I spent the majority of all our Christmases sitting and watching our kids. Watching the pure excitement and love on their face! It is priceless, every year it changes, hearing their appreciation for everything. Made me feel like such a happy mommy even receiving clothes and jammies the kids LOVE this (as do we). I even had to be reminded a few times to open my own gifts – which of course I appreciate, especially when our family asks us what we need/truly want. So great!
Our Christmas Celebration(s)!
Our Christmas celebration began Saturday, and ended boxing day. Yes 5 straight days of family, food and fun! It was so much fun, so wonderful to see the family we did and the food was amazing! Our kids are so very blessed. I feel so very blessed for the time our children had with our family and for the generous gifts they did receive, even more so at how practical and we’ll thought out the gifts were for our children! I am so very thankful for that, truly!
I was so lucky to have my Lil man helping me 😉
And great time had by all. Awesome seeing everyone!
A Very Merry Christmas With Wonderful Family <3
Today, on Christmas morning our kids were SO excited – was such an amazing moment, hearing first our son get up, then his excited voice as he went to wake his sister up. Hearing the excitement in their voices as well as their patience at times being tested to the extreme – for a kid at Christmas of course!
We are so very lucky to have already celebrated Christmas with family 3 times before today AND get to celebrate again tomorrow with more family. This truly is what the meaning of the season is, family & love.
I have a lot of photos over the past few days and have no where near gotten through them, however I did make sure to get these photos edited tonight after we arrived home from mom & dads – our “annual” family Christmas photo. Not perfect, but hey its perfectly us 🙂
We always try to get one of the two of us, after all “it’s all because two people fell in love, is where our family began”… Of course we have some fun outtakes to share, another day! This mama is tiiiired !
So thankful that we do have so much family to spend this wonderful time of year with, so thankful for the time we can spend together during Christmas as well as the rest of the year. Also remembering those who are always watching down on us from heaven. It truly is these loved ones who remind us daily to never take for granted any time we are given, it is a gift and should be appreciated as well as spent with family. One person who is in heaven, who we truly wish our kids could have met is their Grama Zmija… I truly am thankful that our kids do have an awesome relationship with my own parents, I am also thankful that their Granpa Zmija is a part of their lives. It truly is the generational family time together that really warms my heart, especially during the Christmas season. Seeing our children interact with our parents, our siblings, their cousins, their great aunts/uncles and their great grama’s its a blessing, a truly amazing blessing!
Things may happen over the years between loved ones, however they truly can be minor bumps in the major highway we call life ❤ For this, I am grateful, one possession I will name that I can truly say I am SO thankful for is my camera for capturing all our children’s and family moments together, moments that tomorrow are memories, treasured memories!
Wishing you all the best, hope you had a wonderful Christmas Day spending it with those you love. This mama is off to bed!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2013 – From my family to yours!
Merry Christmas from my family to yours and all the best for the New Year 2013!!!
Looking back over 2012 we have had many great family memories and most important have watched both our kids grow another year older! Family fun in our very own backyard, with family and friends, enjoying a great summer at the cottage, watching our kids playing sports they love and just being them!
Cheers to another fantastic year ahead and many more treasured memories! Remember you can never take too many photos 😉
The Olivia Act… The Act Of Giving, Appreciating & Treasuring Photos Forever!
The Olivia Act was started by a photographer to give back after the tragic Newtown, CT shooting. Olivia’s family had professional portraits taken right before she passed away in the shooting and will now have these beautiful memories to cherish of her forever.
I am located in Ontario, Canada and have a 6 year old child. This did not hit “close to home”, it hit extremely close to my heart…
I am going to participate in this wonderful act of generosity. I have always been one to preach about never taking too many pictures and that one day these life moments will become memories… My heart goes out to these families and I do pray that they all have many photos and videos to cherish of their sweet children.
So … do you know someone who deserves family photos? This will be a closed nomination – anonymous nominations of who you feel is deserving of winning this– anyone within my area or whoever is willing to drive to me. This will be for a mini-session and will include all edited images on a disk. Keep in mind I am a natural light photographer so the sessions will take place outdoors but can be anywhere around my location.
Email your nomination to pam @ yourlifeasartphotography . com (remove spaces) tell me who & why! This will stay open until December 31st and between myself and a few others we will choose out of those nominated who we feel truly deserves this free session! If the winner would like to be recognized, as well as their nominator I of course will do so!
In complete honesty I would love for this to become annual, this is something I have been thinking of doing for a while and after such tragedy its time, as a way to give back – photos are SO special to me, so special to my own family. Everyone should have photos to treasure because unfortunately we just never know…
Facebook – In Loving Memory of Sandy Hook Elementary Victims
Yes! Each and every word!
Last night I truly broke. I sobbed even hearing the very beginning of the news, something which I have been avoiding for this exact reason! I love every bit about my 6 year old, even those trying times it may be hard somedays but I wouldn’t trade it for the world!!!
Tonight after school my kids bus was late and obviously I didn’t think of the horrible tragedy that did happen, however I did think of what could have, I won’t live in fear because of this horrible shooting, however it was a horrible heart wrenching fear and I can only begin to imagine how those parents and families felt on Friday… Thank god the bus had simply broke down, however those 40 minutes it was late I paced the entire time.
My heart goes out to those families. Seeing the beautiful faces of those children or reading the tear jerking 11 days before Christmas… I do pray they are at rest and did not suffer.For those families who feel it is your “right” to have guns in your home… THIS is something that could happen if they are not locked up properly… Quite honestly what the hell IS the point of owning a hand gun, other than just to say you do, because you have the right! Those children had a right to live and IF he did not have guns which were so easily accessible, well I’m sure its to heart wrenching to say 😦
I am thankful to be in a country which does NOT allow concealed weapons or does not allow all its citizens to bear arms… My children and family is much more important! Sure if someone really wanted a gun they could probably find it, however it does not need to be that easily accessible!
My heart goes out to all families in Newton, CT affected by this horrible tragedy. Do not live in fear, rather live life to the fullest… You can never take too many videos and photos!
I am not really a major cryer. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I cry–when it’s appropriate to do so. Funerals. The occasional wedding if it’s particularly beautiful or meaningful. Schindler’s List. Things that normal people cry at. I am definitely not an over-cryer. I don’t cry at commercials or cheesy Hallmark movies or at the drop of a hat. And, when I do cry, there’s usually a beginning and an end. I cry. I get it out. I stop. Normal crying.
However, since I first started to understand the magnitude of what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday morning, I have cried a lot. I cried when I heard the terrible news. I cried when I went to pick my son up early from school. I cried when I told my husband what had happened. I cried when I talked to my girlfriends about it. I cried…
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The true meaning of Christmas… Family!
The true meaning of Christmas has nothing to do with gifts and everything to do with family and loved ones.
I had the honor of photographing a past clients new baby, to celebrate Christmas 2012 as their own family with their extended family.
While editing their images my heart is so warm and full thinking of the instant love a parent feels the moment their child is put in their arms, their entire world has changed and will forever be changed. Life is no longer about the parents, it is about this precious little baby and the family you have created together.
Christmas is a time for family to come together and appreciate this time, appreciate all you have been blessed with and most important, for the kids!
I am so happy for my clients, I think over the years of our own children growing up, the photos I take of them on a daily, monthly and yearly basis and many of my favourites are with family and around the Christmas tree.
The tragedy in Connecticut, should not make us live in fear, but should make us truly live to the fullest extent! Life is so very precious. My heart truly goes out to the families who lost a child and family member that day, as a parent myself my heart is broken for those parents as my own children are the ages of many of them. Unfortunately a tragedy like this cannot be truly prepared for, however we can ensure that our children always know that they are loved by many, they are appreciated and they are our world.
Working on photos of this sweet baby as well as photos of my own children from things they LOVE – hockey and dance. I am so thankful for so much, so much to never ever take for granted!
Our kids and what they love… moments & memories!
Our kids…
In the wake of what happened in Connecticut it is once again another insane reminder of how so many moments will one day become memories. Enjoy so much with your kids, embrace them and love them. Live.Laugh.Love and you can never take too many pictures!!!
Never take your loved ones for granted. Share your life with your family and friends, open your hearts to those who want to spend time with you and who truly make an effort. Understand that you cannot fix what may be wrong, however you can continue doing what is right. Do not live with regrets, this can be more painful. Something which may seem impossible now, in the big picture is not. Pride isn’t worth hurting over. Most important, children are sweet innocent souls, do not use them to hurt others, do not use them as weapons, they do not need or ask for much, most important they need to “be kids” with unconditional love and support! Just let them be little!
Blessings and many thoights for all those affected.
Patriots Raise $600 For Cancer Patient Services! @MFPatriotsJrC
20121212-328C7021-Patriots Cancer Patients Services Donation, a photo by {Pamela Zmija Photography} on Flickr.
The Mount Forest Patriots hockey team raised $600 for our local Cancer Patients Services within our community. Way to go boys!!!
Mount Forest Patriots 2012-2013 Team @MFPatriotsJrC
Let me introduce you to the 2012-2013 Mount Forest Patriots Hockey Team!
