At the end of November we travelled back to Peterborough to celebrate Violet’s 2nd birthday (her first with our family). Megan rented a church hall in Bailieboro for the birthday. It was a dog themed party since Puppies are Violet’s favourite animal. At the party Aiden was in no mood to play any games as evidenced by the picture we took with Melissa and Aiden. … Continue reading Violet’s 2nd Birthday
At work this year, a student from my class brought in a cake for me to have. All the kidd from my class got together in the staffroom with a friend that they invited and we all shared the cake. For my birthday this year, Melissa planned a surprise for me. After work, I came home and took the kids to Karate, which is something … Continue reading Peter’s 36th Birthday
Abby wrote a speech this year on First Nations Tattoos. She was inspired to write it about tattoos after we visited the exhibit on the history of Tattoos at the ROM in the summer. Below is a video of Abby rehearsing her speech that she presented to her class. Continue reading Abby’s Speech on First Nations Tattoos
For Halloween this year, Melissa and the kids travelled to Peterborough to celebrate halloween with Uncle Shawn, Auntie Megan and Violet. It was Violet’s first halloween. I could not go since Halloween was on a Monday and I had to go to work, but Melissa had the weekend and Halloween Day off. October 29: Lang Pioneer Village On Saturday the kids, Melissa, Mama and Grandma … Continue reading Halloween 2016 (Funny Video)
A couple weeks after Thanksgiving, Jason came to visit for 5 days. We came down to see him on the weekend. On the Saturday morning, we all did some work around the house for Mom & Dad. We cleaned the chimney, trimmed the trees and raked the leaves for them. We then all got ready and headed into Peterborough to surprise Mom for her 75th … Continue reading Visit from Jason & Mom’s 75th Birthday (oct 21-23)
After watching the Minimalism Documentary back in June, we followed up by completing The Minimalists 31 Day Challenge. The concept is simple, the challenge is hard. On the 1st day of the month you throw out or donate 1 item. On the 2nd day you throw out or donate 2 items and so on all the way to 31. By the end of the month, … Continue reading 31-Day Minimalism Challenge (July & Nov 2016)
For the second year in a row, the Blue Jays made it to the ALCS, this year against Cleveland. They went down 3-0 against them, but came back to win Gm 4, 5-1. For Game 5, Rob got tickets for the game and we both went. Unfortunately they lost 3-0. However it was incredible to be in the Rogers Centre with 50,000 screaming fans. Continue reading Toronto Blue Jays ALCS (Oct 19)
As we do for most Thanksgivings, we went to Douro & Lakefield to visit both grandparents. October 8th We spent the day in Lakefield visiting with Mom & Dad Miller. We all went for a walk to Ridpath PS and played in the park. While there the kids met some kids from the neighbourhood and played We then went to Mom & Dad Miller’s and … Continue reading Thanksgiving 2016
This year Abby made her school’s X-Country team and we couldn’t have been prouder. She went to all of her team practices and attended the school board’s X-Country meet in early October where she finished 44th out of approximately 150 runners. I was there to cheer her on loud and proud!!! Continue reading Abby’s X-Country (Oct 6, 2016)
Aiden decided to suit up for his picture day, going for the full suit with gelled hair. For school picture day this year, Abby wore a traditional sun dress and snuck on some in her words “lip gloss”, but in my words lipstick just before it was time to go so that there was no time to go back and wipe it off :). In … Continue reading School Picture Day 2016
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