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Christmas 2011

I hope everyone had a great Christmas.  After a daring battery run to Walmart on Saturday morning, we met up with the Sieberts for coffee/tea and to exchange gifts and Christmas cheer.  After that we headed out to Warman to Lee and Brittany’s place for Christmas Eve dinner to open gifts.  Wendy talked about the [...]

What’s next is next

When I resigned from the Salvation Army, I didn’t really have a plan or a job to go to so I’ll let you read into that all you want.  It was a pretty sudden decision but it was time to move to something else.  After years of being on call 24.7, I wasn’t sleeping well [...]

The weekend

Wendy writes about our weekend on the cabin weblog.  It was a weekend of good books, Chuck E. Cheese, some lacrosse, coffee, and a dog that wouldn’t get out of the bed and a son that wouldn’t stop trying to get back in.  Oh right, this happened. As you can see, it was going good and [...]

My week in review

On Sunday I decided to take the family to Waskesiu for the day.  We drove up through Prince Albert, past the Prince Albert Penitentiary and Riverbend Institution (Wendy was curious over where the Salvation Army has our prison barbecue) and then to Waskesiu (Mark thought we were headed to the cabin via Regina but in [...]

August Long Weekend

Wendy blogged about our weekend at the cabin.  The photos can be found here. The highlight of the weekend was falling (being tossed off) the hammock by Oliver.  Here was my view after my eviction.  He has a great future as a bouncer.

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 [...]

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 [...]

An Ollie in the family room

Oliver pulled out his skateboard today and spend some time ripping up the family room.  Click here for the entire photoset.

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 [...]

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.

Thanksgiving

Wendy posted a fair bit about our Thanksgiving weekend on her blog.  No need to add more here.