Pigtails

Evelyn in pigtails. That's it. I just thought I'd share the photo with you all.

Algonquin Park 2012

I've skipped ahead a few months from where I left off but thought I'd post something a bit more recent. This past week or so I took a trip to Algonquin with Mike, Jay and Danny, thanks again guys for inviting me to go along. I'm not one to take a fishing trip but I have to say it was a lot of fun. And I even caught a few fish. I won't tell you any tales about how big the fish I caught were but suffice it to say there were probably not the biggest fish in the lake. Lets get to the photos.

This first one is obviously a seagull so there isn't much to tell about this one

And here we have a fire, once again not much to tell

This is a 360° photo turned into a "world." This shows our campground on our island and the water, sky and land mass across the water.

I bought a camping hammock before the trip and was dying to try it out. So on the second night I set it up and spent the night in it. This is the view I had when I woke up. Couldn't really ask for a better view to wake up to.

On the second day in the "Park" we took a 5 hour canoe trip involving a few long portages (1.5KM and 2.5KM were the longer ones with a few 400M and 200M ones thrown in for good measure.) This photo here is a 360° shot of me standing on a beaver dam along the Petawawa River.

I then took the image and made another little "world."

This is a shot from our island at dawn.

A bit of a wider shot from our camp.

A night shot from our camp.

This is a canoe.

And lastly we have a night shot/star trails shot. (The red in the tree is from the fire in the pit behind the camera.)

Food

Not so long ago, okay so it was towards the beginning of March, Heather was kind enough to email me  a modified version of her pizza dough recipe. Then, using the gift card Cameron and Sarah had given us for Christmas, we (I) went out and bought a pizza stone and pizza peel. One last trip to the store for some food stuffs and Voila! Pizza is served.

We went out for Chinese and for whatever reason the kids would not eat. They just wanted to play around. The next day when we had the noodles for lunch the kids couldn't get enough of them.

Peanut Butter Cups, does it get any better then that? Those are mine on the plate and Michael Smith's in the book.

Winter Day

Okay that last one was a test, to see who's been paying attention. Apparently no one was. Carrie had to tell me that I had already posted those photos. oops

So this time I'll try to post something new.

Once upon this past winter we went to the park behind our place and had fun playing in the snow

Max loves picking up sticks, and even with the playground covered in snow he managed to find a stick to take down the slide with him. (nothing unsafe about that)

With all that snow the slides were extra fast and the kids shot out of them like a bullet (a very slow bullet)

It was hilarious watching them go down the slides again and again. I should have measured the distance because they might have set some world records. 

some stuff

These are just a few shots to finish off last year.

To start we have Max jumping on his bed. Okay he is really jumping on Evelyn's bed.

A train bridge.

A plant (not sure but I think it's called a milk weed, Mom you will have to let me know if that's right or not)

And an apple

These are the last of last years photos that I had marked for the blog. So that means that after only 3 months we will be getting into this years stuff.

If you, dear readers, would like more stories or photos of any particular thing, leave a comment below. If no comments are posted, I will just keep going with more of this same ol stuff.

Cheers, and thanks for reading.

Winter

This winter has been very warm, which means little to no snow. However we did take advantage of it when it was here and here are some of our photos.

and that pretty much sums up our walk.

Christmas at Home

This was our Christmas at home. 

This was Max's reaction to all the gifts under the tree

just a quick shot of the fam

We got all dressed up before we headed out for Christmas dinner and tried to get a photo of the kids. Well you can see here that Ev wasn't so happy about that.

This is Max trying to help the situation.

and that was our Christmas morning.

Lowe's Christmas Market

These pictures all come from the "Lowe's Christmas Market". The market is full of food, drink, lights, and of course, people.

The aroma of Christmas was emanating from each of the booths

Even though we didn't go on any ride they sure looked like they would be fun 

An old truck in a back ally. That's it. What you want me to make up some story about this. Okay once upon a time there was an old truck in an ally. Guess now we all know why I'm not an award winning author. 

   

Max sitting in a big chair by the fire, trying to stay warm.        

  

just kind of an over all shot of the place

Thanks to the incredibly warm winter we are having I got to ride my bike down town when I went to the market for the second time just so I could take more photos of the place. We had to leave earlier the first time because the kids and Carrie were getting cold.

Birthday Card

Click on the image above to make the train go.

Birthday

Happy Birthday Maximilian!