Lydia and Phillip were guests at last week’s wedding at the Cabo Azul Resort in Mexico.When we first got to the pool we met Lydia and Phillip as they were swimming with their kids, and so were we. While Aberdeen and Frankie played with Lucca and Nico, Allison and I got to know Lydia and Phillip a bit by talking about photography and travel. After the wedding, they asked us to do a mini-family session and photograph their family on the beach. Here are just a few of our favorites.

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Baby Youie is named after his late grandfather, Yousef Senior. Now get ready for this ancestral mix: his mommie is Irish and German and his dad is Greek and Jordanian. You know what that means – Brian and I must come back for a holiday photo shoot so we can sample the food!!  Anyway, Youie is absolutely adorable with a wonderful, easy-going temperament. This was a blast to shoot!

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The following pictures of our daughters were taken over the Christmas Holiday.

Special challenge: See if you can guess who we have nicknamed ‘Chubs,” and who we have nicknamed “Sticks.”

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Allie was one week past her due date when our wonderful OBGYN, Dr. Bo Thordason, suggested we induce delivery for the health of the baby and momma. We were tentatively scheduled for the afternoon of the 22nd at St. John’s in Santa Monica, but we were warned that they would send us back home if they were too busy. That morning we woke up to a phone call from our doctor telling us to get to the hospital STAT. So, we hopped in the car at 8 am, and rushed to the hospital. Well, we tried to rush but we were stuck in one of the worst congested days I can recall. We live in Silver Lake, and it took us 1.5 hours to get to Saint Johns.

By the time we got settled in (camera’s ready, Allie changed, picture of Abbie on the wall, IV in, etc.) it was 11:30. Dr. Thordason came in, and broke Allie’s water. The nurse started a very small drip of oxytocin to speed the delivery process. We then settled in for what we thought was going to be an early evening delivery.

We were wrong. Allie’s contraction cycles immediately started increasing in their frequency. When Dr. Mahler, the anesthesiologist, started the epidural, our main delivery nurse left to get a quick lunch. (this is important). By the time Dr. Mahler finished the epidural, Allie’s cervix had increased to 8, and the contractions were happening about once a minute. It was almost 1 pm. All of sudden Dr. Thordason came into the room and asked Allie if she was ready. We both laughed a bit and asked her if she was serious? She replied that she wouldn’t be in the room if it wasn’t time. So, I grabbed a leg, a nurse grabbed the other leg and Allie started pushing. It was 12:55 pm.

Seven minutes later, little screams filled the room as Frankie Aisla Callaway made her first sounds. Ten minutes later our main nurse came into the room, shaking her head in disbelief that Allie already had the baby, while she went to lunch!

She was born at 1:02 pm, weighing 8 pounds, 10 ounces and measuring 20 inches in length.

We are both so happy that she is healthy, and again, just absolutely amazed and awed by the whole process. We love her!

There will be more shots of Mom later, when she is recovered and somewhat willing to be photographed. Be sure to look all the way to the bottom of the photos for a unique comparison.

Attached to this photo is my first baby picture – I wonder who Frankie looks like? HAHA

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