Bye Bye Fall!

Just kidding. Although it's cold enough to be winter outside, it's clearly still fall until december 21st (if my calculations are correct ;)

As such, I will not yet bring out any christmas decorations and I will continue to bake with pumpkin.....HA!

Here's some fall pictures :)









And a little diddy from halloween :)

Melissa

Wow! I haven't been on here for a long time and I may have mentioned (a long time ago) that I'd post these photos ;)

Well, here they are! Honestly, this girl was entirely easy to photograph. She was up for anything (like posing up beside a trailer) and she's just plain beautiful, which made my job easy :)

Thanks so much Melissa for taking some time out of your day to let me take these photos! You're swell and I hope you like them ;)

And for the rest of you, ENJOY! I won't even bother listing my favorites because I have far too many of them........

Oh! And in other news, I'm going to be an auntie AGAIN! My little niece, Marloe, is on her way! Maybe some newborn photos? I think so ;)

Mwahaha!

Okay! If these pictures don't make you smile, I don't know know what possibly could. My niece is kinda cool. I had thanksgiving dinner with my family yesterday evening and my sister had her dancing up a storm in the backyard. And all this dancing was to my brother's guitar playing. Must've been some decent strumming ;)

And all dancing aside, here's a photo from a little 'session' I had a couple weeks ago now. Just a little 'sneak peek' (or so to speak ;) and it'll give me the motivation to get the others up here soon too!

Have an awesome night!

Finished!

I just finished a book called And the Shofar Blew by Francince Rivers and it was both lovely and heartbreaking and then at other times I felt sick to my stomach. A solid read though. And as I was reading it, I kept writing down little quotes that I wanted to remember.....such as this:

For wasn't that what grace was all about? Extending love to someone who trashed what you held so dear?

Been thinking about this.....

And to end, a photo (obviously ;).....from some baptisms that I saw at crescent beach. I don't know where we'd be without that thing called 'grace' :)

This photo makes me happy.....so if anything challenging happens at work tomorrow, I will shut my eyes really tight and think about the happiness written all over this lady's face :)

Sometimes.....

I just do not get it.....

At work there have been 5 fetal demises in the past 7 weeks. Two of which have happened during the last three nights shifts (that I just finished up). There is something just 'off' about seeing these babies delivered. As if hearing that your unborn baby has passed away isn't hard enough, we then need to get these women into labor to deliver the "fetus" (given that there is risk for infection etc. etc.) the longer they wait :(

I had one of these patients a couple nights ago. The baby was born (15 weeks) and it turned out to be about (but in reality quite a bit smaller than) the size of a lemon. It could fit into the palm of my hand. And as we do with all mom's experiencing this type of loss, we give them a 'memory box' with some baby bracelets, a hat, a crib card and some photos of the baby. So here I find myself, alone in a room taking pictures of this itsy bitsy tiny baby, thinking to myself "So what was your plan here God? Why have this baby growing for 15 weeks and then take that life away? Why have it's heart start beating and then decide to pull the plug?"

I do not get it. Likely will never see the light in this situation really.....

I guess (to look on the brighter side), it's really amazing to see how we're made. Honestly, us humans are some pretty unique creatures ;) The most amazing thing about seeing such a little baby was, to me, the fact that it had bones.....itty bitty teensy tiny little bones. And detail so intricate! Kinda neat to see something that only a select few will see with their eyes in a lifetime.....So I guess there's always some good with the bad.....

Anyhow, just thoughts. I'll close with a picture. I'll never look at a lemon the same way now that I've made the reference ;)

The Ladies :)

Wow! Once again, it's been a while....and I have a night shift tonight so I should probably be sleeping. Mwahaha!

But here are the photos that I took quite a while ago of three lovely ladies! Honestly, these girls are a lot of fun and it was even more fun to take photos of them. So here's a HUGE thankyou to them for their willingness to let me play around a little bit with my camera :)

And for the record, the last two are my favorites :)

Have an awesome day! I'll be sleeping it away...boo!

I love....

Where I live :)

I just moved to a place that is about 10 MINUTES from the beach.....can't describe it! I just love it and I love my little place! And I took a little stroll to a nearby starbucks to get a smoothie and I stayed there for a while...in time to 'cash in' on a free coffee at closing time. Woot woot! That means it might be a late night tonight :)

Anyhow, just a couple photos....randoms....from near my new home. And then a little sneak peek at what's coming up. I'll be honest, I've been taking a lot of photos. I just like it a whole lot. And I will be sharing them here ;)

Enjoy!

And to come: These lovely ladies!.....they haven't seen any of the photos yet, but soon my friends....soon they will :)