School pictures 2010

 

Christmas Photo 2010

They're looking so grown up! :-)

 

Picture With Santa 2010

 

Sarah's first swim race

Sarah had her first fun-meet at Club Warriors this weekend. She had a great time, and - since she's never raced before - she had all best times! :-) She swam the 50 free, 50 back, 25 free, 25 back, and 100 kick. For some of the races, she swam against the better "Jr.C" swimmers. She did really well and we were very proud of her.

You can see some photos below (click to see larger images), and I'll attach some video as well.



Warm-up:


50 yard freestyle:


25 yard freestyle:


25 yard backstroke

Operation closet-clean!

Leah took the kids to her parents' house for the week, and I stayed home. I decided to surprise her by tearing out the walk-in closet, and building a custom solution. It is made by ClosetMaid. Halfway through pulling all the stuff out of our closet, I realized I may be in over my head. Construction time will only take half the time - the other half of the time will be sorting and folder through the piles. Oh boy.... I finished it just in time. As a matter of fact, I was done putting away the tools just as they came home. You can see some before-and-after shots below.

You're only as young as you feel

From the post on YouTube:

"An elderly couple walked into the lobby of the Mayo Clinic for a checkup and spotted a piano. They've been married for 62 years and he'll be 90 this year. Check out this impromptu performance. We are only as old as we feel, it's all attitude. Enjoy! They certainly do"

Cottage - Allison's Pics (slideshow)

Here are some pictures that Allison Pessack took - mostly of the kids tubing and kayaking, and us visiting with Sharon. We kept forgetting to bring our camera with us when we went to Sharon's... :-@

Cottage Pics (slideshow)

Here are a bunch of pictures as a slideshow from our trip to the cottage. (As usual, click on any image to go to the Picasa web site to view larger images or start a full-screen slideshow).

We had a wonderful time at the cottage once again. Weather was great - only a few days where there was some brief rain, but it didn't stop us from doing any activities. The girls had a great time swimming (they swam every single day), fishing, boating, tubing and kayaking (with Sharon, Jenna, Justin, Allison and John).

In the photos you will see pictures of the family of ducks that visited us every day, a family of Merganser ducks, and some great pictures of a couple of Loons that Leah took. Sharon and Allison saw a deer on the mainland.

The trip went by much too quickly, and we are already looking forward to visiting again next year. Thanks to Nana for her hospitality, and to Marsha and David for being our hosts.

Moodie Cottage 2010

Cottage Panoramics

I took some pictures of the cottage and lake, and put together some panoramic pictures. If you want a larger size or original, let me know and I can email to you.

More pics of our trip to the cottage coming soon!

 

 

 

 

Canada Day 2010

Once again this year we went to celebrate Canada Day at Columbia Lake, hosted by the University of Waterloo. Great weather this year (no rain like last year). For the first time this year we went back at night to watch the fireworks - instead of trying to watch them from the end of the street. The kids were exhausted, and it took us forever to get back home with all the traffic (estimate of 60,000 people were there to watch the show). But all in all it was a success! See the pics below. I will add a video clip as well.

[As usual, click any image below to see higher resolution images or full-screen slideshow from Picasa]

Video:

Abby's 6th Birthday

Here are some pictures of Abby's 6th Birthday party. This year she wanted to have a Build-A-Bear party. She had 12 of her friends (including Sarah and Jessie) there, all making new bears and having fun. We followed it up with DQ ice-cream cake and presents at the food court. :-) A great time was had by all!

Dad's new book!

A Bard of Wolfe’s Army:
James Thompson, Gentleman Volunteer, 1733-1830
Edited by Earl John Chapman & Ian Macpherson McCulloch

Advanced information from the publisher can be found here.

Congrats Dad! Great job.

Golf + Darth Vader = pure awesome

All I can say is, SpikeTV really knows it's target audience!!

BP Spills Coffee

Very funny. And yet is makes me sad.

Jessie playing soccer

I took some video of Jessie playing soccer last week as well. I like how she picks it up to carry it in front of the net. Hahaha. Something you won't see in the World Cup!

Abby playing soccer

Here are some pics and video of Abby playing soccer today.

She played pretty much 4-on-1 soccer today (one of her team sat and cried the whole 'game' and the other tried but didn't do too much). Unfortunately, my camera battery died and I missed her scoring a few goals, but this video shows her intensity. LOL! Don't get in her way! :-)

Sarah's Ballet Dance Recital

The Surprising Realities Behind What Motivates Us in Illustrated Form

Cool video I found through LifeHacker:

GO HABS GO!!!