Volleyball Tournament in Winkler

Celine is #4 with the ponytail.

Celine had a volleyball tournament last Saturday with her grade 8 volleyball team. They had a good time together and we really enjoyed watching her and her team play. Go Knights!

Entering the work force

Ready to greet the customer.

Well, it's happened. Jonas has entered the work force. A & W - here he comes! Here he is just before leaving for his first official work shift. Likely bussing tables, scrubbling toilets - maybe even flipping a burger or two. Maybe that will come with his first promotion. Well, we're proud of Jonas, and wish him many happy work hours at A & W. mmm, onion rings and rootbeer...

40th Birthday

Gerald bought me this lovely hand carved bowl with salad spoon/fork and necklace/earrings from Ten Thousand Villages. Thanks!!!

Notice the lovely picture on the wall? A chalk drawing of us on our honeymoon at Stanley Park.

See my lovely Gimme my timmies Shirt (and no one gets hurt)? I received some lovely gifts from friends and family. But, the best present was that so many people came to celebrate my birthday with me. Thanks everyone - I love you all!

Costume fun

Red Fall

Here's some red leaves for you Charlene. Most of my englemen ivy leaves were already gone, but one plant still had the leaves on it. We have another tree with beautiful red leaves, but they are all shriveled up already.

FALL

Fall is Gerald's favorite season, so he took some pictures. There's lots of pretty leaves everywhere.

THE PIPE-O-PHONE

Felix did a great job on his sound project for school. Mom and Dad helped along a bit too.

Thanksgiving

Waiting to chow down on ham, mashed potatoes and gravy and carrots. Delish!

















The jacket looks and fits great!

Thanksgiving

Looks like there's lots of Gabrielle pictures. Well, we were doing some birthday celebrating. For Mom and Gabrielle.

I even attempted to make a ladybug cake, even though it turned out to be a pink ladybug.

The Back 2.75

Looks like a pro at mowing the lawn.

The garden did pretty good for the first year. Pumpkins, potatoes, peas, carrots, onions, some corn...

Helping with the carrots and potatoes. A beautiful day for harvesting some garden produce.

Fun at Fall on the Farm

The museum kitties are so much fun to play with.

All right - treats from the general store.

Celine did a great job taking all the pictures and keeping the kiddies entertained too.

Fall on the Farm

Stirring the meagrope.

Jonas was helping out by chopping wood to keep the fires going, and had a minor mishap. A paramedic was on hand to help with the situation.

The reactions from the crowd were the usual - from "That's how we did it too", to "That's not how we did it", to "What are you doing?" to "Gross, what's that?". All the sausage, crackles, rebspea, head cheese were auctioned off at the end of the afternoon as a museum fundraiser.

Santa Monica Pier

A view of the pier. After dark we also walked around the shopping district inland to see more buskers and look through the stores. I saw two ladies singing an Italian Opera - that's one act I hadn't seen before.

Yummy - shrimp at Bubba Gump's.

I was trying to take a picture of the trees here and realized there was a homeless man sleeping there. Lots of homeless around L.A.

We got to see and hear Arthur Nakane 1-Man Band on the Pier. He was on America's Got Talent.

More California Pictures

I just loved all the different plant life in L.A. area.

Here we are at a chapel by the ocean where people can get married. There was a wedding going on while we were there. You could put your brick with your names - one said "Surf our Dreams" how romantic.

By Donald Trump's golf course.

Venice Beach. Lots of people, buskers, homeless, unique people, did I say people?

Hollywood

After a concert at the Hollywood Bowl - a piano concerto and the 1812 Symphony by Tchaikovsky with fireworks, we toured around the area where the stars had their stars.

Julie Andrews hand and foot prints.

Lots of lights and people. Some interesting people looking for the night life too.