Week 2 – Day 6
Posted by Tammi | Filed under photos, week 2
Breakfast
Pancake with maple syrup
There’s only one food photo for today…I’ll explain in a bit…
We had a very busy Saturday! We woke up and got ready to head out to the Clayton Park Sobey’s to attend a fundraiser for the Halifax Chicks Bust A Move campaign. Long story short, the event in January will see participants moving in some form or another for 6 hours in return for donations towards purchasing digital mammography equipment. Each year 700 women in Nova Scotia are diagnosed with breast cancer. Every second day, one of them dies. Almost everyone you meet has been touched by breast cancer in one form or another, whether they themselves were diagnosed or have lost a loved one to the disease. Therefore, when the local ladies I’ve been chatting with on Twitter decided to create a team and put the call out for attendees at their pancake breakfast, I knew we’d attend.
It was great to see so many of the local twitters at the breakfast and we arrived just in time to sit beside Angie, Lynn and Holly. They had all just been to their weekly WW weight-in and deserved a little treat – you go girls! I also had a quick chat with Shelagh. From there we were off to Costco where we had to pick up some nibblies for the party in the evening and hubby then put the boy down for a nap.
I was off to the Halifax waterfront for a photo shoot with a friend and her gorgeous family. It was a perfect day for photo taking with unseasonably warm temperatures and just the perfect amount of cloud cover. Most people think that sun is the best but that’s a misconception. Cloudy is actually the best because that way nobody squints and you don’t have to worry about shadows. We started off at the Historic Properties which provides a perfect back drop of stone facades and then worked our way along the waterfront. I’d love to share a shot or two but she’s sworn me to secrecy until her family gets to see their holiday presents :-)
Off I went back to Dartmouth to fetch the boy and his dad and then we were over the bridge for the third time to Spryfield to attend the 1st birthday part of the boy’s girlfriend. Maddison is turning one in December but her mom and dad decided to celebrate a little earlier. I used to work with Maddy’s mom and when we were both pregnant we thought for sure she was having a boy and I was having a girl. Maddy was born very much a girl on December 3rd and that same day I found out I was having a boy when I had my ultrasound. It didn’t matter who was having what because it still meant our children could grow up to marry each other. Okay, okay, that may be a bit premature but I thought it was so funny when we arrived at the birthday party and Jen commented how she had been telling Maddy that her boyfriend was coming to her party and I laughed and told her I had been telling Luke he was going to his girlfriend’s party ;-)
I mean, come on…wouldn’t they make a cute couple?
Maddison
Luke
It was so nice to spend some time with Maddy and her parents and family and soon I’ll be doing a Christmas shoot with them which I am super excited about.
From the party we headed home and made final arrangements for the Passion Party I had planned for the evening. Suffice to say that there were lots of laughs and fun and in two weeks (when the orders come in) lots more fun ;-)
The reason there aren’t any photos of lunch and dinner is because well…there weren’t any. I think I grabbed a bran bar for lunch as I was on the go and for supper I just nibbled on some of the guacamole, salsa, hummus and veggies and a few crackers…oh and two beer :-)
