Family Session with Baby Avery

I might have to start an LFA Alumni tag for the blog soon!  I've got another family session this weekend with an old classmate.  I really fought my parents on going to LFA when the majority of my friends went East to St Pat's, but I must admit, being at an all-girls school was pretty terrific and having made friends with so many great women, it's a blessing to be able to meet and capture their mini-me(s)!  To have memories of so many heart-to-hearts, fun-but-bad decisions, falling outs, or even calling up the girl who sat behind/beside you for 5 years because she was Chiu and you were Chan and she was really good at math and you were not, and then to take photos of them 15 years later is pretty special.  Pamela Chiu is so up there on memories of highschool although we ran in different circles.  I'm probably giving myself a bad reputation as a Baby Floosy, but I really love Avery.  We were buddies right away because all Asians look the same, so it was super easy for me to pretend to be her mom! 

Jokes aside, photographing Alumni offspring is the best.  Seeing glimpses of your old-time buddies resurface in chubby yummy form and to see these old-time buddies smile with so much joy in their heart is like being magically transported to Candyland.  Jason, you're alright too :P
 

Love you Pam
Salvo, you're a lucky guy


xo

family session | happy 1st birthday Pierce!

I am in love with this little guy.

We first met for Pierce's Family Session shortly after his arrival to earth and to proud parents, Chelsea + Aaron.  We got together again for Holiday photos where I really got hooked on him!  He was the most smiley and chill little guy and by the time his First Birthday rolled around, he was still laughing and smiling throughout the entire course of our session (ok save the car ride, but who likes car rides anyway....).  I headed out to Abbotsford and jumped into the family car to our destination at Woodbridge Pond, the same location where Chelsea + Aaron tied the knot!  What an absolutely romantic and special way to celebrate Pierce's First year. 

Enjoy all the smiles from this cheerful little button :)

thank you for welcoming me into your lives
and allowing me to capture these joyful moments for you guys

parenting is no walk in the park
you are doing a truly fantastic job with this sweet boy

xo

Family Session with Baby Astrid

Throwing Back this beautiful Thursday to one of my favourite family sessions to date!  They aren't actually old, but I haven't had the opportunity to post them til now almost 2 months later...  No time like the present.  Shannon came in contact with me back in the winter for some Family Photos after seeing Holiday Session photos of Hanna + Ben, kidlets of her good friend Kate.  Keeping in theme with capturing the ordinary day to day, I couldn't love these photos any more!  I love that they chose to be in PJ's for this lazy morning session, these honest choices will ring louder and sweeter in a year's time (and year after year following...) as Baby Girl Astrid grows into a cuter buttercup.  Like Joon + Callum's session, these photos will not just capture the early family love, but capture their first home together as a family before they move this summer.

Enjoy! 

 

come as you are | Saara Leila + Millie

 

These are the most beautiful pictures.
You captured every mundane moment and pulled every ounce of beauty from it.

Nick and I both got so emotional over these.
It's like, all the worrying and sleeplessness and feeling pathetic ARE worth it
when I see it from your eyes, from their eyes.

This is beyond anything I could have imagined.
You just gave me so much.  Again.  To be able to give these to the girls one day.

You've seen me at my worst.  And now to see these moments, to share them with you.
Thank you from the deepest part of me, with so much joy and gratitude.

~ Saara C.


It sounds like I did my job.

This session was very close to my heart.  There are so many women that I have become friends with in our little town, all of which I would love to honour with these sessions, but I have to admit that receiving the text request to do Saara really made my day.  She was the first Mom I met when we moved back here in 2009 when Moses was 5 months and her daughter Leila was 11 months.  We were both first time moms, desperate for company, visiting one another's homes numerous times a week for sanity.  In the last 7 years, I've witnessed her struggle as a single mom, seen her through many ups and downs.  To see her now, remarried to a truly wonderful kind-hearted soul and blessed with another gorgeous little child, it means the world to me that she has found happiness.

At the end of this session, I acknowledged all this, and we both had a good cry and a hug on the bottom of her stairs in her new home.

I love you, Friend.
You deserve every last drop of this love + happiness.

xo

 

Baby Shower for Thomas

Caela + Brian.  I would have never thought that first interview where I first met Caela would have taken us this far and that we would have become sister-friends.  They are expecting their first baby come June 8 and just had their baby shower last weekend.  And because this is their first baby and because Caela is a mega planner and someone who appreciates all things beautiful (and black and white...), the Baby Shower would obviously be Pinterest-worthy.  A few photos of the details.

Decor Dani Lazic
Cake Butter Baked Goods
Cookies Sara Sweet Smiles