I Heart Faces Photo Challenge | Winter Wonderland

The theme this week at iheartfaces is Winter Wonderland. With the weather we've been getting up here in New Jersey, this theme couldn't be more timely! lol! The picture I'm submitting this week is a beauty - it's my oldest daughters first outing into the snow! She was having a great time, thrilled to death to be out and playing in the white stuff, but when it came time to come back in the house... well... you can see her reaction...lol!

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I Heart Faces - "Smiles"

This week in the i heart faces challenge is "Smiles". I must say, I *LOVE* this picture with all my heart. It's just such a perfect shot of my daughter Georgia doing something she loves to do and enjoying it so much. It also doesn't hurt that it shows off her inch-deep dimples :) The smile on her face is just one of pure joy...

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iHeartfaces - Best Face Photo of 2010

I've had a ton going on this past year and have been meaning FOR MONTHS to get back to blogging, to photography, to, well, everything I haven't been able to do due to the enormous amount of stuff going on the past few months (or more like the entire year).

I can't even remember where I left off on my blog, but it's possible that I mentioned I was pregnant. Well, I'm not pregnant anymore - and I have another little girl to prove it :) My pregnancy was tumultuous and difficult, and riddled with problems from the start. I ended up being an insulin dependent gestational diabetic who eventually had to go on early disability and be admitted early to the hospital as well. My baby was born a little early and ended up in the NICU for a few days too, which isn't something I wish on my worst enemy.

In the end though (and now 5 months away from having had the c-section), I can now say everything ended extremely well, and this years Christmas card shoot turned out to be awesome, being that I had not one but two beautiful little girls to shoot now - and I also used our Christmas card to announce the addition to the family, which I'd done with my older daughter as well when she was born. So here I will use my "first blog post back to reality" with her announcement picture, which I keep going back to over and over again as my best face shot for 2010. Besides the fact that I brought her into this world with both of us ending up healthy being the best possible outcome I could have ever have hoped for, it's sincerely such a great image - and the post-processing I did actually makes me proud, because when I started out I used to over process everything to death...lol.

Here it is, my best face photo for 2010:

Introducing Charlotte Grace
born at 8:34pm on 7/17/10
8lbs 11oz, 20.5" long
110% kissable

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