As you become an adult, the days you looked forward to all your life start to pass.  Prom is over, my wedding day came and went, seeing the first + on a pregnancy test and meeting our first child was almost 5 years ago already… It seems that there is a little bit of a lull in the excitement until one day I looked around and realized that so many ordinary moments are the foundation of my life.

Those times you don’t particularly recognize become life-long memories – you don’t know what interaction becomes your child’s first real friend, or when exactly you go from friends with someone to knowing your children will grow up together.  Those little building blocks layer and layer and you can’t see what’s being built until you turn around and reflect.

That’s how I feel about the Marenco family.  We knew each other, saw each other at larger get-togethers, but before I knew it I was cutting the cord just minutes after the birth of their second child.  It is a real blessing to know them and I look forward to many more holidays and vacations together, long-distance Skype calls and watching our children grow side-by-side even though we may live far apart.

If you’d like to catch up, here’s how Jaime and Melissa turned into a family of 4… Click the image to be taken to the full blog post for each session.
Samantha’s Birth, then newborn portraits and her dad’s homecoming…

And her first birthday!

And then another announcement!

Followed by an other birth and newborn session …

And now that tiny baby is already a One-Year-Old!