a winter roadtrip

shortly after christmas jamie, aya and i took a little road-trip down the coast to stay with his family at a beautiful cabin on the ocean...

 aya loved exploring the pebbled beaches

tired after the beach, nap time!

enjoy the rest of your winter!

♥

The Hatch Family

i photographed the Hatch family this winter. luckily for us it ended up being on one of the only sunny beautiful day in december, here's some pictures from the shoot...

 

Christmas

This Christmas was pretty good, the only thing that was missing was the snow. Jamie took a week off work to be with the family and for a mini road~trip (which i'll post later) and i got totally spoiled! Here's a few photos from out Christmas this year posted a little on the late side. This year I plan on being more on top of well, everything...a girl can dream...

we counted down the days

our awkward Christmas family photo

  aya was not ok with Santa this year!!

but she was ok with the elves...

i ate almost this entire house in one sitting

  

 gluten free, wheat free, vegan, sugar free spicy gingerbread cats, bunnies, hearts and men, mmmmmm 

 merry belated x~mas to all!

♥

fall family road trip

this fall we took a family trip to victoria, it was beautiful as usual

 aya loved this window in our hotel

 one of my favourite parts of trips to the island is going to butterfly world, i love it there! 

and then there was halloween once we were back. aya was a fat cat bear creature, she loved trick or treating sooo much! since she's not allowed sugar i got to eat all of her candy.

aya's 1st birthday

we had aya's first birthday's these last couple Sundays, one with family and one with friends. i was telling a fellow mom at the park that i threw two and she was saying it's not really worth the effort because they don't remember it anyway. but in our ideal state we live our lives in the here and the now...i think all babies live like that. and aya had fun! she loves hanging out with people and especially other babies, so it was well worth it for me. plus she'll have 1st birthday photographs to "remember" it by:)

my mom got her this little rocking horse which she loves!

happy birthday aya! xx

chai tea

fall is a time of change and i wanted to get my kitchen painted happy colours before it's here...so i painted it pink! the colour scheme is inspired by flower tea which i love dearly.

 pink with cream accents which is also the same colours as my hair right now! my hairdresser said my hair looked like it had been dyed with flowers and tea which is fine by me.

 here is a recipe i've used for chai tea from scratch for quite a few years now. it tastes great, warms you up from the inside and makes your place smell great, i'm a little obsessed...

6 tbs honey
1 tsp ground cardamon
1.5 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground cloves

1 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp ginger

1/4 tsp mace

pinch ground cayenne

3 tsp vanilla

3 cups water

1 tea ball of favourite tea leaves

combine everything and bring to a boil. turn burner to low and simmer 10 min. let stand and cool. strain spices and tea leaves and store in a glass jar in the fridge. shake well before serving. serve by adding 1/2 cup chai with 1/2 cup milk (i prefer almond) hot or cold. 

~HAPPY FALL~

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