Emily Celebrates One Year Cancer Free!

This past week­end, my daugh­ter Emily cel­e­brated one year can­cer free!

Emily (aka Lydia The Kitty) | Halloween 2012

This is my lit­tle trick-or-treater Emily! We are so grate­ful to have this Hal­loween with her. We were in a very dif­fer­ent place last year at this time — in the hos­pi­tal, get­ting chemo, fac­ing a bone mar­row trans­plant. She missed trick-or-treating at home and was quite upset about it (how­ever, she did get to trick-or-treat in the hos­pi­tal and received a LOT more candy than she does at home…which did make her happy!). One year later she is in remis­sion and doing really well! Emily decided to dress up as a kitty. She decided she wanted to be called “Lydia” while she was a kitty — I have no idea where she got that!

Lydia The Kitty:

Happy Halloween!

Yep, we put Miss Mar­lowe in a pump­kin. It was actu­ally her mom’s idea after see­ing a sim­i­lar photo on Pin­ter­est and she asked if we could try it. Mar­lowe was not happy at first but she was smil­ing by the end!

My Sister Brenda!

Just a few pretty pho­tos of my younger sis­ter Brenda! I took these at our church after our niece’s bap­tism. I loved the stone wall and asked Brenda to pose for a few pho­tos. She has served as my model in the past quite a few times — she’s very pho­to­genic and look at those eyes!

I am really miss­ing pho­tograph­ing dur­ing my favorite (and usu­ally busiest) time of year. I took some time off and have only sched­uled a ses­sion here and there so that I can spend more time with fam­ily this fall (to read why, see here).