When one of my closest friends in the whole world asks me to take a few snaps of her, her husband and the bump - well, I quickly become a maternity photographer for a couple hours.

You might remember my friend Hallie - I was a bridesmaid in her wedding just last November. Just a few months after she said "I do" she sent me a text with a photo of a stick she had just peed on - it said PREGNANT. I couldn't believe it. I know this is how the world works - it's simple biology, really - but I couldn't believe it. It seems like just yesterday Hallie, Liz and I were chasing birth control pills with whiskey and celebrating false alarms with champagne. It seems like just yesterday we were making an over-sized slip 'n' slide out of a discarded outdoor billboard vinyl in Edgemere Park. So to be taking photos of my very pregnant friend, and her husband Chase, in that same park just a couple years later - it felt a little unreal.







But in just a few short weeks it's going to be very very real. Hallie and Chase are going to be a mom and dad. I'm going to be Aunt Kathleen to a brand new little baby girl. I can't wait to meet her and one day tell her about all the times her mama and I used to have.

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