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Maggie + James = Jacob 06.03.11 | Portsmouth, NH Maternity Pictures

Mag­gie & James are in l.o.v.e. and so fan­tas­ti­cally exci­ted about being parents. We met up ear­lier this month in Pres­cott Park to cap­ture some of their loving­ness and anti­ci­pa­tion for this new little life that was due 5 days from then.

James is a super talen­ted musi­cian and brought his gui­tar along to sere­nade us.

These two are all about the body lan­guage. I loved watching them inte­ract. James can­not get close to Mag­gie with out just breathing her in. It’s so romantic.

street a.k.a. museum is in ins­ta­lla­tion of murals around the city — some belo­ved, some con­tro­ver­sial (I love them all!) And this one was on the side of a trai­ler in the park. Blest, Gra­te­ful, Bles­sings … no bet­ter way to desc­ribe these two anti­ci­pa­tory parents!

fan­tas­tic idea alert!: James & Maggie’s mums both crea­ted squa­res for this blan­ket and then put it together and stitched Jacob’s name in the cen­ter. They’ll add in the stats of his birth too. I got all sorts of chills and teary eyed when I heard about that — I love hea­ring sto­ries of love and family! (Pro­bably a good part of why I do what I do!)

Um — way to take an inno­cent pose and turn it… Ok guys — stand back to back.. great, now, pivot on an axis and switch it. Which was appa­rently hila­rious. Then Mag­gie says ‘you want I should pick him up?’ And I said — oh yeah, right. Well — shame on me. I made her pro­mise not to go into labor on my watch.

favo­ri­tes!!!!!!!!!!!

Mag­gie you’re radiant!

Jacob arri­ved on Thurs­day! He nee­ded a little inci­ting, but he finally made his arri­val 6/​16/​2011, 11:51pm, 22 inches, 8 pounds, 2 oun­ces. I can’t wait meet the little man! Con­gra­tu­la­tions mama & papa!

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Dewitt Family Photos 11.14.10 | Stratham, NH Family Photos

Oh to be mr. reed — with those crazy deep brown eyes that just swa­llow you up with their powers of cun­ning and gor­geous­ness… I still remem­ber his baby tur­key days, or bet­ter yet, when he was just a bump on his mama, my cou­sin Catrina

Now he’s all sorts of big man on cam­pus and about to be a big brother!

Lots of lovins for the mama & the dada!

and the new baby! … but being sweet and still only lasts so long when you’re reed..

Catrina is defi­ni­tely one of those peo­ple who wears preg­nancy well — she looks stunning!

Mon­key!

Yeah, I ate a LOT of lea­ves this fall. and loved every minute of it!

Seriously a little Gap boy!

well, some­ti­mes it’s a face that only a mother (or a cou­sin, like me, could love)

Thank you guys for han­ging out and having lunch! Oh — and just wait til you see his big sweet chunka baby brother! Love you Bean & Matt & Reed!!

~melis­sa­ko­ren

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Allison + Tim = Baby! 10.30.10 | Exeter, NH Maternity Photos

Two of my favo­rite peo­ple, made a per­son. And he was almost here! But before his grand (and very late) arri­val we took advan­tage of a beau­ti­ful late fall day to do some mater­nity pho­tos for these two soon to be parents.

One of my all time favo­rite mater­nity photos!

And my new favo­rite staircase!

ooooh color! I remem­ber color! It’s just star­ting to make it’s appea­rance back around here — you can feel the life coming back into the air!

For 38 weeks preg­nant, Alli­son loo­ked AMAZING. She was ALL baby.. and just wait — because he’s one of the cutest babies you’ve ever seen!

You know, once he finally got here!!

more from this won­de­rous family soon <3

~melis­sa­ko­ren

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Rachel + Jason = Baby! 10.17.10 | Exeter, NH Maternity Portraits

So far Rachel & Jason and I have been through a lot. Enga­ge­ment Pho­tos, Wed­ding Pho­tos, and here, Mater­nity Photos!

We used some of Exeter’s more rural spots for some pho­to­graphy gala­van­ting. Rachel was a troo­per — I’m pretty sure she had more energy 37 weeks preg­nant than I do on a daily basis.

It was a per­fect Octo­ber day.

This is one of my favo­ri­tes. They were already so in love and so excited!

Another favo­rite!

But this is my abso­lute favo­rite. I snap­ped it and chim­ped and said — that’s it — my favo­rite — i just cap­tu­red you in a bub­ble of light!

Just wait til I intro­duce you to their sweet baby girl Sophia!

~melis­sa­ko­ren

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Cole Family 09.12.10 | Exeter, NH Family Photographer

Matthew was the first baby to be born after I ‘was bit­ten by the pho­to­graphy bug’ and I was hono­red when his parents used my pho­tos in his birth announ­ce­ment — last week he tur­ned FOUR. This is incom­prehen­si­ble to me, but won­der­ful at the same time. A few months ago we met up to take their first family pho­tos in a few years, and their last pho­tos as a family of 3!

He was sto­ked about beco­ming a big brother!

Such a cute family!

Matthew is a boy of many faces.

Mamma love & baby brother love!

Little Gap boy!

Matthew became a big brother just less than a month after we had our ses­sion. I’ll have a few shots of his baby brother coming up soon — and I can’t wait to take some pho­tos of the new, com­plete family!

~melis­sa­ko­ren

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Victoria + Nicole = Expecting! 01.31.10

We met Nicole & Vic­to­ria … a million years ago through a mutual friend. When the made the deci­sion to become parents I knew that they would mas­ter it with grace and ele­gence as they do everything else. So one spur of the moment Sun­day shortly before their baby made a timely arri­val, I hea­ded over to visit with them and take some shots of this impen­ding family.

This is one of my favo­rite pho­tos of all time.

I’ve always envied their décor - and it makes for great pho­tos :) 

Vic­to­ria is always beau­ti­ful, but motherhood truly agrees with her.

Lucia, their spoi­led cat, was not so sure about the lack of lap space and not at all inter­se­ted in posing for my photo shoot. 

My kid didn’t come with an owner’s manual! It’s about time they made one of those! 

Hello Baby! We all couldn’t wait to meet you! 

I took some pho­tos of this cutie at 23 days — and again just the other day at 6 months!! they’ll be coming down the blo­gline in due time. Due, get it? haha. Ok, never­mind. ;)

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren

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Reed 11.08.09

This is Reed in 2008. We hung around and sha­red some side­ways glances. 

This is Reed 2009. Those side­ways glan­ces have become con­fi­dence & smi­les! Oh and he has a new pet!

A whole bunch of them actually! And each and every one of them has a name, and he can tell you all about them. 

Reed:Chicken Whis­pe­rer.

And when life hands you chic­kens? Fresh Eggs $2.00! 

He is just so much fun! He’s got the grea­test expressions. 

Reed had some other news to share with me too! 

He was get­ting ready to be a big brother! 

When I left their cute, soon to be expan­ding family I knew I’d be back once the wee bitty made (her!) way into the world. I can’t wait to share those with you too — Reed is totally an AWESOME big brother! 

~Melis­sa­Ko­ren 

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