Summa Recap

Okay just a heads up this is a post with lots of pictures! You would think I take pictures for a living or something? ANYWHO these pictures are also on FB so if you have seen them already feel free to skip over this post!

There have been lots of things I have done this summer that I don't have pictures of yet or at all! Like Peta's wedding, Jenni's wedding, the lake bash, bridge jumping, LOTS of bridal showers, riding on motorbikes, bonfires, magrath days, random fire show and weapon fighting at Gult Gardens with Amber, M, and Matty G, card games, picnics at Henderson, mini road trips and lots of other awesome summer activities! But here are 3 that were lucky enough to be picture worthy!

So one day me, mariss. m, and lyssa heard there was a party at Wally's Beach! So obviously we decided to hit it up! Turns out when we got their we didn't really know anyone and felt totally awkward. So we were there all of 5 minutes! But it was funny and I had my camera so I documented this awkard event!

We had just arrived! Had no idea what were about to discover!

the beach was almost as awkward as this face I'm making...

oh man I love these two!

Okay so next up was the Echo trip with all my friends! A big shout out to the Low and McDonald families that allowed us to stay at their cabins! It was realy fun despite the HORRIBLE weather we had! Seriously it was lame and rained like the whole time! OH well! The girls all stayed at the Low cabin so that was a blast! There were also about 5 girls from Idaho that came and we got to know them and they were such fun girls! 

Things to be Remembered: 

1.The HILARIOUS event at the border...(lyss and M know what I'm talking about!)

2. How me and Lyss somehow managed to tip the red seadoo that was "untippable"

3. When me, Lyss, Amy, and Mary saw a bear on our way to watch Eclipse!

4. When me and Lyss were SO tired we almost crashed a million times on the way home!

5. When poor little M locked her keys in the car while she was outside of the car in the poring rain right outside of browning!

Just about to leave Magrath!

Turns out we make these faces in pics a lot! Look at the pics above!

Just trying to laugh off what was going on at the border! My luck, seriously! Its amazing!

Pretty Ladies!

Look it was sunny for 10 seconds! The rest of the time freeeezing! Hence my hoodie and towel rapped around me like a blanket!

Me and Sarah getting DRENCHED in the rain on the boat!

Lastly, I just returned from Echo lake take 2! This time it was Family Trip! We do this every year and have been for about 10 years! My family was talking and we figure that if the Low's weren't such amazing people and friends we would never go on vacation! We went to their home in Arizona over Spring Break and then we go to their Cabin every summer! We are so lucky and blessed to have them in our lives! It was so much fun to have my siblings there! Even though Russ was greatly missed! He was at State for baseball in Billings Montana and therefor had to miss out! Mitch was "lucky" enough to brake a bone in his hand and then have to quit baseball allowing him to come! This was his first time in 5 years! We take our sports at the Maxwell house very seriously lol Anyway it was really fun and I miss it there already! I even did things behind the boat almost everyday! I never do this so it was quite the accomplishment! I had to leave 2 days early so I could attend my BFF Jenni's wedding (so worth it she looked FAB!) but I'm glad I was there for along as I was!

Seriously how cute is he!

Mitchy and I on the first day!

I wish I was good at water sports like Tara!

or like Ty!

I am so lucky to have a sister like Jocelyn! Just love her to death!

Every year we take the seadoo out and wash our hair in the middle of the lake! This was right before we left!

paha

so typical... my trying my best to make my tom boy sister a girly girl...

SO happy that this boy was there this year! We had many laughs this trip thanks

 to Carson!

Overall my summer has be awesome! Next week I am off to Fairmont BC for the Matkin Family Reunion and I can't wait! Also I am moving soon so I will blog about that at some point! I showed my mom the house yesterday and she loves it and thinks its super cute! She also said that she hopes this is the last time she has to move me before I have a boy who can move my stuff for me... doubt it mom! She then was quick to say that she loves having me home just not the actual moving process! I am so lucky my mommy still loves me! Anyway I hope the rest of the summer will be eventful and exciting!

White Out

Lately my favorite colour is white. How boring right? But I feel like white signifys clean, simple, pure and elegant and to me those things are not boring! I am moving, as I have mentioned, and have decided that my room is going to be filled with white things! My accent colours with be baby blue and soft pink. I love this site http://citified.blogspot.com and have found LOADS of inspiration for things white there! Here is a taste of what I'm talking about!

Your favorite colour is white now too hu?

Always the Photographer...

Okay so you know the saying "Always a Bridesmaid, Never the Bride"? Well I live this but my saying goes "Always the Photographer, Never the Bride" I try and pretend that it doesn't bother me but sometimes after a Wedding I am over come with the feeling a pure jealousy! I get to see all the tender moments of the wedding day and I can't help but wish I was experiencing them sometimes! More than anything it just makes me excited! But really I am not complaining about the Photographer part because I LOVE what I do! Seriously its the bomb and I am so lucky to get to do what I love!What else I love is that lots of the people I have been shooting lately are my best friends!

I have seriously had so many of my closest friends get married! I love getting to see them make the choices that lead them to a temple marriage! I also love that lots of the time I get to be apart of their wedding day. My very favorite part of the wedding is when then first come out of the temple! Seriously the happiness is just radiating out of them! I LOVE it! You can't help but smile right back at them! So to help me remember all my FAB friends that got married over the past few months or that are going to be getting married here is a little tribute to the new WIFEYS!

First off was Jasmine's wedding! We have been friends since we were 5 and I love her SO much! We walked to school and home everyday, until we could drive, but no matter what every first day of school we would meet at the "twins" corner and walk to school. She has always been there for me and I love her to pieces! She married Matt on March 6th 2010 in the Cardston temple! I was their engagement photographer and lucky enough to be a bridesmaid!

Next up was was little miss Sami Jane! Me and Sami haven't been friends for long, just over a year now, but she has been such an amazing friend to me! We bonded over our similar heart breaks and have been besties every since! Sam is the kind of girl that speaks her mind and tells it like it is and I love her for it! She will also drop everything if you need her and is always willing to listen to me rant about the stupidest things! Sami my love I am so glad we are still friends and talk everyday even though you are married! I am also so excited to be living close to you in a few short weeks! Anywho Sam married Landon on June 12th 2010 in the Cardston Temple. I had the pleasure of being their engagement and wedding photographer!

Now she might not be married yet but in just 2 shorts days she will be, who am I talking about? The soon to be Mrs. Walker Ashley (aka Peta)! So last summer the same thing happened and a ton of my friends got married. So this left me without a little crew and so I was a loser. Straight up! I seriously spent most of the summer at home until Peta decided to save me! I seriously owe her so much! I pretty much lived in her room with her, we shared her bed, clothes, gossip, diet cokes and laughs and I grew to totally adore her! I feel like I couldn't let her get married unless the guy she was marrying was out of this world awesome and perfect for her and lucky for Ian he is just that! When we did their engagement session I just laughed the whole time! He is hilarious! And he just loves her to death and it's so cute! I am shooting their wedding this Saturday and I am so excited!!

Now last but certainly not least is Jenni Benni! Oh man have I ever been through a lot with her! I think she has seen me through the hardest times in my life and I have been there through hers. We were best friends in High School but were inseparable in my grade 12 year. So much so that everyone thought she was graduating with me even though she is a year younger! She told me once that when she first met me she didn't like me at all cause I was from Magrath and trying to hangout with the Raymond boys but luckily she got over that! We have done some seriously crazy things together. Like leaving notes on a certain boys door every time we went to Lethbridge, hanging out with the motocross boys, going to a million bonfires, buying Evanescence and Avril Cd's, sleeping on "our" couches with Ang and her house, driving to Leth on new years eve to go to a CRAZY party but sitting outside of it and chickening out, thanksgiving weekend, spooning in her bed, always sharing clothes and swim suites and boyfriends at times, handing out and wearing football jerseys, playing together every July 1st, and having hours of girl talk in the Van with Ang! There are a hundred more memories I could share but I think that's good for now! I miss those days I won't lie but I have never been so proud of her for the choices she has made that have gotten her to where she is now! She is getting married to Cody on July 30th 2010! Shes the best friend a girl to ask for and I love her to death!

 

My friendship with Jenni wouldn't have been the same without our other part Ang! I wouldn't be who I am today without you guys! We seriously did everything together!! Including a photo shoot the day before me and Ang left Jenni to move to Edmonton!

Even after 3 years we are all still close and I love you girls SO much!

I think this pic sums Jenni and I up perfectly!

 Here we are after 6 years still as in love as ever ;)

Well girls I love you all and I am so proud of and excited for each of you!!