Maternity Shoot

Kris and I were all set to do one of those mall studio shoots because we'd had a hard time finding a good photographer in our price range. A girl at my work suggested Malia Dadez and I'm so thankful we found her when we did. She photographed our maternity session and will be our newborn photographer too once Brielle gets here. She's so creative, easy to be around and just an all around great photographer! We couldn't have been happier with our experience!

Our photo shoot started out at Malia's house where she has an in home studio. We did a few outfit changes and some intimate bare belly shots. Kris is always so concerned that his smiles look fake in pictures so I was trying my hardest to make him laugh! Ended up that he was the one making me laugh for most of the day and you can really see the fun we were having in the pictures. We were so at ease with each other and I loved giggling and smiling with him all day long.

After the studio, we went to Encinitas and walked around. My favorite picture of the whole shoot happened right outside of First Street Bar & Grill. It's where Kris and I first met and it was so unique to be able to capture where our lives together began and where they have taken us so far, in one picture.

We ended our shoot on the beach where we got some other great shots and even got a little wet! It was freezing, but worth it :) We had SOO much fun!