Meet Rob and Cat – my cousins whom I adore. ??Aren’t they beautiful? ??They are two of my favorite people in the world and I was so excited to get to preserve this amazing time in their lives. ??Life is about to change forever in such a huge way and I love getting to celebrate the awesomeness of it.

The whole family was a bit panicked when this past weekend was the hottest in Phoenix so far and (of course) the weekend we had scheduled the shoot for. ??Not much to be done about it though because my schedule wasn’t going to make switching it easy and hey guess what…it just gets hotter and the baby is just going to keep growing…so what do you do?

Heidi and I packed an ice chest full of ice and squirt bottles and a frog tog and then we stopped for drinks twice and crossed our fingers! ??I decided to shoot near the river in hopes that it would be somewhat cooler there. ??It was, by more than 10 degrees so that really helped. ?? (It even rained on our way home).

I am also glad that I picked this spot because my brothers and I (and Rob too who is a brother-cousin to me) grew up playing in this spot. ??I have mentioned many times that my dad is an adventurer and this was one of many river spots that he would take us too as a kid. ??See that huge rock behind them? ??Rob and my brothers used to dive off that rock. ??The water was pretty low this year but sometimes it is deep enough to allow for that. ?? Tanner, Ty and Seth were with us too and they were so mad I didn’t bring a bucket and a net because there were minnows and crawdads a plenty. ??Fun day!