You're eight today and I'm breaking | Klutch Photography | Vancouver family photography

you're eight today.

not sure how that happen or why every year this birthday comes faster then the last.

you're my  youngest, my baby - my achilles heel.

 you're my reality, my wake up call to the upcoming middle age. 

you cuddle me hard still and still require my love (openly). your tricky and funny and that imagination makes me dream of the books i hope you will write when you become an adult.

i adore your crazy, as you have loads of it (as do i) and your so much older than most of your friends from your own life experiences which has made you sensitive and a heavy thinker. 

i feel that baby in you is fading away, like a distant childhood memory that i'm trying to recall but it's hazy. your face is becoming a girls and no longer a child's.

today dolly, is your day and will shall celebrate however you want. the love we have for you is unexplainable.

you're eight today and i'm breaking.

Just a day | klutch Photography | Vancouver family photographer

we aww and ohh at the far away caribbean beaches, we can't help it, their so warm and blue.

the classic - we want what we can't have, i suppose.

but when we really step back, what would the travelers from these far away places say about our green, tide stretched out wonders, we have in surrey and ladner. would they be awe struck with how alive it is or the warmth of the wading puddles.  would they comb our dusty sand lined shores for things to smuggle in their suitcases?

does the smell of salt and seaweed make them crave fish and chips and do those large evergreens and mountains make them wish they could see the rain that produced that lushness in the winter?

would they be scared when the tide roars in at an inch per second, which still makes me feel uneasy btw.

i think they would.

i think our beaches are just as devine & perfect in our own canadian way.  

we pulled a seven hour day here at crescent beach today, i photographed a part of it and as i did i savored it's greatness, it's aliveness and it's super natural self. i too, stole  some "treasurers" to place on a shelve at home and my girls have played, combed and created all day long.

we smell like fisherman. we feel as tired as toddlers.

 it was just a day, here in our paradise.

#lifeunscripted

Kitesurfing in St.Lucia | Klutch Photography | Vancouver family photography

on our recent trip to st.lucia, the hubby wanted to learn how to kitesurf.  at the time i totally didn't get it.

now i do!

watching the owner and instructor of aquaholics (simon) take a rip in-between teaching was well, nothing short of INCREDIBLE!  actually that's not fair, i'm pretty sure the entire time he was jumping i was saying holy shit, totally floored.

hubby is hooked. now he's searching for gear on ebay.

six hours will have you in for about $450 us.  simon and his crew are great people- easy going and oh so patient!

i highly recommend this crew and i wasn't even kitesurfing!

#lifeunscripted

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