• Yayyy!!! We have reason to celebrate!!!! That BIG BABY inside my belly is now on the OUTSIDE! Praise the Lord!!!! We met our fourth baby at 1:44am this morning! However, our families and kiddos don’t know if we had a boy or girl! We can’t have any visitors at the hospital due to Covid so we’re saving the news until we get home tomorrow and everyone can meet this precious baby in person! We’ll share more soon! Just so thankful! This is our largest of all of our babies and our fastest birth.... and I survived! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 So grateful for this sweet gift right before Christmas. 😭🥰❤️ps. @emilymalizia took this photo less than 24 hours before labor started and I’m going to cherish it always! My last picture with just two!
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    Yayyy!!! We have reason to celebrate!!!! That BIG BABY inside my belly is now on the OUTSIDE! Praise the Lord!!!! We met our fourth baby at 1:44am this morning! However, our families and kiddos don’t know if we had a boy or girl! We can’t have any visitors at the hospital due to Covid so we’re saving the news until we get home tomorrow and everyone can meet this precious baby in person! We’ll share more soon! Just so thankful! This is our largest of all of our babies and our fastest birth.... and I survived! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 So grateful for this sweet gift right before Christmas. 😭🥰❤️ps. @emilymalizia took this photo less than 24 hours before labor started and I’m going to cherish it always! My last picture with just two!
  • This is the most special season. It’s unique in so many ways. Joe and Em and their now THREE kids are living with us while a massive home addition is in the drywall and painting phase at their house. They brought Hayden (their seven day old baby!) back to our house from the hospital and it was the sweetest day. Now we’re sharing everyday life together, getting used to the fact that we now have five kids total and praying that the 6th will make his/her debut literally any hour now. I’m one day from my due date and walking around at 4cm just hoping for labor to happen. Every time I have a baby I forget how hard this part is. Just waiting and hoping and praying the baby comes while also having the deadline of not wanting to be away from our other kiddos and in the hospital over Christmas has added an interesting level of emotions to this end of a pregnancy. I’m tired, I just want to be able to fit Graham on my lap again, I need to get this huge baby out and I feel like Christmas is coming so fast. I’ve had a few meltdowns so far. Nothing abnormal for me at this point. 😂 But even in the discomfort and the anxiousness of wanting to go into labor... more than anything I want to enjoy this season. Who gets to have a baby just days after their sister and live together during it?! How special is it that we will more than likely have a brand new baby in our midst on Christmas morning? How crazy is it that all three of our kids will have a close cousin their exact age to be their buddy for the rest of their life? We’re so grateful. I’m trying to cherish these last days despite wanting to be done because I don’t want to miss the sweetness of the reality of our life right now. Looking at these family pictures I took for the Malizia Fam remind me of the sweet joy that is to come for our family too!!! Just gotta get this baby out!!! ☺️🙏🙌🏻❤️
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    This is the most special season. It’s unique in so many ways. Joe and Em and their now THREE kids are living with us while a massive home addition is in the drywall and painting phase at their house. They brought Hayden (their seven day old baby!) back to our house from the hospital and it was the sweetest day. Now we’re sharing everyday life together, getting used to the fact that we now have five kids total and praying that the 6th will make his/her debut literally any hour now. I’m one day from my due date and walking around at 4cm just hoping for labor to happen. Every time I have a baby I forget how hard this part is. Just waiting and hoping and praying the baby comes while also having the deadline of not wanting to be away from our other kiddos and in the hospital over Christmas has added an interesting level of emotions to this end of a pregnancy. I’m tired, I just want to be able to fit Graham on my lap again, I need to get this huge baby out and I feel like Christmas is coming so fast. I’ve had a few meltdowns so far. Nothing abnormal for me at this point. 😂 But even in the discomfort and the anxiousness of wanting to go into labor... more than anything I want to enjoy this season. Who gets to have a baby just days after their sister and live together during it?! How special is it that we will more than likely have a brand new baby in our midst on Christmas morning? How crazy is it that all three of our kids will have a close cousin their exact age to be their buddy for the rest of their life? We’re so grateful. I’m trying to cherish these last days despite wanting to be done because I don’t want to miss the sweetness of the reality of our life right now. Looking at these family pictures I took for the Malizia Fam remind me of the sweet joy that is to come for our family too!!! Just gotta get this baby out!!! ☺️🙏🙌🏻❤️
  • Look at that sweet girl. Sometimes I wish Evy was old enough to understand how proud I am of her and who she is becoming. Sometimes at bedtime I’ll tell her about something I saw her do and how proud I was of her and her response is “ok now can we read about “baladdin”?!” 😂(Not sure why she adds a “B” to “Aladdin”) What I see in her at just three years old is amazing. She’s a leader and she doesnt even know it.... she’s kind but she’s also fiesty and stands up for herself. She’s sensitive but she’s resilient. Watching her walk with her buddies with her arms around them captures so much of the beauty of her heart in one image. She’s an incredible little girl. I’m so thankful she’s ours. ❤️
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    Look at that sweet girl. Sometimes I wish Evy was old enough to understand how proud I am of her and who she is becoming. Sometimes at bedtime I’ll tell her about something I saw her do and how proud I was of her and her response is “ok now can we read about “baladdin”?!” 😂(Not sure why she adds a “B” to “Aladdin”) What I see in her at just three years old is amazing. She’s a leader and she doesnt even know it.... she’s kind but she’s also fiesty and stands up for herself. She’s sensitive but she’s resilient. Watching her walk with her buddies with her arms around them captures so much of the beauty of her heart in one image. She’s an incredible little girl. I’m so thankful she’s ours. ❤️
  • Our little people meeting their brand new cousin!!!!! Hayden Jo Malizia!!! It’s a GIRL!!!! 🥰😭❤️ Evy acted like a little momma as expected but Graham blew us away. He was so gentle! And sweet!!!! He loves the “bay-beeeee”!!! It’s been the sweetest day Over here! Now it’s time to get ours to make his/her debut!!!!! Ps. Hayden is the SMALLEST of all of our family’s babies!!! Only 8lbs! 🥰
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    Our little people meeting their brand new cousin!!!!! Hayden Jo Malizia!!! It’s a GIRL!!!! 🥰😭❤️ Evy acted like a little momma as expected but Graham blew us away. He was so gentle! And sweet!!!! He loves the “bay-beeeee”!!! It’s been the sweetest day Over here! Now it’s time to get ours to make his/her debut!!!!! Ps. Hayden is the SMALLEST of all of our family’s babies!!! Only 8lbs! 🥰
  • This isn’t me right now... this was me in 2018. I was probably similar in size to what I am right now but everything was different and yet so much was the same. I was huge and physically miserable like I am today. It was hard to sleep and rest and get comfortable like it is right now.... but so much was different. Right now I’m waiting for labor to happen and I’m uncomfortable but I’m waiting to meet a healthy baby that we get to bring home. In this picture, I felt physically the same way I feel right now but I was waiting to lose Baby James. I told Michael last night that being at the end of a pregnancy makes me baffled at how I did this with a dying baby. The physical discomfort, the unknown of when everything would happen, the weariness of just being so tired.... that’s enough to make someone feel crazy.... but on top of that, I was trying to mentally and emotionally prepare myself to meet our baby and say goodbye all at the same time. I just don’t know how I did it. I don’t know how I did life or functioned in the midst of that. The most powerful way God snaps me out of my current frustration of wanting this baby out right now is to remind me of what it felt like to do this but to have no baby in the end to bring home. He walked with us through that... and if we trusted Him In that season, we can trust him in this one. My story has given me the most powerful, built-in perspective. I think of my season with James and I’m overcome with gratitude that I 1. Survived and even thrived in that season and 2. That right now I’m miraculously carrying a full term baby without life threatening problems. This baby... boy or girl... is a miracle to us. We’ve experienced everything falling apart... we’ve heard the news that no one can imagine hearing... we’ve held one of our children without them breathing.... it’s heartbreaking.... but it makes everything in life surrounding our children here on earth more impactful. It makes impending labor seem like a gift instead of the greatest pain of my life. It makes holding a breathing baby a privilege and not the expected norm. It makes waiting patiently to meet our fourth baby something I can do despite the discomfort! ☺️
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    This isn’t me right now... this was me in 2018. I was probably similar in size to what I am right now but everything was different and yet so much was the same. I was huge and physically miserable like I am today. It was hard to sleep and rest and get comfortable like it is right now.... but so much was different. Right now I’m waiting for labor to happen and I’m uncomfortable but I’m waiting to meet a healthy baby that we get to bring home. In this picture, I felt physically the same way I feel right now but I was waiting to lose Baby James. I told Michael last night that being at the end of a pregnancy makes me baffled at how I did this with a dying baby. The physical discomfort, the unknown of when everything would happen, the weariness of just being so tired.... that’s enough to make someone feel crazy.... but on top of that, I was trying to mentally and emotionally prepare myself to meet our baby and say goodbye all at the same time. I just don’t know how I did it. I don’t know how I did life or functioned in the midst of that. The most powerful way God snaps me out of my current frustration of wanting this baby out right now is to remind me of what it felt like to do this but to have no baby in the end to bring home. He walked with us through that... and if we trusted Him In that season, we can trust him in this one. My story has given me the most powerful, built-in perspective. I think of my season with James and I’m overcome with gratitude that I 1. Survived and even thrived in that season and 2. That right now I’m miraculously carrying a full term baby without life threatening problems. This baby... boy or girl... is a miracle to us. We’ve experienced everything falling apart... we’ve heard the news that no one can imagine hearing... we’ve held one of our children without them breathing.... it’s heartbreaking.... but it makes everything in life surrounding our children here on earth more impactful. It makes impending labor seem like a gift instead of the greatest pain of my life. It makes holding a breathing baby a privilege and not the expected norm. It makes waiting patiently to meet our fourth baby something I can do despite the discomfort! ☺️
  • This image represents the reality of my life this year and the next image is what I was doing exactly a year ago today. Both things are hard, both things are good & both things are important. Following what you’re called to do is important... professionally and personally..... and I honestly don’t know the balance of it. It’s hard to feel torn between the two some days. Some days I have big dreams of what I could do with our story, our platform God has given us, our influence and then other days the only thing that seems to matter is whether or not I’m being the momma my kids need me to be and that I was designed to be. Is it possible to have both a career and a dream in the midst of the craziest years of motherhood? I think it is...but it looks different for everyone. My goal in this season of my life is to be present and peaceful as a mom to *almost* three little people three and under 😳.... while also living into what I’m called to do professionally at a realistic level for my current season of life. That fluctuates. It’s about to fluctuate big time once this baby arrives! I think the freedom to fluctuate and be flexible is the key behind being both a momma and a business owner. I know after a few weeks of maternity leave, it will be tempting to believe that I’ve “lost it” .... that I’ll “never do big things again” .... and that I’ll be nursing, changing diapers, kissing boo boos and listening to Let it Go for the rest of my adult life..... but that’s not true. The truth I have found over the last four years of motherhood is that my mindset can either help or hurt me. I have control over whether or not I spiral into believing my best years of business are behind me or not when I’m in the midst of the newborn phase. Im choosing this time around to look at my track record. Yes, life will be different.... I may not be on stage in front of 400 of our students again for a long time... but I’m right where im supposed to be and I’m grateful. I don’t want to miss the gift of where I am because I’m freaking out over where I’m going. So here’s to peacefully entering new seasons that look drastically different that previous ones. I can’t wait to meet you baby#4 ❤️
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    This image represents the reality of my life this year and the next image is what I was doing exactly a year ago today. Both things are hard, both things are good & both things are important. Following what you’re called to do is important... professionally and personally..... and I honestly don’t know the balance of it. It’s hard to feel torn between the two some days. Some days I have big dreams of what I could do with our story, our platform God has given us, our influence and then other days the only thing that seems to matter is whether or not I’m being the momma my kids need me to be and that I was designed to be. Is it possible to have both a career and a dream in the midst of the craziest years of motherhood? I think it is...but it looks different for everyone. My goal in this season of my life is to be present and peaceful as a mom to *almost* three little people three and under 😳.... while also living into what I’m called to do professionally at a realistic level for my current season of life. That fluctuates. It’s about to fluctuate big time once this baby arrives! I think the freedom to fluctuate and be flexible is the key behind being both a momma and a business owner. I know after a few weeks of maternity leave, it will be tempting to believe that I’ve “lost it” .... that I’ll “never do big things again” .... and that I’ll be nursing, changing diapers, kissing boo boos and listening to Let it Go for the rest of my adult life..... but that’s not true. The truth I have found over the last four years of motherhood is that my mindset can either help or hurt me. I have control over whether or not I spiral into believing my best years of business are behind me or not when I’m in the midst of the newborn phase. Im choosing this time around to look at my track record. Yes, life will be different.... I may not be on stage in front of 400 of our students again for a long time... but I’m right where im supposed to be and I’m grateful. I don’t want to miss the gift of where I am because I’m freaking out over where I’m going. So here’s to peacefully entering new seasons that look drastically different that previous ones. I can’t wait to meet you baby#4 ❤️
  • Happy Thanksgiving from my side of the family!! Emy and I are just a couple of weeks from meeting these babies and we’re READY!!!! Can’t believe there will be six kids between our two families! It’s a little intimidating to be honest... but after a surprisingly well-behaved Thanksgiving dinner experience today (despite Graham screaming bloody murder because apparently his 3T shorts were too tight 🤦🏼‍♀️) we are feeling a little more encouraged that WE CAN DO THIS! Those with three kids age 4 and under..... we can do this right?! 😂
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    Happy Thanksgiving from my side of the family!! Emy and I are just a couple of weeks from meeting these babies and we’re READY!!!! Can’t believe there will be six kids between our two families! It’s a little intimidating to be honest... but after a surprisingly well-behaved Thanksgiving dinner experience today (despite Graham screaming bloody murder because apparently his 3T shorts were too tight 🤦🏼‍♀️) we are feeling a little more encouraged that WE CAN DO THIS! Those with three kids age 4 and under..... we can do this right?! 😂
  • I’m so behind with this but happy belated birthday to my twin of a sister-in-law!!!!! We love you @morganduvalljames!! You are such a gift to our family in so many ways!!! You and Corey make this old dumpster look incredible!!! Ps. Did you marry a young Chip Gaines or is that just me?! Love you Momo!!!!!
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    I’m so behind with this but happy belated birthday to my twin of a sister-in-law!!!!! We love you @morganduvalljames!! You are such a gift to our family in so many ways!!! You and Corey make this old dumpster look incredible!!! Ps. Did you marry a young Chip Gaines or is that just me?! Love you Momo!!!!!
  • This session will be on the blog tonight and I CANNOT WAIT to share it!!!! Also... Capital tip... when avoiding barricades... just tip your clients forward... squat down and crop up!! (Ps. This will be on #kjallaccess) 👏👏👏
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    This session will be on the blog tonight and I CANNOT WAIT to share it!!!! Also... Capital tip... when avoiding barricades... just tip your clients forward... squat down and crop up!! (Ps. This will be on #kjallaccess) 👏👏👏
  • Vote for your favorite from this shoot in the comments!!! I couldnt pick just one to share!!! Loved everything about this session! Especially that these two belong to our family!!! More on the blog!!! 🙌🏻❤️🙌🏻❤️
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    Vote for your favorite from this shoot in the comments!!! I couldnt pick just one to share!!! Loved everything about this session! Especially that these two belong to our family!!! More on the blog!!! 🙌🏻❤️🙌🏻❤️