6/30/2012

We're back, we're bigger, we're - never mind

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Just to let all of you know, we're back in Germany. And while not necessarily better, I am certainly a little bigger than I used to be. All that good food and those interesting food-like substances I just had to try left my jeans a tad snug around the middle. Thank goodness jeans are the last thing anyone would want to wear here right now as it is hotter than hades.
I apologize that the pictures I promised in the last post never came - we were just having too much fun!

As I am sorting through our Canada pictures and videos I will make a blog post here and there, so stay tuned if you're interested. For now I will leave you with the last picture I took in Canada and the first I took back home.
This is the family at the Calgary airport circa 3pm on June 26th, after a delicious Chinese lunch. Grandma and Grandpa then drove all the way back to Saskatoon. Glad you arrived safely!


And this is Finn in our yard, circa 6pm on June 27th, right after we had arrived. After the flight and before the 3.5 hour train ride he was quite miserable, but eventually he got over the lack of sleep and when we got home he happily started picking berries. The black currants are ripe, the red and white currants, jostaberries and blueberries are almost ripe. Of course, he wouldn't think of eating them, except for the white currants, which are impossible to find at the stores. So, following in his grandpa's footsteps, Finn has decided he needs to dig a root cellar under the tree house which he will use for storing his berries.


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Oh, and HAPPY CANADA DAY tomorrow, to all you Canadians and half-Canadians out there!
Enjoy the fireworks!
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6/14/2012

First things first

As promised, here are a few more pictures, for all those of you who do not 'like' Mark Zuckerberg. You can't click on these pictures to make them bigger, and the quality isn't as good, but it's better than nothing! We are having a fabulous time here in Canada, and aside from the "3 Fs" (Family, Friends, and Food), the horses and other animals is what the kids enjoy most. Look:

(P.S. The beautiful horses are courtesy of our friend and neighbour Ross, the best breeder of the finest Arabian horses!)





























This calf sucked Lily's finger. (We visited good friends who live right next to a big dairy farm.)






I totally want a rotating butt scratcher now! :)



Big fields, big machines!



Signing off for tonight, but will post more photos of our time in the Rockies and at the lake soon.

And those boots in my last post were Finn's of course. He earned his rodeo badge, by the way. After falling off the horse (in the arena, wearing his helmet) and spending some time in Mama's arms he climbed right back on and had a lot of fun going fast. Way to go, little cowboy!


I think I figured out how

to post pictures on here from my Facebook page! (Uploading to blogger from my camera takes forever.)
Let's see:




Yay! Stay tuned! More to follow.

P.S. Can you guess who this is?