~A Big Congratulations~

In 2005, I joined an online mom's group. It gave me a way to talk to other mom's in the Dallas area who had children the same age as mine, and also helped me to find play dates for Grace and Hunter as well as myself. LOL! Over the last 3 years, I have met some really amazing people through that group, and even made a few lifetime friends.

Jen, is one of the people that I met there. She is a local photographer http://www.sugar-photography.com/ and I admired her work immediately the first time that I saw it. In 2006, I had the rare opportunity for her to photograph my children as they were models at a photography conference that she was attending. I was SOOOOOO excited when I found out she would be one of the people photographing them, as her talents, though WELL worth the cost are something I could never afford. She captured some of my favorite shots to date that I have of my children.


And though Jen, is not a close personal friend of mine, she is really an amazing person. She is involved with several non profit organizations, including NILMDTS http://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org/start.php and Heroes For Children http://www.heroesforchildren.org/, both of which have helped friends of mine in the past.

Anyways, I have been following the journey her family of four has been on for the last 8 months to add one more child to their lives, along with the rest of the mom's in our group. Well, today that journey was completed as her family welcomed a beautiful baby girl into their home. I just wanted to send a special congratulations out to her and her family tonight. For anyone interested in reading about their journey, she has journaled about it beautifully both in words and in pictures on her blog called Waiting... http://www.weintribe.blogspot.com/