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Tag: family

Arrrrrgooooosss

October 3, 2009
Old-Rainwater

We headed down to the Rogers Centre to watch the Argos take on the Montreal Alouettes. The game was a McMaster Alumni event. We went down with our friends from university Stam and Brenda and their daughter Kira. We met them at Union Station.

Union Station

Angela

Waiting…

Claudia

Part of our ticket price included an on field “tour” before the game, a pizza slice/drink, and autograph session after the game. By tour they mean the depths of the Skydome, once on the field we were able to walk around the edge and then we entered our seats from the field. The autograph session after the game was open to everyone.

On the field

The girls got a cardboard football helmet.

Claudia

We were at the Alouette end of the field.

Argo game

Argo game

Gillian at her first football game.

Gillian

Claudia, Angela and Kira.

Claudia

Big guys.

Alouettes

Stam and Kira.

Stam and Kira

The big Argo inflatable. See the mascot chatting up the cheerleaders.

Inflatable

The mascot “Jason”.

Jason

Some of the game action. It was close in the first half. But then the Alouettes pulled away in the second half to win 27-8.

Argo game

Argo game

The announced attendance was 26,828.

Angela and Gillian

Kira

Pinball Clemons was behind the Peanut Free Suite.

Peanut suite

Can you see the girls down on the field.

Argo game

The girls

“C” for Claudia!

Claudia

The girls

Argo game

We had a good time at the game. It was good to hang out with Stam and Brenda, we haven’t seen them for awhile. The girls can now say they have been to a football game.

Angela

Outdoor Movie Night

September 19, 2009
Old-Rainwater

What was planned for a few weeks ago as a back to school/end of summer event , finally came together. Our next door neighbour Lars and I wanted to put together a barbeque and movie night for the girls. We started with a barbeque in Lars and Julie’s backyard. That is Lily in the middle, looking for a handout.

BBQ

Here are the girls with Mady and Sarah.

Neighbour girls

A little bit of excitment after Chloe fell through a hole in their deck. They have cutouts in the deck for a cedar tree and when she was playing with Bella she fell through and disappeared.

Chaos

Once it got dark, we moved to the front and set-up the projector and screen that I had borrowed from one of the guys at work.

Movie

We watched “17 Again”. It turned out well, other than the odd plane going overhead. By the end of the movie, the temperature had dipped, it would have been a lot warmer back in August. The kids all had blankets. There were about 20 of us there for the movie. If we get an Indian Summer, we’ll try and do another one.

Movie theatre

Bath Day

September 13, 2009
Old-Rainwater

Today was bath day for Chloe, I thought why not take her for a good run, get her tired out and then give her a bath. We headed over to the Meadowvale Conservation Area not far from the house. The girls found a sloth tree (a tree which allows them to hang like a sloth).

Angela

Claudia

Gillian

There was lots of open space for Chloe to run around. We stayed clear of the GINA picnic. GINA is short for “Greyhounds In Need of Adoption”. It is an organization that tries to find homes for retired racing Greyhounds.

Angela

Susan, Claudia, Gillian

We stayed clear of the Hogweed. It looks like giant Queen Annes Lace, the sap is bad news if it gets on human skin.

Hogweed

We remembered there “use to be” a bridge to cross over the river.

Sign

It wasn’t very nice down by the river, lots of broken glass and beer bottles.

River

We were teaching Chloe her name.

Claudia

Angela

Chloe

Some of the leaves are starting to change already.

Trees

Credit River

We found another path to the river and when Claudia stepped towards it, the ground moved. It was a garter snake that freaked her out. Later I started stopping on the ground and he started to slither away.

Snake

Claudia poking around for more snakes.

Claudia

Chloe was tired out after our walk, she decided she was going to lie down in the shade.

Tired puppy

The girls with Chloe.

The Girls

We headed back home and started to get her bath ready. It wasn’t her favourite thing, she looked like the drowned rat.

Chloe

Here she is shaking away in the backyard. She looked pretty good afterwards.

Shake

Of course she was rolling around in the rocks and grass as soon as she got the chance.

Chloe

11th First Day of School

September 8, 2009
Old-Rainwater

Today was Gillian’s eleventh First Day of School. Everyone got off to school on time, Gillian got a ride with Sarah and Angela and Claudia walked with Madyson. I met the girls at school, just to see that they found their teachers and check the school council mailbox. Here are the girls out in front of the house. (Grades 9, 4, 6)

The Girls

Here is the girls first day of school from 2004. It was the first time all three were in school, Gillian was in Grade 4, Angela was in Grade 1 and Claudia started JK.

First day of school 2004

And a Chloe picture from the first day of school.

Chloe

Last Day of Summer Vacation

September 7, 2009
Old-Rainwater

After a longer than usual summer vacation the girls finally reached the last day of summer holidays. Angela and Claudia are looking forward to heading back to school to see their friends and find out who their teachers are. Gillian is a little nervous heading to her first day of high school.

Claudia

Claudia hanging around with Chloe.

Claudia and Chloe

Chloe looking pretty relaxed about the first day of school. Her first day is on the 15th when she starts puppy training school.

Chloe

Angela is so relaxed about school she can levitate herself.

Angela

Angela and Madyson bouncing on her trampoline.

Angela and Madyson

Madyson

Madyson

Angela

Chloe ready to do some sweeping.

Chloe

Life With Chloe

August 22, 2009
Old-Rainwater

Today was Chloe’s first full day with her new family and she was making out just fine. She loves the atention and running around the house. The challenge has been having to learn to watch out where we step. Here is Gillian with Chloe.

Gillian and Chloe

She doesn’t seem to mind her kennel, I had to add an insert to make it a little more snug. She naps and sleeps at night in her kennel.

Crate

Here is her Kong Wubba that came with her package. She loves to chew it and run around with it.

Wubba

Here she is trying to chew the front hall carpet.

Chloe

She plays around with the tennis balls and she can keep herself occupied for awhile with it.

Ball

She likes the hall mirror, she likes to sneak up and attack herself.

Mirror

She is making out better in the grass after I cut it.

Chloe

Chloe

Chloe sticking her tongue out.

Chloe

She also likes this Kong bone.

Kong bone

Chloe and the Girls.

The girls

Me and Chloe relaxing after dinner.

Me and Chloe

How Are We Related?

August 10, 2009
Old-Rainwater

Wondering how we are related to Rhonda, Teri, Tessa, Christopher or Caitlyn? I found this cousin tree on the internet, it was the easiest to follow. Start with yourself in the blue “Self” box and work your way up.

Family Tree

This is how I’m related to them.

Related to Me

Gillian, Angela and Claudia are second cousins once removed to Rhonda and Teri. They are Third cousins to Tessa, Christopher and Caitlyn.

Related to Gillian

I’m working on putting some of our family tree information up on the website. I’ll also make the data I have available for anyone who wants more details. I can do it by families or by decendants of a specific person. Stay tuned.

First, Second and Third Cousins

August 8, 2009
Old-Rainwater

It had been planned for over a year and on Saturday we all gathered at the Swiss Chalet in Scarborough for dinner. The restaurant had a separate room at the back which Mom had reserved for the dinner. The special occaison was to meet some relatives from the Tao side of the family who were on vacation. The Tao’s are from the Nekoda side of the family, Bachan was a Nekoda. Janet who is married to Harry Tao (deceased) and her daugther’s Rhonda and Teri and their families were the guests. Harry was Mom’s cousin, his mother was Bachan’s sister. Confused? That makes Harry and Janet’s daugther’s (Rhonda & Teri) my second cousins and it would make Teri and Rhonda’s kids (Caitlyn, Tessa, & Christopher) Gillian, Angela and Claudia’s third cousins.

Cousins

From Left to right: Teri, Caitlyn, Mike, Christopher, Janet, Tessa, Howard and Rhonda. Janet is from Hawaii, Teri and her family live in Nevada and Rhonda and her family live in California.

Cousins

Ther were 49 people at the restaurant, it was a chance to see some of our first cousins and we also got to meet some new ones as well. In order to help the visitors with the introductions we had everyone stand with their immediate families, not that they were going to remember 41 faces.

From the Imai family there was Leanne, Wes (her boyfriend), Cindy (from Brussels), Auntie Terrie, Joyce, and Jeff and Belinda.

The Imai's

From the Shinkoda family was Stephanie, her husband Ian and their son Kazu, next to them are Belinda and Jeff and Joyce on the left.

Imai/Shinkoda

From the Tanabe’s there was Mom and Dad.

.The Tanabe's

Melissa, Dale, Lori, Dale and Sara.

The Malcovich's

Emi, Danny, Alex and Carolyn

Carolyn & Danny

Representing the Uyeda’s were Mark, Gaila, Jesse and Lisa.

Uyeda's

There was Uncle Tosh, Auntie Margie, Julie, Raiden and Carey.

The Uyeda's

Ryan, Justin, Paul and Diane.

The Degennaro's

Howard, Rhonda, Dale, Mark, Lori and Gaila at this end of the table.

Cousins

Carey, Paul, Julie and Diane at the other end of their table.

Cousins

Dad, Uncle Tosh, Mom, Auntie Margie, Janet and Jesse at this end of the table.

Dinner

Ryan, Raiden, Justin and Lisa at the other end.

Dinner

Tessa, Christopher, Caitlyn, George Mike, Joey, Teri, Colleen at this table.

Dinner

Danny, Alex, Emi, Carolyn, Claudia, Angela, Sara, Gillian and Melissa.

Dinner

At the best table were Joyce, Susan, Auntie Terrie, Jeff, Leanne, Belinda, Wes and Cindy.

Dinner

Here is my new first cousin, once removed, that is Kazu with his mom Stephanie and Caitlyn and Christopher.

New cousin

After dinner we all went back to Carolyn and Danny’s place for dessert. There was lemon merengue pie, peach pie, brownies, bana bread, cream puffs, jello, rice krispie squares and cake and more.

Dessert

Twizzlers

August 3, 2009
Old-Rainwater

We found a box of Twizzlers at Costco this week. Here are the girls holding the box.

The Girls

This was the same size box they were auctioning off in Vancouver. For 60 pieces, it retails at $5.79. The box at the auction went for $120.

Angela and Claudia

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

August 2, 2009
Old-Rainwater

We headed out to Hamilton today to see the new Harry Potter movie. We went to see it with Melissa. It was good and the girls gave it two thumbs up. It was long, almost two and a half hours, but not long enough to go through a large bag of popcorn. Of the four bags we bought, I was was the only one who finished it during the movie, actually most of mine was gone before the commercials and trailers were done.

Harry Potter

Afterwards it was back to Lori and Dale’s for a swim.

Claudia

Angela

This is Lisa’s puppy, Kiely (sp?) is a cross between a Jack Russell Terrier and a Chihuahua. It likes to bother Nike and Mickey.

Kiely

Angela blowing up the raft.

Pool

Claudia

Angela floating on a package of weiners.

Angela

Nike.

Mickey