Matt & Bonnie

FINALLY!! Matt & Bonnie have been together now for 6 years and they couldn't have met in a cuter way. Matt and Bonnie were both going to school in Calgary and Matt volunteered for "Safe Walk", now "safe walk" is a student operation within the school. They make sure that you get to your destination safely during the evening hours, and the rest is history!

I was not the official photographer so these are just a few of my leisure photos from their day!





This guy was awesome, he made hats, flower baskets, pretty much anything. You will see later on in the photos that he made a special hat.



























I loved the sheets!









Bonnie & Matt had a tea ceremony later on in the day, just before dinner, where they served tea to everyone. I love experiencing different cultures and it was so nice to see part of Bonnie's culture integrated into the day.






Bonnie's best friend from High School!

Yoga on the Beach

So while we were in Cuba, I wanted to do a little photo shoot with me doing some yoga poses on the beach. This was probably the part of the trip that I was most excited for. As some of you already know last month I did a 30 day yoga challenge and was really impressed with some of the results that I had seen and super happy with actually finishing! So I wanted to somehow document this milestone in my life and what better way than doing some shots on the beach in Cuba! I asked Mark to take some photos at sunset as I wanted to get some silhouette shots too. I had so much fun doing this and love most of the pictures, it is really hard looking at them as I am so critical of myself. I didn't even think about how hard it would be to actually balance on the sandy beach, especially with a pretty strong wind and you couldn't really focus on one spot in the distance because nothing was still everything was moving which totally threw my balance off. Something I'm going to have to work on. ;)

Anyway here are some of the photos from our little project in Cuba

Sneek Peek - Yoga on the Beach

Just a sneek peek of some yoga on the Beach, more to come very soon!

Jelara & Josh

Jelara and Josh are such a cute couple, and are so clearly in love! They have 2 of the cutest bulldogs, Lilly and Bailey, that brought their 'A' game to the shoot and def rocked it.

I had such a great afternoon with them and really can't wait until their wedding! Calgary's weather was really quite nice for a early March day. Here are a couple of my favorites:

CITY CHAMPS

So this past weekend the ladies Basketball team that I play on won the city championship!! Yeah that's right we are 2010 CALGARY SENIOR WOMEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPS!! So exciting! I have played ball with these girls for as little as 11 years and as long as 15 years, we are pretty much family! I have played in this league now for 4 years and couldn't think of any better way to spend my Wednesday and Friday evenings from October to the beginning of April. We played in 3 games this weekend and worked our tails off and played amazing! Our final game was played against the reigning champion for like the past 3 years (I think) and 2 of the girls on this team actually coached some of us when we were younger. Our game ended up going into overtime and we won by 2 glorious points!! This is the first (but not the last) time that we have won this league and I'm just so proud of each and every girl that is on the team and even the ones that are on adventures overseas, we miss you!

These photos were taken right after we won, you couldn't wipe those smiles off of our faces. There are a couple of girls missing but you were with us every step of the way!!






Also I wanted to give a HUGE shout out to all the family and friends that came and cheered us on this weekend!! We love every single one of you and love seeing your smiling faces!!

Georgia

I love the name Georgia and I love the fact that she was all smiles for the whole session! I have never seen a baby smile so much and it was great. She loved all her little hats and my favorite was the bear hat at the end of our session. Here a a few of my favorite of little miss smiles!

Haven

I'm a tad bit behind in my blog posts but what else is new :) I'm terrible at keeping up with blogging, but it is one of my 2010 business goals to stay current with it! You can all yell at me if I have been neglecting my blog! I recently had a photo session with Haven, I have never seen a baby sleep through so much hustle and bustle and we even tried to wake her up. By the end I got a few sleepy eyed shots.

WPPI - Las Vegas

I have been home now for almost a week and I am still reeling from WPPI. This was my first ever year going to this conference and WOW!!! What a great experience! I went with 3 other great friends and honestly had the best girls trip EVER! I had never been to Vegas before so that was kinda exciting as well, but I soon learned that I wouldn't loose any sleep if I found out I never had to go there again. The amount of information that they fill you with and resources to use is so overwhelming. I have so many things that I'm going to change and so many cool products that I'm going to be implementing to my business. This was a HUGE eye opener to me for what I want for the future of my business, so make sure you stay tuned as I will be blogging more and not just about photo sessions that I have done but also my crazy busy life that mostly consists of life, sports and photography. I know you are thinking LAME but let me tell you, the stories will not be boring!

So while we were at the WPPI conference my friends, Terilee, Vicki and Sophia decided to enter a scavenger hunt contest put on by Finao where the first prize was worth $40,000. We had so much fun putting this together and hunting around some questionable parts of Vegas. Don't get me wrong it was frustrating at times and distracting but in the end we have documented a great memory that can never be erased! Thanks so much ladies for the sore stomach that I went to bed with every night from laughing uncontrollably, I will never forget this!

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And of course I can not post without a photo, here is a photo of all 4 of us at Jasmine Star's Ghetto Fabulous class.

Yoga Challenge

So for those of you who don't know, for the past 25 days I have been doing a yoga challenge, I am coming into my final week and felt that I should share part of my experience. First of all you are probably wondering what the heck is a yoga challenge? Basically in black and white you challenge yourself to take 30 classes in 30 days, but Kathryn, my crazy partner in crime, and I knew that with playing basketball and having a very hectic schedule that 30 days is a row was setting us up for disappointment. We had talked to a couple of teachers in our studio and they told us that the challenge is more of what you challenge yourself to achieve. We decided to do 6 days a week with 1 day off, and after day 26 we are thinking about continuing into March.
About half way through we were told that our practice was so strong that we should be giving our bodies a bigger rest, although that was an amazing compliment, we had a goal in mind and are set to achieve that! I'm actually sad that we only have a week left of our challenge because I don't think that I have ever felt better in my life! I love the bond that both Kathryn and I have built over the past couple of weeks and I don't think that I could have done this without her. She really is a true inspiration and seeing her smiling face at 5:30 in the morning made me remember why I was there!

More to come but for now, I had an inspiring moment and just wanted to share!

And because a photographer's blog would be weird without a picture here is a photo of Kathryn and me at one of our many epic basketball tournaments.

Todd & Joy

So I am finally feeling like I am putting a dent in my backlog of work, here is Todd and Joy. Joy is my cousin and I was an attendee of this wedding, I learned earlier in the season that "taking a break" and leaving my camera at home is not very fun! So for this wedding in Medicine Hat I brought along my trusty pal and made sure to document the day. Here are a few of my shots from their day:














Nevaeh is my second cousin and she just loved dancing, especially in her new kicks!