Hello from the west! I’m writing this while sitting in a beautiful living room in Chilliwack, BC. I’m just loving this beautiful HOT weather and looking forward to tomorrow’s wedding! While I’m relaxing, I thought it would be a good idea to share with you a few photos from Tuesdays family shoot with the Bricknell family.
For those of you who don’t know, for the last few years my mornings have been busy with teaching French in a private school here in Guelph. It was a very big challenge for me to plan lessons everyday and try to inspire kids to learn a language that could really help them out in the future (especially here in Canada). For the most part my plan worked and I managed to influence and inspire a few students to take French a lot more seriously. (And on a side note: I now have a new respect for teachers. They really do give a lot of their time and effort to help these kids succeed in life!). Anyway, this is when I met these two lovely “kids”. Doug has grown up so much in the past few years, he’s definitely not a kid anymore! Both Julia and he were some of my keenest students. I know Julia was sad when I decided not to come back to teach this year to do photography full time. But of course Julia I’ll be back to visit you kids at the school!
I was thrilled when Maria and Wayne invited me to their home to take photos of their lovely family. Their beautiful backyard was a perfect place for some nice family portraits!
Wayne & Maria
Doug & Julia
love this!
Julia’s a riot… and you’ll notice those hands may be a little too large to be her own 
One thing that always impressed me about Doug was how good he is with his sister!
Doug is a huge sports fan! They even have a putting green in their yard!
Thanks again Bricknells! You are such a special family!!
Melanie
