Coffee with K.

I got my baby fix tonight!  Little K. came over for coffee.  She is so beautiful and I just had to get some photos of her little digits.  Pure sweetness…

Celebrating Life’s Next Step

I have had the honour and privilege of photographing some of K. and R’s most important steps in life together.   I shot their engagement, their wedding, and now the next step is here…

K. also happens to be my beautiful cousin.

She crinkles her nose up when she laughs.  I think it’s cute (her hubby thinks so too).

Congrats you two, I can’t wait for the next step in your life together.

July Blooms!

We spent a week at Ministikewan Lake, SK with my in-laws (love you!) and I was blown away by all the beautiful flowers planted around the cabins there.   Here are a few blooms I loved while visiting. 

I’ll take you on the tour…starting with my mother-in-law’s beautiful place…

 

Next stop…Stan’s place…

 

Final stop…Glen and Leanne’s place…

Dora Hair

My little girl got a hair cut today.

Last September, I decided to grow out her bangs. 

Taken September, 2008.

Her hair has grown so fast over these past few months, her bangs are passed her chin now.  But doing her hair has been a source of tears at times as it’s gotten so long and unruly!  It was time for a hair cut!

I told her that she would get a “Dora the Explorer” hair cut and she was all for it.  When we got to the salon, I had changed my mind to giving her a shoulder length bob.  I asked my fabulous hairdresser Julie how long her hair had to be to donate it to cancer.  She measured her hair and said it was long enough if we gave her a nice little bob. 

It was tough watching as the scissors cut through her long beautiful 9 inches of braided hair, but we were so happy that her hair will be going to someone else now. 

Here is my little Miss T. with her new hair do.  She looks so grown up.  My baby is growing up.

As for little Miss T., she didn’t mind getting her hair cut as long as she got a sucker at the end of it.  She likes her Dora Hair.

Holiday Time!

I will be off this week for holidays!  I’ll be back, answering e-mails and phone calls on July the 6th. 

On Friday we started our holiday off by checking into a hotel in Calgary and hitting the indoor water park. I brought my underwater housing for my G10 camera.  Here’s all of us, except for my oldest son who was taking this picture.  My youngest could only offer up her arm. She’s not at the diving-under-water stage yet.

Yesterday, we visited the Calgary Zoo.  It was our first time there. The kids had a blast (so did we!)  I can’t believe I’ve never visited the Calgary Zoo before.  It’s such an incredible place to go as a family and it’s only 2 hours from our home.

our attempt at a timer family picture on the suspension bridge

Good-bye Calgary Zoo, we will be back next year

See you all in a week!

Christine

S and D’s Connection

I have dreamed about doing these Connection Sessions for a long time.  The focus is all about your love and who you are as a couple.   

You get married.  You have kids.  You forget about celebrating and remembering that special something that exists just between the two of you.  It’s yours.  

This is S & D’s Connection…

Happy Father’s Day!

Happy Father’s Day to the wonderful men in our life.  We love you!

My funny Dad….

 

My devoted hubby…

 

My kind father-in-law…

Celebrating 1 Year with a Cake Smashing!

Meet Maya.

You may remember her since I just posted about her a few minutes ago lovin’ the swing set. 

Maya is sweet, sensitive, and full of smiles.  Most importantly, today she turns 1!!! 

Meet Maya’s lovely parents.

They can’t get enough of Maya.

 

Now, onto the cake smashing.  Thank you once again to Penny Zulke for making another fabulous cake!

The session started with a Naked baby, and ended with a naked baby. 

Time to get the tutu on, and let her loose!

Off with the tutu and time to really dig in…

Not only did she eat her 1 year cake, she also sat on it…

Happy Birthday pretty girl!

The Swing Set Series

Remember this family?
They are back, and little Maya is 1 year old!  To celebrate we did a family session and ended with a hilarious cake smashing session!

I wanted to blog these photos separately because they really show off how Mom and Dad adore spending time with their little girl.   More to come from their session!

1 Year Cake Smashing!!!

Meet Noah.

This is his little sister Myah who just celebrated her first birthday.

You may remember them from a session we did with the whole family last year.

To celebrate, we enlisted the services of a fabulous cake maker (thank-you Penny Zulke) to bake her a fab. one year birthday cake.

Isn’t it pretty?

Myah thought so too.

 

Off with the tutu, time to dig in!

Myah is so dainty, this really wasn’t so much of a cake smashing as it was a cake re-arranging…

We enlisted the help of big brother, who was more than happy to help a sista out…

I think he’s wondering how he’s going to eat all this cake.  He especially loved the flowers.

They did good…

Thanks for coming to play with cake this morning and thank you to Penny Zulke once again for baking such a beautiful cake!