Rainwater Rambling Archive

Happy News Year!

Happy New Years to everyone, 2008 was a good year for us and we look forward to what 2009 will bring us. We were at Mom and Dad's for the day.

We did a bit of toboganning late in the afternoon with Melissa.

Claudia helping Melissa up the hill.

Angela coming back up the hill.

After toboganning it was time for some Nintendo DS.

Emi showing Brad and Lisa her "kid's computer".

There was lots of good food.

Sara and Brent first in line.

Emi with a bowl of chow mein.

Filling their plates.

Claudia checking out her cracker prize.

Alex

Angela and Gillian chowing down.

Homework

Angela's homework tonight was to watch the gold medal game of the World Junior Championship. I don't remember getting homework assignments like that. Back in the fall she had to watch the Grey Cup game. Angela and Gillian getting ready for the game.

Go Canada!

A victory lap after another goal.

After the final buzzer.

Angela showing how many in a row.

Updated

Finally posted some overdue updates to the blog. I have been playing with some photo edit software. Here is a photo of Angela during one of her volleyball games last term. I was able to turn the background to black and white and colourize just Angela.

I have also been working at categorizing and organizing all of my digital photos. I am trying to get this done before buying a new camera.

New Camera

After going almost three months without a camera, I finally got back into the digital world. I bought a Nikon D40, it is a digital SLR. Here is picture number 1.

Alex's Hockey Game

We headed out to Scarborough today for Emi's birthday party. We stopped at Omega Optical so Susan could pick up another pair of glasses.

Afterwards we headed over to Heron Park arena to catch Alex's hockey game.

That's Alex out at the point. His team won the game.

Emi Turns 5!

Emi turned 5 this week and we were out for her birthday party.

Gillian

Angela chuckling about something.

Claudia and Alex checking out the Pokemon cards.

Emi thanking Grandpa for her present.

And then Grandma.

Emi with her giant card that Angela and Claudia made.

Emi and her puppet theatre.

Emi and her delicious cake.

Around the house

Playing with the camera around the house.

Gillian

Bowl of strawberries. Mmmmmm.

The cats we picked up at the Japanese pavillion at Epcot.

PA Day

Today was a P.A. Day at school, so I took the day off. Here is Claudia working on her cross-stich.

Angela, Claudia and I went skating.

After skating we had lunch at McDonald's.

Claudia back at her cross-stitching.

Crazy hair!

GO Train

Waiting for the GO train to pass. We went into Scarborough to pick up Susan's new glasses and then headed over to Mom and Dad's to pick up some videos for Auntie Fumi. I am headed to Winnipeg next week and I will drop them off on my way through town.

Skating in Dundas

We headed into Dundas for a visit, we stopped at the new ice rink at the Dundas Driving Park. It was chilly.

It wasn't very busy, it's a good size rink for skating.

We'll have to try and get out again, when it's a little warmer.

The girls.

Afterwards it was over to Grandma's and Poppa's for a visit.

Grandma showing Claudia her plant that grows an inch a week.

Claudia and Poppa.

Eric's Hockey Game

We headed over to the Market Street Arena in Dundas to watch Eric's hockey game.

The cheering section.

Claudia, Rachel and Angela.

Angela holding up the score board.

Having dessert, according to the girls Eric stuffed himself with Auntie Susan's brownies.