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A month ago I found myself sitting in a NICU with my son.  I saw parents exhausted living in their room and taking a few moments to go eat in the break room since no food is allowed in the rooms.  I saw nurses spend 12 hours of their day loving and taking care of […]

Its been a good minute since I last wrote about my thoughts.  As we are approaching the end of the year, I thought this would be a perfect time to share some. I came across in my memories on Facebook a question I asked all my friends a year ago today, “What’s your word for […]

Meet Mary! Mary was the sweetest and I loved her personality! When hard times come her way, she is ready with gloves on and a sense of humor to face it all!  She is so beautiful inside and out and her soul radiates with peace! Mary and her family started to tell me a little […]

I haven’t talked about business talk in a minute, so I wanted to let you know that a few weeks ago I ordered some new business cards.  It had been a couple of years still I last ordered some and I knew it was time to upgrade. I love my logo and brand.  I know […]

Meet the beautiful Dominguez Family!  Briella may look familiar, because a month or so we did the princess session which was so much fun!  This time I got to meet and photograph the whole family for Christmas pictures. I loved how everyone dressed up for Christmas and coordinated with each other.  They truly are a […]

Haylea may look familiar and its because she was one of our Stay Strong girls, but this time we are going to meet her mom and daughter! We decided to have a different background which means we did the bridge and we had fun!  We got to try and shoot at different angles and tried […]

Meet Christina!  Christina was diagnosed with Stage 3 Colorectal Cancer when she was just 48 years old. She was diagnosed on 09/16 after an emergency surgery for bowel obstruction. I want to quote what she wrote, “To a lot of people cancer is a death sentence.  I refused to even entertain that thought.  I looked […]

Meet Haylea!! Haylea was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkins Lymphoma when she was 17 years old.  She first started having problems when she had some neck pain and went to the Emergency Room and that’s when she was diagnosed after they ran some tests. Haylea had beat the cancer once, but it came right back […]

Meet Jacquelyn!  Her story has her and her twin sister apart of it.  Jacquelyn was diagnosed with Stage 1 Breast cancer back in 2001 and was cancer free for 7 years.  In 2008 she was diagnosed the second time Stage 2 Breast cancer and since then have been cancer free!! Since there was a history […]

Meet Kim!!  Kim was diagnosed with a malignant lung tumor at the age of 5 years old.  She had repeated cases of pneumonia starting at the age of only 18 months old. In the middle of July in 2003 she was rushed to the ER in Anderson, South Carolina for what they thought was another […]

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