Christmas is Coming!!

So yeah, it’s been a CRAZY busy summer and fall and well our old blog software wasn’t that easy to post with so I upgraded to Wordpress. I’m not saying you’ll see a lot more posts, but I can guarantee that you’ll see more regular photo updates.

Onto the update. There was a bunch of stuff this summer. I went Mountain Biking at Silverstar with the guys and had a great time though I ended up rolling my ankle on the first day, though I toughed it out the second day, but paid for that for a month and half as it healed. Dang that hurts.

We had a GREAT trip up to Grandpa Gilbert’s. Tyler got to play in the garden lots, went on a bungee trampoline and got to go to the game farm up there.

The HUGE news for the summer was that we went to DISNEYLAND!!!! We went with Casey and our friends Mark & Laura and their kids Taye & Nya. We had so much fun! Especially Tyler. She got to wear her princess dress lots and LOVED everything about the trip. Especially the characters and rides. We’ll definitely be going back one day!

After that it was a bunch of work around the house. We laid a new portion of our concrete sidewalk and then re-coated the fir floors in the house. Both projects worked out really well.

And now we come up to today’s news. We have a new furry member of the family named Grover. Yes Grover like the Muppet and the Monster At the End of This Book. He’s an 8 week old Welsh Terrier that we got from Darwyn Welsh Terriers in Mission of all places. There are only a few registered breeders in Canada and one of them happened to be 10 minutes from our house. They’re great people and breed some AMAZING Welsh Terriers. We have already posted some pictures and will have lots more to come.

That’s about it for now. We’ll have weekly photo updates and you might even see a blog post or two. We hope everyone’s getting into the Christmas spirit. We already have the Christmas music going in the car and have the Christmas lights up.

Thanks for Partying with Us!

Thank you to everyone for partying with us for Tyler’s 2nd birthday! Tyler had a great time with all of her “buddies” as she would say. She also said to say “Thank you much!” for all of the presents. I’ll be posting pictures over the next few days and I’ll also put up the recipe for the cake/icing. It was definitely a great find and one that I’ll use in the future. I hope everyone had a great rest of your weekends! We enjoyed a great day in White Rock with a nice picnic, some shopping and an ice cream faced Tyler walking down the pier.

Tyler’s First Sail on Papa’s Boat

Tyler took her first sail on Papa’s new 34” sailboat last weekend and LOVED every minute of it. The kid was CRAZY about the water and fearless about walking around the boat. She didn’t care how much the boat was bobbing around, she wanted to be right at the edge checking everything out. And when she got to see a critter in the water she went nuts! We saw porpoises, seals (puppies as Tyler called them) and lots of birds. This was Tyler’s initial test run on the boat. I would definitely call it a SUCCESS and we’ll definitely be going for many more sailing trips this summer.

Tyler’s Photo Shoot

Tyler was in her second photo shoot for Blue Sky Baby. Check out a few pictures from the shoot, which was shot by the great photographers at Revival Arts Studio. Tyler was a little tired at first, though once she was out there with her friend Maisie they started to have a great time. Tyler loved playing peak-a-boo around the corner of a building and that got some great shots! For the grandparents who want to see more shots, the photographers will be posting an online gallery in a few weeks where you’ll have the option of ordering prints.

Long Time no Post

I finally got my computer back after waiting a month for some repairs and the holidays are winding down so it’s definitely time to post some news. Tyler’s been to Science World, cut down a Christmas tree, made gingerbread cookies, rocked out on the drums, went Christmas caroling, ripped open a bunch of presents and went tubing at Sun Peaks. To fill in the blanks check out the 87 new photos that we just posted.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! And in the words of Tyler “Mesmis and Happy Happy”

Martin

New Job & Lots of Tyler Videos

It’s been some busy times around the monkey house. I quit my job at Playground, after 6 years, and am now working for Bluetide Management. I’m a developer, I write programs and build cool websites. I can go into more technical details, but I usually get blank stares and nods.

Dude!!!

Ridin’ the Pumpkin Express

Pumpkin Bouncin’

Stealing Mommy’s Breakfast

Maisie’s 2nd Birthday

Tyler’s First Heels

Tyler tried on her first pair of Mommy’s heels today and she was definitely able to strut her stuff. Smack the link to check out the video.

Reduce Reuse Recycle

Most of the waste in your house can be recycled and we definitely take advantage of that. We composte what we can and what’s left over usually amounts to one small bag of garbage at the end of the week. Well the recycling bug has passed down to Tyler as I saw her recycle her first piece of plastic this week. I was cutting up some cantelope for her and the plastic wrap that was covering it happened to fall to the ground. I didn’t notice at first and she ended up walking over, picking it up, and then taking it to the recycling bin. We are SOOOOO proud! Now if we can only get her to take out the composte bucket that would be GREAT! Happy Monday!!

Tyler @ Toddler Town

Tyler is now totally confident at going down slides. Check out the video to see for yourself. This is at the little kids playground in Abbotsford at Mill Lake.

$2463 & 60KM Thanks to You!!

What started as a “maybe we could raise that much”, to a “I don’t know” ended up being a NO PROBLEM! Between very generous individual donations, the generous winners of our “Poker for Boobies Tournament”, the many Capes for the Cure and Tutu’s Too orders and my Mom’s car wash, we surpassed the $2000 mark for fundraising. Which ended up sending me on a 60KM walk all around Vancouver. There were aches, blisters, blisters on blisters, some great laughs, great memories and something that will never be forgotten. Being part of a 1600 person walk and in the end raising $4.1 million was pretty amazing and it more than trumps any of the aches and blisters that you get on the walk. Thank you everyone for your support and I hope everyone got as warm a fuzzy feeling as I did.