Happy New Year!!

Well here is a quick post to say Happy 2011 to all my Friends and Family! Here is a little picture I just took tonight at the kids New Years Eve Festival. It was their first time setting off fireworks and we sure did have an adventure with it.

Some Photo Practice

So here's a quick share while I finish getting all my Christmas ones ready for you all. My friend Laura let me take a couple of quick practice portraits of her today and I thought I would share them with you. I wanted to see what I need to review from my courses last year and what I can improve on for this next year.
Thanks Laura :)

New Years: Look Not Behind Thee

As I have been having some serious conversations with my Mom about how we should move on with our lives and not let the past get to us in this New Year, my friend posted on her facebook this Mormon Message that can help us all out. As we make our Resolutions this Year let keep in mind what we are letting go with them and leave them behind us.

"All Warm and Home"

So I have been fighting with my Internet for about a week and a half now. Either there is a problem with my connection or there is a problem with my modem. This means that I get short periods of time where I have the net and even longer ones where I don't. It has made getting pictures from all our Christmas events hard to post. Telus is seeing what they can do to fix it so for now I will keep this short and post one special image to get us all through. This is of one of our little nativities that I set out on our coffee table that Cloe felt was lonely and cold so she put it in our Christmas tree and said "all warm and home" smiled all proud and left. I took a picture just to share. Enjoy!

Christmas Card 2010

So I have been working on our Christmas Card this year and I had a few layouts ready but the problem is that I haven't had the time to take the pictures of the family I wanted. So I have decided that I will take the family pictures when the kids are off for holidays and make a New Years card with them but for CHristmas I decided to take one of my favorites and turn it into a nice simple but fun card. So here is our Christmas Card for 2010. Merry Christmas Everyone!

A Warm Christmas

This is one of my all time favorite Christmas carols that is not religous. It always make me feel warm and happy so I want to share that with you :)

Kids and Christmas

So I am trying to get into the Christmas spirit this year. I am struggling, maybe it is because of everything I have gone through this year and I miss those people in my life that I had to say good-bye to so that I could heal. It just feels so empty. Anyways I am going to get it back and to start I am posting a cute message from my favorite Mormon Messages on kids talking about Christmas. Enjoy.

A Share from Sam

As you know one of Sam's favorite shows is America's Got Talent. He loves the bad performances and get passionate about the ones he loves. This season He had 2 favorites going through. The first was Prince Poppycock as we shared in this post and then he discovered Jackie Evancho who won him over and had in crying he enjoyed her music so much. He was heart broken and angry when she lost America's Got Talent but I assured him that she would have a great career and we would hear from her again. Well we have discovered that she has put out a Christmas CD/DVD and Sam is excited. Here is the youtube video from one of the songs she has in her collection. So with no further ado here is Silent Night as sung  by Jackie Evancho, Enjoy.

Some photo fun.

As I have been studying and learning more about taking photos, I have also been learning more about how to get more creative with my photos with photoshop. The best thing about being a Mom of lots of kids is that there is always someone around to practice on. Of course Cloe is the easiest with her always home so she and her Unique sense of style was my model today. Actually she didn't model anything, I just had some fun capturing her fearless climbing. She clears the shelves in the toy room and thinks they are the best place for dancing, playing, even napping once. I had some fun making the pictures show off her fun spirit. Enjoy.

What I have been working on lately

So I have to say sorry to those who like to read this blog for not posting lately but my time has been consumed with photos when I have been on the computer. The main ones being for the couple whose wedding photos I fixed as seen in this post. I gave them a free photo shoot while I was down in Vancouver for a visit. I took the photos on the Thursday before I left and then on the Monday bad luck struck the couple as the Gentleman had a stroke and has been in the hospital ever since. He is starting to recover but has a long road ahead. I have been working on trying to get their photos edited and Christmas cards made up as fast as I can so they can enjoy them. I think I am finally done and thought I would share a couple with you :) Enjoy.