Fiona, Simon and Mia, early Christmas morning

The ice cream man

Tobogganing at the cemetary

Boxing day crabs....

Our contribution to the weekend, besides my now famous ' chai-ger-meisters' ( chai and jaeger for breakfast) was a bunch of crab legs which those who love them devoured. There was no talking during this time, just serious cracking, buttering and slopping back. The house could have caught fire and we would have remained at the table until the bowl was empty.

Getting ready for Christmas

Armed with hot chocolate, beer and Baileys we hit downtown New West to enjoy the Santa Clause parade. I would say that New West-ers seem to lack enthusiasm ( especially for their local polititians) when compared to the Mission parade. If you are a participant in the Mission parade you are practically a celebrity and the cheering makes you fee like one. Maybe because it is a small town and the onlookers know all the participants, or maybe people in Mission just dont get out much but Im thinking that these 'city' people here un NW might just be a tad snobish.
We had a great time all the same, and we whistled and cheered for the dancers and prancers and unicycle chancers.

With some of her friends.

Above : Fi sitting with Clay ( the son of Fred and Michelle) watching cartoons.

Below with her BF Christian. It seems like Fiona is a touchy little girl, everytime she gets near Christian or Zoe she wants to touch them and grab at them. We think it is cute, but maybe their parents think she is being agressive..

Family portrait

Loki is the only one missing from this photo that was clicked out in Mission at Niccol, Graham and Kaydens house. Ross and I stayed the week out with Kayden while Nic and Graham remained in Mexico for their honeymoon. I think we did a fine job, except for getting dog hair everywhere and loosing a set of keys and some forks. The highlight woudl have to be the night that I made homemade deepfried corndogs...and then we decided to batter and deepfry everything in sight...including the halloween candies. Kayden spend 2 days eating healthy food and recovering from this not entirely lucid moment of ours...I blame my old friend and co-troublemaker Ben Henderson for stopping by and encouraging this crazyness.