Two years

It was two years ago this month that we last had contact with my dad. He has completely missed out on being the amazing grand father I know he is capable of being. Not a day goes by that I don't think about how his decisions have affected my life and the life of our daughter. Knowing that he's out there, but he CHOOSES to not have a relationship with Lucy hurts more than he could ever know. I mean, what adult walks away from a beautiful child by choice? Aren't grandkids what parents look forward to? Spoiling them rotten, taking them to the park, out for ice cream, getting them all ramped up on sugar and then dropping them off for mom and dad to deal with?!?! Today is his birthday, so where ever you are, I wish you a happy birthday dad....and I wish more than anything you'd love us and long to have us back in your life the way we love and long for you.

A picture is worth........

Here it is....as promised, and even before the end of the month! I still can't get over how awesome my new camera is - and Mrs. Nurse boy, I hope you show this to the Mister.....MR. NB SHE NEEEEEEEEEEDS A NEW CAMERA! I mean, look at how great this simple snap shot, totally UN-POSED turned out! If this isn't worth a million bucks, I don't know what is!

Star light, Star bright

So, The man went on a TOTAL splurge and purchased me a new camera for Christmas. He bought me the ENTRY LEVEL Nikon, d3000....even though it's entry level, it does SO much more than my point and shoot camera EVER did and I couldn't be happier. The amount of detail and the vivid colors are AMAZING!!! While I was flipping through my images tonight I found this one of some pretzels that I took. My mom bought us a tub of holiday shaped pretzels, and the star is Lucy's favorite shape! Hope wherever you are, you have stars shining down brightly upon you.

A photo a day?

I have made a new years resolution this year....something I NEVER do. Mainly becuase I think they are promises that we make to ourselves, that we KNOW will usually get broken, and then we throw ourselves a little pity party when it does get broken! This year is different. I got a fancy new camera (a Nikon!) for Christmas, and have decided that I want to TRY - key word here is TRY - to take one photo of the little princess every day. I thought it would be interesting to document just how much she changes over the course of one year. So far, she's stood like a good little girl in front of the same wall every night before getting ready for bed. We'll see how long it lasts....but we're three for three so far! I'll post one photo a month on this site so anyone in bloggy land can follow too! Here's hoping you don't have to throw yourself any pity parties this year! :-)

xo~