Fun with Friends

We are really lucky to be able to get out and about with friends quite a bit. Here are some pictures from those adventures.

On New Year's Eve day Ann Marie and I took Willa and Olivia to the Children's Museum where they had a New Year's Countdown at noon. They had all the fixin's... horns, crowns, leys... we even sang aud lang syne!

Willa and Olivia take measure of each other at our parenting class at the college

Ann Marie an I had a girls coffee date... no pictures of us but Olivia did a bang up job teaching Willa how to use the iphone!

A walk after coffee...

Story time with Riley and Olivia. They did some serious rings around the rosie!!

Snack on the lawn.... these three look like serious trouble!!

Willa and her friend Asa enjoy snacks over the train.

Fun with Family

Willa listening to her music on the ipod... she's got that thing figured out better than me!

Playdough with GranJan

GG-pa' 89th birthday!

A birthday toast

Playing pin ball with daddy at our favorite pizza place... Tino's!

Willa's Ne-Ne, Leah's friend Stefani, sent a package for a princess. Here she modes the goods...

What lovely earings you have! Willa borrowed these from her Mrs. Potato Head

Making pizza with daddy

GG-pa got this "going to Grandma's" hood for Willa last Christmas.

This year we used it to visit him...

Willa loves playing with her new (handed down from the Hankey's) train set

GrandJan and Bret had just as much fun as Willa

Willa sports her first pony tails! So cute!!

Bathtime with daddy is always a blast!

Choo Choo... Macaleer Express Coming Through!

On a beautiful 58 degree weekend in January we took a train ride to Vancouver. It was really fun! We went with our good friends the Thorne's! We enjoyed the ride, walked along the water in Downtown Vancouver, checked out the Olympic venues and had a good meal at Granville Island. We even took the Aqua Bus(water Taxi) and played at the park! Here are the pics...

The Thorne's

Willa's not quite sure of this train thing yet but Bret's convinced it's the only way to go...


Willa and a just awake Peter!

Checking out the scenery!

Bret, Willa and Cameron keep an eye out for Peter as he does a bit of exploring. I think he was trying to find the dining car!

Granville Island is Vancouvers equivelent of Pike Place Market. Willa didn't care about much but chasing the birds!

Leah and Bret leaving Granville Island on the Auqua Bus

All that chasing birds really wore Willa out... she crashed just after lunch!

We found this cool city park on our walk back to the train station. That is the olympic village in the background.

Willa loves sliding!!

Traffic jam!

It's a race!

The Science Center

Olympic Village and the Science Center

The Family

The train station

The Train

The family plus one!

The family on the ride home... we've almost made it!!

Big hug!

Bigger hug!!!