Photo Shoot with Alana Joy Photography

While we were camping this past weekend with my friend Alana (of Alana Joy Photography, check her out, she is fantastic!!!), we decided to use the beauty of the scenery, and the gorgeousness of our children (yes, we are biased, but that is a mother's right!) and put together a little photo shoot.

Check out the entire post here on Alana's website but here is a sneak peek of my big brave cowgirl (we took all the girls riding this weekend) in her pretty pettiskirt and boots. Don't mind the serious face - she can't be smiling all the time!!
Thanks for taking the time to read, and please take some time to visit Alana Joy Photography, she takes some amazing photos, you'll love her!

Do you like to win stuff?

Hey All!
Hope you all are having a fantastic week! Sorry for the lack of posts this week, but the weather is so beautiful and the kids and I have been doing our best to enjoy it!
I thought I would tell you guys all about a fantastic contest that you should all enter - my super talented friend (and family photographer) Alana, of Alana Joy Photography is having a draw for a FREE photo session!

The session could be a newborn, maternity, family, grad, or just "hey take some pics of me because I won this awesome contest" photo shoot!

How do you enter? Well it is really quite simple….do any of the below and you will get an entry into the giveaway. The more you do, the better your chances of winning.
Leave a comment below on Alana's blog = 1 entry
Go to her Facebook page here and hit the “like” button = 1 entry
Share this post either on your Facebook or Blog and let me know = 1 entry
(yes you will get 2 entries if you share on your Facebook and blog)


You may enter until July 21, 2012 and then the winner will be chosen via Random.org. **This giveaway is open to BC residents only and the session must take place somewhere in the lower mainland before the end of 2012. All portrait session rules apply. This giveaway has no cash value.


Please visit Alana's site, she's awesome and takes beautiful photos!! Good luck in the contest!!

Saying Goodbye to the Frame People

The Frame People.
You know... the smiling, happy, beautiful people whose photos come in the frames you bring home from the store.

Some of them even stick around for a while. My mom bought me a standing frame that looks like an open photo album for Christmas. I put the frame on display in my living room under the misguided impression that seeing it every day would inspire me to fill it with photos of smiling, happy, beautiful people who I actually KNOW.

And now it's APRIL. And the frame is still filled with the Frame People.

So tonight, on my quest to gather my scrapbooking supplies for a day of crafting tomorrow, I came across a pile of old photos. Like really old. Like before we had kids old.

I grabbed a big stack of photos and started digging. I've always been really good about putting my photos into photo albums (pre-scrapbooking). The huge stack of photos appear to be extra photos. I fished through them and found a few golden gems.

I didn't find enough photos to fill the frame, but I also have two big bins of photos to sort and purge, so I'm sure I'll fill the frame yet.

I love that the frame sits up like a storybook. I think it's going to be hilarious for Aidyn and Eila to flip through the photos and see what Mommy and Daddy USED to look like...

In honor of Easter this weekend, I thought that I would open the frame up to pictures of a beautiful Mexican cemetary that we visited oh so long ago. So, do you have Frame People you need to get out of your life?

Hope you all have a blessed Easter weekend with your families.
Much love,

Share a Little Love Today!

Hey everyone! 

Aidyn and Eila in our big family shoot

My dear friend Alana Joy is an amazing photographer and she is trying to build up her business here locally. 

Eila Bean - 1 week old

She is doing a giveaway of a free photo session once she reaches 100 likes on Facebook.  Please go like her page and be entered into the draw!

These are our feet!!

Alana Joy does all of our family photos – and she does a fantastic job!  She did my maternity photos, the photos of Eila when she was a week old, and big family group photo shoots with all my siblings, spouses, kids and dogs!

Photos from http://alanajoyphotography.com/

We are scheduling a new springtime shoot once the weather clears up here a little ~ I will be sure to post some on the page here so you can check out her work!

Photo from http://alanajoyphotography.com/

Good Luck!