These two fill the biggest part of my heart. They were chilaxin on the couch last night while watching a movie and playing with their leappads – awesome thing for kids, learning and
Words
Here is a little fun for Sunday morning 🙂 Saw this on a friends facebook page!
First 4 words you see describe you – Love, sweet, honest, patient were mine!
Family Fun
One of my biggest reasons for blogging and most of all blogging more is to not only capture and share but also provide an avenue to write with the images I share. The family fun moments is so important and are truly the moments that my kids enjoy looking back at the most. This weekend, family day has now graced us with a long weekend. Whats even more awesome is hubby has the weekend off 🙂 Its amazing how that extra day can make such a hige difference. Of course for his hockey game this morning I didn’t take my camera *gasp* and he played awesome! We were so proud of him. Looking forward to more family fun this weekend!
More family fun!
I love the emotion in her face, the fact that I can feeeeeeel her excitement in the photo of her jumping. All about capturing these moments when they happen 🙂
My heart
My heart is filled with love, life and health. So much to be thankful for, much more than last year that is for certain. Thankful and loving in more ways than just the most obvious to be thankful for. The heart is amazing at the capabilities as well as the ability to overcome. much love and life. much health and healing. Growth… 2012 is all about this!
Hearts
The heart holds so much love and life! Our word for the Camera Club for February was Heart .
Romance… and Parenting
So this week on with.in the word is Romance. With Valentines day this week, yes quite fitting. However Im the type of girl who wants Real.Life.Romance.Every.Day!
What is romance for me?
Love. Marriage. Being An Amazing Father To Our Children. Best Friends. Working As A Team. Little Things. Cooking. Cleaning. Respect. Fun. Holding Hands. Kissing. Hugging. Touching My Face. Massages. Music. Amazingly Hard Working. Talent. Dedication. Creative. Responsible.
Ramance for me is a combination of everyday things that we can do for each other to show we care. Of course the best part of romance is when we have time away from the kids to be completely alone. However just because we have the kids around does not have to take any romance out of the time. I want our kids to see we are in love and that we show appreciation to each other.
The kids. With that comes the parenting. The hardest “job” ever, yet the most rewarding for sure! Today proved to be challenging, very actually and it makes me no less a mom to admit this. The best part is how we handled it as a team once hub’s got home. Of course we all have off days, today proved to be one of our son’s which then affects mom. Our babes is one reason I am no longer looking to expand my photography business yet I am motivating myself to capture more of our own memories. Something both our kids enjoy is looking at and talking about our family photograph’s.
Well that and music lol…
Ah the joys of parenting. But if you can still keep the romance alive even after a crazy day and evening… we’ll make it! Together as a team!
This is the year of growth for me and for our family, lots more changes, but the one constant is the love we all share as a family! As parents and lovers.
Canvas Portraits
A client of mine ordered their own Canvas Portraits so I made myself make a decision and choose what would be our first family portrait on Canvas… I knew I wanted to go HUGE so I wanted it to be right… It is SO right! Hub’s got home tonight and once we got the kids and fur-kid outside to play he went to work hanging the portrait!
(yes the surround sound wires are hanging up around the speakers… remember the puppy my previous post showcased… yes I think that explains?! haha)
Above shows the 24×36″ I got for above our couch… I got it BIG and really its not AS big as I thought it was going to be lol but its awesome. The next size down are two 11×14″ portraits. The perfect size if you want to hang them together or they aren’t going to be hung as a statement piece above one large pice of furniture. I adore my clients two images! The smallest is an 8×12″ portrait of the beach at my grama’s cottage. Love it there. I printed it this size as she keeps it on her desk at home – my reasoning for this piece of art so she can always have the beach and water to enjoy! ❤
Growth
This little man… its hard to see the difference in him when I see him everyday, however looking back at his puppy photos I did of him. My gosh the growth… 7 months old and our family, we couldn’t picture our family without him! Yes continued from … Life happens…
Life happens
Its hard to believe that its already the middle of February. We’ve recently just registered our youngest for Kindergarten this fall and our oldest will be venturing into the primary grades!
Valentines Day for us is much like any other day, but of course as he does every year, my hubby sends me flowers. The one time a year I get them and truly do appreciate them as Ive never been much of a flowers type girl. Im the type who enjoys my hosta’s in the garden that come back every year or a nice green leafy plant indoors that can thrive even if I forget to water it 😉 We all arrived home and our kids were tired. Parenting doesn’t stop when romance “should” happen. We still enjoyed a relaxing evening together after getting the kids to bed. Thats what matters.
Sitting on the couch last night, much as we do every night after getting the kids to bed, me, hubby and our puppy, I looked at Beck and thought to myself my gosh you have grown AGAIN! Much like seeing the kids everday of our life I never really notice just how much they are growing until I look back in photos – or their clothes don’t fit anymore :P.
Tomorrow is a day which holds two memories, it would have been my dad’s best friends birthday (who was also like a 2nd father to me and my siblings) and it also would have been my granpa’s birthday. It feels like yesterday we had to say good bye to them. Yet its been quite a few years already.
This past weekend we had game nights with the kids, the littlest game on Friday and the oldest game on Saturday, they loved it. It was so, I dont even know how to describe it. We have obviously done alot as a family but with our kids at the ages they are we have never really had a “game night” where all 4 of us sit down and play and entire game start to end – let alone two nights in a row. It was amazing, these little people we have been living with and raising have SUCH amazing personalities, character, smarts, love, appreciation, fun – they are SO much fun and hilarious. We obviously dont have to have “game night” to laugh, these kids make us laugh SO much its awesome the things that come out of their mouths. Even when they know they are hitting our last nerve they look up and say, I love you… yes we turn to mush.
Some photo love of our game nights! We had a blast!
Its these little moments that I will always look back and smile seeing these photos and remember the fun we had, how much we laughed and the complete sillyness!
Capture your own family fun moments… because Life… it happens… and quick!
