What an amazing even this is. All of the people whose lives have been affected by cancer. Either personally or in the life of a loved one. Here are some snapshots I took this evening before coming home. I’ll post more tomorrow sometime. It’s past my bedtime.

Grandma, I love you and miss you.

I blame my current cold on this insane weather. It just can’t be good for the body to have to keep adjusting to the extreme swings in temps like we have. One week we’re wearing coats and heavy clothes. The next we’re wearing short sleeve shirts (and the brave – or crazy – among us have been wearing shorts) and running around without our coats enjoying the warm sunshine. A few days later, we’re huddling under umbrellas and wondering why we put our coats away already. Then guess what? We’ve got more snow on the ground and they’re saying we’ll have temps in the 40′s by the end of the week again. Ugh. Let me off this rollercoaster!

My mom had surgery on her ankle. Again. This time they went in, removed a bone spur, and then lengthened the tendon. She gets to spend the next 8 weeks putting absolutely no weight on that foot. She has this nifty scooter thing that she kneels on with the bad leg, and then kind of hops with the other one. Better than crutches, she said. But, she’s dealing with a lot of pain from the surgery. She said on a scale of 1-10, it’s a 12.  I hope it eases up for her soon.

This year is flying by, isn’t it? 

I had a few sessions in march and a few weekends ago, I was able to take some maternity pictures. My first chance at maternity, and we both had a great time playing around. I think she makes a cute pregnant mommie!

I can’t wait until she gets to welcome her new baby girl into the world, as I’m hoping to take some more fun pics then!

This seems to be going down as one of the worst winters I’ve been through in awhile. Several rounds of stomach flu have gone through our house (the worst round back at the beginning of this month which got everyone but the hubby), and then Brandon came down with something last week and ended up with viral pneumonia. About the only reason he didn’t get thrown in the hospital is because we own a home nebulisor unit and were able to give him the breathing treatments (every four hours, night and day) that the hospital would have done. I also am getting over a cold, which was probably the same bug that he had, as I was also coughing and congested for several days.