Busy-ness & Business

The blog has been slightly neglected over the past few weeks. To say that things in my life have been busy would be a bit of an understatement. Every moment of the day it seems like there's always more than one thing on the go. As a prime example...right now, not only am I blogging, but I'm also watching Cake Boss on the Ultimate Cake Off (can you say YUMMY?!?), waiting for hubby to bring me some delish chocolate cake and I just got off the phone with hubby's aunt about her son's upcoming wedding. Phew! I'm SO glad that I've somewhat got myself organized (at least better than I was before) by using the calendar and reminders on my iPhone ALL the time. It has REALLY helped!

On top of life being busy, business stuff has been busy too. Recently I did pictures for a family of 11. Wow, that was a BIG shoot! And the biggest complication? It POOOOURED rain the day of the shoot. Thankfully the girl that organized the shoot is a church secretary and we sort of pulled together a 'living room' look in the gym. I was impressed that we were able to make it look like it wasn't so much of a gym. I've also been prepping recently for a big gig that's coming up in just a couple of days. On Thursday I'll be doing some 'before' pictures for my sister and some of her friends while they get ready for their high school prom. I honestly can't believe that my little sister is done high school and leaving me to go to school in Alberta! In addition to the prom pictures, I'll be dragging along a 2nd shooter to do pictures at a local grade 8 grad. It's definitely going to be an afternoon of non-stop running around, but I'm SO looking forward to it!

Tonight I realized that my little guy is almost 10 months old (on Friday) and because of being back at work now as well as dealing with typical home/life stuff, business stuff, etc. I haven't really taken the time to take pictures of him. He's growing up SO quickly (he stood for about 4 seconds tonight by himself!) and I don't want to forget all these little stages. So...while I was testing out my new little toy tonight (a flash!), I decided to sneak into his room and take a couple of pictures of my sweet boy as he slept. He has such funny sleep positions and I'm glad I was able to capture some of them - especially the way that he holds his blankie up near his face and that makes him fall asleep. Of course I had to sneak into Leah's room too and get some pictures of her sleeping as well. She's definitely a heavier sleeper than Josh. I love both of my 'babies' so much and I'm so glad that we have the technology now to take a ridiculous amount of pictures and remember these special moments. :)


My Leah's 'big' hands with her nail polish quickly fading away and sand in her nails from playing at the park. :)

My sweet Leah fast asleep after a great day with our amazing babysitter.

Joshy waking up in the midst of me taking his picture. Too tired to make a fuss though.

My baby boy sleeping in one of his random sleeping positions.

"Just Go With It"

Ok so maybe this is a bit of a weird blog title...but this has been a phrase that fits well with our family life and the last photo shoot that I did. :)

In our fam life, things have been a bit nuts recently. Back at the end of April we found that we were expecting baby #3 (seriously?!?! yes...I'm still trying to get over the shock). Did I mention that we have a 9 month old?? Hubby thought this was kind of funny because I'm kind of a control freak. He says this is God's way of teaching me that HE is in control and not me. I absolutely agree...I also think it's God's way of showing me that He's got a pretty good sense of humour. So what else can we do but 'just go with it'.

During the most recent family shoot that I did it was hot, hot, HOT! When the fam arrived I was informed that their oldest had spilled chocolate milk down the front of her shirt during the car ride down to meet me. Oh man! What a mess! haha! But...you 'just go with it'! Immediately I started to come up with different ways to hide the stain without it looking super akward. Thankfully their little girl was super good about it. On top of that, with the heat the kids were not so interested in sitting for a ton of pics. So again you 'just go with it'!

With me going back to work this past Monday I'm definitely learning more and more that I have to 'just go with it'. I still can't believe we're having baby #3...but I'm trusting that God's timing and His will are perfect and I'm just waiting (...although probably not so patiently sometimes) to see what He's got in store.


The whole fam jam trying to avoid lying in goose poop.

Big Sis & Little Bro

Thank you Holly & Justin (and of course your 2 cuties!) for the opportunity to photograph your fam!