This is the tree outside my window. Every year, its the first tree to start shedding, but its always the last to drop its final leaves.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm like this tree. Stubborn in my ways to complete change, hanging on to that last little bit.

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

Much like fall, its time for change.

Meet Erica's kids, well, at least three of them. Erica is a talented amazing stylist at Donaylle Nicole Hair Studio and she's been stylin' my do since I was a freshman in high school. We recently got together to get some fun pictures of the kids and family - and after days of delays due to weather, we really lucked out. They're so stinkin' cute and easy to shoot!