well we made it!!! the 12th month of the life story series!!!! i can’t believe i made it the whole year without missing a month!! if you don’t know what the life story series is…well…where have you been?!?!? kidding.. ok you can read about it here.

i wasn’t sure what i would do this month. every life story over the past year i always had some sort of theme..something we would do….that i would try to capture. Some of the other photographers who are participating in this project were saying they didn’t know what to do this month.. i was one of them.. someone simply said “daily life?” i knew that’s what i had to do.. after all isn’t this what life stories are all about.. the mundane daily life and trying to capture it in a way that we will cherish later.. capturing our loved ones as they are..in real life just being them.

so for the last 4 days i’ve done just that.. captured a few moments of the mundane. no special trips to the park or anything particularly fun. just us having an average week… i sort of wish i started a few days earlier and got a whole week. but it is what it is.. capturing insignificant little moments….

moments like waiting for the school bus


hiding in the “fort”

moments like snuggling with max after school


playdates with BFF’s..where little brother gets to join in the fun


digging for dinosaurs

and hockey practice

reading to a friend


bedtime snacks

and 2 naughty cats playing with a new.. very large toy

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now please click on this link and head on over to Heather Wilson’s blog and check out her life story for this month!!!

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i can’t believe this is the 11th month of the life story series. incase you don’t know what that is all about well i’m participating in a monthly project with a few amazing photographers.. it’s a big blog circle and at the end of my post you can click the link to the next photographer in the circle. each month we share images of our own family…just being them. we take the time to capture moments big or small that we might not of normally pulled the camera out to capture.

This month i am sharing our annual trip to my parents cottage. we always have a fun time when we are up there.. there is so much to see and do and there is also a lot of relaxing and down time.

Though i did pull out my big camera here and there most of my images were shot with my new lumix.. it is so nice to have a smaller more portable camera other then my cell phone!! There are a lot of pictures… consider yourself warned! and make sure you click on the link at the end of the post to see the beautiful work of the amazingly talented Taryn Chrapkowski.

now it’s time to continue on the circle… so please click this link and head over to see the beautiful work of my friend Taryn over at Taryn Lisa Photography.

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need a reminder as to what the life story series is… click here

i’ve had a frame on my mantel over my fireplace for almost 2 years now.. it’s been empty up until a couple months ago.  i really wanted a image of my three kids snuggled up.  is that too much to ask? Yes i guess it is cause it took me almost 2 years to get lol.  my kids are pretty much over me taking their picture.. they’ve endured a lot.  and my middle son especially gives me such a hard time.. just look at the camera buddy and smile.. really just one second of a smile is all i need.. nope not happening

Sure they are not all looking and smiling perfect at me. but i love it. i love that he decided to be a tease and give her a kiss.. without me asking him too.  i love that i was able to capture a real moment. that i kept my annoyance inside and just let him be a goof and waited and waited for the right moment.

now click on the link to see the wonderful work of Laura Morita Yeun.  she is super talented and i always look forward to her blog posts!!!

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