Congratulations!!

Congrats to my Sister Karen who heard today that she got a new job that she wanted - out of about 90 applicants they got it down to 5 that they interviewed and then they chose Karen!! The job comes with a rent free, three bed apartment!! So Karen and Sean plan to rent out their home while they live in the apartment.....definitely a great thing during the recession in the UK!!! Karen drove me over to see where the new job is, so I would have an idea of where they would be living IF she got the job!!!

Congratulations and good luck with the new job! I don't know the exact title but it's like Manager of an Assisted Living Apartment Building....(ie looking after a retirement home) I'm not sure how you would describe it here so maybe Karen can reply in the comments

Woof......

Me and ????

This is me with one of my sisters dogs...but to be honest I don't know which one.....I know you can tell by looking at their tails - one has a pinkish bum lol....but I can't remember which one - and one of them WON'T lick her sweaty feet (the sensible one lol) but I don't remember which one....she has two Daisy-May and Milly.....and they annoy her cat Purdy (NOT named after our amazingly delicious chocolate by the way lol).......

more pics to follow..

most of the pics I'm posting were taken by my iphone so I apologise for the quality...it was REALLY convenient though while on holiday!!! :) especially in London!!

Abigail and Sam with all their Grandparents!!

When Lloyds Mom and Dad came to visit for the day, I took the opportunity to take some pictures of Abigail and Sam with All four Grandparents as I don't know when the next chance will be!!! So here they are with my Mom and Dad (Josie and Ken) on the right and Lloyds Mom and Dad (Terry and Chris) on the left.

And a picture of me with Lloyds Mom and Dad - and Abigail not looking too happy with something Sam is doing ;)

Sam today.....

This is Sams schoolwork for today.......an 'Emergency workers' picture he has worked on - my Mom bought it for him while we were in the UK and he worked on it while Abigail did her social work on ' the community'. He has now hung it on the wall in the girls bedroom :)

We missed Tim Hortons!!!!

First thing we did as soon as I got through passport control....immigration (nighmare as they both took forever because of the line ups as three planes landed at the same time and also because of my residency cards) and customs (thankfully I went straight through that as the line ups in there were LONG) and out to Lloyd and the children was hit Timmy's and I had to get a large double double.... :)

Hotel breakfast....

Breakfast in the hotel in Richmond was lovely...it was just a buffet but was delicious - wish we had more time to enjoy it but we were in a rush - I had a 'create your own granola and yogurt followed by the most INCREDIBLE crossiant.....Abigail had 4 fried eggs and then scrambled eggs, bacon too and toast and croissants....juice......it was yummy.....then we had to catch the tube in to central London. The parking lot (car park) for the car just for the day was 14 pounds ($30) !!!!!! the tube at rush hour was crazy busy - and horribly dirty.....and you forget what its like - I used to have to do that daily when I worked in Kingston :( YUCK :(

Hamleys with Aunty Karen.....

We went to London as we had to go to the Canadian Embassy to get travel documents to return to Canada (our residency cards had expired) and as we had some extra time to kill we went to Hamleys - the toy store - and had lunch there. Abby loved playing in the bubbles there too!

My Lloyd

Pictures of My Lloyd that I took to England on my iphone :)

My Sister Clare and her family.....

Clare with her boys Daniel, Oliver and Isaac......