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A DIY Book Journal

Last year it took Mark forever to get started on his written assignments.  He would just freeze and get all stressed and I would have to calm him down and get him focused on what to do.  I thought we had made some progress but he wanted a book the other day and tried to [...]

Eleven

About the time this goes online, Mark will be awake and opening his birthday gifts.  We bought him an upgraded cellphone, a LG Rumor 2, NFL Training Camp for the Wii, a dopp kit for the lake, and an iTunes card.  He is also getting a cell phone case (but he will want to pick [...]

Mark’s cell phone

Ever since I gave Mark a cell phone for Christmas, some of you have asked how our experiment has gone.  Since it keeps coming up, I’ll post my response here. Mark still has the cell phone which is a good sign.  He has taken really good care of it.  He doesn’t take it to school [...]

Monday

The weekend that was: Wendy worked for part of the weekend.  When she wasn’t at work, I was at work solving some things.  We did find some time to celebrate Mother’s Day with the Reimers, purchase Mark’s birthday gifts, and hang out with Lee.  It was a nice weekend when all is said and done. [...]

Oliver

Mark took this great photo of Oliver the other day at the University of Saskatchewan.  I think it’s my favourite photo ever taken of Oliver.

Museum of Natural Sciences

On Sunday, Wendy and the boys wandered over to the Museum of Natural Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan.  Mark gave me a new zoom lens for my birthday and wanted to go out and try it.  Both Wendy and Mark took their camera’s along as well and all of us took some shots as [...]

37 trips around the sun

I turned 37 today.  Not much of a milestone but it was an enjoyable day.  I fell asleep on the sofa last night so I woke up early to the family and a really sore neck.  After some stretching and straining I got up and opened some presents.  Mark gave me a 70-210mm Sigma lens [...]

The StarPhoenix Community Bloggers

The StarPhoenix has been a part of my life since we moved to Saskatoon in 1984 from Calgary.  In fact I think it was a big reason why my mom chose Saskatoon over Moose Jaw.  She literally dreaded the idea of not having a big city paper.  It was there for me everyday growing up [...]

While I was gone

While I was in Winnipeg, Wendy took the boys to the Mendel Art Gallery and both her and Mark had their cameras with them.  You can see Mark’s post about the Mendel Art Gallery here and see Wendy’s photos here.

PotashCorp WInterShines 2011

As I mentioned in my last post, Wendy, Mark, Oliver and I went down to the Saskatoon Farmer’s Market for PotashCorp WinterShines 2011. Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer The first trip down was beyond cold at –40 but on Saturday we went down and it was around freezing so it was quite pleasant. The [...]

PotashCorp WinterShines 2011

Wendy, Mark, Oliver, and I went down to the PotashCorp WinterShines today.  It was beyond chilly.  With the wind it was –35 degrees Celcius which is so cold, it freezes your cheeks so you can’t talk.  We wandered around the Saskatoon Farmer’s Market, drank some hot chocolate and coffee, and enjoyed the ice sculptures.  It [...]

About.Me

I usually don’t get that excited about sites like this but about.me does a great job of creating personal website/contact pages that professionally pulls together weblogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Foursquare, YouTube, and other web services into one page with a user defined URL which makes it perfect for your Twitter bio, a business card, or [...]

Christmas Around Here

I see that both Wendy and Mark have posted about Christmas so I thought I might as well.  I won’t describe the day as Wendy did a great job of doing that but I will ad in that it was a lot of fun to have friends and family around.  For my gifts, Wendy and [...]

This and that

Mark helped out at the Salvation Army Community Services’  Christmas Dinner on Thursday. Wendy points out that we are done Christmas shopping for 2010.  Enjoy the malls, we won’t be there.

Random Links from Around the House

The best photos of the summer on the cabin weblog. Wendy writes about our anniversary. I picked up this for Oliver’s Christmas gift.  Not sure where I am going to hide it though. Mark wrote about our Thanksgiving weekend and doesn’t hide his bitterness that he isn’t allowed to watch The Wire.