wedding albums

Anna's taken to browsing through the wedding albums we keep in our bedroom. Conversations usually wind around to where she was during the event. She's not happy with my answers.

Me: There's Daddy. There's me.
Anna: There's grandpa. There's Grandma!
Me: Yes! And Auntie Cindy...
Anna: Where's me Anna?
Me: You weren't born yet.
Anna: I want to go to the wedding.
Me: Well, if you were born, we would have invited you. But you were just an egg.
Anna: I was trying to get out of my egg! I wanted to eat cake.

early january

Mom, you're a goof. (hat swapping, Jan. 7)

Anna and Sylvia hanging out

So I would like it to either get really cold, cold enough to snow, or just warm up already and stop raining. Enough is enough.

xmas tree pics

1999

2000forgot to get a picture of both of us in 2000.

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

obsessed with how cute our 1 year old looks in pictures in 2005, we forget to do the family shot...

2006

oops... forgot to do a shot of us dressed up in front of the tree. but here's anna in front of our tree:

2007
Happy New Year!

summary of 2007...
It started with snow, and readying the house.
I left the McPherson,
we sold our house,
joined a book club,
bought our sunriver house,
worked for Paper Hat full time,
then worked at the Sooke libe as a casual and at Paper Hat contracts,
we moved from east sooke,
i started full time as the sooke libe supervisor,
i turned 34,
there were trips to Ragley farm,
a trip to Frnech Beach for camping in the hottest period of the year,
there was yoga, dwindling running, but a new running partner and routine began...
anna sets foot in a hospital for the first time in her life (croup scare),
friends visited - mel, kaya and sean, sash and soph, liz and matt and alice
tim went to golden for a burger,
anna turned three.
a wedding!
a whirlwind of stress in october,
left the library,
back to the bosom of uvic and open school, but different this time -
paper hat takes a curriculum writing focus,
carved 5 pumpkins,
recognized magic,
anna spends her first night away from home,
i experienced osteopathy,
get togethers with glenda and marthese,
a quiet christmas, some tears under a cedar tree,
and the lights at butchart's with 3 year olds running circles in the cafe,
buzzing on hot chocolate

videos

The picture above was taken New Year's Eve, when we went to Butchart's Garden to see the lights with Anna and Everett and his folks. I swear the train they're watching was far more fascinating than the light displays to them. We had to tear them away for hot chocolate.

So in absence of any actual posting of late, I'll put up the link to our videos:

http://www.vimeo.com/user292888/videos