Monthly Archives: February 2012
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MOVING DAY.
27 Feb 2012Today Adam & I enter the scary, exciting, grown-up world of home-ownership. We’ve been happily living in a sea of cardboard boxes and unfolded laundry for the past couple weeks in anticipation for this big move. Over the next few days we’ll be shifting over and settling into our very own townhouse. Adam is excited to have a full-sized kitchen and his very own garage while I am looking forward to top-to-bottom hardwood floors and an office which is not also a guestroom and ski boot storage room…just my office, down on the first floor tucked away from our living area, a true workspace. I’m also anxious to finally have place that is all ours…I have some pretty interesting home improvement ideas up my sleeve once we get settled in. If you follow me on Pinterest you surely will have noticed that I’ve been extra enthusiastic with my “pinning” habbits here & here & here & here. [I'm pretty sure my husband would like to outlaw my pinning ability.]
For those of you smarty pants out there who have been speculating: “KIDS NEXT?” Yeah, probably…but not anytime soon, so drop it
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SHANN’S FAMILY.
23 Feb 2012From a young age, my parents instilled a deep-rooted love of the mountains in my upbringing. Despite being a hard-working honors student all the way through school, the only thing that really interested me immediately after graduation was a life very different than what I had grown up with. This meant moving out to the Rockies, getting a job as a liftie [seriously.] and living in staff accommodation right up on the ski hill. My family supported my aspirations to the fullest – so long as I enrolled in university for the following year. DEAL.
On my first day as a liftie, I met an Aussie gal named Shann. I was a very young 18 year-old, fresh off the rural Albertan farm with hair dyed the color of ketchup chips [why Julie, WHY!?] Shann was much older than me, like 22, and we ended up being roommates in that dirty little dorm room up on the mountain. It didn’t take long before we became pretty good friends and because of her seniority, I called her Mumma Shann – probably not the nickname she was expecting to receive during her one year working holiday overseas.
Despite the living conditions being less than sub-par and the job not quite as exciting as I’d envisioned, the years [yes...it took me a few extra years than I'd promised my parents to finally buckle down, quit the ski scene and head back to school] I spent in the snow biz are some of my fondest memories. I made some incredible friends, learned countless lessons…and always got a daily two hour ski break.
Like many friends from this part of my life, Shann & I have stayed in touch. We got together on my first trip to the southern hemisphere several years ago and was lucky she was keen to host me again on my most recent visit. She’s now married to a pretty cool guy named Leigh, they’re building a house in the town where she grew up and best of all, Mumma Shann is actually a Mum! Just over a year ago, Mr. Zach arrived. I think my 18-year old antics were good practice for Shann because she is a heck of a mum to this little guy.
These photos were taken at their beach. Shann and Leigh are both very involved with the local surf club, I’m quite confident little Zach will spend a bit of time at this beach during his childhood.
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LAUREN+JUSTIN.
22 Feb 2012It was about -25C this day. You’d never know from the lack of pain visible on Lauren & Justin’s faces. When shooting in less than ideal weather, I always tell my clients that they won’t even remember how cold they felt and it’d be all worth it at the end of the session…perhaps this may have been one of those cases when that statement was a tad far-fetched?
