Today we are back from our family vacation in Saskatoon, SK, where we were visiting Tracy's family for a week. I decided to take some time off from taking photographs, but of course I couldn't put my camera down completely and I took a few photographs here and there... I'm writing this blog with fever of 39.3C so you should take some time to like it :)

Giving water to horses.

Oliver loved spending time with all the kids!

Celebrating Tracy's Birthday... she is old but I still love her :)

When life gives you lemons... on our way to town I took the corner to close and got pulled into the ditch.. lucky us, we were not too far from our house and we got some help digging us out... nice little adventure :)

Having some friends and family over.

I made this nice Greek salad :)

We had some fun time playing outside in the snow and sitting by the fire.

At one point or another we pretty much all got sick :(

The weather was beautiful so when Oliver was taking a nap I went for a nice hike to the river to take some photographs and be in the nature.

Christmas presents opening time!

It was great spending time with family and we all had a great time... On our way home... Beautiful day for a drive :)

We just came home from visiting Symons Valley Ranch where we had a chance to see some raindeer :)

On Wednesday Oliver, Tracy and I went out to see The CP Holiday Train in Airdrie.

After we were done with the Holiday Train, I stayed and took some photographs for the City of Airdrie.

Today we had a day off from photographing skiing. We decided to drive to Banff and get some groceries and spend some time taking pictures.

Just when I thought that I didn't really get a good Instagram photo today... Boom... We are off road and shoveling... Instagram mission accomplished :) I'm just glad that I wasn't driving so it wasn't my fault :)

Luckily someone stopped and helped us out! It took us over an hour to dig the car out and than we got pulled out. I guess we needed a good workout :)

I'm photographing Alpine Ski World Cup at Lake Louise for USA TODAY Sports, so I will be staying here for a few weeks. Here are a few photographs I took earlier today on my way to Lake Louise... It was pretty fun driving in all the snow :)

Being a professional photographer, I really don't take enough of our personal photographs... Yesterday Oliver had his first unparented swimming class, so I thought it would be a good idea to take a few photographs :) Oliver did great, our boy is growing up!

Day 14: Last blog post from our trip... quick stop in a taxi to see this beautiful view on our way to the airport :)

I wanted to find a green little frog to photograph on this trip but unfortunately I only found this poster.

On our way home!

Day 13: Last day at our resort in Costa Rica. Tomorrow we are flying home, sad and excited at the same time!

My little office.. working on my images from yesterday's trip :)

I thought it would be nice to get a photo of a last sunset on our beach in Costa Rica but unfortunately the sunset was one of the worst in all these days... Oh well, it is still not a bad place to spend an evening :)

Day 12: We rented another small 4x4 for the day and headed to explore some more of this beautiful country!

I can't say that I travel as much as some people do but I have been to some beaches and I have to say that Beaches in Costa Rica in this area are by far my favourite! So our goal for the day was to find some local beaches... we sure found some! This one is Playa Hermosa.

Last night my sister said to take a photo of a sleeping dog on the road.. well, here you go :)

We stopped at this nice restaurant for lunch.. very nice food!

Second beach stop, this time is at Playa Del Coco :) It was great to watch some locals playing football on the beach.

We do have a GPS but Tracy is my navigator for this trip so I pointed on the map and said, this looks like a nice beach for some sunset shots... I don't know how, but we always seems to find the craziest (pretty much off road) roads to get places. On our way to the beach we came across this pretty much river that we had to cross... I was happy to see that some other cars drove across, otherwise I wasn't sure :)

We made it to the beach in one piece! Beautiful place once again... This time beach at Potrero :)

Beautiful sunset once again!

Day 11: Relaxing family day :)

In the afternoon I did a mini photo session of my sister and her baby Lucas... Here are a few photographs :)

When Oliver got up from his nap we had a nice family sunset swim at the pool :)

Great time at sushi place for dinner!