Category:Family

From Picture of the Day 2013 Last week Jacob brought home his box of chocolates to sell for school. So for the last week it’s been sitting here wanting me to buy them and eat them. Tonight Jacob came down stairs with a 5 Dollar bill from his room to buy some chocolate for Violet …
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From Picture of the Day 2013 Tonight Melissa and Violet headed out to the theater with Nana and Aunty Suzanne to see the Wizard of OZ. So Jacob and I spent the evening hanging with Nate. As I was pretty sure this was the little guys first boys night, I made sure that he had …
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From Picture of the Day 2013 Back in December I picked up a little black notebook to track my work. When the kids saw it they both wanted one. As I used it more and more, even Melissa asked if I could pick her up one. Yesterday I finally got around to picking up a …
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From Picture of the Day 2013 Tonight Melissa slaved away in the kitchen making snack for Violet’s preschool tomorrow. The great thing about when Melissa bakes is I get to sample it. Violet’s preschool is one lucky class.

From Picture of the Day 2013 Once again Violet showed me that her favourite toy is a simple cardboard box. I was amazed at how much she played with the small box, she tried to make it a club house out of it. Of course it was barely bigger then her so it was a …
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From Picture of the Day 2013 Today at lunch I captured this picture of Jacob as he worked on a crossword with his Nan. It amazes me how much he loves trying to solve them. He did a pretty good job at it, though some of the clues were above him. Though I’m sure it …
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From Picture of the Day 2013 Every once in a while I will print some colouring sheets out for the kids. Today I brought home some Phineas And Ferb sheets for Jacob and a Couple of Snow White for Violet. I tried to get a picture of them both colouring but they just wouldn’t sit still …
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From Picture of the Day 2013 Today I thought I’d share the art project from Violet’s birthday. Melissa managed to get every kid at the party to do hand prints on canvas. These are my kids hands. It’s a great keep sake, that will always remind me of my kids when they were young, and …
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From Picture of the Day 2013 Today at hockey was Jacob’s turn between the pipes. I would like to say my little guy had himself a shutout, but between his lake of experience as a goalie and his team playing short-handed on both lines, it was far from a shutout. It was a good game though, he …
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From Picture of the Day 2013 This afternoon as the snow was coming down Jacob wanted to do just one thing, get out and shovel it. So out he went for close to half an hour shoveling away. I think it wasn’t till he realized that areas he’d already shoveled where becoming covered again that …
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