Just me....

About the only picture of me taken Christmas day......my Son Laurence took this and all the others he took are blurred so this is about the only ok one......

little footsteps

A picture of the tiny tracks the shrews make in the snow - they make little holes through the deep snow to their homes and then you see the little footsteps that barely make a mark in the snow......occasionally you see them scuttle across the snow in front of you - its amazing how something as small and delicate as a shrew can survice the cold winters here........

Grandma on the quad!!!!

Lloyd loved taking his Dad out on the atv's - they both had so much fun out there and Lloyds Dad just LOVED it :) On the last day Lloyd took his Mum out there - her work colleagues had told her they wanted a picture of her on it - so she planned to just sit on it for a picture but once she had tried going around the house on it, she LOVED it too and was soon speeding along the driveway ;)

Terry and Chris on our Boxing Day snow walk.....

A few pictures of Lloyds parents during our walk on Boxing Day......

Happy BIrthday Rosie!!!!

Rosie is 1 today :) here she is with her big sister Amber (2 1/2 )

First sunset of 2007

Here is tonights sunset picture - my first of 2007.

Pink Flamingoes and guilt free chocolate!!!

Lloyd has meetings in various buildings downtown...his office is in CWB but he has to attend meetings all over the downtown core with companies like Fujitsu, IBM, Captial Health etc etc........

Some of these meetings are in one of the Telus towers and before CHristmas, Telus (The Canadian version of BT ) were giving out gifts - plastic pink flamingoes that come with poles to stand them on...and bars of chocolate that are labelled 'guilt free'.........so of course Lloyd grabbed 3 of each to bring home - and I now have three very tacky bright pink flamingoes (like on the Telus commercials) to go on my pond this summer!

We still have the choccy bars surprisingly - especially as they are so obviously guilt free :)

Yay!!

I'm excited......Lloyd brought home series 2 of Greys anatomy on dvd so we have an evening of that to look forward to :)

Can you tell I am a little obsessed??? I haven't enjoyed a tv show this much for a LONG time!!!!! YEARS!!!!

Whats the point?

Ok what is the point of your husband having a really sexy voice if it doesn't lead to anything?????? Lloyd has the most amazingly sexy croaky voice right now......WOW but he also feels like crap and has a bad cold, sore throat and is ill - so the chances of me taking advantage of his sexy tone are......NIL :(

Good job we are spending the evening with Dr McDreamy lol!

The Grandchildren............

And here are the pics of the children........

a few more :)

Lloyd and his parents and also Lloyd and I.......

Lloyds parents.............

Some indoor pictures of Lloyds parents that I took to go in a 'generational' picture frame that we gave them for Christmas - there are three spaces in the frame and they are labelled 'Grandparents', 'parents', 'grandchildren'. So I took pictures of each for the frame!

Dance class open house...

The girls dance class held their open house just before Christmas....Lloyd had taken his Dad to a hockey game that night, so I took Terry with me to see the girls dance...it wasn't organized very well as they had the younger class dancing upstairs and the older class dancing downstairs - at the SAME time!!!!!! Several parents had girls in both classes so we were all running up and down the stairs trying to get glimpses of all our children - CRAZY!!!! Afterwards there was a party style buffet and the children all got treats before we went home.....

We bought the teachers each a gift for CHristmas and the girls went up to the teacher to give them the gifts - and all they said was 'oh put it on the table over there'....how nice is that????? NOT!!!! Susannah commented on how rude that was! I'm so glad she noticed because we were able to talk about it! Next year I just won't bother!

Porcupine................

We saw this little guy pootling along the road in Elk Island Park on Boxing Day.....we got out of the car and got fairly close and he didn't seem to mind at all......we were very aware that he could throw his quills but he really didn't seem bothered by us ;)

Lets Play............

On Christmas Eve we usually take the children to Lets Play for a while - its a chance for us to sit and relax after a busy few days while the children have a blast and tire themselves out so they go to bed early :) It works wonderfully :)

We had a nice couple of hours there and the children had great fun on the slot machines too.....Susie made a friend there very fast and they played for a while.....Laurie had fun on the slide with Sam and Chris and Terry enjoyed seeing the children play!