remember today, for it is the beginning of always. today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.
- author unknown

for a dear friend of mine...

shawn, i hope that i am able to capture this magical time for you and capture it the way you always dreamed of...this time that i promise you will want to remember forever. enjoy these last moments, for soon they will be gone. moments that you will never physically experience again. moments that will soon be a distant memory. you are an amazing woman, mother and friend. thanks for being a never-ending inspiration. thanks for being my friend.






a quick steve update...
he is doing great. he's pain free and eating regular foods. the one thing that bothers him is that he can't smile quite right. it's almost like when you go to the dentist and get numbed and your lip won't work exactly the way you'd like it to. well, that's how his is. steve went to his ENT follow-up today and all went well, except that there was a hole in his incision. they asked him to come back in a week and he told them that he couldn't; he'll be in iraq. so they numbed him up and sewed the hole in his mouth incision closed. ENT seems to think that his nonmoving lip thing will resolve itself in a few months. steve is basically cleared for iraq but they're going to have him come in on sunday for one last check, just to make sure all is good before he leaves for iraq on monday, for three weeks.

and i so need to get my new blog launched. the size of the images in this blog template is making me crazy. soon. soon...