fall

today in the 26 degrees celcius weather, it was a beauty, we had a picnic and let the kids frolick in the fall leaves. it was REALLY nice out, one of those days that is just perfect.

shrubs @ 221

well, i planted some shrubs. i went to the local greenhouse and found some cherrybomb burberries. i really love the red. they will lose their leaves in the winter, but will come back green and then change again in the fall, so beautiful colors year round. i also bought a dwarf pine, which will stay green all year. in between the shrubs i planted several bulb (tulips), so we will see, in the spring how that will look. it has been a grey day here, you can kind of tell in the pictures. i have yet to laydown the bark mulch i bought, and i have a few more bulbs to go. tomorrows forecast looks good, i will do it then.
getting ready for fall.... winter?? i think it is coming...

party pictures

we had a great time tonight celebrating dads 56th birthday! the night included crave cupcakes, dogpiles (note mom handing off her glasses in the dogpile picture) and just hanging out yakin'. we got dad the new ipod shuffle, super small and just clips to his running attire, very cool. here's to another year dad!

new camera

over the weekend we bought a new digital slr, a Canon XTi, 10.1 megapixel. it is great. the pictures i am posting, i took with the camera, i'm learning as i go and it will be lots of fun to work with. we also had the xbox at home this weekend and you can decide which pictures i took while they were mesmerized by the action on the 50" screen.......

back to kodaly

eli started up kodaly again this year at mount royal college. we took these pictures after class, i took one of him, he took one of me.

back to skool party at baker park

had a back to school party for the kids at baker park along the bow river, it was perfect out and we had the area all to ourselves.