Ok, my friend Dan brought that saying to my attention from Star Wars, so I couldn’t help myself.

So for those of you that have a million questions, here’s the low down on what happened yesterday.

Yesterday morning I was shooting the YMCA celebrity luncheon. Well about 20 minutes into the lunch I received a phone call from my wife who is due with our 3rd boy in December. She told me she was feeling some bad cramping and wanted my opinion as to what to do and of course I said go in and get checked and keep me posted. About 45 minutes goes by and my phone rang again and I ran outside to listen to my wife crying on the phone because she was in Labor and Delivery and the monitors showed the baby as having a weak heart beat. God provided by already having her regular doctor at the hospital doing another procedure so it was seamless for him to move right over to my wife and provide for her.

I arrived at the hospital at about 1:30 and was with her as the doctors and nurses paraded through to check on her and the status of the baby. All of a sudden the decision was made and everything went into hyper speed and they rushed her into the OR to prep her, I threw some scrubs on and went in to be with her since I’ve watched all my boys be delivered. At 2:20 yesterday Luke Thomas Christensen was born. He’s 34 weeks along. He weighs 3lbs. 14oz. and he’s 17″ long. His lungs sound really good, he cries great which is a wonderful sign for us on his development.

Thank you so much to all of you that have been praying for us, please don’t stop. As you can imagine I will be posting pictures over the next several days weeks and years of this beautiful little boy. Josiah and Isaac can’t wait to get to meet him. For now we have to wait a little bit for the safety of Luke. Wow, I’m exhausted just remembering all the things that have happened over the last 24 hours. Thanks again for all your wonderful prayers and comments. Love to all of you.

- Mark

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Not only did I marry the most amazing woman in the world, but she has proven she can make the most beautiful babies in the world. I’ll write more about our day later, but in the mean time may I introduce…

So my buddy Crhis Austin put together a Trash The Dress shoot out at the March Air Force Base Museum and we had a great time! Some of you know Christie Riseley, formerly Currier whose wedding I shot, she was there getting in on the trashing action as well! My model I got to spend most of the shoot with was Diandra and I think we were able to put together some great shots. Let me know what you think, and if you’re interested in doing something with that dress packed away in that closet.   ;)  While you’re thinking about it, here’s some inspiration for you! Enjoy!

So my wife is sitting here on the couch herassing me because I should be posting every day on my blog. Well as you know I haven’t exactly been doing that. But I do have quite a bit to share with you all. What she would like me to share, I mean what I’m going to share is, Josiah’s teacher asked me to come and take pictures of the kids in the class as they spent time helping the 1st graders with their reading. They call this, “reading buddies”. It is really cute, that’s for sure. I just can’t believe Josiah is already in 3rd grade! Wow! Well, here’s a little slide show for you all to watch. Enjoy!

Had a great shoot with Hannah the other day. She brought in her motorcycle and snowboard and we got some great shots. Enjoy!