My Favorites...of my own!

I posted the breakdown of my favorite photos from my clients this year. Now its time for my favorites of some of the photos of my own family. From cousins, to neices and nephews to my own kids...here they are! Would love to hear which is your favorite. I won't do a poll just give me some comments! It is apparent that I am unable to narrow down photos of my own family!! Sorry for so many, but just couldn't leave some out!
Would love to hear from you! Otherwise keep voting on the favorites on the doodle poll for the my client photos! HERE

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

If you would like to vote for your favorite photo of 2011 go HERE

My Faves of 2011

Wow...I can hardly believe how fast this year has gone by and that it is about to be 2012. I started off the year still on mat leave with my youngest and slowly started back into photography. After Christmas is always a bit of a slower time, but we slowly ramped up with newborns until the weather was nice enough to head back outside for family shoots again. It finished with a bit of a flurry/bang/craziness with me back working part time at the hospital and no less than 18 (+/- a couple impromtu family sessions of my family and extended family!) fall/winter sessions from the last weekend in September until the first week of December. I think I have carpal tunnel and eye and neck strain from all the editing. But needless to say after countless beautiful Holiday cards and print orders arriving at my door I am proud to say I am done for the year! I even managed to get my own card out again this year.
Since it was such a fun and busy year I decided that I should do a little recap/contest on the blog to pick my favorite photos from the year and let you decide which is YOUR favorite. I would also like to say after combing through the thousands of photos from the past year that there were SO MANY to choose from it was very hard to narrow down. These photos I chose for their quality/feel/lighting/and overall Rumor has it..Photo Style! I have also left out my family (and extended family) from the contest as I have a number of photos of them but that just wouldn't be fair! I'll post my favorites of them later!
And what would a good contest be without a prize at the end! Please vote in the linked doodle poll for your favorite photo. On January 1st I will count the votes and the family with the highest number of votes will receive (since I love to print a big photo!) a 16 x 20 print of their photo (an $80 value!) Please forward to your family, friends or whoever you can get to vote, I won't descriminate, but only one vote per family household please.
So here goes!
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HERE IS THE LINK FOR THE POLL...IF ALL NINE OPTIONS ARE NOT SHOWING CLICK THE FOLDED SECTION AND IT WILL EXPAND FOR ALL OPTIONS TO BE AVAILABLE! THANKS FOR VOTING!! AND REMEMBER ONE VOTE PER HOUSEHOLD PLEASE!
DOODLE LINK

Miss Maggie

Even though the weather didn't exactly co-operate for this photo session, it wasn't terrible either...especially considering the -20 weather we are presently experiencing! These two were able to take their coats off for a couple stints while doing their session, but we had to intermittently put it back on, and even had a warm up on the way from one location to another. Holly is actually someone I have known from way back in Junior high when she lived in PA, and has been in Calgary for a while, but we haven't seen eachother since I'm sure grade 9? Yikes, now I feel old. Its funny how Facebook now ends up to be the way to reunite! Miss Maggie is their new addition to the family, and what a cute puppy she is. She was so good, even though she was freezing like the rest of us! Enjoy your peek guys...I'm am slowly but surely digging out from this pile of editing!

Now that's what I call coffee to go...

A quick one from my editing today...thought it was pretty cute. Mom and Dad are big Starbucks fans, they even brought me one!! How sweet is that!

Happy (Late) Halloween!!

This was the first year we got to spend trick or treating with the Kelly family and what a blast the kids had! Sprinting from house to house, losing Benny every couple houses because he was sprinting so fast. The candy haul was pretty disgusting and we are still trying to get rid of it all (without gaining 10 pounds!). We were lucky enough to have Kelly's Mom and Dad to hang out with Logan and hand out candy at our place so for the first time I even got to partake in the Halloween festivities! What a fun time! Leyton had two outfits for the day, Super Leyton for the day at school, then Cowgirl for the evening for trick or treating. Its a good thing we had a back up as the night got a bit chilly, and I don't know that the leotard would have been all that warm! Logan was a cupcake, as I got a steal of a deal at Old Navy at the last minute for $6.88 (so proud of myself for that!). They both endured the usual photo shoot of their outfits, during the day so here they are...

They grow too quick!

The last time I saw the littlest in this family, she was a newborn. What a treat to see her again at this age, its one of my favorites. Not walking yet, crawling a bit, but not too quickly. We met up just over a week ago to get some family photos, what a beautiful day for the end of October?!! When we met last time the oldest was really NOT into having any photos of her, she wasn't falling for any of my attempts to get her smiling either. Her Mom wrote me something funny before we met "...Unlike my eldest, "H" - trying to get a picture of her is like trying to photograph a yeti... Hopefully you'll have more luck than we've had with her ;) "... well...I think we may have actually succeeded! Here are just a couple from that day...so much more editing to go! Enjoy!

The last of the sneak peeks

You've seen this family before, but its been awhile and I can't believe how much the kids have grown. I haven't seen Taylor since she was a baby (other than in photos) and Grady is such little man now...wow, time goes too quick! Here's your sneak peek guys, enjoy! Now back to editing!! :)

This is late....but better late than never!

I'm sure these families have waiting for their sneak peek for awhile, but with all the mini session editing I just haven't got to them yet. So today I took a break from the other editing to post a couple from these sessions I had just over a week ago. I still have one more to go, but 2 outta three ain't bad!