Funny Faces

The new Picasa (version 3.5) has a new face-detection feature. It attemps to scan all your pictures, and detect faces for you to label. Here are some funny results from the scan on all our pics: (is that Saddam Hussein in the middle??)

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Family Picture

Funny pics

Vacation at the cottage!

We're back from the cottage (and I'm back to the office... :-( boo!) We had a great time again this year. Some highlights:

• We celebrated Jessie's 3rd birthday
• went tubing with Sharon, John & Allison and their kids Jenna and Justin
• did lots of fishing (Sarah and Abby caught some nice-sized bass with their Barbie rods)
• lots of swimming (Sarah swam to the rock by herself, without her lifejacket!)

The weather held out really well for us. It was beautiful and sunny for the first few days, then we had some short showers Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but they were usually short periods of rain, and didn't stop us from swimming, etc.

There is a family of ducks that frequented the floating dock, and were really friendly. The kids had lots of fun with them. (And so did Leah) :-)

You can check out the slideshow below, or click on it to open larger individual pictures.

Here is a video taken by Allison of Leah waterskiing!

Abby's 5th Birthday

Here are some pictures from Abby's 5th Birthday. It was a "Reptile Party". As you will see, kids are not afraid of anything!! :-)

Abby the rocker

Abby in her music class, singing B-I-N-G-O. Look how calm all the other kids are... We have a serious rock-chick on our hands! LOL!

Alice in Wonderland - Dance Recital

Sarah had her "Alice in Wonderland" dance recital yesterday.   It was at the University of Waterloo humanities theatre.  At least a few hundred parents/family were there to watch.  Sarah was pretty nervous to be out on stage in front of such a big crowd, but she did great!  See the attached pictures and video clips.  :-)

The Audience

 

The Program

 

Sarah's name in the program (top line)

 

About to begin!

 

(Sarah is in the middle on the right hand side when it starts)

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Video Part 2: