Welcome Marloe!

Almost 2 years ago, I wrote this post. And now, almost 2 years later....there's yet another niece added to my family. Her name is Marloe and she is pretty stinkin' cute. And once again, another reminder of the graciousness of God and the truth that a bit of waiting and hardship CAN turn out well in the end :)

My sister asked me to get some 'family photos' and some newborn-ish photos of Marloe (4 wks to be exact)....Newborn photos: No problem! Trying to get a 2 yr old to focus for a photo: Just plain problematic :) A good challenge nonetheless...

Thanks Jenny and Matt for letting me take these! Greatly appreciated! My first newborn-ish/family photos! Exciting :)







And did I mention that Marloe knows kung-fu? Well, she does ;)

Hooray!

So, I've been getting the Sanyu Babies Home Newsletters for the past couple months, and I just found out that little cutie Raymond was fostered. Woot woot! I keep checking up on some of my favorites in the 'fostered' section of the newsletter....it's the first section I go to :)

And I just realized that I never did post a photo of the little man, so here you go ;)

Snapshots and some tears ;)

I wish I could take pictures of my work at the hospital. There are some amazing and also hard moments there. And interestingly enough, I have a bundle of little snapshots of my work written on my mind....here's a few.

Snapshot 1: A mom, just recently up from the Operating Room, wheeled on a stretcher to see her preterm baby who was in our nursery incubator. The baby was being tranferred to another hospital because it wasn't breathing too well....and there was just this short moment where I lowered the side of the incubator and the mom reached out to touch her baby and she just couldn't contain herself....she looked down and then looked up with eyes glossing over and then she just started to sob. Maybe words just don't do it justice (or maybe they do).....it was just this horribly meaningful moment that will likely always stay with me.....

Snapshot 2: At a delivery a couple days ago, as I'm drying this (just born) baby on the mother's abdomen, I looked up and noticed that the father (who had seemed so "strong" during the delivery), had tears streaming down his cheeks. No sound....just tears streaming. I must say that whenever this happens, I'm nearly brought to tears myself. Nothing like the 'miracle' of life to bring out the vulnerability in a person ;)

Just some beatiful moments at work :)

And with that, a few more snapshots (not the written kind ;). A few days ago before lunch with a lovely friend....and a little family photo of my sister's family.....my favorite ;)

And my sister and her lovely family (and my new niece:).....yep! Marloe's the one in Jenny's arms ;) More to come.......

Have an awesome weekend :)

To share or not to share ;)

To Share!

Well, bliggity blog. I'm presently at work and I am BORED! I have one baby and one mom and I don't need to go and check on the baby for another 10 minutes....aka: this will be a quick post because I only have ten minutes ;)

I like blogs. Most importantly photography blogs, but recently I've been visiting this blog. I LOVE food, and this blog is particularly likeable because a) The pictures of the food she makes look so good that I'm "this close" to scarfing the monitor, and b) The recipes I've actually made from this site (about 13 of them) have been simple to make and absolutely delicious :) So there you go. Check that one out...

...And then after you have something delicious (in front of you) to eat, you need to head on over to this blog, because the photos that you'll see there are INCREDIBLE! For some reason I especially love the family photos they take, but honestly, the whole friggin blog is just...plain...awesome :)

So there you go. Two blogs, absolutely more than ten minutes (woops) and I will now go and check on the baby that is (hopefully) still sleeping ;)

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!