Oh my word!

6 weeks!

In 6 weeks I'm going to be rolling my bags into the Vancouver International Airport to board a plane with la Mister for our trip to Australia! I'm so excited I can hardly contain my excitement as I have never been this far South! I have dreams of sandy beaches, surfing, exploring Sydney's Opera House, riding horses on the beach, visiting wonderful family in Perth, looking at cool architecture, and of course taking lots and lots of photos!

6 weeks!

I will be away from September 29 to October 20 learning Aussie lingo and basking in the sun as much as possible, if you'd like to book a session before I leave or after I get back, please contact me!

One hot surprise, that is what Miss A had in store for her husband for his birthday. Scheduling her boudoir shoot a month in advance I knew she was excited about her big surprise, but the day of the shoot I get a text from her saying that her husband was planning on coming home early that night! We scrambled for about 3 hours with both our minds and hearts racing trying to find a way to divert him elsewhere, coming up with stories and the such but in the end she succeeded by just having him hang out with his brother! We pulled off the shoot without him coming home and she was able to hold it a secret for 2 months!

These are some of my favorite boudoir photos to date, and what I love more about them is that they were taken a place that is dear to her and her husband, their first home.

Meet, Miss A!



Miss A, what a delight it was to photograph you, you are truly beautiful!

4 years ago today we went on somewhat of a double date and while Talladega Nights was playing on the big screen we flirted our way to the end of the movie. I didn't think much of it, yes I liked you, but I wasn't going to think anything further then just playful flirting.

The next day you sent me an email and asked me out for dinner, my heart stopped then jumped for joy that you wanted to hang out with me. We went out and had a great time, you then told me you had a job interview coming up that was out of the country. I liked you, but once you told me that, I figured our relationship wouldn't go much further then me getting a free dinner from our date.

You went to the job interview and said it went extremely well. I knew that if you asked me I would move for you, I really liked you. 2 weeks later you called me your girlfriend and I met your parents. You got the job but turned it down and then 3 years later we got married.

4 years ago today we went on somewhat of a double date, I liked you, but now I love you and I don't know how I will ever top your best birthday present...me going on a double date with you!

Happy Birthday Mister!

Photo by Jamie Delaine.

This past weekend has been a weekend of embarrassing moments let me tell you! Pretty much just throw me a rock and I'll hide under it forever and all eternity! You know that feeling where you're about 11 years old and just as you're about to walk into the door at your new school you realize you forgot to put on clothes? Yea, that was just a dream but you can't seem to shake that dreaded feeling of complete mortification! Welcome to my weekend!

It started with me super duper excited to celebrate one of my closest friend's bridal shower, but this is the embarrassing part ... I showed up an hour late! Yup, one whole hour! And the icing on the cake, I'm in the bridal party, you know wearing a pretty dress holding flowers! Great way to show your friend that you love her, show up an hour late to her party! Yup, hugely embarrassed. Let's just say I'm willing to pick gum off the bottom of the pews in her wedding venue if she asked me to do it to make it up to her.

Then on Sunday while dealing with with Saturday's failings, I tried setting up an auto-response for my email thinking I'd be all high tech, but in the process I ended up spamming everyone whoI've ever had correspondence with. Oh, and not just once, every single email they ever wrote to me! I can only imagine some people's inbox filled to the brim with my greeting to them.

Let's just say I wanted to crawl under a rock this past weekend to hide my blushing face from embarrassment! I'm so sorry if you were a recipient of my unintentional spamming, and I better get my nails in tip top shape just in case I'm asked to pick gum!

I love my Mister, a lot! I love that when we're watching TV together (which doesn't happen very often) he'll pick up my feet put them in his lap and start to massage them for me. I love, that after being away from him, he arrives at the airport to pick me up with a beautiful rose - I'm not a huge flower person but this meant the world to me. I love that every morning he wakes up before me, cleans the rest of the dishes in the sink and makes me my morning latte then quietly comes into the room whispers my name and says "coffee is ready".

Mister, is the one who calms my fears, creates a place for my ideas and dreams to thrive, and who I love going on walks with no matter the weather. And to celebrate our love together, for being married a whole year, we decided to do a photo shoot of our own!

My mom's friend told me that every year since she's been married that she puts on her dress every anniversary, and I thought "I'm going to do that!". So, year one..complete with photos to prove it! Also, for our guest sign in at our wedding we didn't do a traditional book, photobook, or even a matte photo - we used something we love, wine. We got 6 bottles, that we will age and then open them at different times throughout our marriage. Year one, complete while enjoying some awesome cheese and photos!

Thank you to my amazing photo BFF, Cathy Empey, for the wonderful photos, we love them!