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If Michael Scott has taught us anything: Booze cruise = guaranteed win.
So to celebrate my sister’s birthday, we went out as a family and drank.
Oh, they served food on the boat, but that wasn’t why we were there.
And these dudes were there, from Cuba. Because nothing says Kelowna like… Cuban music?
[Complete pictures can be found [...]
Posted at: August 31st, 2008 - 3:07 pm - Number of Comments » 0
Laura and I drove down to Penticton for a family picnic with my aunt and uncle from Edmonton who are, apparently, moving to Penticton next year. So that’s cool.
Posted at: June 29th, 2008 - 7:43 pm - Number of Comments » 0
My father’s a big fan of picnics so guess what we did for Patriarch Day?
At least the park had a beach where we could play…
Posted at: June 15th, 2008 - 9:15 pm - Number of Comments » 0
One of my brother-in-law’s big clients has a chalet up at Big White. The past few years, he’s offered it to Louise and Geoff for weekends but for varying reasons, they’ve been unable to go. Well, this year they were able to go and invited Laura and I to join them.
It’s a pretty nice chalet [...]
Posted at: February 23rd, 2008 - 9:34 pm - Number of Comments » 0
Today I spent Christmas with my family, for the first time in 7 years.
Two of Emma’s presents were larger than she was!
One was a My Size Barbie, the other was a 3-story Barbie house.
Peanut could smell out her own present…
And this was seconds before my sister started crying over her present:
Geoff surprised her with tickets [...]
Posted at: December 25th, 2007 - 10:42 pm - Number of Comments » 0
My father’s kind of big into putting lights on Christmas trees. Tonight he did Louise and Geoff’s tree:
Took him 4.5 hours but he managed to get 1100 lights on it.
Posted at: December 13th, 2007 - 11:34 pm - Number of Comments » 0
Went out for lunch with the mother today. She misses me and wants to a. see me more often and b. touch base more often to know what I’m up to but I i. can’t motivate myself to drive to Penticton for Sunday dinner and ii. don’t have much of anything positive to report to [...]
Posted at: November 20th, 2007 - 2:55 pm - Number of Comments » 0
T’was Geoff’s birthday today and Louise made an excellent 4-layer cake:
Chocolate with chocolate chips throughout and chocolate icing. It’s quite possibly the most chocolatey thing I’ve ever eaten. It’s so sugary, you can only have a tiny slice at a time but it’s delicious!
Posted at: November 11th, 2007 - 8:18 pm - Number of Comments » 0
Emma got her dad, grandpa and dog to all dress up to take her out Trick or Treating tonight.
After they went out, Laura and I caught a ride with Kris and Karen out to JJ and Jenn’s place for a Halloween… thing.
JJ dressed as the guy from My Chemical Romance and I dressed as JJ. [...]
Posted at: October 31st, 2007 - 11:56 pm - Number of Comments » 0
