Maternity leave: personal || dallas, tx engagement & wedding photographer

"Any day now. Any day now..."  It runs through my head every morning as I slowly wake up, usually to the feeling of his little feet and hands stretching inside my belly.  Most of you know that a sweet little man child has been slowly growing in my belly over the past 8+ months and I'm amazed that we've already made it to those final weeks where every day holds the possibility of my firstborn son in my arms.

I'm 37+ weeks now, and as of today I'm officially on maternity leave!  This summer has been so busy and full for me, something that has been both hard and good, hard because my body can't quite keep up with the pace that I used to set for myself, and good because it's made the days just flyyyy by and left very little time for me to sit around anxiously waiting for this little one to get here.  I shot my last wedding two Saturdays ago and was determined to somehow accomplish the impossible and have it plus all my other weddings and portrait sessions from the summer finished by this past Friday.  It's amazing what a nesting, eager to get ready for and have her baby mommy can accomplish, because I did it!  So I'm sending off the last round of disks, and links to online galleries today and then I plan on eating 2 (ok, 3) popsicles to celebrate the beginning of this big transition.

Over the next few weeks and months I will be spending the majority of my time getting to know the squishy little man about to enter our world and change our lives forever.  Kissing his cheeks and smelling his soft little head will be very time consuming activities ;)  Because of that blogging, emailing, and everything else business related will be put to the side for a time because these days are precious and few and not something I want to miss out on at all.  I will probably still be posting a few posts here and there, I have so much to share from the past few months, and will try to reply to emails eventually, but I can't be apologetic about the fact that my husband and little man are my number one priorities and will be taking up most of my time over the fall months.  I hope you all will understand.

I am still accepting a limited number of bookings for the last two months of the year, and I am now accepting 2014 wedding inquiries as well.  In the meantime, while things are a little slower over here, I will be probably be posting more frequently on our family blog, with lots of updates and peeks into our life as a newly formed family of 3.  I'm also obsessed with instagram so you can be sure there will be plenty of baby love there when the time comes ;)

Thanks to all who have made this one of my best years of business yet, I'm so very grateful to do something that I love so much and call it work, and while the months ahead will bring changes to both my personal and business life I'm more excited than ever about the years of business still ahead!

Much Love,
Jessica Shae + baby ras

Girl or Boy?: personal || dfw engagement & wedding photographer

Tomorrow's the big day!  We get to find out if we have a little miss or mister on the way ;)  Our family and friends have been voting on what they think the gender is (girl is currently winning) and we're so excited to find out the verdict!  Click HERE to cast your vote, and there might just be a little prize in it for one of you who guesses correctly!

Much Love,
Jessica Shae

announcement: personal || dfw engagement & wedding photographer

"It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?"

-l.m. montgomery

Yes yes yes, it is true, our newly formed family is already growing!  And we couldn't be happier or more excited :)  After finding out about this precious baby in December, we told close family and a few friends, but decided to wait until I started my second trimester before sharing the news with the rest of the world.  It seemed like the longest wait everrrrr, but it's finally here, I'm 12 weeks today :)  And we're so very thrilled to announce to all of you that we've been blessed with a little baby due to arrive the beginning of September!  We've nick-named him/her "raspberry" or "lil' raz" for short, to avoid calling him/her "it" for the next few months.

Praise the Lord for entrusting us with this precious little life, we're SO excited to be parents!

p.s. I started a little family blog a few weeks back to keep grandparents and other relatives who live near and far updated on our growing family (and let's face it, this blog couldn't handle the amount of pictures I'll be posting once this sweet little thing is born) so if you're interested in keeping up with the bump + what I'm cooking for dinner (or listening the the precious little raspberry's heartbeat!) you can check it out at: www.wearethesherrills.com


Much Love,
Jessica Shae