While playing inside this morning the boys noticed some people tobogganing on the hill out back. Right away Brandon asked if they could go “bogganing”. I asked them if they would like to go out before lunch and Owen added “yeah we can go bogganing, have lunch and then hot chocolate because it’s cold outside”, ha ha. They were so excited that it was no longer Siberia like temperatures and we could get out to enjoy some fresh winter air, and I have to admit the idea of tobogganing sounded sweet!

I did not get any pictures of the actual tobogganing because I was riding the sled with them but I did catch them enjoying the warm cup of mini marshmallow infused cocoa.

Of course Brandon loves showing off his moustache, maybe he could “grow” one of these bad boys next Movember.

I hope you all were able to get outside this weekend and enjoy some beautiful Alberta winter weather!

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I hope everyone had an awesome Christmas! I thought that I would take a moment to share some of my favourite snapshots from Christmas day, it was a crazy hectic day that saw us start opening gifts at about 6:00am and wrapping the day up around midnight…

Lately Owen has been giving this look when he wears his glasses, he pulls them down and peeks over the top, too cute!

Brandon has also been rocking a look of his own lately, albeit a little sassy!

We did manage to get a couple serious ones out of them though.

Santa even remembered to bring something for Kosmo, the boys thought that was great!

A big hit for the boys was a craft table that they got, they absolutely love doing arts and crafts. I secretly, well I guess not so secret now, wish that I had one of these bad boys when I was a kid.

A little later Owen got even more creative with one of the seats from the craft table. It became his surf board and he was pretenting to paddle out to catch a wave. Lets hope he does not get any crazy ideas about heading to Mavericks in California or Jaws in Hawaii

Of course after a big morning Brandon took a much needed rest to recharge himself for his um evening performance…

Now that he was all rested up he was ready to put on a performance, and what a performer he was!

A turkey family photo tradition…

Toss in a self portrait for good measure.

This must have been a pretty intense moment in Cars 2… I just liked how Aunty D and Uncle Jim sat on the tiny benches with the boys

And Aunty Claudette should know better than to make silly faces at the camera, that kind of thing will land you on the old blog! ha ha.

Happy Holidays, I hope you all have a fantasic new year!

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for·tu·i·tous

Adjective:

• 1. Happening by accident or chance rather than design.
• 2. Happening by a lucky chance; fortunate.

I thought that Fortuitous Friday had a better ring to it that Random Friday…

What better way to start the weekend than to share some pretty pictures that happened to be taken during some important outings over this past summer. It is also a great time to reflect on this past summer as we head further into fall and colder weather.

Alberta Railway museum

There was a typewriter in one of the rail cars that the kids loved. They recognized right away the “keyboard” layout but wondered where the rest of the “computer” was.

Number 5, my personal fav number, from a mailbag that was in one of the mail cars.

Many a hot day this summer was spent making/blowing bubbles and having ice cream on the driveway. What better way to spend a hot summer day that making bubbles and eating ice cream?

Crazy about a mercury… at the Praire Garden & Adventure Farm. This place was lots of fun and there was so much to see and do, we could have went several times this summer if we had more time…

The Praire Gardens had a pirate theme throughout a lot of it, so of course they needed to have their own parrot, at least I think it is a parrot of sorts

Rain covered roses, with all the rain that we had this summer it was not hard to find these!

3 tree “finger print” mural… that is now a grey painted wall… It is unfortunate that some graffiti cannot be left up.

So long summer, we had a blast and will miss you but we will see ya next year!

Happy Friday everyone!

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I was asked by a friend if I would be interested in photographing a Fundraising golf tournament. When I was told it was for a 6 year old who has Spinal Muscular Atrophy I was honored to have the opportunity to help out. This was the 3rd Annual Pyper Pro AM and was hosted at the Edmonton Petroleum Golf and Country Club.

After a little warm up the golfing got underway.

It was a gorgeous fall day at the Edmonton Petroleum Golf and Country Club

This is such a beautiful golf course, the views all around were simply stunning!

I love these pants, you think Angela would be caught in public with me if I wore them?

As the sun got low and the golf neared the end I was a little sad to see the day go…

I had such a great time, the day was filled with competition, camaraderie, hope, and emotion, and generosity!

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Brandon got a big kid bike for his 3rd birthday, his first two wheel bicycle. He was super excited because now he had a big boy bike just like Owen’s and wanted to ride it right away. He did a “lap” in the living room, just like Owen did when he got his bike but of course you have to go outside to do any real riding!

Brandon needed a little help figuring out the pedals, of course grandma K was very helpful in showing Brandon how to push with his feet.

Once he got the lesson in how to pedal he laid tracks with his pants on backwards and Owen in pursuit!

Of course Owen has a little more practice than Brandon riding a two wheeler so he has started standing to pedal faster and has incorporated some stunt riding.

With more experience Owen soon took the lead, but Brandon dug down and gave it his all so that he could keep up, with a little push from mom of course!

Like any young protege Brandon did not take long to figure out how to do a little stunting of his own. Check out my two Evil Kenevils

After a long ride and the odd crash Brandon needed a little extra encouragement from Owen to make it home, again. Brothers are the best hey!

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This year Angela planted a vegetable garden for the first time and I have to say it was awesome! We had lots of fresh veggies all summer long. She also planted sunflowers early in the year and while they did grow super duper tall, they did not flower until just recently. She was worried, and so was I for the kids sake , that they would not flower at all this year.

I think they turned out amazing!

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Today Brandon turns 3 years old, Happy Birthday Brandon! We wanted to take some pictures to mark another milestone for Brandon, it has sort of become a tradition of ours and we did a studio shoot for Owen’s 4th birthday. We started off at the Enjoy Centre in St. Albert but it was pretty busy inside and there was not much to work with outside, well at least not much where we could convince Brandon to sit still long enough to compose a shot. There was just too much room to roam.

This was my favorite shot from the Enjoy Centre, Brandon recently got these pair of boots that he is so proud of and loves wearing.

Next up was a quick stop at the Grain Elevator park in St. Albert. This place was awesome, we got a quick tour of a grain elevator that was built in the early 1900′s. It was pretty amazing to see and even Brandon was pretty interested in what the guide had to say! Of course walking around all the farm equipment Brandon noticed all the bugs and cobwebs and needed a little extra reassurance from mom, nothing a little hand holding could not help. Brandon loves holding mommy or daddy’s hand right now, so cool.

After the Enjoy Centre and Grain Elevator Park we headed into Red Willow Park also hoping to find something to keep Brandon occupied so I could sneek some photos. You see when you are 3 and you have an older brother who is 4 there is no way you can sit for a moment, you have got to make the most of your time… Luckily we found some trees that Brandon liked leaning on and peeking through to see what mom, dad, aunty, and brother Owen were up to! Cross the straight shot off the list. I give you the many faces of Brandon at 3.

Brandon has really grown into quite the little man, um I mean big man, these last few months. He uses words a lot more to express his feelings, he shares more with his friends, and he loves telling stories that can go on and on. He has such an amazing imagination!

And of course lets not forget his best friend in the whole world right now. Brandon loves to play dress up and role play and act out all kinds of things, and who better to share this with than his older brother Owen!

Check out Angela’s post for more pictures and details about Brandon at 3.

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Things have been pretty crazy around here and I am getting behind onn posting, tsk tsk… I have lots to share coming real soon, a couple weddings, portrait sessions, and some family holiday photos as well so as soon as I get caught up a little there will be lots of posts coming your way. Until then I will leave you with these snapshots of the boys wearing their super cool aviator sunglasses. We got them hoping we could do a cool photo session with the boys using them as the base for styling, but alas have not got to it yet Owen would not sit still for a second and would not come close to me so his photo is a little blurry and heavily cropped. Brandon on the other hand got so close the camera almost could not focus on him. I had to ask him to back up just a bit. Ha ha, brothers at times they can be polar opposites!

Check back in a day or two and I should have the full post from Janna + Martin’s wedding!

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We took the boys to Sesame Street Live: Elmo’s Healthy Heroes at Rexall Place on Saturday and the tickets included gate admission to the Capital X as well. While we waited for Aunty Claudette and Grandma Korsan the boys played around the statue of Wayne Gretzky one of the greatest hockey players of all time who played for the Edmonton Oilers from 1979-1988. I love this photo because even though the boys are just playing around it looks like they are taking a moment and praying to the hockey gods for greatness!

Sesame Street was better than I was expecting, actually it was quite good! This is pretty much the only photo I took because security came and told me no “professional, detachable lens cameras were allowed”. I asked if it indicated that on the tickets as I had not read them and he said indeed it did, in fact NO CAMERAS were allowed. I reluctantly put my camera away so as not to be asked to leave but could not help but laugh at the fact that hundrends of other cameras were clicking away with flashes going off.

After Sesame Street we headed to the Capital X for some lunch and rides. After lunch we started off easy on the Carousel.

Brandon wanted to ride the bumble bees but Owen wanted to ride the motorcycles so we split up to wait in lines. While Brandon loved the bumble bee mom did not look as thrilled, at least not in this photo

Owen started off great on the ride all by himself, all smiles and happy!

but once it started going he put his head down in his hands and slumped over the handlebars… I was worried that he banged his face on the bars going over the “jumps”. I was even more worried that as the ride jerked and spun that he would continue to bang his face if he did not lift it up! I hollered for him to lift his head and when he looked up he was not crying or hurt but he was no longer smiling. After he got off the ride he told me that he did not want us to cheer for him on the motorcycle… Ahhh I felt so bad, we embarrassed him with all our cheering him on. Maybe the pom poms were a bit too much So sweet!

We took a break from ride time and played a few games. Both Owen and Brandon seemed to like the games even more than the rides, expecially since they could win prizes playing the games!

And what sweet music to our ears the prizes were!

By this time the clouds had rolled in and some showers started but soon fizzled and we went back for a couple last rides before home time.

Owen and Brandon had a ball in this jeep, they were talking and gesturing the whole time. I imagine this is what they will be like once they get their hands on mom and dads car in a few years. Cruising around with the music blaring waving to all the girls. “How you doin’?” I guess we better start saving for a convertible!

The roller coaster was last on the list of rides and the boys wanted Aunty Claudette and mom to take them so no rides for dad this year, which was fine because I did notice the sign behind the coaster. CRASH, did not seem like the thing I wanted to read or see just before we took the plunge from the top! Of course the ride ended without incident and Owen seemed genuinely pumped from the experience, either because he had fun or he too read the sign and was relieved it did not come to a CRASH.

At the end of a long day we all piled into the van and headed for home, bellies full, rides riden, and games played. See you next year Capital X!

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The weather has been pretty hot the last few days and the boys wanted to have an ice cream cone because “it is sooo hot outside”. Owen is getting pretty skilled at eating an ice cream cone but Brandon is still working on his mastery of cone consumption.

I asked Owen how come he had ice cream on his tongue.

He mater of factly told me it was “because i’m lickin it!”

Brandon is managing to eat ice cream cones on his own now which is terrific.

But with technique like this… It is no wonder he ends up with a chocolate goatee.

At least it was neat and tidy and somewhat even.

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