Kimberley and Carlos are one of the happiest couples I have ever worked with. Neither of them stopped smiling all day and they were having so much fun celebrating their day together.  They were married during a beautiful ceremony at St. Joseph’s Church and celebrated into the night with their family and friends at the Four Points Sheraton.
Kim and Carlos, thank you so much for making my job a breeze! You were both fabulous to work with and it was a delight to have a little glimpse into your love and happiness. May you enjoy many many many more years of joy together with your beautiful growing family. Congratulations!! :)

To my favorite chunky little monkey bum. I still cant believe how fast this first year is flying by! You are nine months now and so far it has been your most fun month yet! You are so bright and happy and giggly and you are discovering new things every day. You constantly surprise me with things you can do and things you have figured out. The other day I said ‘want to read some books, monkey?’ and you reached over and grabbed one of your favorites! I almost didn’t believe my eyes because I feel like you shouldn’t be able to understand these things yet! You are such a smart boy. You have 2 favorite books which you never tire of and I could read them until my throat goes dry and you would still want more. You ‘talk’ constantly and your most commonly heard sounds are ma, ba, da, pa, ga. Just over the past couple days you have mostly been saying mamamamamama over and over, and I am wondering whether you are saying my name or  just babbling? I will have to confirm next month to be sure. It makes sense since you have figured out so many other things already, but it just seems so early for your first word! You love to give ‘kisses’ when I say ‘can mama have a kiss?’ which starts with you putting your chubby hands on my cheeks and coming towards me with your mouth wide open. Within a few seconds you are slobbering all over my face and we both end up giggling our heads off.  Your favorite game right now is for daddy or me to say ‘Im going to come and get you!!!’ and we wiggle our fingers in the air as if we are going to tickle you.. then you start crawling away as fast as you can squealing with delight. Then we catch you and tickle you and throw you into the air and kiss you all over. Then we put you down and you start crawling away looking back at us with a big grin waiting for us to do it again…and again..and again. You can now crawl at approximately the speed of light, and you can also stand wherever you want as long as there is something to help balance you. You can stand with no hands for 5-10 seconds before you sit back down, so I’m sure by the end of this month you will be standing no problem! You LOVE to be outside, so we spend most of our afternoons in the park. You always get so excited when I say ‘you want to go outside?’ which always makes me smile. Daddy and I are thrilled that you love the outdoors so much, since we both enjoy it just as much as you do. You love exploring and you always find any sticks in close proximity which you chew on, wave through the air, and bang on the ground. You are into EVERYTHING, and within 5 seconds of entering a room, you have found every single electrical outlet and cord. My main mission in life right now is to prevent you from poking your eye out with a stick, getting electrocuted, or choking on on pretty much anything. You have also been trying lots of new foods this month and you love to feed yourself. You love to rub food all over your face and hair, so meal time is always followed by bath time :) You have also become completely enamored with our 2 dogs Heidi and Rufus. Heidi is smart so she always gets out of your way.. but our chocolate lab Rufus (or ‘the doof’ as we so affectionately call him) is so tolerant of you climbing all over him and pulling his ears and poking his eyes. He actually follows you around because I think he loves the attention, and I’m sure you two will become more and more inseparable as you grow up. You have never been a very good sleeper, Monkey, so I decided to start seep training with you 10 days before you turned 9 months, and you are such a fast learner that you slept through the night for the first time ever just a week after we started!!  This makes me SO very happy and I am so proud of you!! Becoming your mama has by far been the most challenging thing I have ever done…but you know what, little monkey? Best choice I ever made :) Love mama.

Chris and Mony were married during a beautiful ceremony at the Holy Family Church followed by a delicious dinner and a night full of celebration and dancing at Ban Righ Hall. They are such a beautiful couple and it was an honour to document their special day. Congratulations to you both.. it was an absolute delight working with you and I wish you all the happiness in the world. Hope you have an amazing time on your honeymoon!!

To my little dude.. who is really not so little anymore! Wow I can’t believe you are already 8 months.. it sounds so old! You are constantly moving and keeping me on my toes..you are basically a 23 pound ball of pure energy! You are getting so fast at crawling and you are pulling yourself up to standing on everything you can find. You have a few good head bumps a day so I feel like I need to either give you a helmet or cover everything in bubble wrap! And you FINALLY got your first teeth!! You now have 2 teeth on the bottom which is pretty darn cute.. except for the whole biting thing..those little teeth are sharp! Your favourite thing to do is still being outside, and you have been enjoying going to the beach lately (although you always end up with mouthfuls of sand). You love to be in the garden with daddy and you always come in covered in dirt and raspberry stains :) You love bath time though so it works out well! Next week I am taking you on a plane for the first time to go and visit daddy while he is working in New Brunswick for the month.. so we will see how that goes! (I pity the people sitting next to us!)  This month you also went in the swings at the park for the first time and you LOVED it! You just giggle and smile the whole time.. I think it might even replace the jolly jumper!!  Love you more than ever… Mommy xo

It is always such a joy to photograph these lovely people! You can literally feel the love radiating off of them :) It makes photos below easy to capture.. they are so genuinely happy to be together that it makes my heart feel even more full by the end of their session :) Thank you guys for yet another great session.. enjoy the photos!

I am absolutely thrilled to be photographing Mony and Chris’s wedding next month! They have been together for 9 years and it is wonderful to see that they are still so completely in love with each other. Their session was filled with giggles, smiles, hugs and lots of kissing :) They are so natural in front of the camera and I can’t wait to see them happily married. They have an adorable dog named Simba who they’ve had since they’ve been together so we of course had to include him in their photos! Enjoy a few sneak peeks…

They both have the most contagious smiles.. my cheeks were sore by the end of the session!

Rachel and Graham said their vows beside the St. Lawrence River on one of the most beautiful days we’ve had so far this summer. Their ceremony and reception was held at the Gananoque Inn and their whole day was absolutely perfect. Enjoy a few sneak peeks from their wedding!

Blowing out the candles on their Grandfather’s 90th birthday cake!

To my dear little Ollie bear. How fast things have changed in just one short little month! You are now sitting all by yourself and you also just taught yourself how to sit up from laying on your belly. Not only that, but you are also now crawling! You are getting better and faster every day which is a bit scary.. I am so used to you being stuck in one place! I’m sure I will be chasing after you soon. Still no teeth have come through but your gums are rock hard and  I can feel some little bumps.. so fingers crossed by next month you will have one or two :)  Your favorite activities include sitting and crawling on the grass, chewing on your feet, jumping in your jolly jumper, pressing buttons (especially on my keyboard and the buttons on the phone), yanking out my hair, grabbing daddy’s glasses off his face, or if anyone holds you who has earrings on, you will immediately try to rip them out of their head. You seem to take great joy in inflicting pain on your loved ones!
Well as you can see, you are the cutest baby on the planet.. at least until your little brother arrives in 5 months.. then I think it will be tied :) Love you to the moon and back, Mommy.

It was an absolute delight to photograph beautiful little Maya today on her very first birthday! Just had to share a quick one since it’s her birthday and all :) More to come soon…

Photographing this perfectly squishy little man was special to me because Elias is my friends Mary and Munier’s gorgeous new baby! Sadly they are moving away to Calgary this week so I am especially glad I could capture him before they leave. Mary and Munier; you are both amazing and I will miss you (and your sweet little babe) more than you know. Congratulations on Elias.. he is so wonderfully perfect in every way :) Love you guys.