You Capture-Emotions

This week's theme was Emotions. I have a 17lb 6oz, 4 month old bundle of emotion. What's more emotional than a baby that doesn't even understand her emotions, right? Most of the time she is pink gum flappin' happy. Sometimes, she is not. Oh, baby. And by the way, the only people I ever see are my husband and little girl, so yeah. Almost all of my pictures that have humans will include Coral. And they might start to look the same after a while. I hope you don't mind.


Head over to I Should Be Folding Laundry to see everyone's emotions.

I heart faces-Week 23-Sepia

This weeks challenge is sepia tone. I love trying different editing features, so this one was pretty fun for me.

Coral is 17 weeks old this week. I can't believe how quickly she is changing and I try to memorize her little face every day.

Don't forget to look at all the beautiful shots at I Heart Faces!

You capture: nature

I love nature. I love taking pictures of nature. I love red in nature.


I love a woodsy area after a rain. Everything is so GREEN.


Check out some more nature shots at I Should Be Folding Laundry!

You capture: family

This is my first You Capture challenge! My grandparents came up from Tennessee to see their first great grandbaby. A perfect opportunity for family shots.


Great Aunt Laurie reading to baby girl and cousin.

Make sure you check out the other shots!

be still my heart

I found these tiny vintage handpainted plates on etsy.


Maybe this wall?

Oh I wish, wish I could paint it.

I heart faces--May 18th

My most favorite face, my darling daughter Coral.


I can't wait to see everyone's entries. This is my first time entering anything at I heart faces!





I am submitting this photo into the www.iheartfaces.com Blurb Book photo contest. I am granting I ♥ Faces permission to use my photo in a printed version of a book for commercial use and possibly advertising of a photo book on both the Blurb and I ♥ Faces web sites.

What a difference a year makes...

Today is my one year wedding anniversary and first Mother's Day. If you had told me a year ago between the Ouzo shot-taking and the dancing to "Let's Twist Again" that I would have a 2-day-shy-of-3 months baby girl today, I would have been skeptical. I mean, who does that? Who, in this day and age, gets pregnant 2 weeks after their wedding? Apparently, this girl. I had to call my husband in Africa(yay for work trips 3 weeks after your wedding). At 4 in the morning. Hello, honey? I know you are working and will be gone for a month, but you will be a father in 8 months. I'm taking another test right now, I'll call you back. Yep, it's for sure.

We (ok, me) decided to not find out the gender. Everyone thought we would have a boy. I secretly really, really thought it was a girl. And she is. A girl with reddish hair and very impressive belly.I am so very thankful for my surprise baby. We had a great day together. Tom brought home flowers on Friday.
Today we ate leftover pizza, went to Goodwill (where we bought a Captain America coffee mug!) and put baby to sleep by caressing her sweet little face. My gift was that I didn't change a single diaper. The night ended with year old cake. Yum.