I’ve been a bad blogger. I actually started a post last week called “Bad Blogger” but then I didn’t finish it, so I’m now a Very Bad Blogger. But now I’ll get better cause there’s lots of fun stuff coming up, and I finished what I’d been working on for the past couple weeks (a new website – yay!!! – it’s not the one connected to this blog (not yet) and is geared for couples and weddings and I’m so excited to finally have it up (even though it isn’t perfect and I’m already thinking of many things to change) but it’s up and live and I feel good)!! That last sentence was full of parentheses I know, but I like parentheses (they’re very handy)!! 
So anyway, I’ve been working on that, I’ve been so so so loving the start of spring, I’ve taken Ferd and Enzo to the park a few times, I’ve been practicing getting faster with manual mode on my camera, and starting tomorrow I’m going to go to the gym 3 times a week to start getting back in shape after sitting on my bum all winter long – for real, I’m going tomorrow and now I’ve put it out there so I can’t not go! And I’m so excited to be getting back outside for photos and can’t wait to start doing engagement sessions (it’ll get greener and prettier soon), and next weekend and the following weekend I’m second shooting with Curtis at weddings and so looking forward to that as well!! And yesterday I took photos at little August’s 1st birthday party (stay tuned for those), on Tuesday morning I have a fun newborn shoot and I can’t wait to meet the little guy, and next weekend I have a fun family shoot and the little kids sound so cute and fun so I’m so looking forward to that as well! Yay!!
Now onto this post!! Last weekend I met Tavia and her wonderful family at Assiniboine Park for some fun family photos!! It was a little colder than we would have liked, but they were so much fun that after the beginning I didn’t even notice it being chilly. Tavia’s kids are all little monkeys and they had me laughing as they climbed literally everything they saw – I have so many climbing photos, I’m going to try to put a number of them in the slideshow but it would be way too long if I put them all in! Nick is the oldest and has some super cool dyed red hair, and he climbed the highest and also showed his cool skateboarding moves. I love the photos of Kaila cause she’s so animated with her expressions – from the not-wanting-her-photo-taken expressions, to the silly expressions, she was so funny. And little Tyler is the baby of the family and he had so much little boy energy and loved his tricycle (which he was so cute on) and trying out his big brother’s skateboard. Nate and Tavia got married a few months ago and they are so cute together, I love all their sweet photos! And I loved Nate’s cowboy hat!! Their dog Carson joined us for some photos, too! I really had such a good time hanging out with the whole family that the time went by really fast. Sometimes I just wanted to hang out and talk instead of taking photos cause I felt like we were all friends! I had so many photos for this post and I had to cut them down and it’s still going to be a long post, but it’s understandable (for me) since there were 5 people so I need a lot of photos here to tell even a part of the story of the day!
Thank you to you all for making my first outdoor shoot of the year so much fun!!! You guys are such a cool family!! Here are lots of my favorites from the day, and CLICK HERE to view a slideshow of photos from the day!
I love this photo of Tavia!!
Here Kaila was trying her hardest NOT to smile!
I love this series!!
I love how cute and natural these next two are!!
Nate reminded me a little of Jesse James – so nice, kind of soft-spoken but still all manly – and that’s such a compliment cause Jesse James is by far my favorite on Celebrity Apprentice!!
Tyler making his eyebrow face, so cute!
Everyone got some photos with Nate’s hat!
Tavia, you look so good in this hat!! I think you need to get one now and then you and Nate can both wear cowboy hats together!
I love this photo of Kaila, she looks so natural and so pretty. And I love the storyboard after it with her different expressions!
The formal looking family photo first, and then the fun one!
Couples laughing and kissing are my absolute favorites!!
Carson giving his mom a kiss!! I love when I catch dog tongues in mid-lick – they look so funny!!
He looks so much like a wolf here!!
by Rebecca Whitney
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