simply beautiful

what is giving me great joy right now is taking photos for friends & fam,

and using them to create christmas photo cards.

i hope to share more photos soon from my morning with these boys, 

but for now you can see the custom design i created with some favs:

christmas joy

here is another recent design,

 created for my sister & her beautiful family:

christmas smiles

i'm so happy that a few people have decided to participate in 

my design project for christmas...

i am ready to buy a goat and hoping to get the rabbits too

(still have a couple more spots if you're interested in a custom design).

this is the smiley family christmas card from last year:

on the weekend i had a mini-shoot with aubree at the park.

here is the christmas card i designed for this year:

nachos and schooners

tonight, as i was scanning through photos, i found this one.

this was taken by jude on the beach in southampton on thanksgiving weekend.

we had a date night.

it was so fun to watch the sunset together,

take some photos,

play with a stray cat on the beach,

and then head to crabby joe's for some nachos!

jude watched hockey and i won a schooner.

it's a big one.

good times.

~

i just got jude his own camera today!  

he's heading to british columbia next week...  

i'm not really willing to part with mine 

(especially as i finish up my course),

and i don't think he really wanted to lug mine around...

so jude now has this one:

 this camera comes in a rainbow of colours.

of course i got black for jude.

i can't wait to see the photos he captures.

feeling thankful tonight for judah...

this past week or so, i haven't been feeling 100%

and he has been very caring and helpful...

~

and on another note:

i'm still hoping to design your christmas card for you!

i need three more orders to get some rabbits and a goat for someone who needs them!

(click on the green words if you have no idea what i'm talking about)

queen of the peacocks

emery was a peacock for halloween!  

i love how the costume came together...

selah was a 'purple t-rex'.

this is a costume that auntie beth found for her.

selah loves this costume, but apparently wasn't in the mood for photos...

 heading out to trick or treat with their best friends and the daddies.

judah even dressed up this year for work,

with a little encouragement from his colleagues 

and inspiration from his brother...

and this is the cute ladybug i found in the garden yesterday:

emery was allowed to dress up at school this year.  

she was worried about her peacock costume getting dirty, 

so she was a ladybug for the class party.

what was your most memorable halloween costume?

this is me when i was emery's age.  

not my most memorable costume - but still cute, right?

(and the only halloween photo i could find!)