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Today is Sunday, and after two days of weddings in my marathon of 12 weddings in the next 3 weeks, I was beginning my editing bonanza. 2 days of weddings is fun, as they are full of excitement and love. I wish weddings were just the day of the wedding and no work afterward. It would make things even more fun that they are!
So my niece stopped by this afternoon for a quick visit. Sparky Ming Ming said she didn't want to leave, which of course she knows I would never say no or that she had to go, no matter how much work I have to do. We had a little conversation about work as she settled in.
Sparky Ming Ming: "Why do you work so much?"
Me: "Well I have to, I have lots of work to do."
SMM: "Well Whose your boss anyways?"
SMM: "Can't you tell your boss that you want a day to spend off"
*laugh*
Me: "I am the boss, so I cannot do that, or I would have no work"
SMM: " This is confusing. Do you have any Cheerios?"
It just made me think about how carefree children are, and how simple the world must be to them. I did take an hour or two off this afternoon to spend with my little sweet Sparky Ming Ming. I couldn't believe it, she let me paint her nails, and even let me use pink, as long as some of her nails were blue. So we painted them three colors! Oh I had a great time spending with her escaping being a grown up!
So my niece stopped by this afternoon for a quick visit. Sparky Ming Ming said she didn't want to leave, which of course she knows I would never say no or that she had to go, no matter how much work I have to do. We had a little conversation about work as she settled in.
Sparky Ming Ming: "Why do you work so much?"
Me: "Well I have to, I have lots of work to do."
SMM: "Well Whose your boss anyways?"
SMM: "Can't you tell your boss that you want a day to spend off"
*laugh*
Me: "I am the boss, so I cannot do that, or I would have no work"
SMM: " This is confusing. Do you have any Cheerios?"
It just made me think about how carefree children are, and how simple the world must be to them. I did take an hour or two off this afternoon to spend with my little sweet Sparky Ming Ming. I couldn't believe it, she let me paint her nails, and even let me use pink, as long as some of her nails were blue. So we painted them three colors! Oh I had a great time spending with her escaping being a grown up!
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You can do anything you want to do in your life. Anything. Remember when we were children and our parents always said "you can be anything you want when you grow up". It just sounded like words to our little ears but as we get older and older it becomes more true. My parents also always stressed the idea of Paying it Forward, Sharing & Being Good to People. I feel that I have been extremely blessed with people being that way to me, and since I try to treat others the way I am treated. I am having a little contest, check below for information!
Contest Time:
OK so you have a little over 24 hours to get me to 1000 followers on Twitter, and win your self a pair of VIP tickets to Taylor Swift!!
1 - Follow me on Twitter - @Rachel_Photo
2 - Must tweet using hashtag #blogbyrachelpei @Rachel_Photo @taylorswift13 in a tweet before 5pm Friday
3 - Tell me 140 characters or less why I should give you 2 VIP tickets to see Taylor Swift concert on Saturday night at the Cavendish Beach Music Festival in Cavendish, PEI
RULES:
1-Must use tix, cannot sell. I will be putting your name on the tickets and you will need to show id.
2-You must join twitter to be part of this contest so if you aren't - GO.DO.IT.NOW
GO!!!!
I have been asked to join the Cavendish Beach Music Festival Team to help preserve memories with my camera in Cavendish this weekend! YAY! I am so excited to be able to use my camera and point it in the directions of Keith Urban, Taylor Swift. Little Big Town, Collin Raye, Emerson Drive, Gloriana, & Lady Antebellum. I will be blogging each night after the concert, so stay tuned!
Contest Time:
OK so you have a little over 24 hours to get me to 1000 followers on Twitter, and win your self a pair of VIP tickets to Taylor Swift!!
1 - Follow me on Twitter - @Rachel_Photo
2 - Must tweet using hashtag #blogbyrachelpei @Rachel_Photo @taylorswift13 in a tweet before 5pm Friday
3 - Tell me 140 characters or less why I should give you 2 VIP tickets to see Taylor Swift concert on Saturday night at the Cavendish Beach Music Festival in Cavendish, PEI
RULES:
1-Must use tix, cannot sell. I will be putting your name on the tickets and you will need to show id.
2-You must join twitter to be part of this contest so if you aren't - GO.DO.IT.NOW
GO!!!!
I have been asked to join the Cavendish Beach Music Festival Team to help preserve memories with my camera in Cavendish this weekend! YAY! I am so excited to be able to use my camera and point it in the directions of Keith Urban, Taylor Swift. Little Big Town, Collin Raye, Emerson Drive, Gloriana, & Lady Antebellum. I will be blogging each night after the concert, so stay tuned!
Stephen:
Have fun! (do I really need to tell you that?)
I'm looking forward to the follow up blog posts.
(07.08.10)
Kim MSMF:
http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/ is an excellent tutorial on Twitter! Go peeps go!!! See you in the Twitterverse
(07.08.10)
Natalie:
Hi! Love this idea! One question though, do we need to use all hashtags or just one or two?
(07.08.10)
Lori B.:
This is an incredibly generous gift to someone, who may not get to go otherwise. Rachel you are so cool! Hope to see you at the concert!
(07.08.10)
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Thier is nothing quite like a summer evening with that warm yummy sun flare. I love it. It reminds me of being a child. I love sitting outside and totally relaxing at that time of night. This particular night outside was AHHHH - MAZING light. I couldn't get enough of it. It was like their was a magnet outside that kept pulling me towards it!
Of course Sparky Ming Ming & Madison were going to get photos taken. OF COURSE, HOW could they NOT? SMM was out on her trampoline playing which she absolutely adores. She plays on it at least once a day. Meleah had lost one of her two front teeth a few nights before and was ready to lose the other one. It is still hanging by a thread! Then of course, I had to get Madison in on the sun flare fun. Madison is such a sweet gentle young girl. Look at that yummy sun flare all around her!
Ahhhh - Mazing Light with my two Ahhhh - Mazing Nieces. How sweet!
Of course Sparky Ming Ming & Madison were going to get photos taken. OF COURSE, HOW could they NOT? SMM was out on her trampoline playing which she absolutely adores. She plays on it at least once a day. Meleah had lost one of her two front teeth a few nights before and was ready to lose the other one. It is still hanging by a thread! Then of course, I had to get Madison in on the sun flare fun. Madison is such a sweet gentle young girl. Look at that yummy sun flare all around her!
Ahhhh - Mazing Light with my two Ahhhh - Mazing Nieces. How sweet!
Lori:
WOW those girls are beautiful!
(07.05.10)
Nat:
I love sunflare as well. So awesome!
(07.05.10)
Lynda:
I love your posts about your nieces. They are adorable!
(07.05.10)
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When I received the message below from Jasmine Star, I felt so empathetic and knew I had to blog - from my perspective. It was exactly how I felt when I met her. However, Jasmine did NOT disrespect me the way the person she waited to speak to did.
Jasmine was/is the sweetest person that her blog presents her to be. I was so worried about getting to meet her, because I didn't know what to say to her, and she wouldn't know who "I" was, that I almost turned around. A stranger that I sat with during the presentation persuaded me to go and introduce myself to her. Half the room wanted to talk to her and were pushing their way through the crowd. She was graciously greeting as many people as she could, shaking hands & hugging, laughing and smiling. When I made it through the crowd to the front of the group, this is what happened.
Jasmine Star was right in front of me. What do I say now? As many of you think I am super outgoing, I am shy at first (for the first minute or 2), and almost would rather be kicked in the stomach that introduce myself first to someone knew, but I force myself over and over to do that just. So I just blurted out "Hello & You did a wonderful job speaking". J* asked me my name and said that I was her focus in the room during the presentation. A room of 2000 people (likely another 2000 waiting outside!). She said that she usually finds a calm, gentle face to focus on and this time it was me. My face helped her calm down. MY FACE HELPED JASMINE STAR CALM DOWN!!! I noticed she was looking in my direction but me being me thought she was looking at something behind me! I even turned around a few times to check! Can you believe it? Jasmine Star was actually being real to me by admitting that she was nervous to do the presentation - she was real as real gets!!! YAY for realness!
I was sooooo happy to meet Jasmine, and not because of the Photography Rock Star from California that she is. I was happy to meet her because she is exactly what I hoped she was, sincere, generous and real. Thank You J* for being you & letting me be your focus even if it was for a short time! Glad to have been their and experienced your amazing presentation. I hope to have a shoot done by you someday, and meet Polo "his cute self" for real!
Jasmine was/is the sweetest person that her blog presents her to be. I was so worried about getting to meet her, because I didn't know what to say to her, and she wouldn't know who "I" was, that I almost turned around. A stranger that I sat with during the presentation persuaded me to go and introduce myself to her. Half the room wanted to talk to her and were pushing their way through the crowd. She was graciously greeting as many people as she could, shaking hands & hugging, laughing and smiling. When I made it through the crowd to the front of the group, this is what happened.
Jasmine Star was right in front of me. What do I say now? As many of you think I am super outgoing, I am shy at first (for the first minute or 2), and almost would rather be kicked in the stomach that introduce myself first to someone knew, but I force myself over and over to do that just. So I just blurted out "Hello & You did a wonderful job speaking". J* asked me my name and said that I was her focus in the room during the presentation. A room of 2000 people (likely another 2000 waiting outside!). She said that she usually finds a calm, gentle face to focus on and this time it was me. My face helped her calm down. MY FACE HELPED JASMINE STAR CALM DOWN!!! I noticed she was looking in my direction but me being me thought she was looking at something behind me! I even turned around a few times to check! Can you believe it? Jasmine Star was actually being real to me by admitting that she was nervous to do the presentation - she was real as real gets!!! YAY for realness!
I was sooooo happy to meet Jasmine, and not because of the Photography Rock Star from California that she is. I was happy to meet her because she is exactly what I hoped she was, sincere, generous and real. Thank You J* for being you & letting me be your focus even if it was for a short time! Glad to have been their and experienced your amazing presentation. I hope to have a shoot done by you someday, and meet Polo "his cute self" for real!
Kim MSMF:
So excited that you got to meet J*. I love that she was as cool in real life and on her blog. :)
(06.28.10)
Jennifer Collings:
Glad you got to meet your "Rockstar Photographer", you must have been over the moon.
(06.28.10)
Karen :
OMG YOU MET JASMINE STAR!!!
(06.28.10)
Melissa Stewart:
Oh so fun you got to meet her! Lucky
(06.28.10)
Jasmine*:
You are too amazing!! Thank you SO much for this blog post...it means so much to read your kind words! :)
(06.29.10)
Mary Small:
Wow, I know what is like to meet your idol. You must have been wired for sound.
(06.29.10)
Lori B.:
ahhh Rachel, so happy for you to meet her! You are our "Rockstar" Photographer!
(06.29.10)
SueAnne:
OMG, now I totally understand..WOW, any wonder you were studdering telling me the story..haha
(06.30.10)
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This particular "Photo Tour" morning I woke up to the site of Sandra's children running to the bus with school bags & lunches in hand. They all boarded the school bus and the oldest getting on that bus waited to make sure everyone boarded, and then boarded herself. I hadn't officially met the children yet, but knew they would be awesome. We had gotten in late the night before and the children were all asleep. When the children arrived home later that day, Jodi & I finally got to meet them.
The Regier Family which consists of 5 children, a dog, a cat and a budgie bird were a joy to be around. All 5 children, yes 5!! were amazing. Some characteristics of these children were outgoing, confident, humorous, talented, smart, well adjusted, loving, beautiful & creative. I was in awe of the family unit that they had created at this house. We sat down to supper at 6 o'clock at the table, tv is turned off, and they prayed, again I was in awe. This was not a scene that was created for Jodi & I, this happens nightly, which impressed me. As I grew up, our suppers were the same, every night we waited for Dad to come home and we then ate supper. It was part of our daily routine, and looking back I do love those times!
So when I had heard that this family had never had many family photos done, Jodi & I were all over it. We had very limited time to do this because Sandra (whose Studio I blogged here) had a shoot that night. We did the entire shoot in the back field behind there house. I hope you enjoy these shots as much as I enjoyed making them.
The Regier Family which consists of 5 children, a dog, a cat and a budgie bird were a joy to be around. All 5 children, yes 5!! were amazing. Some characteristics of these children were outgoing, confident, humorous, talented, smart, well adjusted, loving, beautiful & creative. I was in awe of the family unit that they had created at this house. We sat down to supper at 6 o'clock at the table, tv is turned off, and they prayed, again I was in awe. This was not a scene that was created for Jodi & I, this happens nightly, which impressed me. As I grew up, our suppers were the same, every night we waited for Dad to come home and we then ate supper. It was part of our daily routine, and looking back I do love those times!
So when I had heard that this family had never had many family photos done, Jodi & I were all over it. We had very limited time to do this because Sandra (whose Studio I blogged here) had a shoot that night. We did the entire shoot in the back field behind there house. I hope you enjoy these shots as much as I enjoyed making them.
Kim MSMF:
Umm everyone of them is gorgeous! Love the pics!
(06.21.10)
Sue:
What a Beautiful family!!
(06.21.10)
Jennifer Collings:
Love these family photos, love that they aren't the "traditional" everyone wear the same colour kind. So original.
(06.28.10)
Amy P.:
These are beautiful, the Reiger Family were lucky to have you visit! You would be a fun guest!
(06.28.10)
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What a cutie! I love her colourful nails! Very cool! :)
(07.25.10)Seriously. could she be any cuter!?!
(07.25.10)CUTE! Glad to see you got to spend so time with her!
(07.26.10)Ahhh how fun is this :) I look forward to these moments with our girls :)
(07.26.10)Smarty toes! Thats what we call my daughters when we paint them like that!
(07.28.10)