Every year we search for the Kokanee Salmon and most years we just miss them or see one or two. This year we were blessed with TONS of them to see!
This will be our new spot for sure!
Life this year is changing for us. It's good but it's having to let go of our "days off." We cherish our time together as a family and we want our legacy to be about adventures. Adventures and experiences we create together as a family.
This year we have decided to have one kid in school, one home schooled, and August filling in all the gaps. It allows us to still have our Monday's and Tuesday's off with daddy, but just the afternoons. Next year it will be full days of school and change will occur again. For now we will focus on squeezing in the time with them. Today is like all other days but I find I am MORE focused on the moments with them.
I take the time to look deeply at them becoming young men. I admire their joy for such simple things. I am in awe of our conversations on the way to and home from our adventures.
Canyon amazes me daily with his ability to learn and as much as I fear being his teacher, he makes it easy. He's brilliant. Truly gifted. I am the one learning from him.
Sawyer is loving school and we feel fortunate to be a part of Highland. He loves to make friends and is social like his daddy. He is our engineer kid. Creative and brilliant and passionate.
I just smile when I look at August. He's hilarious and shy and easy going. He fills my heart up daily and can test my patience all in a matter of minutes. I'm thankful for him. He is definitely a Cannell in this picture but his big grinning smile reminds me daily of MY dad and makes my heart grow even more.
We caught a kokanee that had already laid its eggs and gave up his life to keep the cycle of life going. It's an intriguing life they live. I think that is what draws us to them.
It's a reminder for me how quickly this life is changing and that each day is a gift. It's been a tough season of watching my mom fight a battle with cancer. I cherish each phone call and take note of her face each and every day we skype.
One of our biggest gifts is DAYS. We can chose to start each day new with whatever attitude we want. We get a chance to start over each day if the day before wasn't our best. Isn't that amazing??!!
What I love most about our time together is capturing these moments with not only the camera but my heart. Being behind the camera gives me perspective. In the moment and again as I relive it through this blog, and then again when I prepare our photo books.
The Kokanee get about 4 years to live their life and they live it with purpose. They undergo an amazing transformation before they die and we feel fortunate to be able to witness it each year. I want to live my life with purpose.
Our lives are also about transformation. I never imagined my life as a parent of three boys. I am blessed to share it with Greg. He's the most amazing dad that our boys could ever have. If you ask him, he'd disagree. He is the reason why the boys know more about the world then I do. They have a dad who not only tells them the best stories but teaches them while doing it.
I pray they will always seek adventure. I pray they will take their shoes off and feel the ground and the mud and run like the wind. I pray they will know that mom and dad are always watching them in awe of their joy for this life. I pray that someday they will read this blog and smile at the memories and be able to relive them with the same happiness I feel now.
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