Do you believe in signs? | Klutch Photography | Vancouver family photograper

I know some of you will have a hard time believing this and that's ok but for us, this is very real.

Over the weekend we had a soccer game in Mission, Greg was out of town and I was on deck!   I thought it would be fun to make the day of it if we were heading out that far. Our last stop before heading home was Golden Ears Regional Park.  It was a well spent few hours, exploring the woods and hitting up the lake (which was FREEZING!) and by 5 pm we were home and prepping for a fresh week of school.  

later that night, I sat down to edit my images from the day we had horsing around and as I was scrolling through some images of Amara on top of a HUGE dead old growth tree  I stopped and thought, well that looks odd?? Really odd?  There were what appeared to be highlight bursts in her hair and on her arm. It was so dramatic I thought I must have batch edited them by accident and used a highlight brush or something.  when I looked a little further that would not be the case. The images were unedited and straight out of the camera. Untouched and shot as is.

I got shivers, like grow the hair back on my leg kind of shivers.  There is NO explanation of how these "orbs" would be formed and I mean that. There was no catch light, no reflective surfaces as I was in the tree stumptaking the photos.  My camera doesn't even have a flash and these images are right out of the camera.

The images were taken within seconds of one another. I never saw any light reflecting in my lens. I'm dumbfounded on how these would have been formed from "real life".

Here's the thing, if you've followed any of my past posts your aware that Amara lost her best friend Sophie to meningitis in kindergarten. This rocked her family, us and our community really hard. We miss her every day.

Being a believer in "signs", we've had quite a few butterfly and rays of light encounters since her passing (read about it here) and recently DIMES (finding them that is in strange places). Dimes seam to be what she gives to her own family all the time as a sign.

These "orbs" have no explanation that makes sence, other than I truly believe she is near us. She is with us. She hears us  and that gives us a huge sense of comfort. 

#sophie

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Well that's not safe! | Klutch Photography | Vancouver family photography

Our trampoline is a mess right now, no paddling, no net and a little rusted...so basically it's looks like everyone's trampoline from the eighties!  When guests are coming over I actually text the parents letting them know the condition of the tramp and if they give me the thumbs up I at least have some form documentation just in case!

Yesterday the girls had a friend over and while they played I decided to go have a shower before our "girls night out" with my daughters to our favourite sushi place.  When I exited my bathroom and walked into my bedroom to cover my mom body,  I could hear screaming that was well... not quite the norm!  It had a shrill of "holy fuck' it.

When I looked out the window from the second floor there they were, on the death trap with one more layer of Evil Coneval they'd added...DISH SOAP, fluffy slippery DISH SOAP!!

Well that' not safe! I thought.

 I continued to get a well-needed support bra on and grab my camera. Document this moment first, deal with the situation second! So I said "welcome to the elevated 80's kids, don't break anything but if you do you can only blame yourselves!

Small risk, equals confidence (they all survived, Che' did get a kinked neck tho lol).

#wildhood

#80's

#lifeunscripted

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Journal Entry No.25 | Klutch Photography | Vancouver family photographer

So happy my parents came for the May long weekend girls soccer tournament, they were able to come for ONLY two full days and nights as their newly planted garden HAD to be attended to (lol, thats Portuguese retired people for ya).  My brother's family was in town as well, total fluke as they had a minute baseball tournament! We got to have dinner together and celebrate an upcoming grandpa birthday, perfection!

Che's team worked their ass's off this weekend playing 14-year-olds (their 11-12's), ya I said it 14-year-olds, these girls had BOOBS, taller than me (which is not a huge stretch!). They won two games, lost one and tied.  

Once the tournament ended on Monday we hit up the Cloverdale rodeo at about 11:30 am with some amazing neighbours of ours, a first for me on as I never grew up on the mainland. And wow, it was a hot mess but the kids loved every fucking insane ride, everyone of them.  I don't do rides for the most part, and those ones were a big fat FUCK no. So as the amazing parents we have we followed these kids around for HOURS in the sweltering heat, watching their joy. Lucky us!  By 4:45 pm I was taking back the Alfa female position, I'm not your puppet anymore kiddos, lets wrap this shit up.  I'M DONE. Momma needs some fresh clothing, a goddam sandwich and a STRONGBOW!

This weekend was full of family, friends laughter and sun. Total unplanned awesomeness!  

#maylong

#soccer

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