Engagement Shoot - K&J

Last Friday I had the priviledge of taking engagement pictures for K&J.  We had a great time and I am excited to share a few of the pictures with you... 

This next one is my favorite...



K & J, I hope you enjoyed this sneak peek and I look forward to giving you the rest of your pictures next week :)

Pets

It's the time of the week to enter I Heart Faces photo challenge again.   Usually they require that you have a human face in the picture but this week we need an animal face.  Here is my entry:

Mia - Our very loyal dog who is calm and wonderful with Ranen (unless there is food around - the biggest pig you'll ever find!!)  Ranen loves letting her lick her toes and fingers and goes crazy when she sees her through the window - here's proof on that one!:

She is so loyal to Ben that when he first moved to the farm and he left Mia at his parents she started digging holes, eating the wood from the patio etc...  anything to make Ben take her along!  Sure enough - in no time she was living at the farm!  Mia also really enjoys fetching balls or rocks or anything else we will throw for her:)  and swimming!

Check out the entries at

Coming soon... pictures from an engagement shoot that I did on Friday!

I Heart Faces Contest - Wind

As soon as I saw the topic of this week's photo challenge I knew which picture I would enter.  Last July (yes, I was like 8.5 months pregnant and it was like 38 degrees!!!) I took pictures at a friends wedding...  it was an extremely hot day and wasn't overly windy but every now and then there was a beautiful breeze - it caught her veil and took it up...

You can click on this link to see all the photos that are entered into the challenge this week...

Baby Steps!

It sure has been a while since I posted!!  We have been rather busy with the house - tearing down wall paper, filling holes, picking out colours, painting, etc., etc.  I really wish I took pictures of the before and after of the wall paper rooms - but oh well!!

More importantly - Ranen has a few new things she is really proud of!!

Really, she knows she's a BIG girl now (never mind that she hasn't crawled - she figures that she will just walk instead because she has to keep up to Cayden right?! - except that he is walking without holding onto anything so she has a bit to go!)

Yesterday, while I was painting I heard Ranen making her usual noise that means she is excited or happy about something - I thought maybe Ben showed up but when I looked up I see her standing, holding onto her toy box and walking!! She pushed the toy box for about 5 steps before falling!! :)

Here are a couple of her goofy faces!! ...



On Saturday we went for a bike ride with some of Ben's family from our house to the Vedder bridge (the one that goes up to Cultus!)  Yes, quite a work out pulling a heavy bike cart, with a 23lb girl and her car seat...  But there was much beauty to see!

A special "Happy Birthday!" to Richelle (for yesterday)

And I also need to still say Happy Birthday to Helen (she turned 30!! a while back and I really wanted to do a special post to mark this happy occasion but.... maybe next year!!)

Have a great day... I have to run and bring my car in for service! :)

Oh... Happy Day!!

Yesterday we found out... we are going to be moving!  We are rather excited over here...  We have known for a while that this was a likely possibility but didn't want to share it until we knew for sure!  Here is what the house looks like...

Yes, we are rather excited... I am actually going to have cupboards and closets (just maybe I will be able to stay organized now - well at least I won't have an excuse not to be :) )  It is 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and has a large room for my printing stuff that is somewhat seperated from our living area.  And we still live right by the farm which is a dream come true because we LOVE going outside to see Daddy.  Our backyard...

Includes a swimming pool, hot tub and greenhouse...  Apparently I hear from many that we should count on company coming our way frequently!!

Yes, we are an excited bunch - time to start moving the garage over I think... so I better get moving!

To top it off...  a few pictures of our precious daughter.   She loves animals so much it seems like the majority of pictures that I have of her are with either the dogs, calves, cows, horses, etc...

I love the look on her face here...  she loves it and giggles when the calf sucks her hand but yet she has the look of "you do anything wrong calf.... and I will pull out my hand!!"

XO have a great day!  Time for me to go fold some laundry, pick paint colours and start moving the stuff in the garage:)

Slice of Life

I Heart Faces is having another contest - this one title "Slice of Life" - meant to be a picture that is not posed and just a part of life.

This picture is during Cayden's 6 month photo shoot - his Daddy showed up after work and Cayden was delighted to see him...  We have many posed shots that turned out but I love how this casual shot shows Cayden's love for his Daddy (and his Mommy adoration of him)!

Check out the contest here:

The Crew!

Dad's crew has been working at the farm for around 2 months now and I really enjoy seeing my brothers and dad regularly!  (and I think they really like the baking:) If I don't bring anything for a few days I hear comments like "some cinnamon buns would sure taste good hey, Chris?", "how about that apple cake last week... that sure hit the spot hey?!" .... so I try to spoil them regularly!

Anyhow they are here renovating the farm for robots!  Pretty soon there will be no more 2:30 am shifts for my wonderful hubby!!  They are down a few hands at the farm but it is pretty hard to find someone who just wants to work till May... so Ben has been working a lot lately and looks forward to the robots being here... (pretty soon we can say "next month"!!!)

Cathrine comes on Mondays to help me with my printing work... this was last Monday - one stroller and 2 babies so we doubled them up!  Cayden was really good about having his heavy cousin sitting on his knee! 

My big brother, Chris!  Don't want to get sappy on you but I love you! :)

[oh, he is embarrassed now!]

Derek and Cayden! 

"I can do it better than you Daddy! - but Opa does it best!"

  

Gord - enjoy the cinnamon buns? 

     Muscle brother Steve  - I love you too! 

Ron - he REALLY loves the baking - always wanting seconds!!

 It is a special day for this special uncle today!!  Happy 50th birthday Uncle John! We wish you a blessed year ahead of you and that all may go well! 

 I guess I better get on making some birthday cake :)

Last week Tuesday Taycin came to see her Daddy too (and I was babysitting Cayden) so we had the 3 cousins together! 

 

I LOVE this picture of Taycin :)  Such a sweetheart!

And our little boofie... she LOVES animals!  She sticks her hands out for the calf to suck on and then starts giggling!  The joy of being able to raise her on a farm... 

And for the record - she has two more teeth (after much hard work I must say!) - So her 2 tooth grin, that mommy loves, is short lived...