A Texas couple who have lost all three of their children at birth have paid tribute to them in a beautiful and heartbreaking family photo.
Laura McBride enlisted the help of Georgia photographer Brandy Angel in creating the photo, which shows her and her husband Tony walking along a bridge, besides silhouettes of the daughter and two sons they never got to raise.
She gave the photo as a surprise to Tony for Christmas and he called it 'his favorite gift ever'.
If they had survived, the couple's sons Christopher and Tyler would be 22 and 18 respectively and their daughter Kieran Shane would be just over one year old.
In a post on Facebook, Mrs McBride says she first found out about the idea from an article she read about Angel creating a similar image for a bride who wanted her deceased son in her wedding photos.
Mrs McBride says she called Angel in Georgia, to see if there was anyway to get her to come to Texas for a photo shoot, and learned that the photographer was traveling to Texas over Thanksgiving and would be staying just an hour away.
It was at that moment that she knew 'God had led me to her,' Mrs McBride writes.
Mrs McBride kept the real reason for the photo shoot from her husband, telling him it was just a normal photo shoot with their family.
At the end of the shoot, the McBrides went off to do some couple's shots with Angel, and it was those pictures that she used for the memorial picture.
Heather Pinheiro, a New Jersey web designer who volunteers her time for these projects, helped add the shadows of the three children after the shoot.
The last step was to wrap the picture and surprise Mr McBride with it on Christmas morning. She tells ABC News that her husband loved it so much, he started crying.
'This picture shows that although not here physically, I believe they are with us every day,' Mrs McBride writes on Facebook.
'I am proud to share this photo, but this right here, is my life...different from most, but what I carry with me every minute of every day.
'Brandy would never ask for public acknowledgement, but what a gift she gives to those of us who long for such a family photo. Tony and I love it and are eternally thankful to [Angel],' she wrote.
Awwww how sad and lovely...... LIFE!!!
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