Decorated for Christmas

Christmas Eve at the new place didn't quite look like Christmas. 

After the snow, now it looks a bit more like Christmas.

Christmas 2012

okay so these photos are not in chronological order, and I'm too lazy to correct them. Mostly because google messes up the spacing of the photos once you start to try to re-order them. Any way, here is Christmas 2012

Max running to see what Santa brought and what we bought. 

A shot of the tree fully loaded

Christmas Eve playing games together.

decorating the tree

opening the gifts

all in all a great christmas

Kris Kross will make ya…

…jump! jump!  

sk8 or die

This is a project that I had in mind for a while and finally got around to taking the photos. Then it took a while to edit the photo together. I think it turned out pretty cool.

and here is another photo that I think turned out okay.

Family Photo

They just painted the rainbow bridge, which was tagged (rather poorly I might add) soon afterward. Then it was painted again. So, before it was tagged again we decided to walk down and have a look. While we were out it seemed like a good time to get a quick family photo.

Here it is.

Underpass Park

 They just opened up a new park downtown. There are a lot of condos going up, and they needed to build some more parks. Luckily the stop just under the underpass was not being used. It's actually a pretty cool park. On one side of the street is a jungle gym and swings and the other side is a skate park.

This is Max on a twisty thing that if you aren't careful will throw you off.

climbing up a big spider web thing

look how high I can climb

pee break

starting out low

feeling trapped

swing time

smiling, having fun

I think we will go back again.

Forks of the Credit

I heard great things about this place, and the many waterfalls there. Well I'm not sure where these great falls were cause I didn't see any "great" falls. The drive up there was almost worth it though because of the super twisty portion of one of the roads. 

We picked a very hot day to do this walk and it was much longer then I had expected. Also of course the kids got tired and said "can you pick me up". Which of course we did.

This first pic is at the half way point on the walk back. Trying to cool down in the shade by the water.

At the start of the walk, tons of frogs in the water behind them.

The "not so great" water fall.

A quick picnic lunch near the unimpressive falls.

Spring Time Photos

With the arrival of Autumn, I figured this is the perfect time to post pics of last spring.

This is a combo of different walks around the city.

This first batch is from Sunnybrook Park

and these are from Edwards Gardens, which happens to be part of the same green space.

these are from the "duck pond" aka Terraview Park

and this last one is from beside the playground at our place.

new scooby-doo

I wasn't ignoring your comment Rebecca I just figured I could use it as a blog post and since I'm lazy it takes a few days to reply.

Our car didn't change from green to red. we went out and bought another Subaru. We just couldn't get by with one car any more. So now we have christmas coloured cars. 

Here is a photo of the new (and by new I mean really old but new to us) car.

Algonquin in the Fall

Took the Family camping in Algonquin. The kids absolutely loved it. When we were packing up to leave we told them that we had to go home. Max asked if after we went home if we could come back.

A shot of the car before we unpacked it.

Looking for a campsite

This one should do

 Time to set up the tent

Time to take a rest

I took each of the kids (one at a time) for a paddle and we found this little guy

Time for dinner

Woke up to this on the second day

getting warmed up for the day

The fog has lifted

Every body get in the canoe

 It's time to go exploring

Taking a break for lunch

Walking along the portage

The leaves are falling

Been a long day, I need a nap

Somebody lit the fire

That's better, nice and warm

The second morning was a beautiful bright pink sky

Time to go

We had a fantastic time and can't wait to go back.