Nickerson News

My time to blog these days is slim. Hopefully, January will slow down a bit and I can breathe a little easier. I’m really not complaining though, because I LOVE being busy with photography. Thanks everyone who has been giving me the opportunity to take your family pictures!

Just to give you a sneak peek at what my life has been filled with in the last few weeks, here is a glimpse of some of the great children & families I have got to work with.

For starters, a precious newborn. (Clayton, you are a DOLL baby and I love those checks!)

And this little one always makes me smile. She is so funny!

Four sisters-all stunning!

This little one has a crush on my Abel. I had to talk about Abel to get her to smile. (Abel thinks she is pretty cute too!)

And this little one has some incredible eyes!

One of my favorite pictures!

And I LOVE this family! They were one of my first clients (over 4 years ago) and Janice should be on my pay roll with how much business she brings in for me. THANKS JANICE!

So that is a peak into my life right now. There are lots more but I gotta run. I’ll be back to more blogging in 09! Until next time, Happy Christmas Shopping!

My baby is 18 months today.

I was hoping I would able to report the height and weight of my precious boy after his 18 month check-up, but my little bam-bam jumped his naked booty off the scale making it IMPOSSIBLE to get an accurate weight. So after NUMEROUS attempts, they decided it wasn’t worth it and said he looks super healthy and ACTIVE!!!

Dr. Sophie (Abel LOVES her and can say “Dr. Sophie”…she is our new, young doctor and just finished her residency) was SO IMPRESSED with how chatty our little man was.

One of his favorite things to do is color. We think he is super good at it, but then again we are his parents so what do you expect. (I am hoping he has his father’s artistic ability.)

I will forever be in love with his red lips and blue eyes. (wow, what is up with that nerdy middle part going on…haircut coming this weekend!)

He also is BRILLIANT with shapes and letters! He is VERY fascinated with letters and his favorite letter is “O”. Probably because his best friend is Owen. He can pick an “O” out from a mile away.

This pictures really shows off his blue eyes.

Pigging out on T-day!

Banging on the piano with his cousins. We had the privilege of having them play background music for us while we ate our Thanksgiving dinner. Good times!

You can’t really tell from this photo, but he had been asking to see Santa all week. My dad (his poppy) takes him out every Saturday morning for their “special outing”. I told my dad that Abel wanted to see Santa, so Poppy took him to see Santa.

The result….

Every parent needs a photos like this. I wish I could dig up the old photo of me on Santa’s lap. Just imagine a huge puff of curls on Abel’s head and that was what his mommy’ looked like back in the day.

(PS-how cute is this Santa! He has been our mall’s Santa for 15+ years…maybe more)

Happy December!

Seth, Abel and I were on our way to PA for the day to meet up with Seth’s family. We only made it to DC.

We were taking a short cut through the city and were sitting at a red light. The light turned green and we started to go and I looked to my right and I saw a car coming so fast right at us. I shut my eyes and screamed. As soon as the car smashed into us I only could think about Abel and whipped around so fast and was so thankful he was screaming, but was completely fine. I immediately grabbed him out of the car seat and held him so tight that I didn’t even realize 3 airbags had all gone off and the door to the side of the car that I was sitting on was so smashed. I couldn’t contain myself and was bawling, but inside I was SO SO THANKFUL to our AMAZING GOD that we were all uninjured.

THANK YOU JESUS!

I will admit I was very “unpleasant” to the guy that hit us. Seth had to calm me down, but I was just so mad that he RAN A RED LIGHT! I just kept asking him WHY did he run a red light! I could see the guilt on his face and he said he had so much on his mind (he was heading to the court house-for who knows what?). I told him I really hoped he learned his lesson and that he better pay attention from now on!

Abel on the other had was having the time of his life! As we waited for the police, he got to sit in the driver’s seat and drive the steering wheel (a favorite activity of his), see the ambulance, sit in a police car and ride in a tow truck. The entire time we were in the tow truck he must have said “tow truck” over 100 times. He thought it was the greatest thing.

Thankfully, we weren’t too far from home and my parents were able to pick us up. We are happy to be home safe and are just relaxing and praising God that we are all here uninjured. When Abel was napping this afternoon, I had to go into his room and watch him sleep and Thank my Lord that my baby is ok and still with us. Every time he has laughed today it fills my heart with so much joy. I am so thankful I can still wrap my arms around him and today I am hugging my boys so tight and praising God that we are all still here.

We took a few pictures of our poor civic that we love dearly after the accident. Sadly, I think our civic is going to the auto graveyard…

(Look closely. Abel’s angel was watching over him so tightly that the back seat car door is completely all intact. Not even a scratch! My door got the brunt of the accident and my angel was protecting me so much that I don’t even have a scratch and I feel totally fine. (hopefully, the morning won’t bring on any new pains)

The other car

THANK YOU GOD THAT WE ARE STILL HERE!!! WE ARE PRAISING YOU TODAY AND ALWAYS!