The Enns Family

This afternoon I went and photographed the Enns family. The boys had me hopping! Between funny faces, a serious grip on a sippy cup and lots of laughs we got a few photo's. Oh and they have the most delious raspberries too.

Introducing Jermaine Taylor

Oh me oh my! This guy is an aboslute cutie. What an incredible honor and privelage it was to take his pictures. Jermaine was born on June 4th and have I mentioned that he is just a tad too cute? He has pretty great parents too.

Thank you Amber and Nathan for letting me come into your home and spend a couple of hours with you. Jermaine is just amazing and enjoy the photo's.

A Family Shoot

Last Sunday I went with Natalie to shoot an amazing family. This family was hilarious and I am surprised that any of the photo's are actually in focus. They had me laughing almost the entire time.

Best Gift Ever

Today is my birthday and this is what my children gave me. Isn't that the sweetest gift? I absolutely am in love with the picture that Mackenna drew. I look pretty good with the camera eh? I think I might be framing this one.

Golden Ears Bridge

On Sunday we went to the completion celebration of the Golden Ears Bridge. We had a great time. My parents took me to the opening of the Alex Fraser Bridge in 1986. I still remember walking across that bridge. When I heard that they were doing something similar with this new bridge I knew that I wanted to take my kids and create those same memories. They estimated that about 70,000 people showed up! Here are some pictures.





There was a great band playing on the bridge and I couldn't help but snap this photo of my parents dancing on the bridge! How often do you get to do dance on a bridge?




There was another spot where they had this most amazing hoola hooper. Mackenna loves to hoola hoop and is actually very good at. She was thrilled to be able to hoola hoop on the bridge. Take a look at the size of that hoola hoop!







Kaidan was thoroughly enjoying his ice cream sandwich. Mmmmm............. I'm getting hungry now LOL




And then there is Kennedy who enjoyed most of the day on top of Daddy's shoulders.

A Grad Shoot with Natalie

This morning I went on a photo shoot with Natalie. Have I mentioned just how much fun I am having tagging along? Such amazing opportunities! These two were so easy going and were a blast to take pictures of. Here are a few of my favorites.

Adventures in Letter Boxing!

This past weekend we went out letter boxing. Rod's sister and BIL joined us and we had a great time! If you have not heard of letter boxing before I highly recommend it. You can read more about it here at www.letterboxing.org

Just a few words of wisdom if anyone plans on finding the boxes in Clearbrook Park. Do not wear flip flops. This trail definitely requires running shoes. I do not suggest bringing a stroller. Most definitely NOT an umbrella or a travel system. I would suggest bringing along some water to drink. Of course none of these suggestions come from our own experience (insert eye wink here) LOL. Oh and when they say there are a few steep grades........... they mean it :)

Here is Mackenna finding the first box. She was so excited. Her and her cousin, Miranda went in and found it.



As we were continuing on the trail and following our clues the kids were quick to notice evidence that beaver's lived in the area. We saw many trees like this one. Last night at dinner I noticed an obnoxious sound and when I looked over at Kaidan I was somewhat shocked to see him actually grinding the kitchen table with his teeth. I asked him what on earth he was doing. "I'm a beaver Mommy!" Of course!




Here is a photo of our book after finding the second box and stamping it.




And of course I can not help but take photo's of my kids. Here is a picture of each of them while we were out finding the boxes.

Entirely Frustrated!

For those of you who know me you know that computers just aren't my thing. I am not technologically minded. This is my biggest struggle. I have spent hours at my computer this week trying to get it to do what I want. I have so very little patience with computers and they do not bring out the best qualities in me.

Rod has been so very graciously trying to help me. He has spent much of his own time trying to get our computer set up to do the things I want it to do. We are so not there yet. If you think me along with a computer is bad you add Rod, me and a computer and well............... that is not a good combo! We both think very differently and I tend to rather exasperate Rod when it comes to computers. He is being patient and I am trying so very hard to have patience and to understand how computers work. Really Rod, I am trying :)

I am trying to get my computer to recognize files in RAW. I've now managed to get them on my computer but I can't view them and I can't open them in Photoshop. That's on the list for this week.

Natalie has also graciously spent hours with me this week teaching me things on Photoshop only when I go to my computer it isn't working! Natalie, I'll be calling you soon.

I'm learning. Slowly and baby stepping along the way. I had a few photo's that I wanted to share but I can't do what I wanted to them. Maybe this week sometime? I will share this one photo though. I took this while on a photo shoot with Natalie this week of another graduation. This young ladies dress was stunning! I'm a sucker for the details. While carrying around photo equipment, holding up a flash, trying to balance a reflector I managed to sneak this photo in. When I took this photo I was actually holding a flash in one hand while Natalie was taking a photo of the young man. Now if only I was as good with computers as I am at multitasking!

Some cute kids!

This past weekend we had a neighborhood bbq. It was a lot of fun. Of course I had to snap some photo's of the kids! The first photo is Kennedy. She was having a blast playing with all of the kids. The second photo is Claire who is 14 months old and she was quite enjoying her watermelon :)

Natalie

Many of you already know Natalie but there are many of you who have never met Natalie. You hear me mention her name and now you can put a face to the name. Natalie was the first neighbor that I met when we began to build our house in Abbotsford, BC. I still remember seeing her over the fence and hmmmm........ can you guess what she was doing? She was taking a photo of her son Joshua who at the time was about 9 months. It was easy to connect with her as I also shared an interest in photography.

We would chat over the fence and eventually Natalie moved and instead of being a neighbor behind me she now lives 5 houses down from me. I have watched her interest in photography grow and I have watched her learn. She is now allowing me to come along side of her and learn.

I took this photo of Natalie this past weekend while she was doing a graduation photo shoot. I have had so much fun working with Natalie and learning from her. Thank you so very much Natalie for the opportunities that you are giving me. Oh and go and check out Natalie's photos. http://www.footprintsbynatalie.com/