Friday, October 20, 2006

Walk in Mount Doug Park with the Loucks

Great time with the Loucks!



On this walk we were able to see two owls! Incredible...the kids were very excited.

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India Loves her Pasta

Check this out. Wow when she is into her food, she is in to her food.



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India's First Dance Class

What a day...our daughter is finally in dance class. She was so excited about her new pink tights and her black leotard. However the bulk of her excitement was save for her new tap shoes.




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Sunday, September 03, 2006

Naramata

What a week. Trish took a writing course and I played Mr. Mom in the morning with India. It was an incredible experience and we cannot wait to do it next year.

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Kelowna

Stopped in Kelowna for 2 nights to hang out and spend some time with my good friend Sylvain and his family.


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Barkerville

On our last day in PG we went to Barkerville.  Much of the family also came along.  It was a great day with the kids....


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DoubleMac Farms

While in PG we went up to visit my good friend John MacDonald and his family.  He has beautiful acreage up on the hill.  I wish we had more time...India just loves the animals:

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Summer Vacation - Prince George

What a wonderful visit.  Our first night we went to a potluck at my Uncle Alain's and then the next day was the 4rth Annual LeFebvre Golf Tournament.

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Monday, August 07, 2006

Apple WWDC 2006

Well the video is now posted so I am going to watch it...I will give you my feedback when I am done.

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Merridale Cidery

Trish's Aunt Betty is in town visiting from London Ontario. Like last year we again went out to the Cidery to each their fine food and beverages. This place is ideal for children; with it's vast orchards for the children to run in and their faerie villages they can explore, there is literally no end to the fun that can be had.

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Friday, August 04, 2006

Welcome Aboard

Career Opportunities

BC Ferries is always on the lookout for customer focused, hard working team players.  Apparently I am now one of those players.  I have recently accepted employment with BCFerries starting August 28th.  This is fantastic in that I now have a month off before I start work.  This enables me to decompress from my time at the Bean and be fresh for my new opportunity. 

The job opportunity was described as:

Your responsibilities will be assigned from time to time and more specifically your Key Result Areas shall generally include:

  • Follows project management best practices, oversees the planning, analysis, design, implementation and closure processes;
  • Advises and actively contributes to the resolution of business problems by matching information technology to meet business requirements;
  • Contributes to the development of the client’s short and long term strategic plans;
  • Identifies inter-dependencies, conflicting requirements and overlapping impact on business processes and ITSS services and architectures across projects;
  • Conducts project post mortems and creates a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements administration and communications; and
  • personal characteristics/expectations.

I am quite sure that this is going to be a fantastic opportunity.  Also one of the great benefits from this job is unlimited free ferry travel....looking forward to taking advantage of that.  In addition I will be able to walk to work and the work environment is pretty relaxed (read no ties!!).

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Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Kelly's Birthday

A friend of ours from Church asked us over to help celebrate her Birthday....happy 29th Kelly ;-).

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And her little one Haden (sp?):

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Incredible Saltspring mussels were on the menu.  Be sure to check out the pictures to see everyone drinking from the mussel juice bowl!

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Gracie's First Birthday

India's new friend has a first birthday!

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This is an old friend of Trish's who has just moved to Victoria.  Great people who really know hospitality!

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India at Beacon Hill WaterPark - July 2006

Seems to be a water theme in India's life!  Here she is again in the water enjoying herself....

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India at the Beach (Again)

It never fails to keep her happy.  If you are having a bad day with India just take her to the beach and all is good........


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Music at Government House

Music at Government House 2006

This is one of my favourite activities in Victoria and really makes living here special.  Here are some pictures from the July 20th performance:

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Monday, May 29, 2006

Mitchel's 4rth Birthday Party

What a great end to our Camp Pringle weekend! We were invited to Mitchel's birthday party at Goldstream Park. The theme was 'firefighters' and rescue workers!

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Camp Pringle - May 2006

Well this was our second time at Camp Pringle and it was again a wonderful experience. Camp Pringle is an United Church owned and run summer style camp on the shores of Lake Shawnigan (half an hour north of Victoria). It's a beautiful spot and it was fantastic. The whole weekend is about the kids and for the kids.

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Saturday, April 22, 2006

Easter Egg Hunt 2006

What a morning. We got up early before Church and hid Easter eggs throughout Trish's garden. India's little friend Scarlet also came over to enjoy the festivities. It turned out awsome...they both had a wonderful time.

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India at the Beach - Part #1

One of India's favourite activities is going to the beach. Thank heavens it is also one of her Mom's favourite activities as well!! I wasn't here for this little journey but Trish took some awesome photos:

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She could play in the sand all day.......check out the photo show below for more photos:

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