just home from young womens.  michealah and katie helped me figure out this activity.  i had 4 girls so i split them into 2 teams.  one made dessert and the other made a main course.  they had 10.00 to spend on ingredients and 10 minutes at the grocery store to find their ingredients.  before we started i had them tell me different adjectives.  i wrote them down and tore them up and each team had to pick two adjectives.  the dessert girls got crunchy and awkward.  the other girls got slimy and creamy.  uhhhh.....  i was mean because the dessert girls bill came to 10.44 and i wouldn't let them get away with it.  they had to put back something.  haha.  they made awkward crunchy milkshakes with smarties, chocolate ice cream and whipping cream.  the other group made a breakfast sandwich with ham and eggs. (not that slimy or creamy, but pretty tasty)  they were pretty hilarious to watch.

i've been blessed to not feel lousy from my cold during work hours.  maybe i'm too busy to.  but each evening i feel gross and that's when all the violent sneezing that sends cats scrambling out of rooms happens.  today after work i did some haphazard snow maintenance.  but my back was sore from the previous two days of shoveling and i couldn't get too into it.  i came inside and climbed into bed and started working on photos.  but suddenly i was so tired.  like overwhelmingly tired, with a headache and sniffles.  so i gave myself a 30 minute nap and imagined what it would be like if i called in sick tomorrow.  but i know i can't.  but it feels good to contemplate it.

last night i was editing photos and i suddenly realized that i was almost done!  well that made me so giddy that i stayed up late just to finish them off.  now i just have to do karey's reception on the coast and then it's OOOOOOOOOOVER---just like halloween.  it will be a relief to have that not hanging over me anymore.  then it'll just be tatiana and  douglas' october and november shoots to do.  oh and a family shoot for melissa in december.

i can't help it.  i'm boring.  just dig in and settle down for a good daily dose of boring!

yesterday a particularly kooky and lovable member showed up wear a large tan viser.  he had written police in a child like printing on top. he stood there waiting for us to notice him.  lindsay laughed and said "hi police clinton!"  "DON'T call me that!", quipped clinton, "call me constable!"

we had a manager's meeting today.  when we move to our new building in the summer, there will be changes with the units and changes with the staff.  i lose one of my girls.  it makes me sad because we are such a good team right now.  i love the way we are.  i would say it's about perfect.  in the new building i'll also be in charge of all social programs and weekend staff and programs too.  i was supposed to get on more staff but ended up with less than what i was supposed to get.  their first proposal to me was not very good.  i felt like it was a bad deal for us, and i spoke to una about it and she came back to me with at least a concession, so  that is what we are going forward  with.... this all sounds kind of cryptic but that's just on the off chance that someone from work reads this.  because the staff haven't been told yet. that happens next week.

i'll leave you with a few of my faves from karey's bridals.  and just to be clear, when i say 'a few' i mean 'a lot'  but not even close to 'ALL'.

karey wore purple converse with her weddin dress.

 karey had white tulips as her boquet.

karey had her mom with her.

 

 tammy did her hair and make-up

 vicki did everything.  but here she was helping kare with her buttons and jewelry and such.  but really she did everything.  vicki was the best.

 karey's friends see her...nat's face makes me laugh.

 karey's ceremony took place on a farm, on a hill overlooking the calgary skyline in the distance.

the farmer/hot tub nudist drove me and the jp up to the ceremony site in his handy golf cart

so we didn't know if the piper was going to be there or not, until we arrived there ourselves and saw him.

 this is al.  al is karey's love.  this is also me.  i'm in karey's love's sunglasses.  hi!

 karey and her dad are piped in.

they are married!  the jp likes what he sees.

karey's gorgeous niece tory is too cool and the photography takes time out to acknowledge this. roxy is witness.

 groom crows.  bride is victorious.  guests applaud.

photographer incites guests into jumping craziness.  piper is invited to join and piper does not disappoint.

 later when the photographer was editing these photos she notes a flying baby and is overcome with mirth.

 will the photographer ever stop making large and small groups of people jump? probably not.

 karey and her funny, loyal, hard working  best friends

 karey's love al has a love of hawaiian shirts.  she loves him anyways.  and maybe, just maybe in her heart of hearts she loves what her love loves because she loves her love.

 it was a windy bright day and karey's veil was dancing in the wind in perfect ways.

the photographer got dandilion on her dress and rolled on top of rabbit droppings to get these shots and my have flashed her fleshy white thighs more than once.  a short dress is not ideal for photography sessions. 

 this pic is so karey and al and must needs be included.

 photographer forces bride to risk life on highway for the sake of a shot.

thanks for popping by...

 cupcakes

 mr. & mrs.

  i just thought addi and kris looked cute.

 during the toasts...

 first dance... if you enjoy the distribution of paper lanterns by colour and size, you're welcome.  i was in charge of that.

 there was some wild dancing and this is a blurry shot of it.  enjoy.

  this shot says so much.  make your own caption.

 photographer and bride. note that the bride is sunburned because the bride never once in her life has ever learned from sunburns of the past and the groom also forgot to sunscreen and so they were a crispy pair.  a married but a crispy pair.  photographer was not annoyingly condescending about this.

 heather lookin FINE. h, busted her butt helping with this wedding and i really appreciated her selfless example. h is a good pal to have in your corner.  bride has a lot of good friends in her corner on this day.  and aren't wedding celebrations all about surrounding our loved ones with our love on their special days?

woah. suddenly it's july and bride and groom are in a lush rain forest.

 let it be noted that sarah-lynn elizabeth stratton was bride's hair and make-up artist on the coast.

 ok bride and groom are tiny in this shot but photographer is in love with this tree, and this scene.

 photographer has same old tricks she always does. bride and groom each picked a shell that spoke to them, that represented them.  haha photographer enjoys her antics.  groom showed some resistance but buckled to pressures and obviously he inwardly enjoyed his barnacle encrusted, seaweed wisped shell.

 karey chose places meaningful to her.  this is one of her favourite views from her childhood and hometown.  one of photographer's favourite shots.

 love to see what eyes say when they behold their beloved.

and that's all i've got to share today.