Journal Entry No.36 | Klutch Photography |Vancouver family photography

The kids are getting so much bigger and more mature (well not really but they seem to think so!). They didn't need their dad to go house to house with them on Halloween night and ...IT WAS THE BEST TIME EVER!, Their words, not mine.

I got to hand out candy to such cutties pies I had sore cheeks from smiling! I also loved seeing all the teens in costume, using their manners, fetching candy and being kids!!

I hope you all had a wonderful and safe Halloween night, now remember calories only count if you add them up...so sneak into those goodies bags parents and make a wrapper pile!  It's time for sweet revenge. Hale the coffee crisps.

#lifeunscripted

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Thanksgiving Ferreira style | Klutch Photography | Vancouver family photographer

Every year we get back to the Island for Thanksgiving with my family. It's so much about eating that I'm a little embarrassed, ok not really. We love food and we eat all day long and laugh about new and old things and we climb up mountains to keep our Portuguese figures. The kids end up doing crazy unsupervised shit (like we did when we were kids), they break fig branches with footballs and knock off the precious concord grapes from the vine with baseballs....all of which is part of the "Thanksgiving" weekend event.

This year shenanigans...they took ketchup and used it for a haunted house (lol, oh fuck no you didn't. Umm yes, yes you did!). I really need to keep an eye on these four (more) when they get together. I went pee and thought, why is my mom now using ketchup to clean her tub?  My mom was unpleased yet laughed about it.

My parents are these crazy little Europeans, they are such kind people, such giving people. They're sad when we leave and we're sad to go.  But these sad goodbyes make for the best reunions in the next few months to come.

I hope you all had some kind of "thanks" moment this weekend.

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Journal Entry No.35 | Klutch Photography| Vancouver family photographer

Sometimes when your kids become fucking dicks to each other, you need to lock shit down and just circle the wagons with some family time.

My two have been less than awesome with each other these past few days and so on this "WAY TO SOON IN THE SCHOOL SEASON" pro D day presented itself I dragged these two lazy broads outside for a nature walk.  They were not pleased by my persistence of leaving the house but because I'm the ruler of the world they had no choice, we took off to a nature park in Langley.

 The irony is that these two love to explore, jump and climb. They eat wild berries like there on fucking survivor. They fall in love with each other and like that dude on the commercial that was hangry and eats a Snickers bar and all normality is restored, well that whats what fucking nature does! Nature solves the "I hate you" sibling syndrome (for now).

Side note: They also got to experience some real life - a drug dealer on a bike, I hooker on a bike & an argument in the bush (by those two) and several police cars!  You think they would only see this good reality stuff in Value Village at 8:45 pm on a Friday night (It was only once that happen, they were fine! It always makes for great open door conversations)

VERY EXCITING day.  Yes children, stay in school and DON'T DO DRUGS!