready to go back into our medium format film days, lol! So, any client from 2003 – 2008 can purchase a disc of your session for only $500!

We know it’s vacation time… so don’t worry, we offer payment plans too. This has never been offered before, and we may not keep these prices… jump on this bandwagon while you can!

And for our longtime clients, call us at the studio for your special pricing… we appreciate you and are happy to show it!

By the way, I never have posted about our Products Page before. This is a great place for clients to go and see all (or most!) of our specialty products in one place… I know that it can be confusing when deciding just how you want to display your images in your home, and this is a great resource to reference before coming into the studio for your Ordering Session!

Till then, enjoy the snow and be safe!!

That pretty much sums us up right now. 

hmm… where to begin…  Well, we’ve been busy.  Which is great. Really, we’re not complaining.  Then, we decided to splurge and get a couple of new computers (and they are gorgeous!).  Woohooo!  Then, one very important computer bit the dust the night before all backups and switching were to take place.  Not so great.  Now we’re having a heck of a time with some of our processes (credit cards to name one).  Just when we’re almost completely restored, I get a phone call that my daughter has a fever of 102.  The next day, I take her to the pediatrician and she is diagnosed with the flu.  They’re pretty sure it’s H1N1 but not positive.  Poor thing has been miserable since Thursday and doesn’t look any better now.  And now I have it… I think.  I actually feel fine but I do have a fever.  So, I’m not coming back into the studio until the fever is gone for over 24 hours (don’t worry, I haven’t even been in at all since last Thursday).

Did you get all that?  Yeah, so now you know why I say HOLY. COW.

Thankfully, my non-infected husband went into the studio a couple of nights ago and picked up a bunch of stuff for me, so now I’m working from home.  Proofing newborns out my yin-yang, and loving all of these so very much.  I’m also working on a surprise.  Some of you know about it…  Hopefully, if all goes well, we should be ready for the big announcement in time for Tinsel and Treasure.  This is something we are very excited about.  Maybe this is why I don’t feel so bad, having the swine flu and all… it’s that good.

I’ll leave you with one of my faves from yesterdays editing.  This new mom and dad were completely convinced that they left with nothing at all.  See Megan, we told you we got it (plus, oh, about 19 other equally fabulous images of your little guy!)

And, I’d like to thank all of our clients for being completely wonderful while we are a bit overwhelmed. We’ll be back to normal soon… I hope!

**edited to add: Well, it’s mostly okay now. Got a bunch of my changes in but if you really look around, you’d see I’m not all there yet… it’s after midnight though so I’ll pick this back up as the weekend goes. Hope you’re enjoying your weekend! And sorry to the readers who saw the blog when it was a mess — all part of progress though… right?

And wait.

And wait.

And wait some more.

I am so impatient…

then they finally arrived.

And the angels sang.
ok, maybe they didn’t sing, but I did. I put my husband to work measuring and hammering. And when he finished I cried. I am such a sap. I love how the colors match, I love her expressions and her poses, and I love how it is sloped to match the line of my ceiling.  It all goes together fabulously!  For real — they look amazing! Pretty much, I’ve shown it off to anyone that I can drag into my house this week.  And I had to keep my mother-in-law from stealing the 16×24. Now she is demanding copies. Tons of copies for anyone that ever cared to look at my daughter’s pictures. hehe, I love that about her. I digress… so, without further ado, here is my new wall in all it’s glory. I love it, and no matter how many kids we have… these are important and will stay in whatever home we happen to be in. They show her ‘two-ness’ so very well. Here is Miss Sassy Pants herself:

I realize the canvases look a little distorted, they really aren’t.  But I had to use a very wide angled lens to be able to fit the wall into the shot.  And the color is a bit off due to the kitchen light… but the red brick wall is exactly the color of the red paint on the wall.  I love happy accidents like that

Anyhow, I hope you’ve enjoyed reading about my process, and maybe this will help you get brave with your walls too.  It is an investment, but a worthy one in my opinion.  This is art that you never get tired of looking at.

And, don’t forget, our next Matilda Jane Trunk Show is this weekend.  Come and bring a friend, these clothes are made for amazing photographs!