Just a few images from the AMRA road racing event near Race City Speedway in Calgary last week-end. It was a great day for racing, warm, sunny and with just a bit of a breeze to keep everyone from overheating. There was quite a bit of excitement with the kids racing when Allysa nearly overtook a “boy” and everyone was hooting and hollering. She was soooo close too! Way to go Allysa, great riding.

Our son is on bike number 4 (red). This was his first road race. I asked him the other night on our way home from our “date” what his favorite racing was. I was not surprised when he said road racing. While he was racing I kept on getting a picture in my head of him riding on the city streets as a teenager. I have a scary feeling that he will look just like this. I mentioned it to Terry and he said “wouldn’t you rather he was trained properly and aware of what is going on around him, like in a racing environment? We wouldn’t want him buying his first bike and taking it on the streets without this knowledge”. He has a point but really, I’m his Mom, heck, it’s my job to worry. There was a crash this week-end, with one of the kids coming off her bike and rolling 4 or 5 or maybe even 6 times, at high speed, across the pavement and I cried. She immediately came to her feet and waved her arms in the air to let us know she was ok and she’s not my daughter but still, I had tears in my eyes. sigh. I wasn’t meant to be a racing Mom. Anyways – a few shots…. enjoy.

Happy Birthday Dad!

This group of girls today was amazing. Mom and Grandma had tears in their eyes while I was doing the portraits of the little girls. It is times like that when you see just how much love and life are appreciated.

This tiny little girl was wide awake for most of her session. She made the sweetest little faces and was trying so hard to take in everything that she seemed older than her 5 (or 6?) days that she was. She barely made a peep the whole 2 hours I was there so we had lots of chances to try some different things. They had a super cute pomerian dog that kept on trying to nuzzle into the little nests that we made for the baby, I think she wanted to be a model too and she was pretty good at it. Enjoy your little girl T and M, she will grow up so fast.

If there is anything better than 1 sweet newborn it’s 2! A little girl and a little boy, just a tiny bit smaller than his sister. Everything went very smoothly with a couple of breaks for feeding, and a short break while Dad rocked his new little daughter and put himself to sleep instead. (sorry, I just had to add that in). Had they not been tucked into the corner I’d have been snapping pictures because she looked so teeny tiny laying there on her Daddy’s chest. Their Mom and Dad say everything is going smoothly and that everything is under control so lets hope these two don’t decide to give them trouble. Check out these adorable babies….

Now on another note – could someone please get rid of this terrible weather? We seem to be getting some beautiful days and yet every time I have an outdoor session it SNOWS! What is up with that? I spent over an hour on the roads this morning trying to get to a session and finally gave up and came back home since I was only 10 minutes from home anyway and their was no traffic going that direction. I can’t wait to start enjoying the outdoors so bring on the sun.