Grace, Idaho | Lifestyle Newborn Portraits | Southeastern Idaho Photographer
Post Introduction:
There is a whole lot-a joy and celebration happening this past month! We’ve celebrated new babies, graduations, baptisms, birthdays, and everything in between! I sure love Sprummer! Hey, there’s a new word for you, Sprummer! Somedays it’s Spring and others it’s Summer! This Sprummer my sister Megan was finally able to get a miniature version of the baby doll she played with growing up. Her real baby was just over 5 lbs compared to the huge 10lb baby doll, but she has the same dark hair! Miss Olivia one-upped the doll by adding little golden highlights.
It’s funny though, how often we see a new baby and the first reaction is ‘I can’t believe how tiny they are!?’ I call it baby amnesia. Carson came into our family a short nine months ago but seeing him next to his brand new cousin was a good reminder of how fast time is passing right under our noses. Megan and Nick are proud parents. I’m pretty sure if I was a fly on their wall, I’d get to witness the back-and-forth battle over who gets to hold the baby- and no, it wouldn’t only be because the other gets to do the laundry ;). I will say, she was quite peaceful during our little photo session, I think heaven is closer than we think.
Why is it that when I have a baby it feels completely normal, like that’s the next step in life, how could it possibly be any other way, yet when my siblings get married, and have babies of their own, I find myself shocked and wondering where the time has gone? Out of the five Warnes kids, three of us are married, and this year, three of us have our own babies. Yes, I still call my kids my babies- I’m sure I always will! Seriously though, where does the time go, and why does it move so quickly when you’re not looking? I’ll admit, I’m having a hard time updating my memory file. When I think of my siblings, I think of them all with baby teeth, and about a head shorter than me. I think of running around the backyard with Barbies, horses, and of course GI-Joe (Nate wouldn’t be caught dead with a Barbie, so that was the replacement). I think of Megan sitting on the bathroom counter patiently letting me do her hair- it was probably a blessing to everyone that I didn’t do hair as a profession.
There were plenty of moments of arguing, tattle-telling, and pouting, but there are more good memories in their place. One of my favorite things about Megan is her creativity. When I bake for example, I like to make it look like it never happened- I use an ingredient and put it away immediately, and so on, that’s a good idea of how I create- we will call it a sterile creativity ;). When Megan creates you instantly walk into the room and know something fun is happening and want to get your hands dirty right alongside her- especially if taste testing is involved! When we were little Megan and Marina shared a room. I think Mom secretly wished they had been twins. Anyway, their room always seemed to be a creative disaster. Megan would always say that Marina was the reason for it, as all big sisters would say. Well, the time came and they decided they’d better have their own rooms. Megan moved out and almost instantly the room when from having no floor to looking like a spec home bedroom. Meanwhile, Megan’s new room seemed to shrink! From then on, we knew which of the two sisters had been the culprit the whole time. As a hint, it may have been the older one!
I said it before, but Olivia has two incredibly proud parents, but I shouldn’t be surprised. Craig and I lived in Tremonton when my parents moved to Grace but once a month we would make the drive up and visit the rest of the family. On one visit the kids were putting away the dishes and I noticed a well used cookie sheet had a few SUPER clean, I mean sparkling clean, spots on the back that seemed to be in a pattern. As I examined it a bit more, I realized those clean spots said ‘MEGAN.’ Who in the heck would take the time to scrub ‘M-E-G-A-N’ into a cookie sheet!? Come to find out, it was Nick, patient Nick. If he took the time to let Megan know he was thinking about her, can you imagine what he’d be willing to do for his two girls now? I’m excited to see what this new daddy, husband and provider will do for his new family!
Nick & Megan, I’m sure excited for you! Thank you for giving me another niece! I love you both! Meg’s congrats on your first newborn photos as a couple, I mean family photos. 😉
-Mikenna
XOXOXOXO
