24 years ago, I walked timidly into a big new school — taken from our comfortable class of 12 in Longview school (8 girls, 4 boys — I still remember!) and thrown into the daunting high school where all those big kids were.   One of the not so scary kids was a girl named Kim.  We were inseparable for 4 years of school.  The memories together were endless: writing notes back and forth in class, meeting Corey Hart when he did a video on her land, numerous sleepovers, countless giggle fits in class, even being banned from seeing each other because Kim’s mom found some swears in those notes back and forth.  Through those 24 years we’ve had some times where we super close and other times where we’ve drifted farther apart than we’d like because of circumstance.   I’m so happy that we are at a place where we are having a fabulous time talking with each other, adoring our families, sharing ideas and dreams, helping each other achieve them,  and taking care of ourselves.  Thank you, Kim, so much for giving me the honour of photographing your gorgeous family.   Her and Jaydel’s girls are the most beautiful, spirited trio.   One of favourite moments of our shoot is when they pretended to be frogs jumping in the grass.  I was giggling so hard I could hardly keep the camera still.  And one of my favourites is the barn shot… Mom and Dad looking totally stunning for the family photo and the kids just being kids!!   That one totally makes me break into a big grin!

The last photo is a ‘corporate shot’ of Kim.  (she is going to give me trouble for making it so big on the blog!)  Kim is founder of MPowered Marketing and this is something you must check out if you have your own business and would like to learn how to make the best marketing decisions for your company to grow.   She has consulting and mentoring services as well as 3 lecture series currently running in the city.  It was the most wonderful feeling attending the last round of lectures… you know when you know your friends are really good at what they do, but don’t really completely know HOW good they are.  Well, after I went I realized how Kick Butt Kim is at what she does.  I was so proud of her and how successful her business is and how it is growing.  I spoke with her for an official 30 minute consulting session about marketing for my company and it truly made a world of difference in my direction.  I hope you check it out….