Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The Baptism and other fun stuff





The last 2 weeks have been quite busy! We went to Madison for Daniel's baptism. I got to go for 4 days! Other than catching up with Rachel, Matt, Daniel and Kelly one of my main priorities was to go shopping, in the USA! Oh how I miss shopping at my old familiar stores with the low low prices of the states. I did less damage than expected but Ann Taylor has a good amount of my Canadian money now.

Daniel is a great baby. He is so happy and such a good little guy. Not to mention cute as can be. No bias either, haha. The baptism was beautiful and it was so nice to have my parents there to meet Daniel and see his baptism. The day turned out to be perfect and we all enjoyed the after party at Dan and Peggy's house (Matt's parents).

I got home Monday evening and on Tuesday my parents came to visit as well as sister Susan. Unfortunately, the weather was not ideal for their visit. All my talk of how we have been enjoying the evenings on our deck and how nice it has been to go biking sounded a little false with what we had during their visit. Susan and I did get to go biking along the lake on Wed. before it rained for the rest of the day. We went to Niagra Falls on Thurs. and were not disappointed. It was beautiful! Niagra on the Lake was fun too and we enjoyed lunch and shopping. Susan and I had "mass transit day" on Fri. and took the GO train into Toronto and saw the tall ships visiting the area and sat outside and had happy hour in the sun. It was great to have family around and more fun to be able to get out and about with them and show off the city. I think we all had fun.


Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Party Time

It was the 1st anniversary of my 50th birthday on Sunday and we had a great BBQ. It was not planned to have a "birthday" party, it just happened to be the most convenient day for all the invitees to come over this weekend.
We had an Amherst Shore warm up party. All of our friends and family that live nearby came over for some Texas brisket, bbq beans, colelsaw and Texas sheet cake. The beer was Canadian though. We even managed some Texas weather for the event. Yes, it was 33C/96F with humidity the day of the party. Go figure! Last year it was the same weather....and we all jumped out of a plane. This year no such activities. I'm just glad to be walking easily!
It was a great time and so good to have a house full of friends and it got us all fired up for the summer vacation at the shore. I think it won't get here soon enough for most of us.
A fun way to celebrate my birthday!
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