Happy Birthday Papa!

I'm finally starting to get caught up on some of my personal posts. I'm a bit of a geek and love going through my photography stuff, and then my personal stuff starts going to the wayside. This was from a couple weeks ago before leaving for holidays. It was my father in law's birthday, and for once we actually took a minute and got some photos. I've been meaning to get more photos of my extended family lately, and this was the perfect opportunity. Happy Birthday Papa!

Biking with Grandma and Grandpa

Whenever we go home to Saskatchewan, Grandma and Grandpa love taking the kids on the bike paths of PA. This year was no exception. It was probably a bit less painful this year though as Leyton can now ride her bike without training wheels and actually seems to be able to get her legs moving pretty fast to keep up. Logan got to ride backseat with Grandpa and she even got a new helmet out of the deal! They went for a ride almost every night, most times ended up at the skateboard park where Leyton loved going up and down the ramps. I went a couple nights too...and somehow we ended up at the ice cream shop, not sure how that happened? ;-) Here's some pics of the bikers. The last shot is of the sky from Mom and Dad's back yard, thought the sunset colors were pretty beautiful!
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A couple more that I couldn't resist sharing...

Love the old cars...

It is apparent as of late that I am obsessed with old vehicles. Here is some of photos from at the lake last week. The cars were parked at a Vehicle Museum, and I have literally been wanting to get photos there for three years. I finally bit the bullet and took the girls there one night, just as the sun was going down. I haven't had time to edit them all, but so far these were my standout faves...the blue one is a Thunderbird (I believe 70's maybe, can't remember what my dad told me) the light green is a 50's Chev, just in case anyone is a car buff!

Sarah and Family

I finally met Sarah and her family the other night after many email and phone discussions. She has a great website here that you should check out. We also discovered that we actually grew up only an hour or so apart in Saskatchewan...what a small world. It was a great night for photos, here are a couple to get a sneak peek of, I think there's many more!! Thanks guys!

Ceilidh and Morgan

This was the second set of photos I did while back home in Saskatchewan last week. Ceilidh (prounounced CAY-LEE) is my cousin, and Morgan is a friend of hers that she has known since Kindergarten. These girls were so much fun to take around to the spots I had chosen for their photos. I think they were both still on the "week after grad" high, and seemed so happy and carefree...oh to be 17 again! I'm sure they will be enjoying the summer as they are both on to University in the Fall. This is just a small sampling of some of the photos, I haven't even got to some of them, maybe I'll post a couple more along the way as I get through them. I think my faves are the brick and the red wall, but aren't their blue eyes stunning??!! I especially love the photo with Ceilidh on the old chair at the red wall, as it was my Granny's. I thought it was just the perfect amount of old and dark with mixed with bright and new. I also knew Grandma MacDonald would love seeing it in the pics with her beautiful Granddaughter!! Enjoy and Congrats to Ceilidh and Morgan!!

Dear photograph...

I came across this website on pinterest a while ago, and thought it was a pretty cool idea. When I was home last week I thought I would try a couple photos out. I haven't submitted them to this website, but am thinking about it. You should try it, pretty cool to see how things change. The first photo is on me on Mom and Dad's front step, the second...can you believe how much a tree grows? Let alone the rats in front of it!! And the last I think is of the day the road in front of our house was being paved...apparently we needed a front row seat! If you do it I'd love to see you link it back!
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Kayla

In the midst of the sister photo shoot I got Kayla to do a couple photos for me on her own so I could add a couple more Grad photos to my portfolio, and of course she (lovingly) obliged! Thanks for being my guinea pig Kayla! Congrats, you make a beautiful graduate and can't wait to see you on the v-ball court in S'toon!! Go Huskies!