A great party for some great friends.

The two easiest parties to do are family dances and kids birthday parties. Turning 8 is great and having a dancing is even better. Kids are great as they just want to have fun and have no inhibitions when it comes to doing just that. All of the kids came to have fun and fun is what they had.

With all the lights and sounds you would find at a school dance we gave the birthday girl the full meal deal. Add in all the classic songs you can think of from the Hokey Pokey to the Limbo you have the elements for a great party. At the end of the dance there was a candy toss and the birthday girl opened all her presents to end off the afternoon.

Please see the video below for highlights of the day.

A day to remember.

It is hard to believe that a year has already gone by since my cousins wedding.  It was a great day where I did a little more than I normally do.

Doing functions for family is something I seem to do less and less of for the main reason that I get treated better via the people I do not know over the people I do.  This was not the case however with Terry and Penny.  Even though I am yet to recieve a formal thank you in the mail they sure did thank me that night and every time I have seen them since.

Penny wanted to do a slide show and Terry didn’t and with all the goings on it just never really came together. So, a few weeks before the wedding I decided I would take pictures from the day and build a slide show during dinner from the pictures I took and then show it at the end of speeches.  Well I have to say this nearly killed me as it was one of the hottest days of the summer and on top of it I was providing sound for the ceremony.  A normal Edmonton Wedding is a 12 – 16 hour day and with all the goings on for this wedding I had clocked in at almost 21 hours. 

 I can say this for sure as it was all worth it.  The slide show went off without a hitch and added a great touch to an already great day.  On top of it all I got lucky and snapped a few nice pictures and we had a lot of fun as well.

  

She did not like me or maybe it was the big camera and lens.

By the end she was getting used to me and things were a little more natural but then it was nap time for the both of us.