Before They Pass Away

 Himba- Namibia

Kazakh- Mongolia

Huli- Indonisia & Papau New Guinea

 Goroka- Indonesia & Papau New Guinea

I literally was so overwhelmed with beauty that I couldn't help but to get emotional while viewing these pictures. Jimmy Nelson spent two weeks totally immersed with each tribe, 33 of them, to give us a unique understanding of each tribes culture, traditions, beliefs, and way of life.

 I don't know what you'll take from all this raw beauty and purity but what I got out of it was how sad it is that we have all become so disconnected from one another. Maybe I am slowly losing it because I haven't been further than  up my road in days and am looking way too far into this, but it got me thinking.  No, I am not  suggesting to become a bunch of savages but I am game to become better connected to my "tribe", my people. Evolution is natural, it's important, but I hate where evolution is taking us. I find I am spending waaaaayyy to much time on my phone playing candy crush (extremely addicted),checking blogs, instagram, facebook, twitter, Pinterest that I have basically become a social media whore. I feel that these things make me feel better connected to people but are they? As my baby plays around me I am "imessaging or bbming" my friends. As my mother is trying to tell me a story I am pinning my dream home. I mean we are all guilty of this but sometimes I find it to be way to excessive and then I end up feeling a terrible amount of guilt. I definitely won't be giving up any of these addictions any time soon but I need to stop checking my phone when in the company of others. Everyone has their vices and needs, something to help them relax or check out so to speak, but this is getting crazy already. I am lucky enough to be able to stay home with my babe that I should be enjoying every waking moment with her teaching, exploring, playing and I do but I always have my phone in reach. I honestly am terrified for Willows future, our children's future. I am going to say this again, she spends way more time in nature than the average toddler and for that I am very grateful. But when we are at home I am spending way too much time on my stupid phone.  I mean, I catch myself daily and then I quickly hide it from myself, but seriously, how sad. What could be more important than my babe? What is going to become of these children when all they see is peoples faces pressed up to a screen? Are our children going to grow up and be socially inept?

Ok I need to cut this off somewhere because my babe has been napping for quite sometime and I do not want to become a total hypocrite. :p  I hope you enjoyed these photo's as much as I did and got a little something, something out of them.

I got all of these images from Jimmy Nelson's website Before They Pass Away. When you have a moment please do yourself a favor and check it out! The photos I have posted is just a little taste of what you will see. If you feel like watching some great videos please watch these that feature Jimmy Nelsons journey. I may have a new idol ;)




The preview at the beginning of this following video is a little cheesy but keep watching

Golden Globes

For those of you who have been following my blog or know me personally you would know that we just went through a big move at the end of October. We moved half way across Canada, from Cape Breton back to Manitoba. I wasn't to keen on the idea of moving back as I am absolutely in love with Cape Breton. Well CTV just announced that the Golden Globes are giving their guests a 3 day VIP trip to Cape Breton! Wha Wha Wha?!?! Obviously any well known celeb could afford a trip anywhere in the world themselves, but there is a teeny tiny chance at least a couple of them will take up the offer. I could have been doing some major celeb creeping since CB isn't all that big.  DANG! Maybe next year they will offer a 3 day VIP trip to Manitoba?

For all of you celebs reading my blog, I would have creeped on you so hard! What a shame. I hope you enjoy my most favourite place in the world.
 

Booked!

We have officially booked a photographer wooweee! My pal August who is a pro photographer August Karklin Photography went through my top four choices and suggested we choose Scott McIntyre. I can check off another task of what seems to be the neverending wedding to do list.

Indecisive

So we have narrowed it down to four wedding photographers in our area. We are having the worst time deciding who to choose. They are all in the $3-$4000 range. We will absolutely not go over four. Tell us who you think we should go for:
John Ratchford, Brad Sampson, Michelle Campbell, or Scott Mcintyre

I really fell in love with Alex MacAulay but we are waiting to see what we would have to pay for travel costs from Halifax. J and I are the worst for this stuff as we are both so indecisive.

I was able to make one easy fabulous decision today. I ordered the girls in my wedding party some beautiful cuffs from Etsy's Plume Delight. We have decided to go with a Peacock theme :)

Girls dresses and flower belt from smart set.

And  fabulous cuffs!

Cheeeeessseee!

We need a photographer BAD, it's 6 months before the wedding and photographers are becoming very limited. I have a few people in mind and will find one TODAY!! I had called a couple of others last month and they were all booked, we were really wanting our photographer who did our engagement photos to do our wedding but she is unfortunately unavailable. I'll let you know who are going with by the end of today :)

Here are a handful of our engagement photos...