Andrew and I had a great day working on the garden today. I built some garden boxes in my backyard last weekend and they needed to be filled with soil…

We started off by going to the Truck Store (U-Haul) to rent a pickup truck. We’ve never owned a pickup so this was very exciting for Andrew! We then went to the Dirt Store (the BURNCO Landscape Centre) to get a load of garden soil. Another big excitement because, although we took our shovels with us to load the truck, the Big Digger filled the truck for us.

The next stop was home where we unloaded the truck with many wheelbarrow’s full of dirt and dumped it into the garden boxes. Of course one truck load wasn’t enough, so we had to do it all over again. The truck was filthy by the time we were done so we had to go to the car wash on the way back to the Truck Store.

Andrew was a great helper all day long and he got involved in every step of the process. The only disappointment for him was when we took the truck back to the truck store. He didn’t realize that we were only borrowing it and he thought we would get to keep it! Oh well, it was fun while it lasted…

I can’t wait to plant the garden now. It still needs to warm up a bit more before I can plant most of my veggies, but I can practically taste them already!

The finished product, ready to be planted!

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Testimonial – Trash the Dress and Engagement Photography

I recently received this wonderful Client Testimonial from my friend Lauren. I’ve photographed Lauren and her husband Eddy many times over the last few years and long-time readers of this site may remember the Engagement Session and the Trash the Dress Photoshoot that I’ve previously posted. The Trash the Dress shoot in particular is one of the favorite and most memorable sessions that I’ve ever done. If you haven’t seen it you should definitely check out the behind the scenes video slideshow from the trip…

So, many thanks to Lauren for your kind words. It means a lot to me and I’m very thankful to have such a great friend!

“When Sean first suggested a “Trash the Dress” photo shoot to me I thought it could be interesting but I wasn’t quite sure what I was getting myself into. My husband and I love the mountains and after tossing around a few ideas Sean suggested hiking Cirque Peak. Cirque Peak is my favourite hike in the Banff area and I was so excited when Sean suggested it. Sean was an excellent sport and lugged a large amount of camera gear on a 16 km hike that ended at an elevation just under 10,000 ft. Sean was willing to go the extra mile to give us pictures that actually show who we are.

Now my trash the dress photos are my favourite photos of the two of us. When people ask to see our wedding pictures I tend to skip over the actual wedding and jump right to the photos that Sean did for us. Sean was amazing to work with and gave us photos that I don’t think anyone else could have.”

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I have posted a couple of my favorite images from the day below. If you want to see more then you can head over to my Riverwood Photography Page on Facebook to see an entire gallery of images!

UPDATE – Client access to the galleries from this session is now available in the client area.

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