Capture Your Grief - Day 3 - After loss self portrait

I wasn't sure which picture to use until I saw this one and knew it was perfect.  Takes me back to that moment. :'(

Capture Your Grief - Day 2 - Before loss self portrait

Here I am 30 weeks and 6 days pregnant with William - 022709.  I was trying on clothes for my maternity pics that I was supposed to have on 031409, but he decided to come 3 days before that on 031109 which was 7-1/2 weeks early. :(  I still wear this shirt though. :)

Capture Your Grief - Day 1 - Sunrise

I have decided to participate in "Capture Your Grief", a project created by Carly for Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awarness Month.

This is my Day 1 - Sunrise picture (taken on Day 2 on my way to work in Austin, TX)

From Carly's website - http://carlymarieprojectheal.com/

This project was created In Loving Memory of all the babies who died during pregnancy and the little ones that could only stay with their parents for the shortest of times. No parent should ever have to bury their child. We will speak about these precious lives. We will honour them. We will remember them.

This October for Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, I’m hosting CAPTURE YOUR GRIEF 2012. If you have experienced the death of your baby/ies/child/ren, this project is designed just for you! It doesn’t matter whether you are only a week into this walk or you have been walking this road for 20 years, all are welcome to join in. Capture Your Grief is a 31 day photograph challenge. All you will need is the internet and a camera. It doesn’t have to be some big fancy DSLR – a phone camera or a pocket digital camera will be perfect. And if your camera is broken – you can still take part as in this project you are not required to take a new photo everyday.

Trying this again...

I obviously didn't do a very good job of blogging when I started this 2 years ago. So let me try again.

Kayla is in her second week of 1st grade.  So far so good. :)  Her teacher is really nice.  I can't wait to see what this year will bring.  This year she will still be in gymnastics and Girl Scouts.  I plan on enrolling her in an art class they are offering after school which will start in 3 weeks...I think she will enjoy it.  Tonight I am taking her to the church to see their kick-off for the Youth Ministry they are doing.  She was really excited about it when she came home from Sunday School so I thought I'd take her to check it out.

I'm almost a month in to my personal 3 month challenge of no soda, fast food or sweet tea (made with real sugar - only using stevia) and going to the gym.  I think I'm doing awesome on the soda and fast food, but I will have to admit that I have had fast food 1.5 times (I say 1.5 because one time I only had tater tots).  That is so amazing for me when I would stop by McDonald's about 3 times a week for breakfast and maybe eat out 2 times for lunch.  I have had absolutely NO soda and hardly any sweet tea.  As far as the gym goes...I was doing great at the beginning and then I tried being an over achiever and hurt my back.  My back has started feeling better and now I'm blaming it on being so tired all the time.  I just can't seem to get out of bed. :(  I haven't gone to the gym  in 2 weeks.  That will change - I WILL get my butt back on track.

Guess that's all for now...gotta clock back in from my lunch break. :)