Liz & Joe - Romantic Downtown Christmas Engagement Session :)

Liz & Joe are one of the sweetest couples I've ever met :) They wanted a Christmas-y feel to their engagement session, so we headed downtown to be right in the heart of all the evergreen and Christmas light action! Here are some of my favourite images from their cozy winter session..

 We thought that a trip to the poutine truck would be a perfect warm-up..

And then headed over to the skating rink at Nathan Phillips Square, just in time for it to light up like a fairy tale :)

Liz & Joe: we had so much fun with you guys, and couldn't believe how well you endured the chilly weather! We can't wait for your wedding this spring :D
xo
Jessica + Norman

Baby Kayla's 9 month Valentine session :)

I've been photographing Kayla's mommy Kym since my first year of photography school about 17 years ago (!), and had the honour of photographing Kym & Adam's wedding almost 7 years ago - so even though she's just turned 9 months, I sort of feel like I've known baby Kayla for much longer than that. We were lucky enough to catch her *just* before she started crawling, and she was kind enough to show off her shiny new teeth for us :)

 In her little red tutu and heart-speckled top, baby Kayla was the perfect little Valentine :)

One of my favourite things about photographing a baby is watching the huge smiles on her parents' faces when they're playing with her :) 

I can't believe the next time we photograph her, she'll be 12 months already! Time flies when you're having fun ;)
Kym, Adam, and Kayla - can't wait to see you soon and show you the rest of the images from this super-sweet session!
xoxo
Jessica + Norman

{If you know or have an adorable wee one, we'd love to capture this amazing time in their life :) Please get in touch and we can chat about ideas!}

Winter Mini-Vacay :)

So, this week we spent a few days up in the always lovely Algonquin Park - no, not camping as many people asked with shrill voices and raised eyebrows, but at a great hostel just outside the west gates of the park. We saw the most amazing frozen-edged waterfall...

went for a walk around a frozen and snow-covered lake...

and spent about half an hour captivated by the details of the snowflakes falling on our scarves :)