So one Saturday afternoon I met up with Jamie and some of her friends downtown for the big shoot!  Much to my dismay it started to POUR just as we met downtown  So we headed to the Millennium Library as our back up plan, but the time we got there it had stopped raining, so we took advantage of it and shot around outside for a bit.  Then went inside for a quick wardrobe change and….it started to rain AGAIN!  So we shot a bit inside and then when it stopped raining we finished up outside.  I took a tonne of photos that day but for now here are some of the birthday girl

Hutch is the sweetest and most kind girl you will ever meet.  Kinda of shy at first, but not shy at all when you get to know her!  She’s always up for chicken fingers at Grapes or pizza at Pasquales, she will travel anywhere to see a good concert (namely Justin Timberlake or John Mayer), she will go crazy if she eats McDonalds or has Caffeine, she’s okay with turning the heat to MAX in a hotel room, she is dedicated to any activities she joins (especially swim teams!) and she can dress in layers like nobody’s business!  Hutch is the kind of friend who is ALWAYS there for you, will always listen to you vent and is always thinking of others!

So….what was in that big yellow envelope?  Rolling Stone Magazine.  And not just any Rolling Stone Magazine, the very hard to find in Winnipeg Rolling Stone with John Mayer on the cover.  It made my day!!  Hutch, JM and I go waay back.  On Saturday I asked Hutch to type out the Rolling Stone article so I could read it all (lol), I guess she figured getting me my own copy was easier

This past Saturday when it was very stormy outside, Hutch and I found shelter inside the Millennium Library and we took some photos and chatted over drinks and snacks.  Here’s the first bit of our fun shoot!

As always it was a pleasure to spend time with you beautiful girls!!

I can’t say enough what a pleasure it was to photograph these two girls!  They were so sweet and it was so much fun to watch them laugh and goof off together like I do with my best friends.  They were SO comfortable being themselves in front of the camera making the job of photographing them SO easy!  

Kara….thank-you so much for dreaming up this grand idea together with me, from the moment we sat for dinner that one night and schemed up this great theme I knew it was going to be nothing but an outstanding day!  I feel so privileged to have been able to shoot with you…you inspire me to think outside of the box and challenge myself!  I think it was so perfect that this contest was themed around friendship because your friendship is something I value SO MUCH!

On to some photos….and a slide show at the end of the post…ENJOY! Click here for Kara’s photos!!

P.S. Thanks to the amazing Genevieve (the creative genius behind my blog and logo!) who helped me fix my blog today when I had thought I broke it!

Just a little history about this house…this is the house my dad grew up in.  When we were kids him and my uncle used to always tell me and my cousins “if you move to the village you can have a pool”  we only realized later in life the “pool” was the watering hole in the back of the yard that the cows drink from.  I think my dad thought I was crazy when I told him I was going to do a shoot at the house.  When I got home from the shoot I proudly showed him the pictures and proclaimed to him that “there were even no mice!”  to which he replied…”you just didn’t see any” lol.  Anways…here’s the full sneek peak for Lucy.

We’d rather pose by the kitchen sink than do dishes in it!

Love sunshine!

Lucy spontaneously struck this pose as she was coming down the stairs and i’m so glad she did, I love how this one turned out!!

How cute is she?!