Archive for the ‘Maternity’ Category

As I post this, I’m sure Taundra is somewhere snuggled up with her beautiful baby girl.  Congrats Taundra!  We got together on a very hot Friday afternoon, and much to our surprise found the park practically deserted…which is hard to come by at Duke Gardens, since it’s right on campus, and usually jammed packed.  So, having a very pregnant mom, and an empty park made for a very quick session on a lazy kind of Friday.

After one or two rounds of “…but I don’t know *how* to pose” (my theory is that…gorgeous folks say that because they’ve never had to worry about looking bad in a photo!!) we fell into a great rhythm. These photos absolutely blew me away!  Taundra is so funny and easy going, it was hardly work to get these out of her. I’ve known Taundra for a few years, and I’ve never seen her out and about looking less than fabulous, and that day, she was positively glowing – as a matter of fact…she didn’t even break a sweat and it was pretty warm that day!

Taundra, thank you for trudging through the park with me & braving those wild geese! By the way, if you’re in the Raleigh area and need a fabulous makeup artist, please contact Taundra, she’s been sending me perfect faces for a while now, and finally has her website up.

I have known Taunya since freshman year of college, and she has been one of my best friends ever since. As with most great friendships in college, you meet the boyfriends that turn into the husbands, and so, I’ve known Marvin for a pretty long time as well.  A few years back, I was the first of my friends to be pregnant, and it just so happened that my due date was a few weeks after Taunya & Marvin’s wedding (the event of the year!). I still maintain that their wedding actually put me into early labor (no…really, it did!) and as true friends do, she jumped off the plane after the honeymoon & came directly to the hospital to check on me, apologize for missing the birth & to meet my son. I promised her that one day when she was pregnant & well done…I’d get some work out of her too! Little did I know that just having her up & mobile for the photo shoot was about all I could press for.

In the ultrasound appointment to end all ultrasound appointments, Taunya & Marvin were told that they were having not one…not two…but THREE babies! That’s right…three babies that could not have been more loved from the very beginning.  We planned a very early photo shoot knowing that bed rest towards the end of the pregnancy would be eminent. I didn’t think that at 7 months one could looks so…well…DONE, but the belly was perfect, Taunya was able to do the shoot before buckling down for a very long stay in bed.

Have you ever seen a mother of triplets look so fabulous? Even on the brink of bedrest, skipping maternity photos was NOT an option for these two – they rock…seriously!