Number 11

On September 13 Candy and I celebrated our 11th Anniversary!!!

It is really hard to believe that it has been that long. It is amazing how time flys.

I surprised Candy with having the day off and we headed up to Mt. Wahington. We started out by going to the peak and enjoying the sites. Candy actually looked on the web and discovered there was a restaraunt at the summit to eat. Unfortunately it was Mt. Washington, New England.

So we went back down and had lunch at the calet. Next we went for a nice leasurely hike on Strathcona Park to Bedwell Lake and Helen Mackenzie Lake. It was a beautiful walk only ruined by a rather large teanage girl scantily clad feed the wiskey jacks.

It was the perfect day to celebrate and to I look forward to the next 11 and more.

Mt. Washington Summit

Strathcona Park


Bedwell Lake

Creek
Helen Mackenzie Lake
Mr. Hottie on a big rock!!!

All Together Again

Well, all us kids got to be together again. It was so great to have all of you under our roof. It might of been a little crazy at times, but having you and your kids under our roof brought such joy to me and Candy.

Here are some pictures for you Mom of your four angels all grown up.We are all to sexy for our hats!!!
Love you Mom

New Blog

Hello all, I just posted our weekend with the kids on All I Want for Christmas blog by accident. I am to tired and frustrated with our internet to do it all over again. So please go there to see the blog.

Say Hello to Max!!!

Well, we have a new member to our family. After we lost Jack 3 weeks ago, we originally had said that we would not get another dog. Well, you are all probably shocked to hear it didn't last. After about a week we started think and look at what our next dog would be. So after much deliberation and research on the Internet we worked our way back to labs. And specifically chocolate labs. Next we started to look for breeders, which wasn't too hard to find. But we did find and think that $1000 to $1200 was a little too much for us.

So we started to look at mixed breads and the SPCA for older ones. Then at work a lady said she had a friend with a chocolate labs she was look to get rid of, so we jumped on it. Now we are the proud owners of a beautiful ,slightly overweight, 6 year old chocolate lab named Max.

Vacation is Officially Over!!!

Well family, we are officially home from our holidays. We had an excellent time at all the places we were at. From a few days with the Faulkner's to Mom's with some extra luggage(Aiden) to Disneyland and back to Mom's again. We are now relaxing at home before we are back to work and all that stuff.

It was a great break and so nice to see and spend time with family and to get away by ourselves for a while. I don't think we missed work at all. Not too surprising I guess.

Anyway, here are some pictures of our travels.

Time @ the Faulkner's

I think this picture pretty much sum's up our time with them.

The Vancouver Aqarium

At Mom's with Aiden

Disneyland

This ones for you Andrew

Candy loves her goats

Finding Nemo ride, not worth the 2hr wait!!!

Candy the Space Cadet

The Parade

The Fire works were fantasmiculisous!!!

Then here are some pic's of our awesome time at Mom's. We had an absolutely amazing time with Mom. Almost as good if not better than Disneyland.

I got to spend some time on one of Pam's horses named Bucko!!! Luckly he did not live up to his name and I got to ride with Pam for about an hour out in the open. Definately a highlight of the trip for me.

How Candy feels about the guy in the next picture.

As you can see we had a wonderful holiday. Wish we had more time, but it can not be so. We love you all and of those we saw we miss you already and for those of you we didn't get see come and see, we miss even more.

Love Patrick and Candy

Enjoying the Happiest Place on Earth

Well, I just found out that we have free internet here in Cali. So I thought I would just let you know we are having a great time down here at Disneyland.

We started are vacation with a couple days with the Faulkner family and had a wonderful time. We went with Elizabet and the boys to the Vancouver aquarium, and I loved it. It was fun to watch the boys not sure what to look at next. Anyway I will get pictures and that up at another time.

We then drove to Mom's with Aidan as some extra luggage on board. He was the perfect passenger and had a great time driving down with him. We then left early the next morning and had a long, hot 13 hour drive to Disneyland. We have had some long fun days here and are both exhausted. We are a bit burnt and have some soar feet from all the walking, but we still have smiles on our faces and have made some great new memories to add to our last 10 years of great memories together.

Now we are headed to Mom's again tomorrow to spend 4 days there then home. Hope this finds you all well.

Love you all,
Patrick and Candy

A Brief Holiday

Hello Family,

Hope this finds you all well. I myself am recovering from my 5 days off. I say recovering because Candy had the brilliant idea that on these days off I could paint. And being the loving husband that I am I said sure. So after two days of rest, I got to work.

Now our place for those that have seen inside has very little wall space and more window and door space. So I thought no problem. And the first day seemed to go that way. Well unbenounced(I know I spelt it wrong) to me, with all the cutting in I had to do, I was putting my legs thought the workout of the century.

The next morning after doing a full day of squats(not to be confused with the trots), I had the sorest legs I have had in years. Every time I went down to cut in, I wasn't sure if I was coming up again. I thought I might need to hook up the LIFE LINE just in case I fell and couldn't get up.
Well after much pain and suffering I endured and got most of the painting done. The place looks fresh, bright and clean. As you will see we did not pick our usual neutral colors, and we love it.

Love you all and miss you almost as much.