Happy Tuesday friends:) I'm so excited about sharing these photos finally! I know it might be funny to post maternity pictures when my baby is now 8 months old, but I've just been putting it off for silly little reasons and they mean too much to us not to share. So here we go:
The story behind how this even came about is that I'd scheduled a photo shoot with my sweet friend Tracy Layne, and I had a dress company lined up as well as a florist, etc, and it was going to be such a great shoot! I was headed to Salt Lake City to meet with everyone when I got the call to come back and hear Martin's results of his first biopsy. That was the day we heard the first pre-diagnosis that he most likely had metastatic Melanoma and immediately everything changed for us as you can imagine.
After the time spent at the Huntsman Cancer Institute and all his tests and visits with Doctors, we decided on quickly getting him into the Angelas Hospital in Mexico to be treated and very soon got on a plane to go there and get started.
Nearing the end of our weeks we'd spent there I realized that I'd be getting home less than two weeks from my due date, if I didn't go into labor before then. I expressed a bit of regret at not having any pictures to document the end of my pregnancies, and Martin had the idea to see if we could get something set up while we were there! Immediately I got on Instagram and started looking up hashtags like #tijuanaphotographer, #sandiegophotograher, etc, and I came across several different local photographers that I loved. I reached out to each of them and Jessica was available and willing to drive to us which was perfect.
After getting on the phone with her and setting up a shoot for just days away, we walked to a nearby mall and found my black dress at a store called LOB. It wasn't maternity, but the empire waist worked perfectly, don't you think? We also found a few fun accessories at another little shop, Martin had already bought his suit, and of course I was going to do my own hair and makeup:)
On Saturday we had a day-off from his treatment, and while he napped, I decided to walk to a nail salon by out hotel and get some nails. Very few people understood even a little English our whole time in Tijuana, which made it a bit tough, but mostly adventurous and fun.
On the morning of the shoot Martin got his intravenous catheter taken out of his chest as well as his official release from the hospital, and with me being 38 weeks and swollen and sore we were quite the pair! We went back to the hotel and had some hours to eat and rest and get ready. After meeting Jessica and her assistant in the afternoon we all got in a cab together and started driving around looking for fun locations. At one point we were walking down revolution boulevard, and a mariachi band came walking by and stopped to play for us! We hadn't seen anything very touristy during our trip, so that just made our last day even better.
After we'd spent a couple hours together, we went our separate ways and Martin and I packed our bags for our flight the next morning! Thinking back now I just remember how amazing it felt to do my hair and makeup after all the weeks of feeling yucky and huge and all the stress and pain of the trip. It was really the first time we'd gotten 'done up' for anything since his diagnosis, and it felt all of the sudden like we were normal again. That everything could be okay again, and that we could be really happy again, and we were happy that day! Looking through all the pictures we're either smiling or laughing in most all of them.haha It was the best send-off, and I'm so glad we managed it.
And that's the story! Thank you for taking the time to read it if you've gotten this far, and I hope you have a great rest of your week!
The story behind how this even came about is that I'd scheduled a photo shoot with my sweet friend Tracy Layne, and I had a dress company lined up as well as a florist, etc, and it was going to be such a great shoot! I was headed to Salt Lake City to meet with everyone when I got the call to come back and hear Martin's results of his first biopsy. That was the day we heard the first pre-diagnosis that he most likely had metastatic Melanoma and immediately everything changed for us as you can imagine.
After the time spent at the Huntsman Cancer Institute and all his tests and visits with Doctors, we decided on quickly getting him into the Angelas Hospital in Mexico to be treated and very soon got on a plane to go there and get started.
Nearing the end of our weeks we'd spent there I realized that I'd be getting home less than two weeks from my due date, if I didn't go into labor before then. I expressed a bit of regret at not having any pictures to document the end of my pregnancies, and Martin had the idea to see if we could get something set up while we were there! Immediately I got on Instagram and started looking up hashtags like #tijuanaphotographer, #sandiegophotograher, etc, and I came across several different local photographers that I loved. I reached out to each of them and Jessica was available and willing to drive to us which was perfect.
After getting on the phone with her and setting up a shoot for just days away, we walked to a nearby mall and found my black dress at a store called LOB. It wasn't maternity, but the empire waist worked perfectly, don't you think? We also found a few fun accessories at another little shop, Martin had already bought his suit, and of course I was going to do my own hair and makeup:)
On Saturday we had a day-off from his treatment, and while he napped, I decided to walk to a nail salon by out hotel and get some nails. Very few people understood even a little English our whole time in Tijuana, which made it a bit tough, but mostly adventurous and fun.
On the morning of the shoot Martin got his intravenous catheter taken out of his chest as well as his official release from the hospital, and with me being 38 weeks and swollen and sore we were quite the pair! We went back to the hotel and had some hours to eat and rest and get ready. After meeting Jessica and her assistant in the afternoon we all got in a cab together and started driving around looking for fun locations. At one point we were walking down revolution boulevard, and a mariachi band came walking by and stopped to play for us! We hadn't seen anything very touristy during our trip, so that just made our last day even better.
After we'd spent a couple hours together, we went our separate ways and Martin and I packed our bags for our flight the next morning! Thinking back now I just remember how amazing it felt to do my hair and makeup after all the weeks of feeling yucky and huge and all the stress and pain of the trip. It was really the first time we'd gotten 'done up' for anything since his diagnosis, and it felt all of the sudden like we were normal again. That everything could be okay again, and that we could be really happy again, and we were happy that day! Looking through all the pictures we're either smiling or laughing in most all of them.haha It was the best send-off, and I'm so glad we managed it.
And that's the story! Thank you for taking the time to read it if you've gotten this far, and I hope you have a great rest of your week!
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