Happy Halloween Festivities...

I love dressing up. I may drive around every single day with a giant costume bag in the trunk of my car. It's a huge part of why I love camp. And an obvious reason why I love Halloween. It's been a little while since I've really been able to get into the spirit and get a good costume going so I was super excited to do so this year.

Last year Kyle and I carved pumpkins together and I'll just say we took it a tad seriously. It was still fun, but we got hard core. Here are last year's masterpieces...

Kyle's on the left, mine on the right. 

Well this year we got invited over to our besties' (Steph and Jason) house for a little triple carving pumpkin date with Jenna and Jesse! 

I got too ambitious and have always wanted to do a Haunted House pumpkin but I bit off more than I could chew. I didn't plan it well. The top of my pumpkin was already half rotten. It was a failure.. so I flipped the thing around and did an old school triangle vampire face pumpkin. 

 There is no photo evidence of this catastrophe. Just the way I like it. 

We continued the Halloween festivities on Saturday night at our place with a little costume party, and there were some costume gems for sure! 

Poison Ivy. Batman Villian. Red Head.

Two Flappers and...

Two girls in bow-ties.. impressive! Doctor Who and Mary Poppins!

Two Batman Villians at that.. Love my K-Man but he was a creepy Joker.

Roomies.. Flapper and 20's Gangsta..

Hey Look it's some Newleyweds as Minnie and Mickey!

The Beautiful Princess Jasmine and Mary Poppins..

Candids of an 80s Prom Queen and Flapper #2...

All the ladies...

 Some kind of elfish.. cloaked.. big eared dreadlocked man.. and Wolverine!

 Oh there's her Prince!! Aladdin and Jasmine.. adorable.

Mary Poppins and her Bert : )

Love Halloween and it was a great night! 

Now t-minus 13 days until Christmas decorations go up!

*A

Photo Assignment #5 AND.. The Market, Photo Outing and Puppy..

Okay.. Lots going into this post but I'll try and keep it short and sweet.

Photo Assignment #5 was to get a few great shots showing different aperture settings like an isolation shot, exploration and a depthless situation. I didn't find anything to photograph that was "depthless" so I sent in a photograph that I took for the Desktop background Assignment of a wood pile which I posted earlier here.

The isolation shot a submitted was one that I snagged while at the Market two weekends ago with my parents. I've always known this about myself but sometimes even I surprise myself with how excited I get sometimes over the weirdest things. Well I got very excited about seeing how Brussel sprouts grow for the first time. So I took a photo of it and since part of the photo is in sharp focus and the rest is blurred it is considered an isolation shot. Here it is..

The rest of the photos I submitted were taking on Jenna and I's little photo outing we went on that Monday night. We went first to this old building in Moncton that is well... not a building anymore and is covered in graffiti and No Trespassing signs. I still haven't figured out what the building used to be but I'm on a mission. Anyhow.. this is my exploration shot!

Another part of the assignment was to use Shutter Priority mode and get photographs while catching different amounts of motion. So taking one where the subject is completely frozen, one with a little bit of motion blur, and one with a lot. Well I didn't use this next photo but I want to give Jenna a shout out for her great cartwheel techniques : D

What I did use was a series of three photographs like the following which caught different amounts of blur by adjusting the shutter speed. Jenna was kicking her feet like a mad lady.

We were going all out.. laying on the ground and climbing on things. Whatever we had to do to get some good shots. This is Jenna taking some photos of my boots/socks. Love it.

Here's that photo! ALL credit goes to Jenna but I had to show it because she rocks... and so do my socks.

Now my parents just got a little puppy. She's the sibling to my sister and her husbands dog Sophie. They are Puggles, which is a Beagle-Pug mix. And I now find myself heading to my parents place at lunch to visit my dad and well... play with the puppy! After the market adventure that Saturday I tried to snap some pictures of Jazz (That's their puppy by the way) outside playing in the leaves and it proved much more difficult than I expected. She's a wild one.

I recognize that photo is completely blurred but doesn't she kind of look like Dumbo?!

She's teenie and adorable. That's my Mom! Later that afternoon we enjoyed a movie together. Love her to DEATH.

*A

Weekend Happenings: Corn Maze, Wine and The "Imbo's"

In around mid-September Kimbo and I discussed how we needed to schedule a visit and really make it happen, so this past weekend was it and it couldn't have been a better weekend! They got in late Friday night and we sat around, had some wine and chatted the night away!

 On Saturday we got up, made a delicious breakfast (Well Kyle was up and made it and woke us all up to eat... he's such a good host) and then we headed off to Salsbury to hit up the Green Pig Country Market to get some pumpkins and venture through their Corn Maze!

We got maps to use to find our way through...

James was SUPER pumped about the maze! 

 If you can tell by our clothing... it was freezing out on Saturday, and very windy. The Imbo's said the temperature dropped as soon as they crossed into New Brunswick...

There were even some bridges so you could look over the whole maze..

I gave the map up to Kim real fast... it was just too much pressure!

It had rained a whole bunch on Friday so the paths were just a tad muddy!

There was actual corn on the stalks! And you could see some animals had gotten into the field quite a bit... that made us all agree we wouldn't want to do the night-time flash light maze adventure..

THE NEWLYWEDS!!

So this last photo in the maze was taken at the furthest point away from the exit.. and from that point on it was every man/woman for themselves. We each went different ways and the last one out was to buy the first round. And the rankings were... drumroll please: Kim #1, Myself #2, James #3 and Kyle #4...

Girls rule obviously.

So then we went to blast some pumpkins cause... it was an option and who doesn't want to shoot a mini pumpkin out of a canon at 90km/h??

The Corn Maze and Market was such a fun time. We picked out some pumpkins to carve which we will be doing later this week! And then we headed home for a little rest and to get ready for the evening. We went to the restaurant I work at for dinner and drinks then hit up a few other places downtown as well!

All I'll say about the rest of the night was like we got home at about 2am, cracked some more wine and headed to bed around 6am... Let's just say we probably solved all of the worlds problems and planned three weddings through-out the span of the night's conversations.

It was such a great weekend and I can't wait to see them again very soon! 

*A 

The "Imbo" Wedding and Mini X Reunion..

*My amazing friends Kim and James came to visit this weekend and it was an incredible time! They got married Labor Day weekend and I was one of a two-woman dreamteam of MCs with another roommate from X! Well at one point Kim said "You know I was kind of sad I didn't make the blog" and I went on and on saying Yes you did! The post is called The "Imbo" Wedding and Mini X Reunion etc etc and then I went on to my computer and it was done but not actually Published! So that was insane. So here is that post! haha

This is the beautiful couple that Kyle and I and many friends and family from all over celebrated this past labor-day weekend at the Sherwood Golf and Country Club in Chester, Nova Scotia. The weekend was filled with love, golf, amazing weather and a lot of reminiscing about good ole time back in Antigonish. Their names are Kim and James but they affectionately call each other Kimbo and Jimbo and just couldn't be any cuter!

Kim and James started dating in third year while Kim, myself and 3 other lovely ladies were living together. They've been in sweet sweet love from day one and this weekend was so reflective of their love and their personalities it was incredible! Their wedding parties, close family and significant others all showed up on Friday night for the rehersal and dinner and were set to stay in adorable cottages for the weekend. The rehersal dinner was BBQ style and was so relaxed and fun!

This hot mama and current Vancouver resident was the other woman in the dreamteam I mentioned earlier. We were both a tad nervous about MCing of the festivities for the evening but everything went very smoothly and we think everyone had a blast!

At the cocktail hour we got the chance to snag a photo of all the X-ladies we graduated with. Most of us ladies lived in Chillis (a University residence) together in first and second year and ALL of these ladies lived in three houses that were about 30 seconds apart from each other.

It was so fantastic to get together with everyone from St.F.X. and it really got me thinking that we all really need to make more of an effort to keep in touch and visit one another. It seems to be so easy to get caught up with what's happening with you that all of a sudden so much time has past and you've lost touch with so many old friends.

 The great thing about having been so close to all these people and loving them so much is that it really takes about 30 seconds before it's as if no time has passed and we all pick up right where we left off!

These two beauties are Heather and Beaton and are the other two ladies who lived with Kimbo, Erica and I! Heather and I also lived in the 9 x 9 dorm rooms together for two years!

Caught the bouquet!

What was even greater about this weekend was that it was the first time my X girls really got to spend a solid amount of time with Kyle and it couldn't have went better! He got a HUGE thumbs up and he and all the boyfriends got along super well. The fact that the weekend was on a golf course that gave them all free access to the course was a huge help in having all the guys bond throughout the weekend I'd say. 

All in all it was a perfect weekend and I couldn't be happier for The "Imbo's" and the amazing adventure they have ahead of them! In January they are moving to the Cayman Island's for the next two years to work and save and live in a tropical paradise! 

Now the weekend before the wedding many of the girls headed to Montreal for Kim's Bachelorette so I'll finish up with a few shots from that weekend! 

*A