Finn on the way {maternity photography}

Back in September I asked Liz and Jeremy if I could do a maternity photo shoot of them, so here are some of my faves from what we did back when Liz was (I think) about 30 weeks. Finn was born 5 days ago on November 9th and there are no pictures of the real deal yet, but Shawn and I went to go meet him for the first time a few nights ago and I'm in love. He's a million times better on the outside :)

Ok, back to our shoot: Liz is a runner and she continued to run through her entire pregnancy (seriously, I think she all but ran to the hospital on Monday to deliver), so we thought it would be fun to get some shots of them running. This sight, Liz running with her 8-month prego belly, made so many passers-by offer up huge smiles! I would pass by Liz and Jeremy running sometimes and it was indeed quite an endearing image! (I tried to make that read as if you might think I was out running too, but yeah, in most of these sightings, I was in my car :)). So here they are, Runners McMillan, in the ever-so-beautiful Golden Gate Park.









So one of the big reasons I wanted to do this shoot was because Jeremy is a surfer and I just had this idea, although very vague, in my head of doing something that felt very warm and windy and sandy. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out exactly as I was hoping. I didn't mean I wanted it to actually be that windy and sandy, I just wanted it to feel that way. But the wind and sand showed up with force, and the warmth was nowhere to be found, so we cut the shoot pretty short as it was way way way too cold, even for an over-heated pregnant lady.



















Then we headed back to Liz and Jeremy's place and went up to their roof right after dusk to take a few more.





And since I'm here, I figure I'll add these ones of Liz's baby shower a few weeks later.









Becca had us do the baby food taste-testing game, and most people did like Courtney here, with a little dab of food that they barely touched to their tongue. It wasn't until I heard people laughing at me that I realized I was apparently the only one who used the opportunity to get in a late lunch. I guess I was dishing up my samples by pretty big spoonfuls, but whatever- I'm just saying- there's nothing that bad about pureed spinach and plums!


This was a pretty great moment. Emily and other fellow Impalas got Liz this running stroller, which is apparently like the Ferrari of strollers.


Heather made Finn this quilt done in all surf and beach patches- it was quite sweet.


And Betsy and Steve made Finn this onsie with the face of Mark Occhilupo on it.


The boys came later and you can see Jeremy was pretty happy about that.


Anyway, that's all of Liz's belly for a while, but I'm sure I'll have some great ones of Finn here soon.