Our Baby Photos

I'd like you to meet someone special. Her name is Kinga and she is a genius with a camera. She runs Images By Frost. Check out her website to see some fabulous eye candy. 
 Hubby met her while in Thailand, and when the time came to choose a wedding photographer, he mentioned Kinga. We took a look at her website and fell in love with her photos. Even though she isn't from our city, we booked her anyway. She is awesome. 
We did our engagement session with her 

Our wedding

Our "Trash the Dress" in Banff

And finally, our baby photos. I love them so much!! I know every mom thinks this...but I have the cutest baby in the whole wide world! 

So, when I asked Kinga if I could post the photos on my blog, not only did she say yes, but she also offered an insane giveaway! 

Please Note: This Giveaway is now closed!!

She is giving away a FREE Kiddo photography session (a $399 value!!), which includes:

- One hour creative photography session

- Private online gallery with your images

- Complimentary 8x10 Fine Art Print

- Memories to last a lifetime :)

Soooo awesome! A little disclaimer: Kinga is in Edmonton, so in order to claim the prize, you have to be in, or willing to travel to, Edmonton.

To enter:

• Leave a comment below and tell us how old your kiddo is (or how old you kiddos are...) and "like" Images By Frost on Facebook (those ones are mandatory to enter, folks).
  
  
  
  

  For bonus entries, leave a comment below if you:
  
  1. Follow Images by Frost on Twitter 
  and/or
  2. Re-tweet the following message on Twitter
  "Win a FREE kidd-o session with @ImagesbyFrost at http://twe.ly/kesb"
  and/or
  3. Share this giveaway on Facebook

As always, you don't have to like or follow me, but if you like what you see around here, feel free to show some love :)

 The giveaway will be open until Friday, October 21 at 6:00pm MST. One winner will be chosen randomly from the comments posted using Random.org

Good luck!! 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canucks!
Wishing you a wonderful weekend full of love, peace, happiness and deliciousness. 

Things That Make Me Happy Today...

Walking around in the comfiest shoes in the world. 

Wearing my wedding AND engagement rings. (see this previous post for why it's a big deal). It's like getting engaged all over again! 

Pic courtesy for The Pioneer Woman. She's a much better photographer than me...

Knowing that in a few hours I am going to devour this. And most likely lick the plate. Don't judge. 

Makeover Alert!

So, you may have noticed that things look a little different around here. I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I wanted to attempt to makeover the ol' blog. For the record: I did not, in fact, make it over. I found someone to do it for me. Someone who is much more talented than I. Someone who (most likely) did not have to spend 3 hours trying to get some page element to move over 1/3 of an inch to the right. Who is this genius, you may ask?! Why, it's Kim at 733 Blog Design! (insert applause here) 
What do you think of the new digs?
I did, however, do the photos in the banner. Well, and by "do the photos" I mean I arranged them and Hubby actually took them. So pretty much, I "did" them. Anyway, that was a fiasco in itself. To be honest, it is so incredibly difficult to take decent photos with crap lighting, but we tried to make it work. The fiasco part was the addition of Kitty. Why would I think that anything involving Kitty would go smoothly? We had a sheet hung so you couldn't see our insanely blinding orange wall (see photo in the sidebar for photographic evidence...the other walls opposite of these lovely orange beauties are red...I still can't believe we never painted when we moved in. Sigh.). Well, Kitty refused to stand on the sheet. She really wanted to be BEHIND the sheet though. And she also wanted to attack it, and "surprise" us by jumping out and attacking us. Except we weren't surprised at all, because she is a cat behind a white sheet. And she didn't jump out at all, because the sheet was too long. So basically, she just moved the sheet forward, and then got her claw caught in it and couldn't move. So she sat there with her paw stuck in the sheet and purred for like 7 minutes. 
Please excuse the quality of the photos...we didn't have time for things like "focusing". We were too busy being baffled.

Everything is A.O.K.

Things take a turn...

Surprise!!

She sat here for 7 mins. Purring. 

End result. 

Did I mention she is really pretty? 

Touchnote Giveaway

So, there is a new app out there called Touchnote. It's a pretty cool concept, actually. You upload a photo, and then it sends the photo as a postcard. Like by snail mail. A real, old school postcard. I think this is sort of genius, simply because I can think of a ton of cool ways to use it. For instance, when you travel you can send postcards of your own photos instantly, no need to head to the cheesy souvenir shop for the standard tourist fare. All those cool Instagram photos? Send 'em! 

(ok, I have to admit something here...I don't have an iPhone. 

In fact, I don't have a phone that can take pictures, or download apps. 

Is it sad that I want an iPhone just for the Instagram thingy?!

Those photos are so awesome...better than my camera sometimes. 

I am slightly jealous)

It could be a really good option for birth announcements too. I also think it would be awesome to send my brother a postcard of something stupid that I saw that reminded me of him. Such as this:

Aww...Buster. 

Sort of like when he text-to-landlines my house and the creepy robot voice gives me unsettling messages. 


I used it to send postcards of Peanut to Hubby and the Grandparents. It's cool because you get to write a message on the back, and so I thought it would be cute to send it to them from Peanut ( "Dear Daddy, ah-goo!' You know, that sorta thing). They, of course, loved it. Grandparents and parents are suckers for that sorta cheesy thing. 


You can't argue with the price. It only costs $1.49 per postcard. So basically, they print it out and mail it for you anywhere in the world for $1.49. That's cheaper than postage in some cases! I was pretty impressed with the quality, as well. The photo quality was bang-on and it's sort of a glossy, plasticy sort of paper, so it's not going to get trashed in the mail. Ours was a little bent at the edges, but that's sort of the charm of postcards. 


You can use the website to send them if you are like me and don't have a cool phone, or you can use their app for iPhone or Android. Also, it looks like they will be adding a Facebook option soon...


Want to try it out? The first 20 readers to send an email to mums (at) touchnote.com get free credits!