HALLOWE'EN

We had a very busy hallowe'en this year.  With two photo sessions and kids to get ready, along with sadly helping our beloved neighbours pack for their move that weekend, our day flew by and before I knew it Ella and Oliver's friends had arrived to head out trick or treating and I hadn't taken one picture of my own kids all day!!  The night before had been an experimental night with my camera and pumpkin carving....I was trying out high ISO and low shutter speeds indoors with no flash and Brock was gettting crazy with our pumkins, making batman for Oli James and Ariel for Ella...needless to say there were one or two maybe even three non kid friendly words muttered under two parents breath, Ariel ended up needing some plastic surgery on her face involving toothpicks and I am not happy with a single picture I took!  But aside from all that, our kids had a blast! I have never seen Oli James so happy....thanks to Shelley for adding the two fake rats to their special treat bags, we have been tormenting Oliver with Percy and Thomas since then....wish I had a picture of Thomas and Percy to add to this post but I don't because someone, who reffered to himself as the only grown up in the house took them away from Ella and I, but even without Thomas and Percy I know Nannie has been patiently waiting to see these so here are Ella the wicked witch of the west and Batman!! along with their friends, Keegan aka Optimus Prime, Maya the Princess riding Unicorn and Owie the Turtle....this was a difficult picture to get hence the crappy quality, the kids were not interested in a group shot at this point, the only things they could think of were candy candy candy!!

A LITTLE SNEAK PEEK....

I met the MacPherson's at Fish Creek Park and had a blast photographing them!! Harper has to be one of the sweetest baby girls ever! She was so easy, smiled, didn't cry once and even let her Mom change her a few times without a complaint!  The last image is my fav from the entire session!

Thanks for having me photograph your family...hope you like these sneaks!

FOR DANA

This just might be my longest blog post ever!  I had such a hard time trying to pick only a few of Curtis to blog...I honestly could have posted all 200 pictures I took of him!!

Curtis' Mom and Dad are good friends of ours and we have been so excited to see Curtis from the moment we heard of his future arrival to the sweet chubby babe he is today!  I love watching Dana and Dustin with Curtis, they are so very much in love with him, you can't help but be in a good mood every  time you step in their front door.  Dana is one of the most relaxed first time Mom's I have ever seen...It all came so easily and naturally to her,she is one great Momma to Curtis!

I was super excited when Dana asked if I wanted to come and shoot these pictures of Curtis.  We had such a good time stuffing him in that pumpkin, by far some of my fav photos to date!!

WE GAVE THANKS....A FEW WEEKS AGO

We were very thankful this thanksgiving and I really wanted to blog some of my fav. parts of the weekend, it was a wonderful weekend, even though we didn't go home we got to spend it with some of our closest friends who have made living so far away from home not as bad as it once was!!

10 Things the Kramp family was thankful for this year....

1. Having Brock home for the weekend
2. Jade, Terrence, Austen Finn and Stella
3. Jade's amazing way of dealing with an uncomfortable situation and helping me to realize its really not that bad.
4. Joey, Elise and Owen
5. A cozy warm house to live in, small but still beautiful and warm while the snow came down outside and big enough to have good friends over for dinner
6. Kris, Shelley, Keegan and Maya
7. 5 happy, healthy kids running around tearing our tiny house apart
8. Our phone so we could phone home to Nannie, Papa and Grama and Grampa
9.  Books to read, because we love good books
10. A family surrounded by love!

ETHAN

Ethan came by with his Mom and good friend Stasia to catch up and have some fun with my new lens!  Ethan's mom, Leslie, Stasia and I went to highschool together on the island and even though we all seem to have moved within 3 hours of eachother don't get to see eachother very often due to busy lives with jobs and kids.  I loved catching up and chatting...topics have certainly changed since highschool with babies and real estate topping the list these days and Ethan was super cute and wanted to touch my lens so badly!!

Thanks for stopping by, and looking beyond my messy house and that I had no tasty treats, or fresh drinks made like I would have liked to! hope these pictures will make up for it!

TYLA & KOHEN

I photographed Tess' kids on the very first snow fall of the year! It was so cold out and I made Tyla and Kohen go stand out in the back yard for some photos....they froze but were troopers and I think it paid off I got some great shots of them...and thanks to Tess for her assistance in getting the kids to smile...this Mom pulled out all the stops for a good picture! It was great photographing you guys....one of my FAV sessions by far!

BABY AVA

I photographed baby Ava's baby shower back at the end of summer and was super excited when Nita wanted to do a newborn session as well. Ava and her Mommy are both so sweet and I had such a good time with them and my "assistant" Elise, it was probably one of the most relaxed session I have ever had, we took a couple pictures, we stopped and nursed, we chatted, we laughed, Ava and I cried a little.....Thanks again Nita and Ava, hopefully you enjoy your pictures....I know there is a photographer in the family which is making me super nervous about these!!