Child makeup artist makes mother look like miranda sings| Klutch Photography |Vancouver family Photographer

don't be frighten, it's me. LOOKING AMAZING RIGHT!   lol.  This picture was taken after my girls applied "make up" on me almost two years ago.  they have mad skills yo!  you can hire them for your grad or wedding needs and are available most saturdays... will actually do this fucking master piece for free!

the picture below, my super model cover face is looking like miranda sings (a tween you tube sensation). i know the resemblance between us is terrifying right!   such a hawt look alike!  i knew this picture reminded me of something or someone!  oh miranda, your such a copy cat...find your own look lady, this ones taken!

maybe i've just found my halloween costume!?  oh wait a minute, che (my 10 year old) is going as miranda sings for halloween!??? now wouldn't that be funny at the school dance if I showed up looking like her,  twinzies!! 

let the humiliation phase of her life begin!

(if you don't know who i'm talking about you don't have a tween....click here and get in the loop fast.  and sorry for the knowledge...you might have been better off not knowing!).  

#lifeunscripted

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a decade, where has the time gone | Klutch Photography | vancouver family photographer

che' you are...

my oldest love. my side kick and partner in all things fun.

 you are my dreams...of everything i was not able to be.

you are my first born, that comes with privileges.

your a storm that shatters my patience then breaks to reveal pure golden light and double rainbows.

you talk a lot. then you say nothing. 

you need a cuddle but never ask...i know, i can tell, i'm your mom.

proud of you is an understatement.

you ARE a libra through and through, your room and forgetfulness prove it.

loyal. very loyal.

fair is required in this house by you. or else.

SMART and getting very witty...along with other things we shall not mention.

your love of kids is STRONG and they love you back.

portuguese blood runs through you like a raging river, for you can not get enough hot sauce  and that 0 to 60 temper comes from my side. all my side. maybe a little of dad's but mostly me.

your confident in yourself...your hair and style proofs it. 

you may have gills, i'm not sure but man you swim like a fish. 

soccer. soccer. soccer. how i love watching you and cheering you on the rep team you had to work so hard to get  onto the team.

well sports in your comfort zone as you are BUILT for it, all of it.

your beauty is both inside and out, you shine baby girl.

art is a love, as is mine...this is how we bond.

LOVE THAT SMILE.

the list would go on forever if i let it, but know that you are the compass that guides my life and you teach me as much as i teach you.

you are ten TOMORROW  and i sit here feeling like my world just blinked.  slow down girl. i have yet to completely savour  your youthful love of the world. your dow eyed, glossy hopes and dreams....linger will you, as i can't bare to have it slip away so quickly. as the first 10 have.

i love you che', so much.

HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY MY LOVE!

bye, bye 40, it's been good | Klutch Photography| Vancouver family Photographer

when i was 19 ...20+ years ago (sigh), i took many (and I do mean MANY) of the 90's version of the selfie  (which was a camera with film in it!) these never got posted because social media didn't exist (fuck, just typing this is making me feel like a relic, lol), sometimes the amount of clothing was questionable and so were the poses but yet something about that was all right. at 19 who gives a shit, your fit, hot and well ...young. remember, you were never going to grow old!

this year was my 40th.

ok, for real, my mind lives very comfortably in my 31st year of life maybe at times (like vegas) i like to live in my 28th year of life...ok that's not true, more like my 21st year! i'm most certainly not 40 in my mind. in fact, I often do the "holy shit i'm forty, how the F did that happen!?) internal conversation.   

but the reality is, my LIFE (not my MIND) has to live in the 40th year of my life  about 75% to 80% of the time...

so selfies don't happen all that often around here anymore, no time for it really!  but as my 41st is approaching (cough, cough tomorrow...BIG SIP of wine to calm me down, yep that feels better) i decided, on the fly to try to take some "modern" selfies as a bye, bye to my fortieth year!  at forty i feel good and fuck you know what, forty doesn't look to bad either...with all things considered!

to all you 40 year olds out there or soon to be or older. take a moment to make yourself feel like you did at whatever age that made you feel like a frick'n rockstar!

 document that shit. why? because i know at 70, i will look back, as will my girls and think...

i really did look OK in my 40's!   and so will you.

so my husband left for hockey on a sunday night, a had the self timer on in my kitchen headshot session set up for my "real head shot clients" in the morning! it's a high key style with a sharp edit. yep, my top is LOW, hair a shit show (rained out from soccer earlier that day), make up heavy and my expressions...well that's all real me (can't lie about that). 

this is 19 revisited at 40.  the best part, I REALLY DON'T GIVE A SHIT IN MY FORTIES, for all the right reasons this time!

#lifeunscripted  

For more on my fortieth year, click here....

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