Sleepover

"the best part of life is when your family become your friends and your friends become your family" robin roberts 

Hand Hearts

Sometimes you just need a little extra visual reminder that you are in someone else's heart and that they are in yours...

Lockets

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)

~ee cummings 

Magic

Magic is everywhere.  Whenever these guys are together I feel magic, the magic of a special little lady and her spirit surrounding us.  I see her in the light and shadows. She is the magic.

and speaking of feelings...

"Children are mirrors; they will always show you exactly what is going on inside of you."

Thank you Tao of Motherhood.

It was a Monday here at the Gray household.

 

the fine line

My dad always said there was a fine line between sadness and euphoria.  We feel our feelings A LOT in our house so we like to hang out with people who also like to feel their feelings.

Warrior

So I am definitely not a writer, I think that is why I love photography so much. Pictures say everything when my words tend to fall short.  But this set of pictures represents the culmination of the last 7 1/2 years of an amazing journey my husband John and I were super unprepared for with our oldest daughter and I felt like they needed a few words with them.  She was born with a bilateral conductive hearing loss that went undetected until 3 1/2 and today she finally received her first pair of BAHAs (bone anchored hearing devices) to replace her hearing aids!! When I asked her how things sounded she told me "Mom, everything finally sounds all better, and calm!" 

She then proceeded to sing "Tomorrow" from Annie THROUGH the walls for all of the audiologists to enjoy for the next hour. You're welcome.

Thankful

They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

~Kahlil Gibran 

Boxes

"girly girls, this is the new house, don't you love it?"

Sunset

It's as simple as something that nobody knows, that her eyes are as big as her bubbly toes