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Baby Emmalin
I recently took some newborn photos of a friend's baby. I was actually at work when she went into labor, so I was able to run upstairs to Labor & Delivery to watch her being born. Amazing. Life is truly a miracle.
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IMAX 3D
We went to the Air & Space Museum in D.C. with the kids. Here they are with Nene at an IMAX 3D movie.
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Nurses' Night/4th of July BBQ at our place.
I had some of my nurse friends over for "Nurses' Night." This is turning into a tradition with a group of us who graduated together/started working at HCGH together. I love having people over. I love the cooking, baking, and putting out of hors d'oeuvres-ing. We had plenty of wine. We hung stringed lights under the top deck, so it was a really ( Read more... ) -
Photo wall project
I've been seeing these on design blogs and Pinterest...I wanted to try it. Black & white prints, black frames. We got the frames cheap from IKEA. Really easy, and I love it.
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Family snapshots.
We're at my sister Joy's house to watch my niece and nephew get baptized. Tonight, the sky turned dark & grey, the wind started blowing through the trees, and the thunder started rolling in. My kind of night. I took advantage of it by taking my dinner plate onto the screened-in porch. One by one, the rest of the family joined me ( Read more... ) -
Hurt versus pain.
At my sister's house for the kids' baptisms. She had a lunch at the house after the service, and a baby showed up. A toddler. It made my heart freeze. The baby was 20 months old...a full 7 months older than Emma would have been. But the essence of post-infancy was there, the same way Emma would have been...walking, exploring, making noises but ( Read more... ) -
Weekend Getaway
I'm posting pictures in a separate post...here's the quickie version of our weekend in Charlottesville, VA. It was amazing. I want to go back.
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