Neighbour House Progress

With the weather turning warmer over the last couple of weeks they have really made progress on the new neighbour's houses.

Carolyn went to a water co-op meeting the other night and met most of the new families. Most have young families, one has 5 children all around the age of ours, another has 4 young girls and the other 2 more young girls. Lucky for Blair the family with 5 are mostly boys!


The houses in lot 2 and 3, looking west.


Lot 7, two doors west of us.


Here's the fresh snow we just had today, just when things were drying up nicely!

Family Weekend!

The Zimmer's spent a quiet weekend around home, Kirby took a Babysitter's Course on Saturday, Erinn & mom went searching for the Easter Bunny downtown and Blair & dad pumped iron and did some ground fighting at the police station.


Erinn had a friend from school, Buttercup, come stay with her for the weekend, she took her bicycling on Saturday when before the snow came back.


This morning we woke up to fresh snow, the kids took advantage of a quiet Sunday morning in front of the tube.


Blair & dad went antler hunting down in the valley.


We hiked all over the place and than came across this one just across from the yard! Blair wants to find the other side so he can make himself some rattling antlers for hunting this fall.


Kirby busied herself doing some crafts today, she started making pages for her Disneyland scrapbook.

Wacky Hair!

This past Thursday was Wacky Hair Day at school for Erinn and Blair.


The Pippy Longstocking look!


My son in pony-tails!

Snowboarding Weekend!

This past Saturday Blair & I headed down to Cypress Hills to do some skiing & snowboarding. When we left Blair said to me, "How are we going to snowboard when there's no snow?", since we have had just had a week of above 0 weather and most of our snow had turned to puddles & mud. As we got close to the hills he realized that there was lots of snow!




It was an awesome day, the weather couldn't have been better, above 0, clear blue sky and no wind!


Blair deciding what run to take next!


All strapped in ready to go.


"See you at the bottom!" I was amazed, this was only his second time snowboarding and his first run went without a single fall.


Perched on the top of "Suicide"! I convinced him to try this run, one we hadn't done before, what a mistake this was. We ended up doing it another two more times, I wiped out on each run at least once!


At the end of the day we had made around 15 runs, considering the nice weather the hill was dead, I think the longest we waited in line for the quad-chair was 5 minutes!


Just cruising!

Bravest kid I know!

On Wednesday Erinn went into the hospital to have her tonsils removed and tubes put in her ears. There was no fusing, crying, or arguing from her at all!


Here she is just after the surgery, cuddling her teddy she got from the hospital staff with mom holding her hand.


I ended up spending the night with her in the hospital, the next morning she was up at her usual 6:30, like nothing ever happened, wanting some ice cream for breakfast!

Dancing with the Stars!

This week was parent viewing week at dance.


It doesn't look like Erinn is having fun at all!


Kirby obviously dances better with her eyes shut, all the photos I got of her she had them closed.


Dad was against his son taking up dance until he seen this move, now he's pretty impressed!


Here's the real reason Blair likes dance.

Back from Disneyland!

We all had an enjoyable trip to Disneyland, weather was not all that warm though. The weather started out nice with sun and highs of 22 then it dropped down to highs of only 12 and rain. I still managed to wear shorts for the entire 10 days and the kids dragged me down to the pool almost everyday too. By the end I was Disneylanded out and it's always nice to get home to your own bed and some peace & quiet from the kids!

When I got up on Sunday morning we were without phone, internet or satellite! The wind knocked the dish out of alignment. I lucked out today and got it back in the right position so I thought I better get this blog message out before it happens again, the ISP guy can't come until next week Wednesday.

When we left it was cold and snowy and when we returned it was warmer but very wet.

Here's some photos, only 5 of the 912 that I took! I bought a 1 gig memory card for the camera the day we left, when I installed it showed 999 pictures, it wasn't until the second day of shooting photos that it finally started counting down.


The famous flower Mickey and Tinkerbell.


The first person we ran into when we entered the park was none other than Mickey himself!


All of us in front of Walt & Mickey with Sleeping Beauty's Castle in the background.


The kids & Carolyn locked up on Pirate's Island.


The kids waiting for Dopey to show up, Erinn was waiting for Snow White!