A new beginning

I have known Adrijana since she was teenager hanging out with my nieces Kari and Shauna. Since I lived with my sister Charlene and her family I got to know many of my nieces friends...It has been a pleasure to get to know Adrijana and to watch her grow into a beautiful woman. 
I was honored to be invited to her wedding shower. I took along a pair of earrings that I had made to give to Adrijana so that she could have a Kari keepsake. She was touched and said that he was going to wear them on her wedding day. I didn't expect her to so I honestly didn't give much thought to it.
Another one of Kari and Shauna's friends, Tosh, was the photographer for Adrijana's wedding. I was looking at all of the amazing memories she captured and the following picture melted my heart!!   

She is wearing the earrings I made!! I was so moved that she felt that the earrings were pretty enough to be worn on such a special, beautiful day.  She told me that Kari was excited to go to her wedding so it meant alot to be able to have Kari there in spirit with her. Her spirit was joined by Jayda and Evan. xox

Congratulations Adrijana!

Check out http://www.natashadixonphotography.blogspot.com/ for more pictures of this very special day and the beautiful pictures taken by Tosh.

NEW BEGINNINGS
A FLIGHT IN THE SUN

That first bright step into the sunshine of life
begins with the opening of the family cocoon.
The caterpillar becomes a butterfly
spreading her wings into the world.

What she is today is but a tiny mirror.
of the transformation that is yet to come.
For with time, love, humor and warmth
She is an ever changing masterpiece.

Whether as wife, mother, career woman or all,
she will find her center of peace.
A place that is hers and hers alone,
the essence of what she is and will be.

Using the instincts that each of us have
to find the good in each other.
to be a caring friend, lover, helper and playmate,
to listen and share, to laugh and to cry.

With loving support of family and friends,
she takes flight down an unknown road towards her future,
like the rising of the sun in the east.
Each day filled with new beginnings.

Finding excitement and challenge at each new turn.
Her flight through life filled with many happy adventures
and memories to put in her book of life,
as the sun moves along that steady path across the sky.

When the sun at last begins to set in the west
and her flight nears its end, she can look back along her path
and know that she has been everything she can be
and has done her very best.

Poem by Linda Dietz