I hope everyone had an awesome Christmas! I thought that I would take a moment to share some of my favourite snapshots from Christmas day, it was a crazy hectic day that saw us start opening gifts at about 6:00am and wrapping the day up around midnight…

Lately Owen has been giving this look when he wears his glasses, he pulls them down and peeks over the top, too cute!

Brandon has also been rocking a look of his own lately, albeit a little sassy!

We did manage to get a couple serious ones out of them though.

Santa even remembered to bring something for Kosmo, the boys thought that was great!

A big hit for the boys was a craft table that they got, they absolutely love doing arts and crafts. I secretly, well I guess not so secret now, wish that I had one of these bad boys when I was a kid.

A little later Owen got even more creative with one of the seats from the craft table. It became his surf board and he was pretenting to paddle out to catch a wave. Lets hope he does not get any crazy ideas about heading to Mavericks in California or Jaws in Hawaii

Of course after a big morning Brandon took a much needed rest to recharge himself for his um evening performance…

Now that he was all rested up he was ready to put on a performance, and what a performer he was!

A turkey family photo tradition…

Toss in a self portrait for good measure.

This must have been a pretty intense moment in Cars 2… I just liked how Aunty D and Uncle Jim sat on the tiny benches with the boys

And Aunty Claudette should know better than to make silly faces at the camera, that kind of thing will land you on the old blog! ha ha.

Happy Holidays, I hope you all have a fantasic new year!

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for·tu·i·tous

Adjective:

• 1. Happening by accident or chance rather than design.
• 2. Happening by a lucky chance; fortunate.

I thought that Fortuitous Friday had a better ring to it that Random Friday…

What better way to start the weekend than to share some pretty pictures that happened to be taken during some important outings over this past summer. It is also a great time to reflect on this past summer as we head further into fall and colder weather.

Alberta Railway museum

There was a typewriter in one of the rail cars that the kids loved. They recognized right away the “keyboard” layout but wondered where the rest of the “computer” was.

Number 5, my personal fav number, from a mailbag that was in one of the mail cars.

Many a hot day this summer was spent making/blowing bubbles and having ice cream on the driveway. What better way to spend a hot summer day that making bubbles and eating ice cream?

Crazy about a mercury… at the Praire Garden & Adventure Farm. This place was lots of fun and there was so much to see and do, we could have went several times this summer if we had more time…

The Praire Gardens had a pirate theme throughout a lot of it, so of course they needed to have their own parrot, at least I think it is a parrot of sorts

Rain covered roses, with all the rain that we had this summer it was not hard to find these!

3 tree “finger print” mural… that is now a grey painted wall… It is unfortunate that some graffiti cannot be left up.

So long summer, we had a blast and will miss you but we will see ya next year!

Happy Friday everyone!

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I realize that Canada day was a couple weeks ago but I was sorting through some personal pics and came across these two. We took the boys down to the Legislature Grounds for Canada Day celebrations. Owen was being cheeky all day, dodging the camera, running away, and then finally just when I thought he was going to sit for a couple shots…

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Another annual trip to the Calgary Zoo turned out terrific! The weather was beautiful and the animals were all out basking in the sun, including us!

Brandon was really into checking out all the animals. He was amazed and would need to be reminded to keep moving as there were still lots of animals to visit.

Owen on the other hand could not sit still and was being a total ham, except for when you turned the camera on him.

Owen and Brandon thought the view was super cool from atop Uncle Derek and Daddy’s shoulders.

After a ride on the carousel Dude and Trouble needed some Ice Cream!

Yeah! Mom to the rescue with some of the best soft serve ice cream this side of the elephants

The trouble with ice cream is that it is very messy, but so delicious!

Dude! Where did my ice cream go?

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Last year we took the boys to see Thomas the Tank Engine at Heritage Park in Calgary. Since they enjoyed it so much we decided to take them again this year. While the day looked beautiful with a bright blue sky

It was actually quite windy and cold.

Once we were on the actual train though the boys perked up and were excited to watch all the sights go by, and catch a glimpse of Thomas puffing smoke as he chugged around Heritage Park.

After the train ride we headed for the activity tents and first up was the Temporary Tattoo parlor. Brandon waited so patiently and Owen took off to play with the trains.

The boys remembered the ice cream from last year and wanted to stop again this year.

Unfortunately, or fortunately due to the frigid temperature, they were closed so we could not get any ice cream.

Luckily the candy store was open and we were able to stop in and pick up some…

Popcorn? With all that candy at their disposal yes the boys picked popcorn. I think popcorn is one of their favourites!

Poor Brandon, the wind had blown over his popcorn bag and some spilled out onto the bench. He was so upset he started to cry.

One thing that Owen did wait patiently for was Thomas to steam on by.

They had people manning the train crossings to that you could not accidently get trampled by the train. They would tell people that they had to wait until the train went by and it was safe to cross while they waved flags on long sticks. Owen and Brandon have since started this practice while Angela and I are getting reading in the morning. They block off the section that joins the bathroom and bedroom and wave toilet plungers instead of flags while telling you that you need to wait until it is safe. Too cute!

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The boys got coloured bubbles for Easter and I was lucky enough be to home with them for the day! It was beautiful outside so we headed out to the driveway for some bubble mayhem. Right off the bat it was obvious that it was going to be a messy affair.

I figured that before things got too out of hand that we should switch to the bubble machine.

They thought it was so cool to try to step on a gazillion colored bubbles.

Looks like the sharks are swimming closer!

Closer, closer, closer, almost touching, STOP! So the inevitable happened, the bubble machine and it’s colored ooze were knocked over… At this point I thought it might be a good idea to put the camera down and help them get cleaned up before mom got home.

The driveway was covered, their clothes were covered, their shoes were covered. We hopped into the bath and got cleaned up and put on some new clothes. Luckily the bubbles were washable otherwise I might have needed to go into hiding, or the witness protection thingy.

Before and after, see the shoes are as good as new now!

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We put our tree up a few weeks ago and while the lights were being put on (boring stuff) the boys and I relaxed waiting for the green light to start putting ornaments up.

As you can see once the green light came the troublesome two wasted no time in getting to work.

Brandon needed a boost from Uncle Phil

Not to be outdone by his little brother Owen needed a lift from Aunty Claudette. Who had the highest ornament? I think it might have been a draw as Aunty had her work cut out trying to lift the taller and heavier of the two.

Even the guy with the camera had to get in on the decorating.

hmmm where is there some empty space to put this?

Hey Owen right here, I found a great spot…

Apparently too good of a spot as there seemed to be quite the growing cluster going on.

Catching myself in the action of documenting the decoration of the tree.

And catching my grandma (gg to my kids) in the action of documenting the decoration of the tree as well.

Apparently I was not so covert and she caught me catching her! I wonder where I got my love of photography from?

The boys absolutely loved this musical house that Grandma Korsan had up. They would get real close and concentrate waiting for the next door to open with a Christmas figure popping out and then jump back and scream with excitement when they got startled.

A few shots of some festive decorations and ornaments…

This one has to be my favourite from the day! Nice um “earings” Aunty Claudette, maybe they will go great with your wedding dress…

More to come…

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My wife and I had a little just the two of us time away in July. Our first trip away from the boys since; well the boys about 3.5 years ago. How crazy eh. We decided to head to San Francisco for a weekend getaway as we had been there with Owen when he was 5 months old and did not feel like we got to really see or do much besides eat, sleep, poop, cry and teeth! It is such a beautiful city and one of the things that amazes me are the buildings and architechture, everything is so ornate.

We took the Cable Car down to Fishermans Wharf to check out all the ships, shops and food!

We toured the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park and were able to go aboard some historic ships. It was pretty cool to board these ships, considering we come from the prairies there is not a lot of opportunity to get up close with these types of vessels.

After spending some time on the Wharf we took a ferry to Alcatraz. One thing I found particularly interesting is how beautifully landscaped it was. There is such a stark contrast between the decaying foundations of the buildings and the lush greenery and bird sanctuaries.

After Alcatraz we headed out to the Golden Gate bridge. It was breathtaking, literally. I could not believe how windy it was on the bridge, you definitely had to hang on to your belongings otherwise you risked losing them over the edge and into the bay! Also when you are that high up over open water with wind as strong as it was I could not help but think… What if a really strong gust blew you over?

Angela and I off of the bridge doing the touristy thing. Note the sunburn on her chest! We had awesome weather the whole trip.

Make sure you check out Angelas blog for more pictures, and some spicy blow by blow details of our trip.
San Francisco Day 2 – San Francisco Day 3

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