New Furniture

We buy all our furniture from this little shop off simcoe st. in Oshawa. It's not your high end store but it's great cause they'll order in anything you want in whatever fabric and the prices are really good.. We ordered a new couch and chairs a few months ago and I went up yesterday to pick it up. As I'm driving up simcoe, i look and this is what I saw... Couch and both chairs waiting for me by the curb... service with a smile!

Driving home with the trailer was an adventure. I was weaving and fishtailing all over the 401.

Dropped off the old couch at value village...sad to see them go. I've had them for 10 years and my folks had them for 15 before that.

How Do You Childproof this?

As I was leaving for work this morning, came around corner in kitchen and this is what i find... Please pray for Eva that she'll make it to her 2nd Birthday

I think my father bought this jeep at a garage sale years ago for the grand kids and it's got lots of use out of it. Battery keeps its charge for about 30 seconds but that doesn't seem to bother them. Funny to watch their imagination.

Oh No

Sunday night as we were getting ready to go to church, I hear Isaac shout... "Oh no EVA"... I went running and this is what I found. Now I'm not sure what shocked me more, the fact that Eva pretty much emptied an entire kleenex box or the fact that Isaac didn't notice until the box was empty. (when he's watching backyardigans, you don't have much hope of getting his attention)

I think Isaac has inherited my sense of looking or oberservation sense. Last night there was a rabbit hopping around in our back yard. I said, do you see it and i pointed right at it and he starts looking in the opposite direction.. "i don't see it, i don't see it" I physically had to manuvre his head so he was pointed right at it and still no dice. poor kid

More Pirate Ship Photos

The Pirate Ship

After getting back from Ottawa on Friday night, we picked up the kids and took them to the Pirate ship in town. Kids just love it there. Any thoughts of putting one like this in our back yard are quickly dashed as the cost of the project was over $500,000

Parliment Hill

On Friday morning I decided to go for a quick tour of the parliment. While I was there, the US Ambassador Wilkins came in and then the speaker of the house went by.

Shane Doan Affair

If you ever want to increase my blood preasure, just talk to me about the Shane Doan Affair. Gilles Duceppe and the BLOC QUEBECOIS are using this to further their cause. Shane Doan who is a born again christian was accussed of saying "BLANKETY FRENCHMAN" in hockey game 2 years ago. Doan to this day insisted he didn't say it. Doan never swears, gets made fun of all the time by his teammates cause he says FUDGE instead of something else. What he actually said was in response to a missed call and trying to settle down his goalie Curtis Joseph who was furious over the missed call, "Four French Referrees in Montreal CUJE, Figure it out". NHL Did an investigation of it after the incident and he was cleared.

Gilles Duceppe and the BLOC have brought up this incident which was 2 seasons ago because Doan was selected as captain for Canada. Correct me if i'm wrong, isn't Duceppes main objective to separate from Canada and bring soverienty to Quebec? Anyway, if these words were so offensive and were racial slurs, then I would expect that Ladislav Nagy and the Slovak National team received equal treatment and accusations as doan did. Oh yeah, Nagy is the person according to the post game report from that game who was actually said that "Blankety Frenchmen" statement. How much do you wanna bet that Duceppe has not even contacted the Slovak Ambassador.. I'd bet the bank he hasn't.

Ottawa

Tanya and I went to Ottawa thursday night for an awards night for one of our companies we represent. They put us up in the Chateau Laurier. It was pretty sweet. I am so used to waking up at 6 with the kids that I still woke up same time even though they weren't there. I went on amazing walk around the captial for an hour and a half. It was so quiet. I went by parliment building

then i walked by where the real power lies.

Chateau Laurier - As we walked down into the lobby on Thursday, there stood Joe Clark and his wife. It was pretty funny.

That Laugh gets me everytime

New Ride

Mom broke her pelvis 2 1/2 weeks ago and it has been a slow process healing. Kids have really taken to the new ride tho and enjoy having gramma push them on her walker

Child Labour

The answer is yes, she gets whatever she wants from me

The New Jammies

We bought Eva new silk PJ's, couldn't resist. $8.99 at walmart which tells you... they are really made of silk! or something that resembles silk. Anyway Isaac told her they were special jammies and only for dancing. Tan's got the kid watching too much dancing with the stars... ugh

Best of Friends

I love coming home frome work and finding these two playing and laughing together. Right now at least, they are the best of friends... in 6 months, may be a different story

Hangin Out in Port Hope

Spent some time outside in the yard yesterday and Isaac was helping me on the tractor and had to wear his ear thingy's. Anyway, when we left for Port Hope, he had to wear them in the car because "the jeep is loud" Made me laugh.

Our friends from the cottage have a Jump around and the kids were having fun in it.

Eva waiting for her cousin Lochlan to go down the slide

Great day to swing

Night At The Empire

Went out last night with another couple to see MOLLY JOHNSON at the empire theatre for a night of Jazz. Had a good night. Althought Jazz is not my first choice, I do appreciate it and enjoy it.

Growing Up Too Fast

Isaac went to meet at his school today. Hard to believe he's going to school next year. Anyway, he met with the Vice Principal today and they asked a bunch of questions to see what level of learning he's at. They showed him a bunch of markers and asked him to name the colors and pick his favorite.... "purple" and he passed with flying colors. They then asked him to count to 10... not so good at that point. After 1-2-3-4-5, its a plethera of numbers thrown in and then 10. 1-2-3-4-5-9-7-11ty9-8 TEN. Too bad she didn't ask him to identify the logo's of the NHL Teams in the eastern conference. The boy would have aced that.

Ring Around The Rosie

Bulls Lose 3-2 OT