Category Archives: Family

Flames vs. Islanders Exhibition Game in #yqr – Why I Didn’t Go…

So my two favourite NHL teams are playing an exhibition game tonight in Regina  and I made the tough decision not to go… There are a couple reasons… – the biggest reason is the price.  Even though it’s an exhibition game, tickets range from $98 for the *lowest* priced to $148.50 for the highest (of those […]

Pace’s and My First Days

Grade one for him… New Regent Place Branch Head for me…

This is a photo of…

…Pace showing Sasha how do to Irish dancing.

Camping at Crooked Lake

Spending a couple nights camping at beautiful Crooked Lake, one of the few campgrounds I know with lakeside sites. Wish I’d seen this list of camping hacks before we’d arrived!

Saturday Snap – Scenes From Katepwa

Spent an enjoyable few days at our family cottage at Katepwa Lake.  Here are some photos from the last few days… Paddle boat ride… Getting ready for Sasha’s first boat ride… Boat rides are relaxing Going fast = crazy hair! “I’m the king of the world!” Washing tub bath – a family tradition… Peaceful… Fishing […]

Dancing With Daddy

Happy to be at the lake and looking forward to her first boat ride!

Tummy Time!

Saturday Snap – An(other) August Long Weekend Wedding

Ten years ago this weekend, Shea and I gathered in her hometown of Creelman with ~150 friends and family to celebrate our marriage. Her Maid of Honour was her lifelong friend, Janelle. How fitting then that Shea was a bridesmaid this weekend for Janelle, who married her longtime partner Ben at the scenic Sherwood Forest […]

Four For The Price of One (Friday Fun/Saturday Snap/Sappy Sunday/Music Monday)

We were out of town this weekend for Shea’s parents’ 40th Wedding Anniversary so I didn’t get around to blogging as we were pretty busy the whole time. Instead of going back and post-posting (er, is that a word? Backdating posts to keep my “daily post” commitment going anyhow), I thought that, this time I’d […]

Facebook and My Social Clusters

Stephen Wolfram recently published an analysis of a huge dataset of how people are using Facebook that is extremely fascinating (so fascinating that I wanted to except some of the best parts but didn’t know where to start!) One of the findings was that the most common social structure people tend to have two or […]