So May 1st is a bit of a big day around here, I switched to quarterly booking because I was getting overwhelmed with inquiries from amazing people, and was spending all my time answering responses and I needed make sure I was focussed on my current clients!  And this is a better way for me to prioritize myself for the upcoming months, and stay on track.  That said, have you been waiting to book a spot for July 1st – October 31st?  It is May 1st and those spots are now up for grabs.  So drop me an email or a phone call with your info (due date or baby’s birthday) and the type of session you are looking for  QMCphotography@gmail.com and 403-560-8559.

Other fun news around here?  YES!  In the fall I am going to be doing photography FULL TIME!!  I will still take the odd shift as a nurse on a wonderful Labor & Delivery unit, but Photography is going to be my main focus.  I am so excited about this change and a few other big things that are in the works around here.

Thank you all for you love and support while I have been healing from this crazy heart infection, after a 4 month process, I am still on drugs and have a ways to go, but I can honestly say as of this week, the corner has been turned. I even got out and took the kids frog-hunting today, something that I couldn’t have even dreamed about a few weeks ago!  It was the perfect day for such lovely sunshine!

You can’t have a blog post without a photo, so here is my son’s crowning achievement for the day!  He was so proud…and as we let him go and watched him swim away, he screamed after it “Goodbye Froggie Easton! I love you!  I hope you live forever!!”…

I have such a cool job.  I get to meet some really neat families at such an amazing, life-changing moment in their lives…and feel truly honored to be invited to capture these moments that change so incredibly quickly.  Chloe & Matt were so fun.  They both come from blow-my-mind HUGE families, and they were so comfortable as new parents, that you would have thought they had done this a hundred times. Meet sweet Wesley.

Have had a few health issues lately that have left me more than a little out of commission, and my website and facebook pages seriously neglected. I am slowly getting back on track and have many beautiful sessions to share. I just finished up this gallery a couple of weeks ago, my first non-referred, google generated client, kind of neat for me, and it turned out they were one of the most fun families ever and I LOVED working with them for a Maternity and a Newborn session. Here are some of my faves, from bump to the big arrival. Welcome sweet 5 day old Abigail, and I have to mention her amazing big sister, 2 year old AVA, who was such a little love, so out-going and fun to photograph!
Thanks for seeing what I have been up to lately!
~Quita

Xavier and his amazing-beautiful momma came all the way from Vancouver for a photo weekend with me in the fall right before the snow came. Everything about this little man was wonderful, all he did was smile and snuggle. LOVED my weekend and we got some pretty stinkin’ cute images as a result!! (some of my very favourites of 2013). They can come and visit me anytime. And, I have to add, check out the cutest chub-a-lub arms a baby has ever had! I have skinny, scrawny babies, and swoon over a little baby-chub.

William joined parents who have had the weight of the world on their shoulders and travel their journey in a way that leave every spectator in awe of their unity and strength, and a big brother who not only endures things no six year old, or any child deserves, but he does it with a smile on his face in inspiration in his soul. What an amazing family to join, William, you are in good hands! I cannot wait to see you grow and try to keep up with that big bro. (And yes that is a lot of sweat in Oliver’s “big brother” photos…he did bout 8000 summer-saults back and forth in my hallway between modelling turns. You crack me up kiddo.)

In November I was so excited to meet this amazing family of 5! They had recently welcomed twin girls and have a darling 2 year old son (oh he is going to be busy keeping track of his sisters in high school!). And to top of my wonderful session, I was lucky enough to get an extra set of hands from another local photographer who is super talented and I am thrilled to call a friend! Thank you Kristin from www.afsphotography.ca (At First Sight Photography, Calgary AB.), you are truly amazing.

These fraternal sisters were born a minute apart, and their amazingly beautiful mom even carried them perfectly to term (and a week later, when I met her you couldn’t even tell she’d ever been pregnant, the kind of woman you love to hate! But you couldn’t hate her, not even a little bit, the whole family was so wonderful.) The girls were perfect, and slept like dreams, they are so uniquely different and amazing.

This is one of my favourite sessions ever. Such a sweet family, such a precious little lady, and oh so sleepy. What a wonderful job.

I have loved capturing your first year Elizabeth!  AND!!!!!….I can’t wait to meet your new brother or sister!

I was privliged to photograph this amazing fit momma at 37 weeks (usually a little late for photos, but she totally rocked it!) and then a few short weeks later see them again and capture sweet and perfect little Hunter.  So wonderful to see both sides of the journey.  Thank you for inviting me into your lives

~PS I ALWAYS get permission from my mommas before posting such personal photos…

Wow, time flies, I cannot believe that Isabella is already 6 months, such a doll, I have loved photographing her from before birth until now…I am always excited to spend the afternoon with this amazing family.