One month: On Seaside Beach

Some of my favorite pictures from our trip to Seaside when Lucy was a month old:

 

 

Lucy and Lucille

As most of you know, my grandma and Lucy's great grandma, Nellie Lucille, passed away in August. She had been sick for awhile, but stuck it out to meet her great granddaughter Lucy, who to her great delight was named in her honor.

Nellie was born Nellie Gaston Barner in the Ozarks in 1916, when birth certificates were rare. Nellie always hated her middle name, and when she got her first job in Kansas City, she talked her mother into vouching for her birth along with a new middle name: Lucille.

A proud and feisty woman with high Indian cheekbones, an amazing sense of humor, and a very strong heart, Nellie was the matriarch of our family and she will be missed.

Introducing Lucy Mabel Broughton

Born July 22, 2009
at Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland Oregon.

Weight: 8lbs 11oz
Height: 21 inches

nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands
-e.e. cummings