Kaidan's First Day of Preschool!

Kaidan is starting preschool this year. He is very excited and has been looking forward to this for awhile. Every morning he says goodbye to Mackenna as she goes off to school and now it is finally his turn. He has the best expressions and is so full of life!

I'm still here!

I have not fallen off the face of the earth. And yes, I am still taking photos. I could come up with many reasons why it has been so long since I posted some. The real reason why though is because I am frustrated.

I have these images and visions in my head of what I want my photos to look like and well............ there is this thing called a learning curve. Yeah, I kind of suck at that. My personality is that I want to learn it all and RIGHT NOW! Patience is not exactly one of my strong points. I get frustrated with my lack of resources that I have. Although I did recently make my first purchase of a good lens there is a list a mile long of things I would like to own. I have so much to learn on the editing side of things and lots of computer stuff to learn. Again, not one of my strong areas. I have vision though and lots of it! I've decided that I need to embrace where I am at and just keep going. It will come and I will learn like everyone else........ one step at a time.

Oh and on a different note I think this must be a milestone in the life of a photographer. I had my first dream. You know the back to school dreams? The ones where you can't find your locker, then you can't find your classroom? You bring the wrong book and you haven't studied for that test yet? I'm not the only one that had those right? Yeah, well this dream I was second shooter at a wedding. I arrived and opened up my camera bag. To my horror I had only brought my camera body with me. I did not have a single lens. It gets worse LOL Then I realize that all of my memory cards are full and my battery is completely dead. Yes, this is the way to get hired to be a second shooter isn't it! Seriously I thought I was beyond having these kind of dreams. Oh well............ does that make me official now?

I promise some pictures will be coming soon. My Dad celebrated his 60th birthday this summer, the kids first day of school pictures, and more.

Green Bay

This past week we have been on vacation. We just spend our 3rd year at Green Bay Bible Camp. We had so much fun! The sun was shining and it was glorious. The kids had fun playing in the sand and swimming in the water. Both Mackenna and Kaidan went on tube rides. I even managed to read a WHOLE book from cover to cover this week! I can not remember the last time I read a book on vacation! Next year I hope to read two.

Camping

This past weekend we went camping to Cultus Lake. We had such a great time. The weather was wonderful so much so that we didn't even bring our tarps with us! Now that says A LOT for camping in BC!

Here are some photo's of us enjoying our smores. Rod can roast the "perfect" marshmellow. I rather um........ only burn them. Rod was incredibly gracious to also make me a smore to "my" standards. He broke the marshmellow in half (you need to have the right marsmellow ratio you know) and then he waited after it was roasted until it had cooled off just a bit so that it wouldn't completely melt my chocolate. I'm not demanding or anything am I? I have such a wonderful husband.










I was also very proud of the fact that we managed to get all of us and our stuff into Penguin aka VW Golf. We had a car top carrier and we had a bit of room to spare. We had 2 tents, a playpen, all of our bedding, a cooler, camping chairs, life jackets, all of our clothes, and regular camping gear. I don't know how we did it but we did!




Here are a few random ones. Kennedy loved being outside and had a lot of fun. Mackenna had a little notebook that she used to record all of the animals that she saw. And Kaidan used anything that he could to be his sword.











Now these last two photo's have a little story. Mackenna and Kaidan both brought up their own camera's. Kaidan got Mackenna to pose for him on this rock. She was loving it and Kaidan was snapping away. Of course I had to grab my camera too and get a few shots. After Kaidan was done Mackenna hopped down to go and see what Kaidan had shot. Kaidan was proudly showing Mackenna and said, "I got it! I got it!" I think I might have a little assistant on my hands :)

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.