Sent From Heaven... {Wagga Wagga Newborn Photographer}

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to meet and document the darling little Erica Gray. 

I have attempted so many times to write this post but have struggled in finding the words for what it is that I want to share... I just hope I can achieve it now.  

Darling little Erica is the niece of one my dearest and long time friends, and her arrival here on Earth was somewhat of a miracle!  

Her parents were prepared for a long, emotional journey in their efforts to conceive a child... 

having been told that their dreams would not be realised without medical intervention.

But this story didn't quite go as expected...

Instead, this story is of a miracle... but one that begins with a loss.

A loss so heartbreaking that it brings me to tears just to think about it, to write it now.

The loss of a much loved Father... Husband... Son.

Of an amazingly beautiful man, who graced us all with his humour, his kind heart, his strength.

A Father who so evidently adored his beautiful children so...

Who loved his Grandchildren with everything in him...

Who loved his wife so completely.

A long, difficult battle... a double lung transplant...

a continual fight for every last minute he could stay with his family.

 A father who welcomed us all into his home, as if we were his own...

Who would giggle along with us as we invaded his home and 

sipped on vodka cruisers and dressed for nights out on the town...

who taught us all, silently...

that real men showed their feelings...

told their daughters how beautiful they were every single day...

That he loved them.

A father we all looked up to.

My dear, dear long time friends' darling father.

A loss.

It would be just days from the heartbreaking day they would lay him to rest that the news would come...

That a miracle had graced this family in their time of need...

That a new life had been created...

That the darling Miss Erica would soon be in her parents' arms.
Bittersweet.

A miracle...
In every sense of the term.
The moment she arrived to this world, to meet her incredibly adoring parents, their world changed...
A moment so perfect, beautiful...
Profound...
Shared with their loved ones...

Except for one...
And so the reality was that Erica would never meet her namesake...
Her shining star... Her Grandfather

Her Angel.

She will not grow to sit on his lap, to kiss him goodnight, to look into his adoring eyes and say
"I love you Poppy"
But she will always...
Always...
Know that he lives on Forever...
In her very Soul...

That she is his gift...
To those he adores the most...
That She, darling little Erica Gray...
was truly... sent from Heaven.

Sent from Heaven to here, into the arms of the most adoring, loving parents...
Who are so completely smitten with her...
Who will cherish her always...
for the miracle she is!

Without further ado...
I am pleased to introduce the darling little Miss Erica Gray!

A word of warning though...
You WILL fall head over heels in love!!!