Bert & Michele: Maternity Session

^One of these two is pregnant.

Bert (short for Robert) lived across the street from me when growing up in the small town of La Crosse, WI. We have always had that friendship where we can pick up any conversation like it was yesterday when in reality years have gone by when we last spoke. Growing up we used to play kickball in one of our yards, walk down to K-Mart to get the latest GI Joe toy, or have pull-up competitions where the winner got a quarter from his dad. These days we have bills, house payments, and starting families.

Nicole and I last saw Bert & Michele at their wedding a couple years ago. To our surprise and joy, we discovered they were pregnant with their first child late last year and wanted us to take some maternity photos. We happily loaded up Aubs & Ella and made the trek to Eau Claire for a visit. As always, talking with each of them was like no time had passed. We also had tons of fun taking photos - especially with Aubs who assisted me.

Bert & Michele - Thank you both for your hospitality and great food (bert has mad-cooking skillz). Enjoy some sneak peeks....

^You could tell by the amount of gifts from their recent baby shower that the child is going to be loved by not only mom & dad, but all family and friends. Bert and I 'cleaned' by moving the boxes to the other wall so we could do some crib shots.

^That is a Happy Bear (inside joke).

^Can you guess when she is due?

^Bert & Michele are definately going to be awesome parents.

^Bert being a comedian at heart is 'realizing' she is pregnant for the first time.

I would like to throw out a HUGE thank you to my beautiful and wonderful assistant who also happened to be my daughter - Aubrey! She took our Canon Powershot point-in-shoot and covered a lot of the setups also in a serious and professional manner - which caused Bert & Michele to crack up histarically.

^Aubrey getting the close-ups : )