The way I see it.

School days....

....are back in full swing AND now all of my kids are in school.  Crazy!  I can't believe how old I am, I can't believe how old they are, I can't believe how time has just flown by!  Kylin started Grade 4, Daegen is in Grade 2 and Kiella officially just started and is in pre-school.  Of course I had to capture (or at least try to) their first day.  I've seen tons of blog post of "the first day" with all these super cute kids, all excited to be going AND to be getting their picture taken.  It was like that for my youngest, and pretty good for my middle but not so much so for the oldest, I think it's getting a little old for her now lol.  Only 8 more years to go! hahaha :)

Get everything in the truck!

I like this one of Daegen, is looks like he's going so fast....almost like a speed skating stance lol.

And the look I got when I made Kylin stop outside the school.  Check out those eyebrows lol.

Daegen inherited these eyes from my Mom I believe (my bro and I also have them).  Looks like he's ready to go back to bed!

And just one of Kiella, "it's not fair" is what I was told since she didn't get to start on the same day.

BUT she got to start yesterday and she was more than excited!!  There will be no worries about her being left at the school alone without Mommy, she'll probably be pushing me out the door tomorrow morning for her first day alone.

Kiella's first day of school EVER. :)

She RAN to the front door!

Just like her big sister, the first thing she did was headed over to the painting center.

Then onto the craft table, the sand box, and then the play dough.

And then the perfect end to a wonderul 4 yr old day with a sticker for your hand. :)

And now after the awesome break I've had over the last little while, I'll be back working full swing again this weekend!!  Maternity session coming soon!!

Happy Birthday Kylin!!

Sigh, my babies are growing up.  Kylin had her first sleep over birthday party friday night.  I wasn't sure how it would go....ok, to be completely honest, I thought it was gonna be insanely crazy and I'd never want to do it again! lol  BUT it went extremely well.  I picked up 4 extra girls from school on friday, we gobbled up some hot dogs for dinner and went into Calgary to see Space Chimps (which was better than I thought too, lots of adult humour lol).  So on the way home a song came on the radio that I know all the girls love so I cranked it up.  When I got to a stop light I could feel the whole truck rocking from the girls singing and dancing in their seats lol.  I thought to myself, "I should play this song when we get home and get out the old point and shoot and take a video of them all dancing!"....and then an even brighter light bulb went on!!...I knew exactly what I wanted to do!!!  I couldn't wait to get home now and give it a try. So home we came for cake and presents.  A house full of crazy 9 yr olds, a pile of blankets in the living room, some crazy tunes, staying up 'til 3:00am and 1333 images later I came up with this stop motion video :)  This was all done with a camera and NOT a video camera.  I hope you all love it as much as I do.  It was actually a blast hanging out with five, 9 year old girls for the evening. Happy BIrthday Kylin. You are growing up so quickly. I love you!♥

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*I feel the need to add my own little disclaimer, I had a hard time placing this song with my daughter's bday slideshow, I don't really like the sexy parts added to her images BUT this was THE song, the song they all listened to over and over again all throughout the night, the song they are all dancing to in the slideshow, SO it just had to be, it wouldn't have been the same with another song.  I hope this little show will be awesome memories for all the girls when they are older :)  

**And a HUGE special thanks to John Michael Cooper from Alt F and Marmalade Photography for the inspiration.