Wonderland Video

Love the kid on the swing part way through the video... rain starts coming down part way through their ride and the looks on the kids faces is priceless.

Isaac's Birthday Party

When we got back from cottage, Isaac had his birthday party at michaels. This was our first one not at our home... definately won't be the last. We went to michaels craft store, rented the room, made bird houses and the kids just had a good time.

Kung fu panda cake

Wonderland

During the 2nd week of holidays, we looked at the schedule and week ahead and realized that if we were going to try and get to wonderland we had to do it on the monday. The week called for rain everyday so we were taking chances. We talked about it all day sunday and also the week before. Monday morning came, we said we're going to wonderland, talked about it all morning, packed, got in the van and part way up eva pipes up, "Where we going?" Umm... Wonderland Eva... Oh my word, that girl

We got heavy rains for 2 separate occasions, luckily we ran for cover and were ok. The end result was it weeded out the lines and we were able to go on most rides afterwards with little or no lineups.

Kids had a great time... even though Eva tripped or fell about 7 or 8 times...

Isaac making his D for Dino

Uncle Doug

Today we received some very sad news about the passing of my Uncle Doug. He is my mom's oldest brother and lived in Quebec. He is very close to our family and he will be greatly missed

We've never owned a cottage but growing up as kids, i fondly remembered our summer trips to Uncle Dougs Cottage outside Valleyfield PQ on the St. Lawrence river. Many of my trips to opening day in montreal for the expos constituted us stopping in Valleyfield to pick up Uncle Doug and heading into the city. His dry sense of humor and his ribbing of me will always be remembered.

2 years ago the Burns Clan got together to celebrate Uncle Dougs 80th Birthday. Here is a picture from that day.
Very hard to say goodbye... you will be missed Uncle Doug.

Went to visit our good friends the Tobia's while in Cloyne

Isaac doing his fish impersonation

We threw all the bass back... not bass season til the 27th

Isaacs first time tubing

Cottage Family PIcs

Isaacs Birthday Party @ the Cottage

Eva scores her first goal

Framing

Got to watch the back wall go up... yes, far left window is my window... i thought it was cool anyway

Back wall

My Poor Children

So Faithy hasn't been growing as much as she should. She's been stuck on 15 lbs for 3 months or so so the doctor had her come back at the 9 month mark and was a little concerned so they referred us to the local peidiatrican. The doctor happens to be a friend of ours and tanya went today for a consult with him. We are not overly concerned because she's developing like our other kids and followed the same kinda pattern. Anyway, today, she's up a bit which is good and we're gonna start her on some homo milk. Anyway, the results of the consult:

Faithy is in the 10th percentile for weight
50th percentile for length/height
90th percentile for head size

Little Kid with a big head.... great. They get their big head from their daddy. Poor kids!!

fall08

Little Video I had done from the fall of 2008

family

The Weekend

Ended up being a pretty busy but fun weekend. Took older 2 mini golfing on friday night and Tanya and Faithster went fathers day shopping. Saturday morning, took odler 2 again to the movie theatre and saw christian movie, God Rocks. Saturday afternoon, Isaac had soccer and then papa mackay took them back to their place and and Tanya and Faith and I went to the year end Belleville Bulls Banquet. Sunday afternoon, we had been talking about going as a family to see the movie UP and I wasn't really looking to cram more in but we thought if we didn't do it now, would probably be out of the theatre by the time we could go again. So off we went, all 5 of us. It was a 3-D movie so it was rather amusing to watch the kids react.

Mike Murphy and Myself. Gonna miss this guy. Hope he does well in Carolina

P.K.

Framing has begun

Wrestlemania

So I'm off to the side, trying to get all the orange team lined up for team pictures and I was missing a few kids... one of the other parents snapped this picture. Great... notice who's at the top and bottom of the pile... oi yoy

That Giggle

Mommy's The Best

So it doesn't take much to get in trouble with my kids. Isaac is on his toes and very alert about every thing i say. He'll try and get me to promise him something like taking him to mini golf or letting him play my hockey game and then if by chance I forget, he gets rather upset with me. Need to be a man of my word. The thing is... the turkey tries and sneaks it in on me so I'm talking to tanya, feeding faith, eva screaming about something and isaac asks me if its ok if we go mini golfing on friday and I say sure... well, i need to be on my toes a little more. So last night as we ate dinner, we were talking and I look over and isaac has his head down and close to tears. Did I miss something. So I asked if he was ok and it was like pulling teeth to get it out of him. What Happened... Did daddy say something that hurt your feelings? The head starts nodding yes... I tried to think what I had said over the last 5 minutes and I couldn't recall. Tanya and I were just joking around so I really was at loss for how i hurt this poor boys feelings. I said, "Will you tell me what Daddy said that hurt your feelings" and he nodded and said , "yes, but I can't tell you here, i have to tell you in the other room" So out we went to the hall and I convinced him to give up what i had said...

"Daddy, you said you loved mommy the best" His voice was shaky and it pretty near broke my heart. I think we were joking about the hot tub and that I loved the hot tub but I loved her more she was the best or something like that. Anyway, i had to console the poor kid and let him know that I loved mommy and him and faith all equally, eva, i wasn't so sure about to which a big smile came on his face and his deep belly laugh...

I love my kids... they are the best

Look Who's Crawling