For the next 3 days - until December 28th at 11:59PM - purchase a gift certificate and receive an additional 50% more gift certificates for free.

That means you can purchase a $500 gift certificate and receive an additional $250 gift certificate for free. There's no limit on the Boxing Day event so stock up for your sessions in 2012!

Happy Boxing Day!


ETA: And that's a wrap! Thank you to everyone. I'm looking forward to working with you all in 2012.

Purchases must be made using the button above. If you would rather pay by cheque, send me an email and I can arrange it for you.

Join me as I take one photo a week for the next year, each one capturing a specific aspect of our family life and my kid's childhood that I want remembered. You can read the introduction post here, an FAQ post here and all related posts here.

I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas! Ours was perfect - busy and loud and full of family mixed with some quieter moments of just of the four of us.

Since we're in the last week of the month (and of the year!) I'm photographing the details of our life.

Assignment 26: Photograph their favourite Christmas ornament, book, activity or video.

Before you start packing up all your Christmas stuff, photograph your child with the their favourite Christmas "thing". My kids are big readers and they love when the basket of Christmas books comes out on December 1st - and so do their dad and I since it means a whole load of new books to add into the rotation of books we read over and over and over again.


This year their favourites are Santa Duck and The Donkey's Christmas Song. Angelo is big into being silly and telling jokes right now so he giggles the whole way through Santa Duck and then retells the "jokes" from the book the rest of the day.

And I love that The Donkey's Christmas Song (or the donkey book as it's referred to in our house) used to be Angelo's favourite and is now Grace's favourite. It's a board book so we probably only have one more year of this one being in the basket which is sad because it's one I never get tired of reading.

You can't see the title of Gracie's book here but I just loved her little toes in this photograph. I think we'll remember the book just by reading the first line you can see here but if not I have my journaling here to remember.

And I know our house doesn't look very Christmas-y from these angles (except the reindeer peeking over Angelo's shoulder) but it really is.

I'd love to know what the favourite Christmas books, videos, ornaments, etc are in your house so I can add them to my list for next year. Link below in the comments or send me an email if you have yours posted online.

I'm taking the rest of the week off from blogging. I'll be back next Monday with the next Our Year in Photos prompt.

I was really hoping to have all our Mexico photographs up on the blog today but, now that all my client orders have happily made their way to their new homes, we're just having too much fun baking, doing advent crafts and all around just enjoying the season.

I did want to let you know that there just might be a Boxing Day event in the near future so if you're looking to stock up on gift certificates for 2012, check back on Monday.

In the meantime, one of my favourites from our time in Mexico. Love this kid.

Join me as I take one photo a week for the next year, each one capturing a specific aspect of our family life and my kid's childhood that I want remembered. You can read the introduction post here, an FAQ post here and all related posts here.

On the third week of every month I either photograph something seasonal .

Assignment 25: Photograph your Christmas.

This spot in my Our Year In Photos album is reserved for a photograph of our Christmas morning, one of my favourite times as a child and now one of my favourite times as a parent - the magic of Santa, wifesaver (check it out in the Best of Bridge if you don't know what I'm talking about - and don't judge, it's tradition!), some time for reflection while the littles play with toys and time together with family.

Obviously I couldn't do this week's prompt in advance so, in the meantime, one from last week that made me laugh.


I hope you have a joyful, blessed lead up to Christmas. And I'd love to see what your Christmas looks like next weekend.

We're home from a week of digging our toes in the sand and celebrating my sister's wedding in Mexico with family and friends. I'm working my way through an over-flowing inbox and massive piles of laundry but I'll be back on Monday with my regular Our Year in Photos post. If you're waiting for an email or phone call back from me it's coming - I promise!

Join me as I take one photo a week for the next year, each one capturing a specific aspect of our family life and my kid's childhood that I want remembered. You can read the introduction post here, an FAQ post here and all related posts here.

The second week of every month I'm photographing the relationships in our life.

Assignment 24: Photograph your kids with their aunts and uncles.

I planned out all 52 weeks of this project in June before I started. As I came up to this week I started stressing myself out with how hard it would be to get the kids with each of their aunts and uncles (they have 4 sets) right when everyone was getting ready for Christmas and, on my side, a family vacation. So that day I was racking my brains trying to think of a relationship photo I could substitute for this one.

And then my sister and (at the time) soon-to-be brother-in-law came over to drop something off. And this happened.

Congratulations to my beautiful sister on her wedding day.

Jason, welcome to our crazy, loving family.

Join me as I take one photo a week for the next year, each one capturing a specific aspect of our family life and my kid's childhood that I want remembered. You can read the introduction post here, an FAQ post here and all related posts here.

In the first week of every month I photograph a room in our home.

Assignment 23: Photograph your kitchen.

Our main floor is completely open concept so we spend a lot of time in our kitchen/living/dining room. The kitchen isn't huge but there's lots of room for everything (and everyone) and, though I wouldn't mind a new backsplash, it works great for us.


The kids love to bake. They love to do pretty much anything with a dining room chair pulled up to the island. Here we're making the first batch of Christmas cookies of the year. They both inherited my sweet tooth and the minute Gracie sees the mixer being pulled over to the island she starts yelling "cook-ie, cook-ie" in her cute little baby talk way.