Nayanna Arts

A while ago too apparently! I don,t seem to be getting my blog mails lately, gotta take note of that

The very talented Alana McClure has tagged me! Yep, I still play tag LOL

The rules are as follows:

RULES:

1. Link the person who tagged you

2. Mention the rules on your blog

3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours

4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them & leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they have been tagged.

Now what to list….

1. Well for my part, I’m FRENCH Canadien

2. I LOVE Chocolate, I can eat dried Cocoa (hides face in shame)

3. I HAVE to, HAVE to check the corners of my bedroom for spiders before I close the light, else I have to turn ‘em back on to check!

4. I love the smell of my youngest hair and can be seen smelling it often

5. I’m a BIG Sci-Fi fan, I don’t dress up or anything, but I don’t think that’s too weird (for others) either

6. I’ve never lived in any one place longer than 6 years, that’s my record so far.

Andrea Burns

Kim Prochazka

Sarah Petrie

Sindea Horste

Kimberly Smith

Cynthia Lynn

And how can I not post a couple of my precious girls, right?

We’ve been apple picking this year

World, meet Sienna, a wonderfully laid back little girl with personality She doesn’t have much choice being the little sister to a very active and confident big sister She was a great combination of awake and asleep and Mom and Dad we’re a pleasure as before (remember the Bitton Family?) It was a blast and I had WAY too much fun and too much to choose from :)I can’t wait for them to see their images tomorrow morning, for now, we’ll all have to make due with this sneak peek

Presenting a new addition, Mr. Edmond Trottier He was a character, let me tell you. Very “awake” for a 7 day old! I got there and he was sound asleep and after too much chatting and nursing, he woke up completely when we decided to start. Oh well, not all babies are meant for that asleep look. I DID get a few, but you’ll have to wait Here’s a little sneak peek:

I had the IMMENSE pleasure to go photograph the international fireworks competition last night, starts at 10pm and lasts all of a half hour, but WOW, what a half hour! This morning though, my undereye bags have bags of their own But it was SO worth it! I met up (through meet-up groups lol) with Montreal’s Shutterbug Group and met 4-5 other members and had a blast. They we’re each so fun to chat with and I got some new tips and pointers to jazz up my shooting and I hope they each came away with something too I would have loved to photograph the people around me, but we we’re too far for the fireworks to illuminate the people enough, well, for my current lenses anyway, they kept hunting for focus… oh well, still got a lot of amazing shots and would you believe they we’re all handheld?! Well, I won’t post the badly shaky ones… well, maybe one! lol

Old Port Fountain

Camera shake that WORKS ;)

Love the colors

The show you can see when you are ON site

Green burst reflection

Twin hearts

This is what Id call my clearest image of the night :D

The moon and its reflection on the Saint-Laurence

The Old Port Clock Tower we were shooting from

The line up to get out of the parking lot we walked through, CRAZY!

Thus why I took the Metro to and from ;)

I had the great opportunity to photograph this wonderful family, I felt so much at home at some point I told little Laurie I was going outside, but said “mommy’s going outside”!! She reminds me SO much of my own little toddler! They we’re adorable and that little princess of theirs was just so precious I wanted to keep her But don’t take MY word for it…

Les deux premières photos ont été prise le 23.
Nous avons fait un picnic au parc. petite anecdote… un peu drôle…
Gabrielle s’est réveillé de sa sieste si tard (elle a dormi 3 heures!) ce
qui m’a complètement mêlée, je PENSAIT qu’il n’était que 16h (j’avais
regardé rapidement notre superbe horloge sans chiffre) et j’ai dit “pourquoi
pas!”, allons au parc. Comme les filles mettaient leurs souliers et
chapeaux, j’ai jeté un coup d’oeil à la minuterie du micro-onde et j’ai vu
qu’elle indiquait 4:50pm. um, oops! Comme je commençais à leur dire qu’on
pourrait pas y aller, j’ai vu la visage d’Évelyne tomber… elle a été
assez malade dernièrement (infections d’oreilles double, rhume, toux grasse)
qu’on a pu profiter assez du beau temps à son goût. Alors, tout en pensant
rapidement, je leur ai annoncé qu’on s’en allait picnicquer au parc! Oui
madame! Les deux étaient folles de joie.

Les deux suivantes on probablement besoin d’un peu plus d’histoire Nous
avons fait une vente de garage la fin de semaine derniere. Nous avons reussi
à vendre la plupart des grosses choses et quelques petits items, mais la
plupart du linge de bébé nous est resté. DONC’ Yannick a rempli quatre sacs
de poubelle vert pour qu’on puisse les déposer dans le bac a linge pour
familles dans le besoin. Ahem, Evelyne s’est imaginé autre chose à faire
avec ses sacs… Toutes deux ont tirés les sacs partout dans la maison,
ensuite les ont utilisé comme “bean-bags” et finalement se sont devenu des
glissades! J’ai même un vidéo à montrer que je rajouterai d’ici peu.

Finalement, nous avons également eu de la visite au souper Evelyne s’est
écrier qu’il y avait un chat dans l’arbre… en 3 ans, j’ai vu bien des
chats passé dans noter cours, mais jamais j’en est vu un dans le sapin!
J’étais bien intrigué! À ma surprise, se n’était pas un chat, mais un raton
laveur qui s’y promenait! J’ai bien essayer de prendre des photos décente de
notre ami, mais je n’avait que notre petite appareil photo de voyage et je
savais que si je prenais le temps de chercher mon autre caméra, il serait
déjà parti Il n’était pas très gêner non-plus, même que il s’est
rapprocher alors moi je suis retourné sur le patio et à l’intérieur. Il a
finalement décider de continuer son chemin…

C’est à peu prêt tous ce qui s’est passé chez nous pour la St-Jean. Pas de
feu d’artifice ici En fait, pas de bière non-plus, quelqu’un a décidé de
boire les deux dernière Dimanche pour l’aider à dormir “plus tôt”… Bon,
alors il devait se réveiller à 3h pour son vol lundi matin, disons que
c’était une bonne raison lol

Yep, we did it, we tired her out! One minute she’s eating her carrots
straight from table to mouth (look ma! no hands!!) and the other she’s sound
asleep! Funny girl! That’s what you get for going to bed late and still
being up with the birds

Just a little blurb to say how truly thankful I am for the men in my life.

Happy father’s day Dude! You are so thoughtful and gentle, I love how you look out for me when I’m not looking where I step, how you want to spend all this time with my girls and not miss out on their little firsts Yes, you can give them something wickedly sweet for Halloween’s this year I know they will adore you to no end and will always cherish those moments that you take to show them how to feed the hens or how to get their hands dirty to do something themselves

Happy father’s day Ronald! I’m so grateful to have a fantastic father-in-law who loves to photograph his grandchildren as much and keep all those little moments alive with them. I love that you are so open to art, music, gardening and always willing to come pitch in to help us get stuff done around our house. Your help is always very appreciated

And last but not least, Happy WONDERFUL Father’s day to my darling husband, who truly is a super-dad. For as much as you are far from us for work, you are doubly here to help and care for us the women in your life. We miss you so very much when you are away because we love you so very much. You are always so caring and willing to do more than your share if only to lighten the burden of my days and get in some extra brownie points Your daughters love you and they really do respect you, especially when they are testing your limits; they do so BECAUSE they love you and BECAUSE they respect you so. Their eyes light up at the mention of your return from work at the end of the day, they can hardly stand themselves when I say you are 5 minutes away from home We love you so much you could never truly know… Happy Fathers day.

It’s that time of year, end of the school year… lots of graduations, parties, etc…

As it is, Evelyne was in preschool for the first time this year (actually, she still has three days left, Monday, Wednesday and some sort of theater party Thursday). She’s graduating, but at the same time not… see, I started her in preschool this year because I KNOW she needed the outside interaction. She needed to see other kids and although there are a lot of home based daycares around here, I knew that with a new little one, we’d not get out much,e specially during the winter months. SO, last year we enrolled her in preschool (it’s just a couple blocks away from home) and she’s about to finish her first year. Now that said, she’s also born in October and the way the schools are set up around here, the age cut-off falls at the end of September… meaning, she’ll start school when she’s 5… and will turn 6 the following month. Some parents would want to have a derogation (right word) done and get their kids in a year early, but not me. I think being the eldest/tallest will actually boost her self confidence, not that’s it’s “low” now, but she’s a very shy and introvert little girl when she’s not home. When she IS home, it’s a whole other story. She’s quite the extrovert let me tell you… Long story short, although she’s “graduating”, she’s not. She’ll stay with her favorite teacher another year and most of her little friends will iekly move on to the older class. That said, quite a few others are younger even than she, so she won’t be the only one taking Miss Nathalie’s class again next year. So I’m not entirely worried

On another front, both girls had swim lessons with the red cross this spring and although Gabrielle did fantastically, she’s still a baby and the first class they offer, although Gaby was old enough to take it, she’s not quite ready to move on to the other level Evelyne on the other hand is VERY much afraid of water. It’s THE reason we got her in to take this swim lessons. She’s got panic type fears with a few different things, notably, bugs, high spaces and water. A few other things might be added to that short list, but we’re working hard on getting her to NOT panic… SO, she obviously didn,t graduate her Salamander class this time around, one of the pre-requisite is that they learn to paddle 5 seconds on their own… the girl will not let go of whomever is holding her a second. She can probably physically do it, but she’s too panic stricken for it to count, KWIM? In any case, this summer we plan to go swimming at the closest community pool and she’s looking forward to me teaching her to swim Gotta give kudos to a library book we rented for that one

Finally, my little brother (who am I kidding, he’s at LEAST 6 inches taller than I am! HA!) graduated College as well this month. I had the privilege of attending his graduation last week and I must say, I was SO proud Here are a couple of the pics, the rest can be found here on facebook

So you get an idea, I’m a tad shorter than my dad, but taller than my mom Doesn’t my bro look like a fun guy? I sure think so

Congrats bro!

It was a joy to photograph this beautiful family yesterday morning, if only the weather had cooperated a bit more, it had my mind racing all weekend! Hopefully it didn’t make me come across too green, although I still am I guess. They we’re great sports and we’re quite willing to just be themselves while I made due with the variable lighting the very somber dark skies we had that day.

Just a sneak peek for them and you all, sort of anonymous really

Sweet Naya & belly baby!

Edit: Can’t help myself, a couple more Enjoy!