Fortitude | Klutch Photography | Vancouver Family Photographer

So after a really packed solo parenting week/weekend (for the most part), I was invited to go to the soft opening of FORTITUDE in Fort Langley.  

I invited a foodie to join me as I knew she would be

A) comical in her reactions

B) I dig her company along with our common passion for GIN!

The restaurant and the commentary from foodie Tammy did not disappoint!

It's always a high for me to see people live their dreams and this good friend of mine and her hubby has made their dreams come true with this yearlong adventure getting this restaurant to opening day (June 12, 2017).

Of course, I brought me a camera and snapped a few pics to document the "soft" open how could I not!

Go check in out, I recommend the Fortitude G & T and the Tuna! Oh and if you're a lady, check out the bathroom, LOVE IT! Who I'm I kidding you're a lady, you will be visiting it for sure!

#dreamscomingtrue

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Not sure why this just hit my soul so hard this morning, perhaps it was this past week's adventures and stress's that it resonates with me like a good nights sleep after a ladies Cards Against Humanity Evening. 

This. Right. Here. Is exactly why I'm me! Why I do crazy shit that most people don't understand or find "weird" or "why does she bother" because life is too short not to be yourself, to just do you!

You've got one chance at this thing, so embrace that thing called fear and run at it instead of away from it (unless there's a mad dog chasing you, then run like fuck!). Live boldly without apologies my friends. Do you.

LOVE YOUR FUCKING LIFE!  

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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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