happy birthday Cathy!

I hope you have a wonderfully relaxing Sunday birthday doing all the things you want!

happy birthday!

love Kate

gifts in the mail

look what Cooper and McKenzie got last night in the mailit's not hard to tell who's is who's here...of course they wanted to try them on that instant!Peace man...I think Coop should be a dog model - he wears it well!McKenzie was not so sure about the whole idea...look at that face...how can a face like that be capable of bad things...?

we know you better than that McKenzie!

Thanks Barb

puppy kisses from Cooper and McKenzie

the welcome experiment

just when I had about given up on my little experiment a glimmer of hope came through attached to an email... and here it is, a wonderful door all the way from Portland, Oregon :) thanks so much Cathy for keeping my experiment alive!

if you want to have fun with my social experiment send me your door (or doors) too!

happy birthday Gene!

here's wishing you had a wonderful day today even though you were traveling :)

love from us!

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas...

While we were in Portland for thanksgiving Cathy & Gene bought us some wonderful christmas lights and upon seeing the neighbours' over the top displays (you can actually see one of them from the moon) we decided that our poor little house on the corner needed some 'bling'. so on Sunday Bryce got up on the roof and hung our lights while I raked copious amounts of yellow leaves off our front lawn.

ta da!

road trip

we're hitting the road again today and taking a road trip to Portland, Oregon to visit Bryce's family for Thanksgiving. It's a 12 hour drive, and we hear there might be snow on the way, so we're going to take it easy.

I hope you all have a wonderful thanksgiving (for those of you in the US) and a great week to the rest of you!

happy birthday bill!

Dear Mr Father-In-Law to be

I hope you have a wonderful happy birthday today! We'll be up to give you birthday wishes in person on Thursday next week :)

Love Kate, Bryce, Cooper and McKenzie!

fleet week in the city

I'm a bit behind in my blog posts here, just been so busy doing stuff to sit down and write about it all... anyway a few weeks ago Bryce's mum, Cathy and Gene came to visit us for the week which just happened to be Fleet week, so we headed up to the city to Fisherman's Wharf to watch the planes fly over the bay

we grabbed a quick bite to eat

and headed to the waterfront

to see the planes

and waited for the Blue Angels

(Bryce, me, Mike, Gene, Cathy & Andres)

I found some very young sailors to snap a pic with

I think they were cadets

found some cute kids

saw this boat capsize

not sure what these ones were called but I loved the red white and blue smoke they shot out

the Blue Angels made a very brief show and then cancelled due to fog...

which was disappointing, but some didn't seem to mind either way...

so we headed to the pub instead!

Cathy and I had a quick shot with the fireries

and then did the touristy thing

(Gene, Cathy, Bryce)

and after watching a guy propose to his girlfriend in front of a whole bunch of people at Pier 39 we headed out to dinner

at the Stinking Rose

a garlic restaurant

I had the fish, which of course came with copious amounts of garlic

saw an angel

and then headed home...