Happy tears, excited squeals, smiles so big they hurt, thankful prayers upon thankful prayers, huge hugs, and gratefulness beyond measure bring you today’s blog post. We’re expecting! This little blessing has already brought us so much joy and he/she won’t even be here with us on earth until February.
Josh & I (and Norris & Punky) are ecstatic to be sharing this news with you all! First, I’ll answer the questions that I know everyone will be asking. 🙂
My due date is February 22, 2015. (Five days after Michael Jordan’s birthday and eight days before my dad’s birthday. And, not coincidentally, during our wedding off-season.) We are NOT planning to find out the baby’s gender before birth. We want to have the biggest and most awesome surprise of our lives when Mini Menning decides to arrive! We do have names that we love for both a girl and a boy. They’re not set in stone yet, and we’re going to keep them a secret until Mini Menning makes her/his debut. Neither one of us has a preference on whether we want a boy or a girl. It sounds cliché, but we mean it with every fiber of our beings- we just want a healthy and happy baby! That said, we both have a feeling Mini Menning is a girl. If you have any other questions for us, shout them out in the comments & we’ll get back to you. 🙂
As photographers, we value beautiful photographs to document exciting and fun times in our lives! That should be a given, right?! So we contacted our friends Josh & Jess at Pixel Pop Photography & had a photo session with them in the park so we could remember all of the happiness that we felt during this season in our lives. The photos are so special to us; thanks Josh & Jessica!
 We thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts for sharing in this amazing time in our lives! We couldn’t be more thankful to God for blessing us with this baby & we’re excited to see what’s in store for our little family come February!
For all of you couples out there struggling with infertility, we also had you on our minds when drafting this blog post. We pray for you often & understand that our joy draws attention to your feelings of emptiness and despair. Know that we pray for your comfort and happy ending to this struggle & we were thinking about you when we wrote this post.
To our family members, friends, clients, and blog readers, our hearts are bursting with joy so thanks for helping us share in this!
One of the aspects of this pregnancy that I’m most excited about is the thought of getting to witness Josh as a father. This man is an answer to every prayer I’ve ever prayed before I was married for my future husband and more. He’s patient, compassionate, gentle, kind, funny, caring, and loves me in such a profound and beautiful way that I never even knew was possible. He’s going to be the BEST dad! And isn’t he just SO HANDSOME?! 
We know this is a little cheesy, but we couldn’t help it! 🙂 I love Josh’s face!
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16 responses to “HUGE (mini) Announcement! | Menning Photographic’s Newest Family Member | We’re Having a Baby!”
We’re SO excited for you guys! We know you will be such fabulous parents! Congratulations from the Roths!
Thank you, Nathan & Amanda! We’re excited for a future family hang out with you two & William!
Oh my goodness… happy happy happy tears!! Even though I already knew your exciting news it still brings me so much joy and excitement!! And I’m so glad we get to walk through this together! I just hate that we’re so far apart. Love you guys and congrats again!!!!
Thank you so much, Sabrina! I love that we can experience this together! Hopefully our babies will get to meet one day! 🙂
These are so beautiful!! I’m so happy for you guys and cannot wait to see this little bundle! I ABSOLUTELY love the last picture, also!! Congrats again!
Thank you so much! Pixel Pop did an awesome job! 🙂
You two are already amazing parents for your little one! We can’t wait to witness your journey (thank you, technology!) in raising this little girl or boy. Congrats and hugs!
Thank you! Big hugs back! 🙂
I can’t believe my eyes! 🙂 I am so excited for your family and will be praying for the THREE of you!
Thank you, Kristen! 🙂 We really appreciate your prayers! We’re due about a month apart, I think! 🙂
I’m rejoicing with you in this amazing blessing 🙂 we’ve had the opportunity to work together a few times recently – and I was praying about this very thing , for you guys 🙂 god is so good . Congratulations , and I pray gods richest blessings of a happy and healthy mini Menning , as well as a wonderful and uneventful pregnancy . I too can’t wait for the journal of images 🙂
I’m so happy for you !
Thank you very much for your prayers, Jenny! We always love working with you!
I ADORE THIS BLOG ENTRY!!!! So well said and so beautiful I have tears in my eyes! Two of the most wonderful people I have ever met are about to experience THE most wonderful thing He has ever blessed our family with!!! We wish the best for you both in this new adventure!!! I cannot WAIT to see you get that cute little belly, Dani! Josh, you were so great with Owen throughout our wedding and visit to your home.. I KNOW you’ll be as great of a daddy as you are Uncle, too!
Love,
Emmy, Bryan, & Owen Kobo
PS. I can’t lie… I am moving up my creep status to straight stalker. With the best intentions. XOXO
Thank you so much, Emily! We love you. 🙂
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Congrats!!! What exciting and wonderful news!! You two are going to be amazing parents!