An Amazing Gift

I met Carie a couple of years ago when I was working on the in-patient hem/onc floor at PCH. She was a nurse and not long after we started working together, she left to spend more time with her little girl at home. I was very excited to find out that when I transferred over to the out-patient clinic, she was also there working a couple days a week. She is a great nurse and a wonderful person. As much as she is an amazing nurse, her true passion is photography. Before moving to Arizona she had her own photography business and took beautiful pictures of children. Carie was able to merge her two loves of photography and working with our patients/families when she started the Arizona chapter of Flashes of Hope. It is a great program that brings photographers into the hospital and clinic and takes amazing black and white pictures of our patients and their families. The families receive a portfolio of 2-8x10s, 4x6s, and a CD of the images with permission to make re-prints. All at not cost to the families. It is a little way to have a beautiful memory during a not always so beautiful time.
Carie decided to leave the hospital so she could start her photography business up again full force. Luckily, I still get to see her during the Flashes of Hope photo sessions. If you or someone you know is looking for someone to take pictures of little ones she is your person. She has such a gift. Check out her website here. (Once the page pops up, click on her name and then look around!)
Robert and I were very honored and so excited when she told us that she wanted to take newborn pictures of Emma as her gift to us! Of course we said yes! She said the only catch is that she needs to shoot her when she is between 4 and 7 days old because that is when they are the most sleepy/cuddly. So I will be calling her from the hospital to set up an appointment! Thank you so much Carie for this amazing gift!