Happy 1st Birthday Party Addison!

A couple days after her 1 year family portraits and cake smash, I documented Addison's first birthday party! Did you know when you book a portrait session, you can add event package B to your portrait package and I will waive the Event Collection Booking Fee? So you will save $295! Adding the documentation of an event so close to an important portrait session (such as your child's first birthday) is a great way to grab moments of the whole entire family and circle of friends because those people are all part of the story too. Needless to say, adding the documentation of the first birthday party is very popular with the 1 year olds. And especially popular with my birth and newborn clients, as Addison here is, (see Good Morning Addison + Six Day Old Addison). 

On top of adding an event session, we also added an Event Documentary! These sweet films are a hot new item that I offer to both event and portrait sessions. They're adorable mini documentaries. They're the perfect keepsake. Here, watch Addison's film by pressing play:

So cute right? I really love making these films!

Now here's a collection of my favourite pictures from Addi's super fun party because of course we also took soooo many pictures. 

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Women's March on Washington - Toronto

Today we were almost 60,000 strong, and that was in Toronto alone! It was a beautiful day full of hope and peace. It was rather overwhelming being among so many people that only want love and equality and equity for everyone. I am so glad I decided to bring my camera!

Now what? Well, the fight certainly does end here. Head on over to https://www.womensmarch.com to join the 10 actions 100 days campaign.  We need to continue to push for change and it works best if we stand together because there's power in number. We saw that yesterday. 

Adventures of Queen Adelaide & Moth

The day started with costume day at school. Adelaide dressed as a super fairy princess, and Audrey a Moth. 

Well, at the end of the day Adelaide wasn't very happy with her costume. She said everyone was making fun of her and calling her the tooth fairy and she was not a tooth fairy. Now, I'm sure by "everyone" she means a few people, but nonetheless, she clearly was no longer feeling her costume. So, I told her that when she was 5 days old that we still didn't have a name for her, and then Julian came across the name Adelaide which was the name of a German princess who married a British prince named William and later became queen. Queen Adelaide's birthday was August 13th, the same as my mothers and my daughter Adelaide was born on my mothers mothers birthday! So, now it was easily decided, she was going as Queen Adelaide. With a half fast hemming job, boom, she had a beautiful gown to wear for the night! 

After stopping at our friend Mala's house who gave the girls sweet and a book, (a book which just so happened to be my very favourite book when I was in grade 1, no joke) we saw the beautiful sun set and then headed out in to the night! 

I must admit, it was a hard year to photograph because there were so many kids out and of course I try to avoid taking pictures of other kids out of respect...unless a parents asks me to snap one, which definitely happens. However, too many children trick or treating is nothing to complain about. It was so nice to see especially when I hear so many people say that they have less and less kids each year. Well the girls collected so much candy! And there was a noticeable difference in the amount of Nestle products this year in my 'hood! Way way less!!! Go team!!