Your Life As Art Photography by Pam

Happy Easter 2014!

We had an AWESOME Easter weekend!!!

Spending so much time with just our lil family of 4 along with some fun times with our extended family!

Easter Egg Hunt!!! The Optimists truly are amazing for the easter egg hunt they put on (yearly) for the kids!

Easter Birds Nests!

A boy and his best friend! Love…

The kids and Grandad!

This photo is far from perfect… “Technically”… the people in it make it perfect!

Dad and his daughters. Been wanting an update, cluttered counter and all, its perfect ❤

This face is becoming a habit… LOL

No family holiday is complete (except Christmas I guess and they are here in person) without Facetiming the family in California!

HAPPY EASTER from my own family… to you and yours!
We had a fantastic weekend together!!!

With all the craziness… that life can bring

and all those times Ive wanted to pull my hair out…

this is life, its not perfect, but its PERFECTLY OURS!

Sometimes in life you just have to sit back, trust in our faith and enjoy the ride. Life can be hard, its this journey where we find out our true strength, our true ability to love one another, our true capability and skills… our true self and what that means. We try to teach our kids about life, when our kids teach us truly what life is all about!~

Holstein Maplefest 2014

A yearly favourite of our kids is the Holstein Maplefest!

These two were the hit of the maplefest – so cute!

Little man had to go into the skills trailer, even though he is long away from deciding what he is going to do, he insisted on doing their quizzes 😉 He wants to be like Daddy and Granpa!

Fun times were had by all!
Thanks to everyone at the Maplefest for all your hard work – the food was SO good.

Spring has sprung in our back yard!

As a young girl one thing I loved to do at my grandparents house was watch the birds. Grama has always fed the birds and I remember loving looking through her bird books.

It was finally time to find the perfect spot in our yard for bird feeders. I had them in the front yard last year, which didn’t attract these little guys like I had hoped. This weekend I moved the feeders to the back and didn’t have to wait long, all the beautiful birds from the trees were very intrigued to see what was happening! Even the bunnies heard the excitement and after a couple hours they happily hopped out! (bunny photos will be in another post).

Ive always enjoyed the birds songs and now look forward to more time spent in our backyard this Spring, Summer and Fall 🙂

Getting out of the winter funk!

This winter has just dragged on and on and oooooooon…..

Truth be told, I hadn’t even touched my camera in over a week… over a week – for ME!

Last night my girl and I had an hour to ourselves, some sunshine streaming through the windows and the passion re-ignited.

I hadn’t taken any of her yearly “birthday photos” so we had some fun!!!

Of course the miss had to take some of mommy 😉 Not bad on her! For the photog’s out there… this was at f1.2!

I am so thankful for the time we had together, even just an hour it was so much fun, captured her sweet personality and blasted some tunes!!! Watching both my kids grow each day, becomes even more precious and exciting to me as each day passes, I truly am lucky to have been blessed with two amazing, smart, energetic, creative, passionate, imaginative, funny and most important LOVING children!

As much as Ive appreciated actually having a winter WITH snow… I just cannot wait for Spring!!!

Date night with my littles … Savouring the little moments!

“Your Life As Photography” truly sums up MY life… captured in photos many of the moments I, and we spend together.

After picking up the kids tonight I surprised them with their choice of restaurant for supper, of course little man suggested A&W and the little lady immediately agreed – to which little man replied “she said yes so thats where we’re going” haha!

We arrived home and hopped in the hot tub, while I was soaking in one of the loungers, I looked across to see the kids chatting with each other leaning on the side looking out into the backyard. Of course the photog in me made an excuse to run into the house (safely) to grab the camera…

Seriously when did this boy grow up… amazes me everyday!

This truly is what life is about – for me of course.

Its these little moments, captured in time that truly mean so much more than anything I could ever buy.

Its the moments and relationships. Stepping back and watching for a moment the relationship between the kids. Enjoying my relationship with them as their mama. Watching them grow and become the amazing little people that they are. Growing right before my eyes.

After that moment, I walk into the house to put the camera down and took a look around, its not dirty, but its most certainly lived in. I could have been tidying up and putting things away, the stuff will be there. Tonight was ALL about my kids. ALL about them and enjoying each and every second. It felt SO good. I love them SO much. I love when we have nights like this… can’t wait for our next one with Daddy joining us too!

Birthday Party FUN With Our Girl!

We had a great day celebrating our little miss with her friends and our family! So thankful for those of you who were able to make it to join us, means the world! Of course I had to capture the fun with some snaps! The photographer in me steps aside for party moments like these and just snaps for the fun of it 😉

A few photos from her actual birthday 😉

I found this gorgeous coat at the clothing consignment store down town… she LOVES it and it fits perfect!!!

Getting ready to party!!! Helping mommy decorate her cupcakes for the birthday party 🙂

This year our girl decided she wanted to have her birthday party at the bowling alley – win win for this mama for sure! The kids were entertained (and had a blast), they fed them, decorated and got to play 2 games! We had a lot of fun! So thankful my sister in law Niki joined me at the bowling alley – I appreciated the help for the other lane SO much and Mads loved that you were there!

Little man was not only SO good for us, reminding the girls the rules (hahaha) but he also got his 1st STRIKE!!! It was awesome, I wish I had it on video!!!

Hubs and the kids had to finish shoveling the walk for family who were coming (after the bowling party)…
This was the night before…

Birthday miss earning her keep haha

Auntie Erin (my sis) made an amazing cake for our miss!!! Erin and Mads picked out the purse cake she wanted and Erin took on the task – it turned out AWESOME! Especially for her first time using fondant!!! Thank you SO much Erin 🙂

HAHA Love this look… Mads wanted flowers for her walls, her brother was just about bursting at the seams wanting to tell her what Auntie Erin had bought, so much that we kept having to say “just stop talking” to him haha!

She’s a little fashionista!

The celebration had come to an end… it was time for this mama to tuck the littles into their beds!

Happy birthday my sweet girl XOXO

Happy Birthday To My Sweet Girl!!!

My sweet little girl Madison,

You were the most amazing and perfect surprise to complete our family! Each day that goes by I see you growing right before my eyes.I will never forget that moment, your brother just days away from being 10 months old and getting the call… YOU’RE PREGNANT! Although mommy was very scared, I was so delighted and unbelievably grateful!

Your sassy personality, love for family, friends and animals, amazing imagination, love for creativity, fun and bold fashion sense, your energy for doing the things you love and your need for comfy days at home.

I am so very blessed to be your mommy!

For all our smiles, laughter and tears – some moments may be a struggle to mommy but you truly have made me a better woman, a better mommy. With each struggle we both come forward better people, you learning your next steps in life and mommy being reminded what life truly is all about.

I cannot believe all this time has passed, it truly feels like yesterday I was holding you in my arms just seconds old.

Our sweet girl now…

Mommy and Daddy have had many days like this…

…but we could not be happier with our little family! The day you were born, Madison, you completed “US” and we love you SO very much!!! XOXO

This is what WINTER is in a small town! | Mount Forest

This past Friday a bunch of family met up in Toronto to go to the Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada. There is NO snow anywhere IN the city. Our aunt and uncle have a ground cover in their backyard, however the streets, nothing, downtown at the Aquarium NOT a flake! My uncle was joking that he hasn’t been up all winter… lucky him he’s coming next weekend!

I did however have to snap a few shots after the misses hockey tourney yesterday on our way home, we took the back way.

Toronto, this is what WINTER is like in a small town… These first 3 pics are from Saturday!

This is a snow bank on the side of highway 6…

This is my jeep, its taller than me, so close to 6′ tall… see the snow bank above it!

This is looking down the road in front of my Jeep, see that 80km sign, they are a good height!

This photo was taken from the first big storm of the year on January 6th, this is our main street in Mount Forest.

The snow banks got bigger, this was Jan 7th as the snow continues!

The snow built up outside my front door, it was over 4′ high ! This was from Jan 25th…

Accumulated snow on part of our deck, freshly covering our chairs and table!

January 26th… in one month this is how much snow that was plowed from just part of our driveway (we also have a lot piled at the front!)

Another of the snow pile, the kids LOVE it!

January 30th, my kids in front of the snow bank in front of our house… it’s bigger now.

January 30th snow bank with the Jeep…

January 31st main street Holstein, see a road sign is almost entirely covered!

February 2nd, hubby having a little fun with the Jeep on one of the snow piles at the front of the house!

Took a drive up to the cottage.

The snow bank in front of the house is the perfect height for the kids to climb up into the tree.

The snowmobiler’s are very happy this winter! Its SO nice to see a winter like we had when I was growing up, yes I totally feel like my grama or even my parents saying that. Its so nice to have SNOW and not just for a couple weeks. This cold weather however… can take a hike! By the end of this month, I am ready for Spring to arrive!!!