me & my girl

A lazy Sunday afternoon with my girl.

Smiles

Today embarked a day of crazy emotions for me. My daughter turned 6 months old! Where has time gone? Also, today is the 1 year anniversary of my dad suddenly passing away.


I started my day with my beautiful daughter smiling up at me in her crib, and me singing Happy Birthday to her, of course. Later on around noon, her therapist came by to do her first session of vital stim on her jaw. After her therapist left, we played. had a photo shoot, and then it hit me. A picture, I glanced at a picture of my dad at my wedding. I thought to myself, he would have loved her so much. He’ll never get to squeeze her to pieces, kiss her or even hold her hand. He’ll never receive a smile that could melt your heart. I like to think he’s watching over her, protecting her.

A couple months ago, I was holding Hanna outward, facing nothing but air. She smiled so BIG at nothing….. nothing was there. I like to think to myself, that he did receive one of those smiles.

Baby I'm back

Thank goodness for a new year. The year 2010, was a whirlwind of emotions for me. The year started off with me losing my dad, and ended with my daughter’s first Christmas. I neglected my bog for far too long. With the New Year, I plan on focusing more on my photography, and of course my beautiful new daughter Hanna.

A lot has happened since my last post back in June! My precious daughter Hanna was born on July 19th, a day after her daddy’s birthday! Oh what a story we have to tell Hanna about her birth. The day before Hanna was born; my sister had her High School graduation party. Mind you it was also Brian’s birthday. It was a scorcher outside, which made my legs and ankles swell like never before! The beer was flowing, right into Brian’s mouth, and thank you to my cousin’s jello shots she made. Needless to say, I drove home that night! Once, we arrived home we chilled out a little, and went to bed around midnight. I suddenly woke up around 12:30 – 12:45. I felt like I peed myself! Of course, I ran to the bathroom to find out my water broke! (Side note, only 15-25% women’s water breaks!) I run into the bedroom to tell Brian, and he doesn’t seem to believe it, and proceeds to tell me to come back to bed!!!! Then, the involuntary shivering started, that’s when Brian realized it’s happening! I called the 24 hour nurse line which Hershey Med provides, and they told me to get to the hospital ASAP. Brian asked if he could take a shower to sober up, of course I let him. Then, he has the nerve to ask if he should shave!!!! Hells to the no, we drove to the hospital, and boy that was painful! We arrived probably around 2 am.

Now our house is in shambles, because we were getting all new carpet upstairs in preparation for Hanna coming in August. The carpet was coming later that day, so all the furniture upstairs was down in our living room. It seriously looked like a hoarder house. Brian was planning on painting the rest of trim before the carpet arrived that day. He’s a procrastinator, what can I say? We ended up rescheduling the carpet installation to later that week.

Finally, around 10 am I started to push, and boy was I exhausted from lack of sleep. I think if I would have been refreshed it would have been a lot sooner. At one point I asked if the doctor could just pull her out, because I was so tired. They were trying to entice me for food and drink, since you can’t have anything, but ice until the baby is born At any rate, Hanna finally arrived 12:42 pm, July 19th weighing in at 6 lbs 5 oz and 20 inches long. She is the center of my universe, I love her more than words can express.



Little did Brian know what was about to happen.



34 Weeks

Yesterday I hit 34 Weeks!  Only 6 to GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!

30 weeks and 38 inches!

Ten more weeks to go, I can't believe it!

Jamaica Sunset Mon

28 Weeks!

22 Weeks

Today, Hanna is the length of a spaghetti squash.  So, I did a photo shoot of myself today. Enjoy.

Hanna the Banana

Yesterday, marked the half way point of my pregnancy.  Hanna is now the size of a banana!

And the shopping begins

This past weekend we stopped at Restoration Hardware to check out some cribs.  I saw these shoes, and HAD to buy them!  They are the cutest, I'm so excited I'm going to bust.

I can see it on her foot now!

The Door

Baby Hanna is 18 weeks and 4 days old.

Where's Fatty?

So last night, I couldn't find my fatman anywhere in the house, and I started to worry. After about 15 minutes of not finding him, I heard some noise and finally found him. He was under Brian's old desk, where I have a bunch of blankets and pillows from my bed in my old house. I thought it was so funny, so I grabbed my camera.

Also tomorrow is the big day I find out the sex of my baby.  I'm so excited, I could puke.  Hopefully the sun will come out tomorrow, and I can get a fresh new belly shot.

16 Weeks 2 days and feeling great!

My latest work

In Loving Memory of my Dad (10/12/55 to 1/19/10)

What it means to lose you,
no one will ever know
You wished no one farewell,
not even said good-bye,
You were gone before I knew it,
and only God knows why.

2010 the year of change

The New Year is here, and it comes with life changing events for me. Today, I’m 10 weeks pregnant!

Here are some new pictures of 2009 Christmas and New Years 2010.

Christmas Tree

Me in a ball on my tree.

Puppies & babies, oh my!

So, yesterday I had my photography class and ended up doing my homework on the day of class! We needed to take a picture by the window, and of course it had to be a dark cloudy day! The teacher took a look at them and said they were good, so oh well it’s not my best work, but it did the job. After I came home from class, a friend was at my house with their new puppy, so I couldn’t resist taking pictures of her. SOOOO CUTE!

Sorry

So, I really suck at keeping up with my blog. Let’s see, I started my photography lighting class two weeks ago, and it’s going ok. I also took more pictures of my sister, which I used as my homework for class. This past weekend, I traveled to Philly to visit and shop with my friend Chrissy and Denise. I tried to get some pictures of Annabelle, but it was just too dark and not enough natural light. Anyway, enjoy the new pics I post, and I’m look forward to working with Abby for my next assignment this week. Stay tuned.

Fall

I really don't like Autumn, because that means it will be getting cold very soon.  I took some photos of things that I do like about Fall.

My favorite fruit is now in season. YUMMO

I bought this cute planter at Costco yesterday.

Pretty flowers

Some of summer is still left in my garden. :(

WE ARE..

Tuesday and Wednesday, I was up at State College, interviewing fresh meat for an internship at Tyco. Since I have a break I’d figured I’ll upload some photos. So far so good, I had two great candidates.


Tuesday evening, I ran around Beaver Stadium, and took some shots of Joe. After my last interview, I ran around the campus and took some pictures of Old Main and the nittany lion shrine, and then headed home.