{"id":77639,"date":"2019-01-10T13:14:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T13:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/?p=77639"},"modified":"2019-01-10T13:14:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T13:14:34","slug":"welcoming-baby-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/welcoming-baby-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"WELCOMING BABY GRACE"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve seen me post about Missy. And her husband Cody. And their kiddos.<\/p>\n

When their youngest when born – Missy and I were just starting our friendship. I had planned on photographing his birth but he came early and I wasn’t in town.<\/p>\n

I could have made it. I could have rearranged my schedule. But – I didn’t. And they’ve never let me live it down!<\/p>\n

Missy and I have grown so very close over the past seven years – and when they found out that Grace would be here – the big joke was that I would miss it.<\/p>\n

Missy & Johna are my dearest friends. Missy was due December 30th and Johna’s adoption ceremony was December 21st. I couldn’t possibly miss either. Johna was there when my boys were born. My two dearest friends were laboring and I HAD to be there for them. I told Missy that she could go into labor anytime – Christmas Eve – Christmas morning – just NOT on the 21st!!<\/p>\n

Thankfully – she didn’t!! WHEW!!<\/p>\n

And I was able to be there for Johna’s “birth” and make it to Missy’s!<\/p>\n

She was induced on December 26th and I came up after my morning session!<\/p>\n

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Missy labors loooooooooooong. I got there at 11 am. And we waited. And waited. And waited.<\/p>\n

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And played some UNO to pass the time.<\/p>\n

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And face-timed with Aiden.<\/p>\n

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I LOVE THAT PICTURE!!! Women are AMAZING!<\/p>\n

We help create life. We carry that life. We bring that life into this world. And we nourish is. But man oh man – or woman oh woman – does it HURT!!<\/p>\n

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Missy’s mom and I thought that we might have a baby by 8 pm. Surely she’ll have a December 26th birthday …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve seen me post about Missy. And her husband Cody. And their kiddos. When their youngest when born – Missy and I were just starting our friendship. I had planned on photographing his birth but he came early and I wasn’t in town. I could have made it. I could have rearranged my schedule. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,85,7,13,17,19,24,74,26,73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77951,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77639\/revisions\/77951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardenphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}