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]

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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! :-)