An 8 month old, an expecting Mommy and a family who just added a new baby to their world....what a great day Friday was! Despite this darn heat wave we're in, we managed to get everything done that we needed to and ended up with some great captures in the process. Love my clients and my job!

Weddings and babies. Two of the happiest times of people's lives and can you imagine, I get to be a part of all that almost every weekend??!

Here's a selection of favourites from the past couple of weeks, in and out of the studio:

This beautiful family are not only clients of mine but dear friends. I know I've mentioned it before but Michelle & I met because she was the winner of my very first facebook contest where the winner got a free family shoot. We've been attached at the hip ever since that day and this is truly one of the best parts of my job. It's so rewarding to have such an amazing rapport with so many different people and families, especially with the Marr's.

We've ALL come such a long way in our personal relationship and our working relationship...check out one of their family shots from back in 2007

Now onto this year's captures. Mataya and Westen especially have come leaps and bounds in "liking" me enough and trusting me enough to really work with me. Can't tell you how beautiful it is for me to see that I was able to capture some true, genuine smiles for probably the very first time :)

AND, check out this shot that my sweet daughter captured! Alex has been in photography camp all week and is obviously learning very quickly. I see her passion for photography emerging and it makes my heart smile :)

This beautiful family recently travelled a few hours to come into the Niagara Region for a family reunion/40th anniversary celebration. To help celebrate, they asked me to meet with them to capture some family photos at the beautiful Botanical Gardens in Niagara Falls. Seventeen of them total spent some time in front of my camera and it was such a pleasure getting to know each family a little and then of course capturing some of them all as one big group as well.

I'd like to wish the proud parents and grandparents of this crew a very Happy 40th and I wish you many, many more. Here's some of what we got this past weekend: