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    Hi! I'm Traci. I'm a Registered Nurse who loves quilting, knitting, cross stitch, and the great outdoors. In my pre-scrubs life, I owned Real Photography, and you can still see my old wedding and portrait photography site here .

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Old Blog Posts: September 2009

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my belly

Totally popped out last week.  I went from being without waist to having quite the little round belly!  It’s funny how it happens so suddenly.  (I know this invites a whole ton of “we wanna see pictures” comments, but I’m just going to say this:  we’re in the middle of wedding season, trying to rent an old house that needs some work, and trying to rent out our current house that needs some work.)

Spent the weekend in Breckenridge shooting a wedding.

Will and Nic came up Friday night to join me and went on an adventure to “save mommy in the mountains from the whale” and along the way came through tunnels, saw a troll, and picked up a baby jaguar.  That kid is nothing if not imaginative.

ps

We’re moving to a rental house and will be renting out our house.  More later. :P

“i want to be a bad guy”

Last year Nic told me to choose Will’s costume well because it would probably be the last year I’d get to pick.

How right he was!

This morning I hear an urgent and ridiculously loud “MOMMY!!!  MOMMY!!!” from downstairs.  I peek over the banister and Will has a catalog on the sofa: “LOOK!  STAR WARS”  And proceeds to point to the costumes “I want to wear this and I want this sword and I want to wear this and I want this sword…” and on.  I said “do you want a Star Wars costume for Halloween?”  He said “YES!  I want to be a bad guy.”

I walked away and heard him muttering about his “star wars presents.”  Nic’s work is complete.

(And yes, he is SUCH a good talker these days!!!)