Christmas was AWESOME!

Christmas this year was AWESOME!!!!!!!! We gathered on Wolfe Island for Christmas. Erin's brother Chris and his wife Jenny and their two kids (Emily and Charlotte) were there from Burlington as well. Christmas Eve dinner was yummalicious courtesy of Andy and Cathy's place. Yum! I especially enjoyed the 1,000 calorie bowl of soup and the beer-shooter Coronitas!!! (*grin*) Christmas day was at Erin's parents' place was loads of fun. After the Christmas present unwrapping we settled into watch a a movie in the afternoon. The evening brought a huge turkey dinner feast and Erin's brother John joined us as well. The fun event of the night was the kid-adult team game of Scategories! Does a restaurant named "Hamburger Hut" really exist? Can you order "Nuggets" as a pizza topping at a Pizzaria? Who really cares.... it was loads of fun. winners: Erin and Charlotte! Afterwards we all went to bed feeling great! Here's a few pictures from the weekend.

Jenny and Chris under the mistletoe.... how sweet! 

Here's Julie trying to pawn off her gag gift from the night before to her Dad. They're slimmy fish power bait! YUM!!!

Em is soooooooooo cute!!! 

Word to your mother! 

Even the boys got into the Christmas spirit! Looks good on your Chris! 

Erin models her new Lulu Lemon gym stuff!  

We watched Harry Potter on Christmas Day. Here we are on the couch. 

Poor Molly tried her best to hide from Jack all weekend! 

Jack is so 'gorgeous' in Molly's T-Shirt! 

Can you tell we got a little bit of snow last night? It took me 45 minutes to shovel the car out of the driveway! Wild! And Jack didn't waste anytime getting into it. He loves the snow. He's in danger of getting lost in the snow drift though! Too funny! 

He loves the snow!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Ok, can Jack get any more cute???? (click the pic to make it bigger) 

Last night was a great night! Despite the massive snow storm we stayed warm inside and had our poker Christmas party. The regulars were there (L to R): Darryl (a.k.a Daniel "the trifle-maker" Hector, Flo (a.k.a. "I don't show them to just anyone"), Alex (a.k.a "I do one wild thing every night!"), Leo (a.k.a "Shades"), and Mary-Beth (a.k.a. "the wine lover"). In this picture I'm still trying to figure out if Flo is singing Kareoke into the pepper grinder?! 

Our lovely hosts: Sebastien and Tracey. Don't they look soooooooo cute at the kiddie table! The food rocked! Thanks guys! And a special thank you to Tracey who beat me out of the tournament by catching a Queen on the River for her trips beating my Jacks over 5s. I'll remember it always HAHA!

'A' is for Dreamweaver!

I scored an "A" ...(just barely) ... in my Intro to Dreamweaver course! Yeah

Operation Slow Knit

Hey all, its Erin blogging for Eric (sorry to freak you out Scott).
Eric, Alexis and I volunteered for Operation Rednose last night and we had quite the time! Arriving on the scene I was greeted with a large insulated box of Gingerbread latte’s from Starbucks, now I am a dedicated member of the Rednose team, 5 cups later. Eric piled back cookies every time I turned around and Alexis was immediately hit on by one of the Captains! I told her she should seriously think about, he’s tall, dark and handsome. So we proceeded to sit down to a game of “neuf” aka “nine” which Eric coached us on; he says we’d never be able to keep up with the card sharks at RMC! So as it turns out we had to drive drunken people around, it really interrupted our flow of cards. Our riders were all very good and we made many trips to the Cat Woods area!! I got to drive the intoxicated people’s car, Eric was the “Escort Driver” and Alexis got stuck with all the paper work, being the “Navigator”. She did a great job. We got to wear lovely red vests which emphasized our cougar like physiques We met some unforgettable people last night like “Alexi’s” boyfriend, the guy who Eric told us to “give him a break, maybe that’s what you look like after a couple drinks” and last but not least the “slow knitter”. We had a great time for a great cause. We are scheduled for Dec 17th and hopefully the event won’t be called “Operation Laid Prevention” for Alexis’ sake!

The Trews in Belleville!

This band rocks!!!!! If you haven't seen the Trews yet...DO IT! Phil came from Oshawa, and Erin and I came from Kingston to meet Julie in Belleville at Matt & Joe's to see this great show. Front row too! They played for almost 2 hours... they're tight and full of energy with a long list of great tunes for a band with only two CDs! Awesome! (Remember that you can click on any picture to make it BIGGER!)

Awesome Seats! Front Row! See that guitar pic in his hand? Phil has it now! Awesome! 

Action Shot on that Gibson! 

Closeup Guitar 

Vampire on the base 

Base Fingers! 

Da Feet! Why doesn't anyone ever take cool pictures like these? 

Da Flood almost repeateth

Remember the flood from last year? I've written about it before. Well, it almost happened again Tuesday night. Kingston got 60 mm of rain and my sump pumps were being overwhelmed by the 20 gallons a minute that was pouring out of my footing drain into my sump-pit! Jeez! The entire matter was exacerbated by the fact that, unbeknownst to me, my cat had pushed into the sump pit a small piece of scrap ABS pipe that clogged the empeller of my largest submersible pump! So the thing was probably working at about 25%. Jeeez! So Erin and I had to go out and buy two additional pumps just to keep up with the deluge! Holy smokes! There were 5 pumps in my pit and I had to manually operate them all night. I went to bed at 5:11am! SUCKS!