Saturday, May 9, 2009

Capturing My Family

It's been a few years since we have had family "portraits" taken but for some reason, with all this new talk of cancer and surgery I felt a NEED to capture the moments of us together. My friend Laureen generously, amazingly, and overwhelmingly offered her services to do a photo shoot.

Now if you know teenagers, you know that this sort of thing is not high on their priority list of fun things to do. You add to that fact that our photo shoot was done DURING a Canucks Playoff Game which is at the absolute top of the fun things to do list at our house, and well, let it hereby be known that Laureen Carruthers is a MIRACLE WORKER.


These are a few of the pictures she took, go to her blog to check out some more. Go to her site if you ever need a photographer. Her work is a amazing.

Because not only did she take some amazing pictures of my family but Laureen (and the magic of her camera) managed to make me NOT look like the tired and stressed mom I am. Thank you Laureen for giving me this opportunity to reflect on the beauty of my family. The joy these pictures have brought me is enormous!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those pics are completely and totally awesome!

Di said...

Jen, these are amazing. I TOTALLY understand the "teenager-photo" thing. You are a good looking bunch!

Anonymous said...

These pics are beautiful. You can see how protective your sons are of you in the first one. Their loyalty to their mother will last a lifetime.

Mrs4444 said...

I don't know what to say. If I say, "Yeah, she's amazing!" you might think I'm commenting on her Photoshopping qualities. JK She's great. These are beautiful. HOpe you're feeling better.

Lala's world said...

the pictures are amazing, you LOOK BEAUTIFUL! so glad that all went well with your surgery :)

Sue said...

Jen you are stunningly beautiful and cute too ...:)

robyncalgary said...

love the pictures! and im sure you feel it even more than me (random internet blog reader) but id just like to tell those boys of yours to stop growing! been reading from the beginning until now for the last week or so, a year of living in your life, a week of reading in mine, and i cant believe how big they all are! 14 is such an interesting age, my oldest nephew is 14 and sometimes i just look at him and think ok WHO are you, and WHERE is the little boy i know? much love <3

Jen Nickel said...

Robyn ;) Thanks for reading all these old posts. I enjoy re-reading the old ones you comment on too.

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