Rainwater Rambling Archive

Happy New Year

Happy 2008! We headed out to Mom and Dad's for New Years Day. We brought our toboggans as the snow the fresh. Susan and Gillian on the first run.

Down the hill in one piece.

Claudia taking a run down the hill.

Angela going down on the saucer.

Melissa and Emi going down.

 Dinner's almost ready.

Angela and Gillian waiting for dinner.

Dinner is ready!

Brad, Eric and Melissa wearing their dinner hats.

The girls and Alex.

Mom wanted a picture of the kids. Here are the grandkids, less Jesse.

Now one with Grandma and Grandpa.

Can you tell Brad has had enough.

Then one of the kids, less Shanna and David.

One of the Tanabe's.

The Gonczaruk's.

and the Malcovich's.

Lori's 50th!

We went out to Lori and Dale's to celebrate Lori's 50th Birthday! Here is Claudia enjoying a giant pickle with Mickey watching her.

Melissa lighting the candles. Fire regulations preventing having 50 individual candles.

Happy Birthday to you...

Which cake to have...eeny, meeny, miny moe

Claudia and Alex waiting for cake.

Angela, Gillian and G-pa.

Delicious!

Happy Birthday Emi!

It was out to Scarborough this weekend to celebrate Emi's birthday. Gillian is at Pathfinder camp up near Barrie, so she missed out on cake. Emi opening her presents.

Someone must have said "smile".

Emi opening our present.

Wait there's more, a Hannah Montana wig.

And a wedding dress.

Angela as Hannah Montana.

Time for cake...how old are you?

Making a wish.

Alex checking out his cracker prize.

Claudia

Angela

Catching up...

After 10 years we have jumped back into the digital universe. In 1997 we became a cable free home and for the girls living without cable was the norm. They would have their cable fixes at the sitter's or the relatives. We survived on rabbit ear channels, which wasn't as bad as one might think. Sure some of the channels were a little fuzzy. But I always said, it only takes me the time to go through 10 channels to decide there is nothing good on, as opposed to 200 channels. We have subscribed to Bell ExpressVu and have more channels than we know what to do with. Part of the reason for the lengthy delay on the blog updates goes to watching tv. Now the girls don't have to mumble or pretend when their friends say "Did you see that on tv last night...". I always remember asking Gillian one day when she was in Grade 3 or 4, "what do your friends say when you tell them you don't have cable?" Her response was "Dad, I don't tell them!"