Well - it kinda looks like we haven't existed for the last 8 months, but we truly have . . . we've just been busy and I haven't taken the time to update our blog. So, today I spent a bit of time and I have taken pictures of the last 8 months and just crammed them in so that you can see what we've been doing. Hopefully I'll be able to keep up in the new year!!! So, here we go . . .
Emma's Relay Team
In June we added a new puppy to our family - Izzy. She's an Aussiedoodle and fits perfectly with us!
In July Braden and I went for 10 days to Prague and Vienna while my parents looked after the kids in Ottawa. It was an amazing trip!!!
Dinner cruise on the Danube River
Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna
Astronomical Clock, Prague
Estate Theater, Prague
Funicular, Prague
John Lennon Wall, Prague
Mini Eiffle Tower, Prague
Charles Bridge, Prague
Rose Garden, Prague
Smetana Hall, Prague
Dinner Cruise, Danube River, Vienna
Musikverin Mozart, Vienna
Musikverin, Vienna
Danube River, Vienna
Prater, Vienna
Schonbrunn Palace Maze, Vienna
Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna
Schonbrunn Palace, Romantic Arbor, Vienna
Grampa and Emma chatting on the veranda
Gramma and Navia taking Izzy for a run
Emma had to say good-bye to her best friends as they moved to Malibu in August.
Family Vacation at Lake Placid, New York. Stayed in a cabin and even brought Izzy with us!
Emma won a bobsled ride for 2 and gave it to Braden and Kaleb. They went on the bodsledding track from the 1980 Olypics. 1/2 mile in 41.83 seconds! The next day we ALL went tubing down the rapids - even our brave Navia!!!
Emma and Kaleb went to their very first overnight camp - Circle Square Ranch Camp. They were able to go the same week and LOVED it!!! They can't wait to go again, and Navia is trying to figure out how she can manage to fit in one of their suitcases!
First Day of School
Emma - Age 11 Grade 6
Kaleb - Age 9, Grade 4
Navia - Age 6, Grade 1
Halloween 2012
Hanging out at a Ottawa 67's hockey game
Mommy fit a girls trip to Malibu to see her friends that moved there in the summer. This is a view from their balcony.
Braden's work Christmas Party
Navia's 7th Birthday Party - Spa Day for her and her friends
Navia's 'real' birthday - and Grampa was there for it!!!
Navia's Christmas concert (back room, 2nd from the right)
Christmas Eve
Putting out the Reindeer Food - a family tradition
Navia reading to Daddy
Baking Cookies
Kaleb playing his Grade 2 RCM pieces
Emma playing her Grade 3 RCM pieces
Decorating Sugar Cookies
Grampa reading the Christmas Story on Christmas morning
Some excited kids!
Grampa and the grandkids
Braden and Dad
We took Grampa to the airport and had some sad kids - they loved having someone else around to hang out with, play with and spoil them too!
We kinda forgot to do the Gingerbread Houses before Christmas, so it became an after Christmas activity - which they still had fun doing!
And so that is the rest of 2012!
Braden did a lot of travelling this year for work, although I don't have the pictures that he took. He visited London, Paris, Lisbon, Kiev, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Frankfurt, Geneva, Megeve, and went to Orlando for meetings just a week after we came home from our March break there :) I think those are all the places, but I could be missing one or two. He is keeping very busy with work, but it is nice that he is also able to hang out with us and that we've been able to do more travelling this year with him too.
So, from our Family to Yours - Merry Christmas and have a great 2013!!!
