Our little blog

Let the good weather and fun outside activities prevail.

The snow is finally falling and the kids are having a blast playing, sledding, and traipsing it through the house. The season seems to bring other fun for me, such as renovation the bathroom.

out with the old and in with new

It’s only beginning, but so far every thing has put up a fight. Now the real fun starts…

Out with the old and in with the new!

This past weekend we went up to the cottage to bring in the new year. Despite the freezing rain conditions turning to snow on the ride up, and the whiteout conditions on the way home, it make for lovely scenery and fun for the kids.

Had a nice time with friends and Carrie started a new project she may post about later.

Happy 2012. I predict it’s going to be a heck of a year!

It’s flying by, and with what we’ve go going on, it’ll be spring in no time!
Superbowl, Valentine’s, Dad’s birthday, Mom’s birthday, The Retros Live at the Steamwhistle, CUBA!!! and then I’m heading on a 4 day photo assignment to Finland, then it’s April… night school, photography seminar, Adam’s birthday, Easter… and it’s almost May… and I could keep going…

We lead a busy and blessed life.

Mia is in kindergarden full time now, Audrey is going to school 1 day a week, we hosted family over for Christmas, we’ve booked a vacation, and I’ve finally gotten around to fixing the photo display on our website, so we can actually share more about our lives now. going to test by putting in a picture now, if it works, more updates to come after I’ve had some sleep.

Edit: well, it’s not perfect, but its fixed the old posts. Not all pictures are selectable however it looks like I can insert some and the old photos are not broken anymore. More tinkering I guess…

Hmm… seems to be working ok now. As long as I don’t change anything hopefully it will not break.

It looks like I’ve gotten our site pretty well fully migrated over, with almost all the previous content displayed correctly. The only issue I can see is that the plugin we used to use for displaying photos is not compatible with this latest version of our blogging software, but hopefully I’ve found a workaround that can be used instead. Let me know if you have issues viewing this site or notice anything different.

Max

Adam and my Dad had to get up at the crack of dawn, actually earlier to catch a charter to Nunavut for the first gold pour at the mine site there, so we were down to me, the girls, my mom and Andrew. I woke up with a pounding headache, probably exhaustion. My mom and I went to White Spot for breakfast. Andrew was a bit “under the weather”. After some pancakes, my mom took off to run some errands and I went back to the condo where Mia, Audrey and I had a nap. I woke up feeling a lot better so I got in contact with Matt, whom had seen Max a couple times the week before, but I never got out on those occasions due to parental duties. My mom and Andrew were off to the see the gold medal curling game so I was on my own for the afternoon.

I met up with Matt, first at The Academic… I made it through the door, but was stopped by staff because I had children with me. (A sidenote…  if you’re an empty establishment, that serves a full menu, so I assume you’re a restaurant… pick up your friggin phone when I call to see if kids are allowed before I make plans!) So anyhow, we ended up next door at Earls to watch the gold medal Men’s Curling game, which ended much better for Canada this time around. It was nice to catch up with an old friend, though not the best of circumstances with 2 littles in tow. I made my way back after the game and got the kiddies down to bed right away since they were getting pretty worn out and the next day was gonna be a big one with the gold medal hockey game and closing ceremony.

I actually didn’t end up taking any pictures today… dunno, just wasn’t on my radar, shame really.

Happy Birthday Dad!

Kind of a quiet day, pouring rain today. We had late lunch/early dinner reservations because my parents and Andrew are going to the Canada/Slovakia game, so we didn’t have a whole lot of time to do much before we had to mobilize. My mom and I heard of shop in Kitsilano called Gumdrops, a shop specializing in rain boots and wet weather wear. We made it back to the condo to clean up before dinner, we had to hurry because we had to drop off an extra hockey ticket we had… or so we thought.

I walked into the condo and saw a familiar hand holding a beer and feet up on an ottoman and saw my Dad grinning. I recognized who it was, but kept it quiet until my mom noticed. She walked and and freaked out, it was Adam, my Dad flew him back out to Vancouver for the hockey game and as a birthday present to himself. Problem solved with the 4th ticket. (I wasn’t going because I went to the previous game and this game was over dinner and bedtime for little girls, a tough one for a sitter to handle, I was happy to watch it at home).

We made it to the Shore Club in time to watch the final Women’s Curling game. My brothers thought it was pretty funny to teach Mia to make choking face whenever they asked what Cheryl Bernard (Team Canda Skip) was going to do. Tough loss for Canada, but you gotta hand it to Sweden for playing to Canada’s weaknesses at the end, it shows they did their homework.

Canada won against Slovakia, though it wasn’t as convincing as the game against Russia. Oh boy, Canada vs. USA for the gold medal. Bring on the hype!

We finally made it to the German Saxony House today. We’ve been staring at it since we arrived over 2 weeks ago. At night the place lights up and is hilarious to look at all it’s disco lights lighting up the harbour.

Mia woke up tired, so by the time we had lunch, she had managed to crawl into the stroller, leaving Audrey to be held, which was fine by her. I can’t remember the last time Mia fell asleep in a stroller. The kid is going to sleep for a week straight when we get home. Since Mia was asleep and Audrey was due for a nap, my Dad stayed home with the girls and I was able to escape with my mom and do a bit of shopping and pick up a couple things for my Dad’s birthday the next day… including a dozen cupcakes from my favourite cupcake shop, Cupcakes.