Baby Diamond

I did newborn photos recently for my friends. They said I could share. I'm glad, because this baby is really sweet.

A Slice of Life | I heart faces photo contest entry

I am attempting my first photo contest/challenge with the i heart faces weekly challenge. We shall see.

I love this photo of my family as we were just hanging out together one evening. Check out the cat. Funny kitty.

Calgary Stampede

Stampede has come and gone again - ten days when the city puts on it's best-est cowboy duds and lives for the rodeo of all rodeos.  We only made it out to the opening parade this year, but that was an event in itself.  We went with our friends, and so the guys headed downtown at 6:30 the morning of the parade to grab a good spot.  It was a good spot indeed, for even CTV and CBC, the two major Canadian channels were positioned exactly across the street from us, so we also were a part of the equivalent of the Today Show or Good Morning America's coverage of the parade.  The wives and kids joined them around 9am, taking the train along with the other million people gathering for the festivities.  I would have taken a picture on the train, but I couldn't move my arms, or hands, or feet, or anything else.  Memories are made of events such as these.

   

The tv camera man locked in on Colton and Jason - so I locked in on him for a brief moment.  If one was watching the parade on tv, they would have seen the boys, then me poke out quickly with my camera and then a quick cut-away by the channel.  I think I messed with their shot.  heehee.

Calgary is a mesh of cultures - lots of immigrants from all over the world - and the parade represented that mesh well.

I loved these guys.  

I also loved these gals dressed up in their frontier gowns and parasols.  Just lovely.

Bevo made and appearance - it was all we could do, as good Ags, to not jump up and saw off them horns.

These little clowns were quite cute and full of energy.

This is so Calgary - Go Flames!

A few more of my favorites...

And finally, even the street sweeper was part of the show.  Only in Calgary, and only during Stampede.

Yellowstone National Park

Yes, finally.  And since you have all been waiting so long and losing sleep wondering, "When will Heather get those Yellowstone pictures up???", I will post 500.

Just joking, but it may seem like that by the end of this post.  There was so much cool stuff in Yellowstone!  Like...

Buffalo!

a buffalo and a fly fisherman

a buffalo and a guy taking a picture of another buffalo

Justin taking a picture of buffalo

And we saw...

Geysers!

We actually spent a whole afternoon waiting for Old Faithful...missed it TWICE.  I thought it blew every 30 minutes or so.  Nope...it's averaging around 90 minutes this year.  We had two times of just walking through the parking lot and seeing everyone coming back, signifying...guess what.  So we decided to park it and wait on site.

Waiting for Old Faithful...

...and waiting...

Not Old Faithful, but Castle Geyser, which is not faithful, so it was a real treat to see it blow and it helped break up the monotony of waiting.

...still waiting...

Even Tess is into the anticipation.

Everyone is waiting.  Is it time yet????

Thar she blows!!!

Ok, what next.

A bear.

Kids and buffalo!

A herd of buffalo!

We saw lots of buffalo.

But we also saw...

Waterfalls!

I love this shot - you can see how big this thing was with the people there to scale by.

We just saw some incredible scenery everywhere we looked.

How Tess took in the scenery...

and my absolute favorite view(don't miss the rainbow)...

It was a beautiful trip.  I highly recommend it.  Two thumbs up.  A 10.