Owen Sound Fall Fair

Posted by: Christy

Wow, I've made it to the fall photos...and it is only February! My Dad, his girlfriend Joanne, my niece and nephew, Trevor, Madeline and I all spent an evening at the fall fair. The big attraction was the demolition derby but we also spent some time on rides and playing games.

I'm not big on rides, you would never get me on this one!


Dad and Elizabeth....


vs. Trevor and Keith, I'm not sure if either team won.


Joanne and Maddie watching the carnage.






Dad, Joanne and the kids spent the night in a camper van outside our place...I'm sure everyone got lots of sleep that night with all the sugar we took in earlier.

A few shots from outside the camper as I was heading out to shoot an engagement session.

Christmas Traditions Contest Winner!

Posted by: Christy...photos by Melissa & Christy

The winners of our first Christmas Traditions contest were a group from Shelburne, Ontario. Kit & Steve organize a mass Gingerbread house decorating evening at a local school. They go out and purchase all the parts, all the icing and all the candy bits, yummmm....did I mention that I am pregnant. They even help you assemble the house and then leave it to you to decorate with all the goodies. Here are just a few photos from this years event.





There were some hard choices to be made in the candy zone.










Steve has a special process to build the houses...not icing but melted sugar to glue them together.






Serious concentration...actually I think he just hated having the camera in his face.




The organizers Steve & Kit with the builders in behind.


Thanks for having us...thanks for the road candy too!!!

For those that were there and want to see all the photos I'll be uploading them and emailing you soon with a link.

Apple picking with Val

Posted by: Christy

Madeline has the best babysitter on earth! Val and the crew spent a day at an apple orchard and petting zoo, Madz had a blast. She was so cute with her little bag of apples that we had to do a photoshoot. She dragged the apples all the way home...the ones on the bottom didn't do so well.




One of my favourite photos of my little diva!

Family Vacation to Sundrige, Ontario

Posted by: Christy

With a long weekend off we had to come up with a plan! For the Labour Day weekend we headed north to spend some time with my cousin Jeff and his fiance Shannon. While there we had some four-wheeling fun with Madeline!




We took a day trip into our family hunt camp...way back in the bush. This is one of the nice viewpoints on the side of the trail.




Maddog trying to figure out what was above the door.






Our family camp, very rustic....the wire is on the windows to keep the bears out.


Another day during our visit we went to scout locations to do Jeff and Shannon's wedding photos. They are getting hitched this coming August.

BUG

Posted by: Christy

More photos from the summer, while my brother John was here to visit. This is "BUG" we kept a caterpillar captive for a few weeks to see the transformation. I kept trying to get Madeline to name her pet but all she wanted to call him/her was Bug, so its name was Bug. These are some photos of us releasing Bug.






She didn't want to touch Bug so we had to put it on a stick for her to carry around.




Another of our little friends, lets call him Gigantic Spider!


Some playtime in the sandbox with Uncle John.






Some swinging with Daddy on her new swing/slide/play thing that he made for her.