I'm claiming Bragging Rights.

I would like to dedicate this post to showing off one of my dear & longest friend's baby, Cohen. & Yes, I am claiming full bragging rights, as friend of the mother of the cutest baby ever. Did you follow that?

He really is just the most utterly cute baby, (that I have yet to meet,) but until then I continue living vicariously through the most amazing pictures & adventurous new-mom blogposts. 

So Thank you Kate, & Victor, for your most adorable son, can't wait to meet him in December!

 I know right? Doesnnnn't get any cuter.

& yes, I know you're thinking he is the best dressed, most presh baby right? It's his mom, she's downright amazing, check her work out See Kate Sew! 

Danielle Nicole.

November 9.

November 9th is a hard day.
It has been hard since 2007.
I can remember that night better than any other.
Isn't it funny that the times we wish we could forget or shake off are the ones we most likely never will?

But today, November 9, 2010, was good.
& not only good, but one of the best days i've had in a while lately.
Today I got hired at Miss Kelly's Coffee shop at UCI medical center, an answer to months of prayer.
I also got to spend time with a woman who is very dear to me & encourages me in my sanity & beyond it. Then I worked a balloon shift, which, yes i hate, but I have prayed for money & that shift is just that. So today was a blessing & it reminded me of that fact, that life is a blessing, & what better of a day to be reminded of that.

Julie, You were beautiful, funny, and soooo smart. I know you're up there & each year on this day you most likely shake your head at the moments you catch alot of us sneak away from our routines, out to our cars, or bedrooms, or even a nearby closet & lose our composure momentarily because it still doesn't feel quite normal, or fair, or easy when the date catches us offguard or a sudden memory racks our brains. I'm sure you're up there loving the new Maroon 5 cd, & laughing, & being beautiful, hoping that we'll embrace the blessing life is & how much richer the people around us make it, just like you made our lives richer.

To 4 year old library dates, middle school craft parties, and tons and tons of scrunch-nosed laughter from your beautiful face.

Love you Jules.


Danielle Nicole.

Proud Roots.

AHhhHhhhHHhhhhhh GIANNNNTS!!!! AHHHHhhHHHHH FEAR THE BEARD!!! AHHHHHHH LET TIMMY SMOKE!!! AHHHHHHHH


....... I know, I know. For all of you who are not from Northern California, this is allll getting a little old, a little annoying, & a little crazy. However, it is a pretty historic event that has taken place, & well I can't lie about the pride glowing from anyone around here who does or has called the bay area home at somepoint, & we just can't help it, it's natural :) But I think my pride and joy in this event is more for my grandfather than anything else. Although he passed last August, I know without a doubt he had box seats in heaven for those series games & I'm sure he's up there rioting at the  SF parade right now, it's only fitting of his character. For the man who I have never ever known to miss a single Giants game, for any reason, this victory is perfect, I only wish he was physically here still so I could enjoy it next to him. But, because I knew him well, & have a firm standing belief that Heaven is full of a person's favorite things, I know he's celebrating hard with JC himself.

So congratulations Giants, & Grandpa, be proud up there, while I'm proud down here for you.


Danielle Nicole.

Hearing God.

What does it sound like when God speaks?
What does it feel like when God leads?

These are the two questions that are daily filling my brain during this season of my life.
This season, I am learning alot. Learning to trust, & not to live controlled by fear. Fear of my past & fear of the future together. I am learning to listen and live, which is risky, but good. 
Today is a great day off, I am finally feeling better & I am hoping this will lead to full health after a month of being off & on sick. Today is a day to rest, a day to read, a day to think. I like those days, even when combatting a cold. Today I want to rest in my thoughts on God's voice. I want to rest in the quiet of this apartment and listen for it. Solitude can be a scary thing for me. I like people, I like conversation, I like being busy. But I know that solitude is something that is teaching me something new during this season & God is giving me lots of it these days. There are tons of questions I don't have answered, like where I will be this summer, or next year, or will I have a job this summer, or next year? But I think what God is saying to me right now regard Today. Not tomorrow. Before tomorrow can come, today must be lived & overcome. So in that, Today, you are good, & you have given me hope in a future opportunity, & you are reminding me about things I am good at. So Today, thank you.


Danielle Nicole.