My Project 365 - A Year in Our Corner of the World

2010 - Day 24: In...

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...progress! Socks, drinks and brushes, Oh My!

2010 - Day 23: Crazy Day

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Today was a crazy day filled with basketball, soccer and then even more soccer! It was truly exhausting!

2010 - Day 23: Is There...

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..an issue, Papa?? Love these commercials by Scotiabank so finally took the kids to get their own "Getting There Savings Account" with the free NHL savings tin!

2010 - Day 22: Must Be Nice...

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..to be a cat!

2010 - Day 21: The Snack

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The after basketball practice snack of a pbj & banana sammich. I hate banana's and find it hard to make these sandwiches but for my son....anything!

2010 - Day 20: The Morning After

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The beauty of the frost on the trees was something else this morning on Campus.

2010 - Day 19: Fuzzy

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My boy's lookin' a little fuzzy today!

2010 - Day 18: Rubber Ducky....

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you're not the one anymore in a cleaning out of tub toys which was long overdue! And I think some of the duckies actually stayed!

2010 - Day 16: Let's Scrap!

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Was at a scrapbooking convention or crop today very close to home! Made a mess by being creative but managed to get a few layouts done!

2010 - Day 15: The Y

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Our Friday nite at the Y! Family floor hockey. The kids both had a blast, even my girl who scored 7 goals!

2010 - Day 14: De-Clutter

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I love de-cluttering and the Winnipeg Humane Society is needing books and movies for a sale! A good deed for them which means less stuff for me which I no longer need!

2010 - Day 13: Wednesday Nite

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The usual Wednesday nite consisting of basketball practice and soccer practice. Two of us go to b-ball and the other two head to soccer. Killing two birds with one stone!

2010 - Day 12: Ahh, Jack!

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I've been waiting for awhile to read this book...okay, since September and I couldn't wait to get into it. Repairman Jack has to be one of my all time favorite series! A post about it is coming soon to a blog near you....really, it is!

2010 - Day 11: Reading Log

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Here's my "official" reading log. Its originally from my daughter's school agenda from last year...pardon me, two years ago so I've been copying my own pages from it to keep track of my reads which I've been doing since Sept 2008.

2010 - Day 10: Hungry Anyone?

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Here's Tana's Bendaroo menu! She got Bendaroos for Christmas and was making a slew of food stuffs with them and they looked remarkably like the actual food item!

2010 - Day 9: Layout A-Go-Go

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I added the A-Go-Go! Here's a layout from the Archives when my girl was but 5 years old! When I say archives I mean I just did the layout, not that I dug it out of the Archives. Ahhh, sweet memories!

2010 - Day 8: O Canada

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Once again, our school's choir sang the National Anthem
at the Manitoba Moose game! They did a great job and sounded awesome!

2010 - Day 7: Cuddling

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She's my shadow and follows me everywhere and she's not a lap cat but a chest cat so when she wants to cuddle, you're limited to what you can do.

2010 - Day 6: Labels A Plenty

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Yes, we eat a lot of Campbell's soup. Not. We just collect them for Labels for Education for the school and get points to buy stuff. You need quite a few points to buy anything but we're getting there. Feel free to send me your labels if you are so inclined! ;-)

2010 - Day 5: Going for Gold...

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...and losing. This pic says it all!
It was another Epic Battle between Canada and the US to decide Gold in the World Junior Hockey Championship with Canada coming back to take it to overtime after a 2 goal deficit only to lose it in overtime! Great game, great tourney, way to go Canada!! Congratulations to the US!

2010 - Day 4: Fait Accompli!

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46 days....in a time of 10:40:28...travelling 5.4 miles and burning 2,464.5 calories, I finished the 6 Week Challenge on EA Sports Active More Workouts!

2010 - Day 3: First Layout

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My first scrapbook layout of twenty-ten! I'm challenging myself to do one layout a week! This one is of Gavin's field trip to Fort Whyte with his Kindergarten class which I was able to go on!

2010 - Day 2: One of my Challenges...

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...is to keep this table clear of clutter this year. Not a Resolution, but a goal if you will! The cardboard is there because there is a puzzle underneath it on the table and it keeps the pieces away from the prying eyes of the cat.

2010 - Day 1: Pulling A Gavin

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This is what our boy does when he's trying to tell you something that he thinks is really important. The closer he gets, the more important he thinks it is...or something to that effect.

Regularly Scheduled Programming

2009-11-22T20:51:00.000-08:00

Okay so I got behind. That and I broke our camera while on holiday number 1 and went without for a while. My bad.

I'm pleased to report that on January first, which really isn't all that far away, we will be back to our regularly scheduled program here on Project 365. So stay tuned for more pictures of our life in 2010!

Project 365 - Day 151: Nuthin' But Net!

2009-07-28T22:58:00.000-07:00

Finally! Thomas (and I) put up Gavin's basketball net as a surprise for him when he came home from Cha-Cha's and a sleepover.

Project 365 - Day 150: Nice Face!

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Yeah, 'nuff said!

Project 365 - Day 149: The Drain

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Every time you drain the dish water, Boots is there like a bat out of hell. She loves the water when it drains! 'Course she gets there when its gone most of the time but she keeps trying.

Project 365 - Day 148: Got another...

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stupid skin rash which is as itchy as all get out.

Project 365 - Day 147: My Little...

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...spies. They like to dress up and play spies. Its quite cute.

Project 365 - Day 146: Professor Gavin

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Project 365 - Day 145: Beer Can Chicken!

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OMG! Best chicken I have ever had. Ever. Delicious!

Project 365 - Day 144: The Gallo Brothers!

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Thanks to the Blondeau's and the Gallo brothers for an enjoyable evening playing crib and enjoying a white zinfandel while the kids played outside! It was a late night for them, good thing its summertime!

Project 365 - Day 143: My Boy!

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My boy posing for me! He looks so sweet and innocent here...and most importantly, he's quiet!

Project 365 - Day 142: Relaxation!

2009-07-28T22:18:00.000-07:00

Maxing relaxin' with popcorn and a movie!

Project 365 - Day 141: A Winnipeg Institution!

2009-07-12T22:35:00.001-07:00

Took the kids to BDI tonight on the way home from work and Mini University. Its our first visit this summer and although we didn't partake in the creamiest shake, we enjoyed delicious cones and watched the people go by!

Project 365 - Day 140: Kebabs!

2009-07-12T22:32:00.000-07:00

These kebabs are things of beauty! For $11, I got 4 hefty kebabs, rubbed with BBQ spice and specially made at Marcello's Meats located at 200 Meadowood Drive in St Vital (Winnipeg for those not in the know). Anyone in the city should check Marcello's out and support local. These were damn tasty indeed!

Project 365 - Day 139: Soccer Practice

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An action shot of Q! at soccer practice!

Project 365 - Day 138: The Big Itch

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Well, I can't be positive but I'm pretty sure I contacted a poison of the ivy, sumac or oak variety and is it itchy as hell!! If I could have ripped my leg off to gnaw on it today, I would have. Luckily its not a big bout of it. Lizard, I feel your pain and sympathize! (and yes, I got it while geocaching)

Project 365 - Day 137: Muffin Tin Meals

2009-07-12T21:42:00.000-07:00

I'd read about muffin tin meals in a few websites and blogs and thought I'd give the kids a "whatever" supper and serve it in a muffin tin. They love this kind of meal and they thought the appearance was quite interesting.

Project 365 - Day 136: My little Helper

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Gavin keeps offering to help me clean the bathroom and as much as I appreciate the offer, I keep telling him its really not a job for a 5 year old so I at least let him clean the mirror. It is, after all, mostly his fault that it gets so dirty!

Project 265 - Day 135: The Pool

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Acrobatics in the water on a hot day with one of my kids best friends!

Project 365 - Day 134: Reading...

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...away her fines at the St Vital Library.

Project 365 - Day 133: Happy Canada Day!

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What a way to enjoy Canada Day, poolside with friends!

Project 365 - Day 132: Last Day!

2009-07-05T20:51:00.000-07:00

Today was the last day of school and it was a sad one for my daughter, especially. She had Mrs Bunkowsky this year who was by far, the best teacher she's had in her young school life! As her gift, we made her a scrapbook page of the barn party that her family threw back in May. I think she really liked it!

Project 365 - Day 131: The Zoo

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It was a field trip to the Assiniboine Park Zoo for the whole school today!! Luckily it wasn't too hot or else many of the kids would have been miserable. We didn't have tons of time to spend in the actual zoo but we did get to see a few animals, including many peacocks strutting around and showing off their feathers!

Project 365 - Day 130: The Pool Party!

2009-06-28T22:37:00.000-07:00

Okay, so normally I would refrain of posting this kind of picture but I couldn't resist! Today was Tana's pool party and it wasn't the nicest of days but really, 8 & 9 year olds just don't care. There were many jumping contests and here's the boys striking their pose after the best "Fashion" jump! Too funny!

Project 365 - Day 129: Uncle...

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Jim visits from Barrie for the weekend! A family BBQ was had with *way* too much food and a rousing game of Scene It!

Project 365 - Day 128: Father & Son

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Project 365 - Day 127: Last Game!

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It was the last game and man, was it hot out! There were a lot of red faces on the field this nite. The outcome was a 1-1 tie with a penalty kick in the dying minutes of the game for us to tie it up.

Project 365 - Day 126: Out caching...

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...with the Three Stooges! Good times, my friend, good times!

Project 365 - Day 125: Another Day, Another Game!

2009-06-28T22:22:00.000-07:00

This was the rematch against the Dakota team that beat us. They were the only team to beat us so far and we all wanted to win and win we did! Yay. Good game, girls! Now we are officially U9 division champs for Bonivital!

Project 325 - Day 124: Soccer Windup!

2009-06-28T22:17:00.001-07:00

Gavin's soccer windup was on Monday. They have various stations set up where the kids do different activities and one station included a lesson with "Fred". Fred is awesome and teaches soccer camps and such to the younger kids. It was the first thing Gavin mentioned to me when he came in the door after the windup. That and it was the best windup ever!

Project 365 - Day 123: Silver!

2009-06-21T19:59:00.000-07:00

After winning two games in the heat on Sunday, the girls advanced to the final to play Maples, whom they beat in their first game. Unfortunately, Maples had more in their tanks than our Knights did and beat them with a score of 1-0 to take home the Gold medals and the Slurpee Cup trophy! Way to go, Purple, we are so proud of all of you for your efforts!

Project 365 - Day 122: Dunk!

2009-06-21T19:56:00.000-07:00

Day 2 of the Slurpee Cup and after winning Game 2, the girls got the opportunity to get the coaches in the hot seat, namely the Dunk Tank! It was a hot day and both Coach Rick and Coach Thomas (Daddy) got to taste the drink!

Project 365 - Day 121: The Slurpee Cup!

2009-06-21T19:54:00.001-07:00

Here's the first game of the tournament that our girls are entered this weekend - The Slurpee Cup! The girls won their first game, beating Maples Monarchs 4-2!

Project 265 - Day 120: My Hot Lover!

2009-06-21T19:52:00.000-07:00

Ah, Jack....what you do to me...

Project 365 - Day 119: Last Game!

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Snack time after the last gamd of the season! Way to go Gav!

Project 365 - Day 118: Things That Make You Go...

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hmmm?

Saw this while out geocaching at lunch today.

Project 365 - Day 117: Fort Whyte

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These are good times, my friends. Spending the morning with my son's Kindergarten class at Fort Whyte. It was a great day for it. We won't mention the mosquitoes. Saw some pelicans, turtles, geese, went critter dipping. Good times, good times!

Project 365 - Day 116: Talk About Yer Hair!

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The day after the French braid came out! Talk about your frizz!

Project 365 - Day 115: Nice....Hat?

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Goofing off by the pool with the pool toys!

Project 365 - Day 114: Off the Board

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Here's Tana hitting the water after jumping off the board at swimming lessons for the first time. Apparently she had to jump at Grandma and Grandpa's first!

Project 365: Day 113 - Two for the Price of One!

2009-06-16T22:37:00.001-07:00

It was the first time in the pool for them! Gavin was first in. Here's the first pics of each of them jumping for the first time this year!

Project 365: Day 112 - Playing Dead!

2009-06-16T22:33:00.000-07:00

I thought he was dead on the fence but apparently he likes to lie and nap there and taunt the cat. I spooked him when I came outside to take a closer picture!

Project 365: Day 111 - That's My Boy

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After the incident at soccer last night that really bothered me, this picture is very appropriate. And yes, I cheated and didn't take this picture today but a couple of years ago when I was in Fargo.

I will be blogging about this incident in my other blog in the next day or two.

Porject 365 - Day 110: The Wonder Years

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A show that can bring forth the tears when I'm 12 and again at 37 is truly something special and timeless! A favorite and a classic!

Project 365 - Day 109: My Readers!

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Now this is a sight that warms my heart! My kids reading with their Papa (though the book that Gavin has is a little beyond his comprehension but he wants to be like his sister and read Warriors too!)

Project 365 - Day 108:

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In front of the Manitoba Children's Museum while waiting to pick up Gavin. Notice the newest "addition"!

Project 365 -Day 107: Three Generations!

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Of Quinlan men!

Project 365 - Day 106: Bedazzled...

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by Bejewelled! The online game I am obsessed with and addicted too. Its always just one more game....and I can't seem to stop. Nor can I seem to get the highest score of all my friends that play.

Project 365 - Day 105: My 2 Goomba's

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Project 365 - Day 104: The TV Channel

2009-06-04T10:33:00.000-07:00

While watching Marley & Me, Boots all of a sudden noticed the dog on the screen and ambled over to the tv to take a closer look - and proceeded to watch for a few minutes! Too funny!

Project 365 - Day 103: Cat in the...Box?

2009-06-04T10:28:00.001-07:00

In my attempt to declutter (albeit slowly), I organized my closet and tidied it up and whilst doing that, Boots decided to make this nearby box her home! You can just barely see her eye in this shot!

Project 365 - Day 102: Naming Our Petals!

2009-06-04T10:20:00.001-07:00

From Ali Edwards blog post about Naming Your Petals. A neat exercise to do. And to scrapbook! We each did one! (and yes, don't say it Thomas)

Project 365 - Day 101: After the Dance...

2009-05-31T21:16:00.001-07:00

...we paid for it with two grumpy kids! But here they are on a quiet moment in their "lean -to" having an afternoon snack! Things were much improved at that point!

Project 365 - Day 100: The Barn Dance!!

2009-05-31T21:07:00.000-07:00

Woot! Day 100!

So today was the day of the Barn Dance, finally and Tana (and I) have been looking forward to this for quite some time. Tana's teacher Mrs Bunkowsky is in a band. A family band and they were having a barn dance and we bought tickets to go. The band is called Legacy and the barn dance was totally awesome! I mean, how often do you get to dance on stage with your teacher?

Project 365 - Day 99: Spring Fling!

2009-05-31T20:58:00.001-07:00

It was the annual Spring Fling at school and back by popular demand was the Jar Bar. Kids bring in jars filled with goodies and for 2 tickets ($1.00) they get to take a random jar home. There were about 140 some odd jars to be taken home and Tana was first in line to get a jar and was not happy with the jar she got. She ended up trading jars later for something that was more to her liking!

Project 365 - Day 98:

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Sigh. I spent the afternoon at the eye doctor's office checking my eye yet again so no fancy pictures. But this here's the Gags Unlimited car from the store of the same name! Exciting, I know! :-)

Project 365 - Day 97: Soccer, Of Course!

2009-05-31T20:38:00.001-07:00

Because my life is all about soccer, these days!

Project 365 - Day 96: New Du!

2009-05-26T21:53:00.001-07:00

He wanted it spiky, he got it spiky! My boy and his long overdue haircut! Lookin' good, buddy!

Project 365 - Day 95: New Hobby

2009-05-25T21:46:00.001-07:00

For a kid who turned her nose up at Project 365 when I first mentioned it, she sure asks to be the picture of the day quite often and today was no exception. Here she is engaged in her newest hobby, knitting which her Cha Cha taught her. She's making a scarf apparently and so far, she's quite gung ho about it. Hopefully that intensity lasts!

Project 365 - Day 84: Dinner Anyone?

2009-05-25T21:43:00.000-07:00

Our dining room table has the unfortunate habit of becoming a catch all far too often. The kids various school prjects, bills, recipes and other odds and sods. Tomorrow I vow to clean it off so its not such a mess! Its on my To Do list!

Project 365 - Day 83: Bugs?

2009-05-25T21:40:00.000-07:00

I love random nature/animal shots. Here's a bunny we saw while walking back to our car from Don Pedro's on Saturday night.

Project 365 - Day 82: Lower Fort Garry

2009-05-22T21:52:00.000-07:00

Took the day off work to go to Lower Fort Garry with my daughter's class. Although a field trip is exhausting, it is soooo worth the price of admission to go. The kids are a total riot! I took tooo many pictures and had to pick one for today! We even managed to avoid the first thunderstorm of the season while at the Fort - it just rained on us while coming back on the bus! Good times!

Project 365 - Day 81: Mamma-Cita!

2009-05-22T21:49:00.000-07:00

Me and my boy. He's got this nickname for me, he calls me Mamacita. Don't know where he picked it up from, but its really cute to hear him call me that.

Project 365 - Day 80: A Tana Shot!

2009-05-20T22:03:00.000-07:00

Some good pics to choose from today but I chose one that Tana took of her brother. He plunked himself down on the couch to read a Froggy book all on his own!

Project 365 - Day 79: Always Fresh, Always...

2009-05-19T21:38:00.001-07:00

Tim Horton's!

Its May 19th. We should be having cold drinks while watching the kids play soccer and not doing a Tim Hortons run. It was frickin' freezing outside!

Project 365 - Day 78: Spicy?

2009-05-19T21:35:00.001-07:00

This picture was taken after my son said something particularly funny. He said "My bum is spicy" - whatever that means and I just thought it turned out to be a nice picture of him. He's not smiling his "goofy" smile or half closing his eyes. Good one, Gav!

Project 365 - Day 77: Hangin' Out!

2009-05-17T22:41:00.001-07:00

Had a lot of good pictures to choose from today but I liked this one the best. It looks like she's not even on the tree but she is! Her thing is to race up the trees in the yard and then come back down. She's gonna go too far one time and won't be able to get down! Or the length of her leash will reach its limit! :-)

Project 365 - Day 76: Penchant for Paper!

2009-05-17T13:08:00.000-07:00

I love scrapbooking supplies but I really have a penchant for paper! I *love* paper - all kinds of paper especially patterned paper. I have a real fondness for heritage and school papers. So last night while at a girlfriend's scrapping, we had show and tell. Here's a sampling of some of the paper my friend received in one of her kits. Its a good thing maybe that I don't have unlimited funds to spend on scrap stuff otherwise I'd have more paper than I'd ever know what to do with.

Project 365 - Day 75: Bedtime Stories

2009-05-17T13:05:00.001-07:00

After a game of bowling (which I'd promised my son) and supper at Subway, we rented a movie (which I'd promised my daughter). We got said movie in the picture and I found it to be quite entertaining. Not an Oscar winner but a few good laughs and good times snuggling on the couch with my kids!

Project 365 - Day 74: ECWL

2009-05-14T19:57:00.000-07:00

So today I started my "class". Its called Everyone Can Write A Little with Cathy Zielske and so far, I'm really digging it so it stands to reason it would be my picture of the day! I think some of us were tweeting so much today that we killed it for a while! Come, join us. Registration is open for a week yet!

Project 365 - Day 73: Chess Anyone?

2009-05-13T20:14:00.000-07:00

Tana's apparently learned to play chess at school with the chess club (though I'm suspect on the whole "rules" thing that she's learned) and now she's obsessed with wanting to play. Her Dad dug out his chess set and she played a few games. She's quite excited about the whole thing and it looks like I'll be learning chess in the near future.

Project 365 - Day 72: Need A Bag?

2009-05-13T20:11:00.000-07:00

Here's Boots crammed into Gavin's school ziploc bag! She gets into everything!

Project 365 - Day 71: Let's Go Geocrashing!

2009-05-13T20:05:00.000-07:00

And that's exactly what we did. Blew off work this afternoon (Monday) to go caching with MHz. It was a beautiful day and the weather forecast was, well, forecasting crap so we took the opportunity go grab a few caches. Headed out to Headingley to experience the Headingley Grand Trunk Trail and found this bridge near one of our cache finds. We managed to find 8 caches, including a few of the Trove Chasers bowling caches! Suh-weet!

Project 365 - Day 70: Happy Mother's Day

2009-05-10T22:57:00.001-07:00

The highlight of the day had to be Gavin finally learning to ride his bike with no training wheels! All it takes is a school yard and away we go. Way to go Gav! Proud of you and now I can look forward to real bike rides with the kids. Woot!

Project 365 - Day 69: Swimming!

2009-05-10T22:55:00.001-07:00

Here's my girl at her swimming lesson on Saturday. Slowly she's learning the proper technique and this lesson is going much better than the one she was enrolled in a few years ago. She really likes it (and it helps that a friend is in it with her).

Project 365 - Day 68: D'oh!

2009-05-10T22:53:00.000-07:00

A reminder to bring my camera when I go out. I missed a bunch of good photo ops because of it!

Project 365 - Day 67: My New Toy!

2009-05-07T22:10:00.000-07:00

It came in the mail today! Whee! Can't wait to try it out and not get frustrated while caching!