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Friday, September 25, 2009

Location Scouting

Fall is the most beautiful time of year around here, and I love it! As I have two photography sessions coming up soon, I thought I should start to scout locations I have in mind for doing them. So last night after daycare around 5 pm, I took the girls to location #1, Meech Creek Valley midway between our place and Wakefield. We actually had our wedding photos taken here. While the light was still a little too high in the sky, I was very excited about the possibilities of this location. Here are a few samples:

(just please insert better dressed kids here - they are cute and all, but who dresses these two, I mean really....?)












I tried to play around with back-lighting, lens flare and shallow depth of field while there. I think the sun needed to be a little lower as well, but overall I loved it! What do you think?

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Beautiful Sunday

It's Sunday, the girls woke up only at 6:30 am... which may sound brutal, but when the usually wake up at 5:00 am, 6:30 is a treat!

The river was completely covered by fog, which meant a cool night and the heat coming out of the water, but it also means - summer is over!! I love the fall, but I really am not prepared for the start of winter. I hope the weather stays nice for a while longer, easing the psychological blow of that first snowfall. Winter is great for skiing and playing in the snow, but it also means, struggling to get the snowsuits on the girls, cold weather - too cold to get outside, and dark mornings and nights.

So far we've had a great weekend, swimming yesterday am, birthday party yesterday afternoon, and a nice walk this morning. Everyone is in good spirits and the weather is nice, so it's been a fun weekend. Thank god, because the past few weekend have been really hard! I took my camera with me, and got some great shots of the girls!

But before we did that I had everyone pose in order to try a baby pose I saw and was hoping to try out this week at a shoot. Here is the result:



I'll post more of our weekend tomorrow... it's already taken me all day to write this post...

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

More florals and textures

I am having fun photographing flowers against walls! Then applying fun textures to them. My real intention is to make cards to sell at the local flower shop... more on that later! Here are the latest creations.







I'll have a round-up of all of these in the near future and as that you all vote on your favourite ones!

got to run, dog barking at me to let him in and baby waking up from a long nap!!!

Monday, September 14, 2009

Little Mommies

I had the girls post for some photos after daycare today. They were all too willing to sit with Maidson and cuddle her!





A weekend with no pictures

Two whole days and I didn't even pick up my camera! We seem to have tough weekends around here and I'm not sure how to change that. We did start swimming with the girls on Saturday, which they love, and it's a great diversion, so that was fun. But the rest of the time was pretty tough. I think they are bored, need attention because mommy is quite often with the baby and they are two and four years old. So all the chaos, screaming, crying and fighting make for a pretty stressful weekend and doesn't put one in the mood for being creative! Oh well, such is life, I'm sure it will get much better as time goes on. I also need to plan more activities for the weekend to keep their little minds busy! Any tips from all you experienced Mom's out there?? Pass them along!

In other news... I was watching the Oasis HD channel the other day and happened across a show called Great Escapes or something like that. I was so enthralled with the location that they were covering, that I didn't pay attention to the name of the show. The location featured was Bora Bora. My parents went to Bora Bora for their honeymoon way back when, just after planes were invented (hahahah!! I think it was 1970) and I still have the slide images of their trip (unfortunately I haven't scanned any yet). The show focused on Hotel Bora Bora and wow was it ever amazing! So I figure I work hard over the next 4-5 years and Eric and I can go for our 10 year wedding anniversary, and my 40th birthday. It looks like paradise, and I'm sure it is.

Off to take some photos because I'm in withdrawal.....

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Brag Book Sample

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ETA: Ok so the first link I put in didn't work as I hadn't shared it publicly yet, so here is try #2, let me know if you can't see it:

Madison Elizabeth

Playdate and Photos

I hosted a play date yesterday with some Chelsea moms and a couple stragglers from Barrhaven (hehehe just kidding girls). It was a fun filled morning of babies and goodies and fun was had by all! Including Madison who basically slept through the entire thing! I prepared some yummy Chocolate Coconut Bars, which didn't exactly turn out like they were supposed to, but were delicious none the less. Here is the recipe for those who asked for it - it is super easy!:

Chocolate-Coconut Bars
Makes 20

* 3 cups finely ground cookies (12 ounces), such as graham crackers or chocolate wafers, or a combination
* 1/4 cup sugar
* 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted
* 1 cup pecan pieces
* 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips or chunks
* 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
* 1 1/2 cups sweetened shredded coconut

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly splash a 15-by-10-inch rimmed baking sheet evenly with water, then line with parchment paper.
2. In a large bowl, stir together cookie crumbs, sugar, and butter until combined. Evenly press onto bottom and up sides of prepared baking sheet. Bake, rotating halfway through, until firm, about 10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack; cool, about 20 minutes.
3. Sprinkle cooled crust evenly with pecans and chocolate. Pour condensed milk over the top, spreading to cover completely (do not let it drip over the edges). Sprinkle with coconut.
4. Bake until coconut is toasted, 10 to 15 minutes. Transfer to rack; cool completely. Trim edges, if desired, and cut into equal-size bars.

Tip: Before you pour the condensed milk over the top, place can in hot/boiling water for a few minutes to warm it up and it will pour better. I didn't do this so it didn't exactly "pour", so it came out clumpy.

The most relaxed mom of twins I've ever seen!


Cute little Selina

Loved Ava's onsie!


Andrew and his little dimple.


Cohen gives me the cutest smile!


Quinn tries to get Andrew to wake up. Trouble maker :)


The gang of babies! (I love how Meaghan is the only one looking
straight at the camera smiling - what a star!)


Once everyone left, I set up for my afternoon photo shoot with Jemelee, Lee and baby Hogan. Hogan was 15 days old and super cooperative! Here are a couple random sneek peaks, visit my blog later on for more shots from the session:

Time is flying by...but enjoying it!

I can't believe how fast the time seems to fly by! One day just seems to speed into the next and the next... Madison is growing before my eyes, the girls are getting bigger and bigger by the minute and I seem to have so much on my plate (all fun stuff mind you), and I never get any of it done because I get distracted by more stuff!! But regardless, I'm happy, feeling good and enjoying ever minute of being home with Madison, enjoying the girls humour and sparky personalities, enjoying my photo shoots and the challenges of starting a new business with little time to do it in :), and definitely enjoying this amazing fall weather!

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Two weeks Today

Madison turned two weeks old today. It's always amazing how fast time flies, already two weeks since I was in labour! She continues to be a fantastic baby. We hang out at home, go for walks with Bender and is so calm all the time. I can take her out shopping and she won't really wake up for 2 hours, it's crazy! So much different from Gillian. Gillian and Abigail continue to LOVE their new sister and fight over who is going to hold her. I've found Abigail only once with Madison in her arms and her saying "look mommy I can carry her"! Even though they love her, I think they are feeling the change in the household with 3 now, and the sudden absence of mommy time with the new baby. I need to feed her and change her and all the while it's taking away from their time with me. It makes me sad, but it's the new reality, and once Madison grows up a little things will even out again!

I'm also happy to report the alarm trick has worked the past two mornings, they both didn't get up until the music started playing. I really think it's more because they are so exhausted (both physically and emotionally) that they need to sleep! Let's hope that it continues like this!

Here are a few photos to share:

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Madison - cross eyed newborn cuteness! Aren't they just so funny
at this stage?


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Gillian getting up to no good at 7:00 am

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Abby needs hair intervention - time to visit a salon,
mommy's haircuts don't work anymore!


Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Some more visual fun...

Just a quick post tonight.. heading off to bed. It was a beautiful day and I had fun with flowers and textures!


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