Merry Christmas 2008!!!
Dec 18, 2008

Wishing you and yours the best Christmas ever. I got my present a little early :-)

Art
Nov 10, 2008

I painted, "Durham's Garden", for a dear friend of mine. She is going to hang it in her guest room.

I Promise
Oct 27, 2008

I sang, I PROMISE, at my nephew's wedding yesterday. The sun on my face, the leaves falling, hubby on guitar, and baby girl smiling... I'll never forget it.

Gift
Oct 1, 2008

I am going to give this piece entitled, "I Promise", to my nephew and his bride. It has a rustic quality like their wedding site.

Date night
Jul 28, 2008

Hubby and I had our first "date" two weeks after our baby girl was born. We saw James Blunt and Shery Crow in concert downtown. Killer show!!! Tuesday night I am going w/ my girlfriends to see Gladys Knight. Can't wait.

The countdown
Jun 8, 2008

3 weeks to go...

Maternity Photo Shoot
May 7, 2008

Check out my mommy-to-be photos by the one and only Cliff Batson. Go to Photos page, under "Maternity" and/or visit:

http://cliffbatson.bigfolioblog.com/

Doula
Apr 24, 2008

Hubby painted the butterfly mural pictured for the nursery. I cried when I read this poem written for me. Dear Mommy Pt. 3 Posted by Nicole D (Doula Extraordinaire) When I met you - I knew you sang from your soul. Not just the 'I sing in the bathroom because I like the sound of it' singing. Not the 'I sing professionally for a buck because I am good but have no passion' singing. You sing from your gut. From your inner most part. From your womb. You bring life to the words that spill from your lips like warm honey. You resonate them in your supernatural and translate them to the natural. You birth spirit from your lips. You will soon birth man from your womb. Just as you pen letters to the paper, and they become lyrics... so you grow cells that become life. Just as you bring tone and pitch to the keys and vibration to your throat... so you will soon bring swells and dips, cadence and rhythm to your body which will labor you. Just as you work the song to make it your own... so soon will your body work you to make you it's own. Are you willing to become your body's song? Will you swell with its crescendos and soften with its rests? Will you slip effortlessly with the melody and trip lightly to the tune? Will your body make a love song? A ballad? Will it caress you like a lullaby or rock you like a tribal rhythm? And will you cry because it moves you? Or will you laugh because of its lilt? Will you allow it to possess you and leave you breathless? It will demand your attention - it will possess and encompass you. You will be offered any seat in the house to the orchestration of life. Which seat will you take?

Another Cali trip!
Mar 15, 2008

Great to catch up w/ my family and girlfriends! We designed, dined, and laughed. Yes, I know my Baby Bump is showing big time. 6 months now. Woo-hoo! I had two in-n-out burgers this time.

Little Girl
Mar 1, 2008

Hubby was working on some cool chord progressions this weekend w/ my daddy. It inspired us to write our first song for our unborn daughter. it's entitled, "Little Girl".

Profile in Paradise...
Feb 28, 2008

Hubby took this shot just as the sun was setting in Maui. Still dreaming about it...

MAUI ROCKS!
Feb 27, 2008

Our ‘babymoon” was beautiful, relaxing, and romantic! Every morning we would watch the humpback whales from our balcony. Sometimes we would see up to 50 per day on Ka’anapli Beach (over 1000 of them return each year to breed and give birth to their young). Our week on the island consisted of sun, sand, swimming, shopping, luau, golf, theatre (‘ulalena), spa (we even had poolside couples’ cabana massages), long walks on the beach, and drives to Lahaina and Napili. Hard to think of much else these days…my heart longs for Maui.

Somethin' about the West Coast...
Feb 18, 2008

I spent the weekend in Cali w/ my sis. Redecorated my auntee's living room - 48 hour design literally. It was blast. Had a chance to break bread w/ 10 of my beautiful and brilliant girlfriends. Been craving In-N-Out Burger since my return...

Baby Bump!
Feb 15, 2008

Look who's showing...

MERRY CHRISTMAS, 2007!!!
Dec 12, 2007

Favorite time of year...love and blessings to you, my dear family and friends! 12 days of shopping left. Oh my...