The girl across the street - The Norton Family - Calgary Family Photographer

The doorbell rang in the middle of a rainy summer afternoon and who was at the door but Little Milla Miller (aka. Aaron/Bucky).  "You have to come see this right away!!".... Nikki, Jenny and I hesitantly followed Aaron out the door. You see.....depending on the day we could be hanging out playing something with Aaron or be in the middle of feud that involved hurling rotten crab apples at each other across the street from our perches in the trees. But....he then said...."Miranda wants to show you something." Yup...he said the magic word...Miranda. You see Miranda was Aaron's sister and well...to be honest....I kinda secretly stalked Miranda. She was about 4 years older than me and well...I idolized her. There...it's now out there...yes I IDOLIZED MIRANDA!!!

Anyways, back to my story....so we ran across the street with Aaron and followed him up the 2 flights of stairs to their attic.  He was being strangely quiet as we walked up the last flight and whispered..."be careful!".  The attic door creaked open and there stood Miranda in the dimly lit room with her eyes wide open staring at a rocking chair. (okay I do have to admit here that I was kinda surprised that she was looking so intently at a rocking chair, but whatever..it was MIRANDA!!). "Look!" she said. "The rocking chair is rocking on it's own...I think our attic is haunted!" 

So let me stop here for a minute and just say that you need to remember that I had Nik and Jen with me and given that they were younger of course fled the room screaming in terror as they saw the rocking chair moving on it's own with Miranda and Aaron standing beside us.  I'm really not too sure if I was frozen in terror or skepticism.  But it took me only a few more seconds before I realized that there was a string attached to the chair leading to a laundry hamper.  I followed the string and opened the hamper to see Lori gently pulling the string to make the chair rock. "BUSTED!"  I must admit I was torn on whether to be hurt or honoured that they chose me to trick. Anyways, no hard feelings but it's definitely something I've never forgotten!

Yes, I loved that Miranda was my neighbour and that I got to visit with her at random moments.  I remember feeling so honoured that she invited my family to her graduation celebration.  I still remember that red flamenco inspired grad gown.  Coincidentally I too had a shiny red grad gown.....no I didn't copy her...totally coincidence.

The Miller family were a big part of my childhood and I am so thankful for that. Visits in the yard, crab apple fights across the street, early bird swimming, street hockey...all with the Millers.  That's why I was so excited when Miranda asked if I was available to shoot her family photos when I was in Regina over Thanksgiving.  Of course I was available!  

And of course it was the coldest and windiest day of the whole Thanksgiving weekend that we had scheduled photos, but the Norton family totally put up with it!  I had a great time at Wascana Park in Regina capturing their family and getting to know them and catch up a little bit.  Miranda hadn't changed one bit. Miranda, you have a lovely family, I sure did enjoy myself!

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See? Hasn't changed....except she's not wearing her shiny red grad dress!

I love this image of Miranda.