2014 in Review The New Member

I'm doing some archiving of some great sessions from 2014 and came to this one.... Love this family!  Loved these sessions.  Makes me smile :)

With kids as cute and funny as these two, why stop there ;)

Looking at ants!

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Hello little Man!

I love that he looks like he is talking to them :)

You go relax Mom, we got this...

Bliss...

SWEETNESS

Thanks for viewing!

My Girl

So Spring has sprung and I now look to the outdoors for beautiful backdrops for my clients.  This morning I brought Anna to help me scout some locations.   Anna is my beautiful, sweet, funny, lovely daughter but she is a high maintenance kinda model....

She starts off beautifully, listening to every instruction I give her...

Gorgeous... I know:)

She loves to twirl but is always aware that she must look at the camera... even when I say not to :)

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But then we moved along to some different places. I would have loved to explore the above spot a bit more but sadly we HAD to move on cause there was something flying around her.   She gave two lovely ladies passing by the giggles cause she was squealing and flailing her arms around

We climbed MANY, MANY.... MANY stairs to get to this spot,  it was actually the rest spot and the spot where I wasn't going to climb stairs any more :)

 By this time she is done and wants to go home, 10 mins into the shoot... sigh... 

"Just one more Anna",  I plead.   

Anna:  "What is on my shoe!" 

"Ewwwww,  I'm going HOME"!

The END

Oh the possibilities...

OK so there is work to be done, laundry (always the laundry) to do, kids to be put to bed (YES!)....

but I had to play.....

I've been working on my photo composite skills.   I found some digital backgrounds on line and thought I'd give it ago.  First came our family Christmas card this year.  Lot's of fun and relatively easy to create believe it or not.  I like snow and the lighter background makes it easy to incorporate images taken with white background

Here now are a few that have proven to be a bit more difficult.  The difficulty lies in the conceptual rather than the actual work.   Lighting the subject for the background is essential to making these somewhat believable which means there has to be a vision first.

I'm hooked! The creative side of my brain is hungry for more!

Thank you to my daughter for her creative input.  I don't tell her how to pose she decides all that.  I just take the pictures :P

Now back to work!

Studio Ghost?!?!

While cleaning up in the studio today, after a most adorable baby shoot,

I noticed a peculiar site...

...can you guess what this might be?

a ghost?

a ghost maybe....

wait a minute....

that's what I thought

What????

Crazy hound!

This is how we do birthday parties in Canada!

Two babes born in January, their birthdays fall a week apart.  How to plan parties???  I plan the girl -see previous post "Puppies"- and the hubby plans the boy!  It's a good deal,  I "get" girls :)  I don't "get" boys...

This year Sam turned 9 and what to do??? what to do???   Tobogganing?  Outside?  In Alberta?  Crazy!

But it turned out to be a beautiful morning!   -15C ,  the chosen hill had a week of melting so it was a bit icy but the boys loved it!

boys like stuff like this...

and this...

and this?!?!

really???

OH YEAH!!!!!

That was AWESOME!!!!

Happiness is ....

..... snow in the face???

It was a great morning, no broken bones... or blood :)   It was back to the house for cake and pop!

Um... this is a story.  Anna WAS sitting with the boys until she came to us in tears.  When asked what happened, this was the boys version....

This is what 10 kids looks like in Canada

Cake time....

it wasn't pretty....

sigh

No they are not hugging....

 So when things get out of control what do you do with boys?   Give them Nerf guns of course.  Split them into two groups, cause they like competition and make them shoot at paper cups...

who knew?!?

Brad did a good job I must say ♥.  So here is my creative contribution, the gift bags...

all reasonably appropriate.
I wasn't allowed to put the kleenex in!
 I think all the MOMs would have understood....

Thank you to the parents who gave up a cosy warm, probably quiet Saturday morning to help out with our great group of boys!

I'm liking this LARGE PRINT option in the edit bar.... :P