Teresa and I recently took the kids to Osoyoos, BC, where we met up with 3 other families of relatives and spent a few days at a hotel. It was a much-needed break for all of us.
Check out the Flick photoset.
Unfortunately, Teresa broke her foot when we went horseback riding. The stablehands didn’t put the […]

In case you didn’t realize it, having to work two jobs in order to pay the rent is now referred to as “portfolio diversification:”

Firefighters who want to live in high-priced cities can work two jobs, said W. Michael Cox, chief economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. “I think it’s great,” he said. “It […]

Tonight Teresa and I took the boys to the local park. Gabrielle’s in Tswassen at my sister’s.
Ethan and I played some baseball and then joined up with a couple of neighborhood kids for more baseball and an soccer game - with Aidan joining in for the soccer.
The interesting thing is that it felt like when […]

We live on Glen Mountain, which is a part of Sumas Mountain, in Abbotsford, BC, and often get deer in our yard.
This spring, a young doe had two fawns which we’ve been seeing quite often. Here is a quick video taken with my digital camera of one of the young deer just below our deck:

Teresa took the kids for checkups today at the doctor. Everything’s fine, and we now know that Gabrielle’s 58 pounds, Ethan is 48, and Aidan is 30.
But the magical moment was provided courtesy of Aidan.
Dr. Stepney, our family doctor, asked him if he always wore his bike helmet. Looking rather oddly at her, he gently […]

Apparently Ethan got in trouble a couple of days ago at school.
The story is he poked a slug with a stick and rubbed the stick on another kid. When asked why, he first said he didn’t know why, and then said “Because it was fun.”
I have to admit I burst out laughing when Teresa told […]

As I’m doing some work on the the computer tonight (AKA bloghopping), our 3-year old Aidan pipes up:

I have to pee, Mommy.
Can I have a piggyback ride?

Hmmm. That’s a tough one to pass up!
Teresa and I both burst out laughing.

Up at 6:20 this morning (late), skipped breakfast. Left house at 7:20.
At work at 8:10 - working in Bellingham today. Juggled projects and priorities until noon, then had lunch with my boss, Kevin. Worked until 4:45.
Home at 5:45 (border lineup was huge). Eating until 6:00. 15 minutes of hockey - Buffalo Sabres beating the Carolina […]

OK, the title is accurate. But that’s not really why I’m making this post.
Actually, what’s going on here is that I’m testing Apple’s iWeb.
Teresa mentioned that she’d like to have something from time to time that would help her create a digital scrapbook, and so I said I’d look for something for her. It needs […]

Friends of our who recently moved to Alberta just had twins: Kathryn and Larissa.
They were born a month early - preemies - and have been in hospital for 20 days … all their young lives. Congrats Wayne and Adriana!
They emailed this photo:

That’s the number of kilometres Teresa and I drove on our recent road trip to California.
(I thought I’d finally post it just to remove it from my list of to-blog articles!)
Note: 1500 of those kilometres were done on the first killer day: Abbotsford BC to San Francisco, CA.

As I mentioned recently, my neck is not in the best of health right now.
Wednesday night I injured it somehow in the middle of the night, Thursday I was in the hospital once (and almost twice) and had to wear a neck brace or collar.
Friday morning I took the collar off, very gingerly, before getting […]

Today I woke up in excruciating pain at about 3:00 AM.
Somehow during the night I buggered up my neck. I had done a workout last night, and had stretched my neck, but ‘m presuming tension was building up that the stretching did not alleviate. Anyways, some time in the night I made a wrong move, […]

Gabrielle and a partner at school have been working on a PowerPoint presentation for their geography project on India. Last night she showed us what she’s done:

Incredible India

You name it, this PowerPoint’s got it. Flying bullets, crashing text, sounds effects for every action, animated GIFs …

I’m in LONG meetings every single day this week …
So I’m leaving early in the morning, coming home late. After a few things with the kids, and a couple of words with Teresa, there’s not much time for anything else.
(In case you were wondering why posts are a little sparse this week!)

I have a Sony DSC-W1 and have really enjoyed it: it’s incredibly easy-to-use. So now that I’m thinking about expanding, I’m wondering if I’d like to leave the Sony world.
I’d hate to have to know 2 or 3 camera operating systems and modes of operation - which I’d have to do if I bought from […]

Since both Aidan and Ethan were doing podcasts tonight (Aidan on his third birthday, and Ethan on his favorite games, Gabrielle could not possibly survive the night without doing her own.
So we did.
And here are Gabrielle’s thoughts on The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which we watched tonight on DVD:

Since Aidan just did a podcast about the presents he received for his third birthday, Ethan wanted to do one too.
So we did a podcast together of his favorite games … one card game (Skip-Bo), and one computer game (Nanosaur 2).
Voila:

Aidan and I do a podcast about the presents he received for his birthday …