Friday, December 26, 2008

Christmas in the country 2008

Wyatt going down on his new sled.Ainslay, Marianne and Jenna after our first run down the hill.
Isabel and Marianne with Linda waiting.
Jamie Lynn and Jenna Rose.
Isabel with Dave assisting her.
Dave and Linda getting some help from Isabel.
Ainslay and Michael getting ready to go.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Christmas Tree

So we went to the back of our farm and cut our Christmas tree. Here are Carly and I on the ski-doo with the tree. Bert was following in the four wheeler.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Jenna's first holiday season!!



Happy Holidays from Rick, Jamie-Lynn, and of course, JennaBug!
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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Winter Wonderland / November 22, 2008

The snow has covered all of the ornamental
grasses and buried the waterfalls pond.
The honeysuckle bushes are weighed down with snow.

The view from the kitchen deck.






Jack is shovelling the driveway

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Jakob's 1st birthday party

Sonja, Mike and Jakob.
Three cousins checking out the books.
Jericho
Dominic
Stacey and Wyatt at the party.

Monday, November 03, 2008

Riding the horses

Pick a horse; any horse! They all seem quite willing don't they?
Monique is riding Ninka (which I probably haven't spelled correctly).
Sonja is on Viola, who is the mother of all the other horses on Age and Marie's farm.
Tegan is on Sybil (who I called un-civil) but of course she was no problem for Tegan.
This looked like a traffic jam with horses, but it actually wasn't!
Now it was Samantha's turn to ride under the guidance of her two aunts.
This is serious business for a little girl (who was loving every minute of it).
"Sammy G." trying on one of Tegan's helmets.
Monique, Samantha, Tegan, Jean, Sonja and Marie.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Little Pumpkin

Happy Thanksgiving!
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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Thanksgiving

Here we are going for our annual Thanksgiving walk. This year we managed to have two walks with the later one taken between the main course and dessert!
Age took his old tractor for a little run.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Summer is Over

The fish come to visit when dinner is coming.
A great growing season made beautiful roses this year.

The waterfall pond gurgled and bubbled all sumer.



Jack, Maaike and Tom @ Maaike and Tom's house.



Hudson having fun in the field behind his backyard.



Cooper in the pirate ship @ Storybook gardens.





Now that summer is over and the days are shorter I have some more indoor time on my hands. Some pictures from the Summer of 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008

Computers for kids

So yes, I like Linux (an alternative to windows). I thought I would post a few kid-targeted distributions if anyone wanted to install them. You can probably use an older computer to set them up and they come installed with great games and educational programs right 'out of the box'.

First up is Foresight Kids

Also very friendly is Edubuntu

The hardest thing about these distributions is burning the CD or DVD. Essentially, you download the .iso file (a disk image file) and then burn the disk image. Burning a disk image is probably an option in most CD burners. I can bring home some read to install disks at Christmas if people ask me.

One final note about running Linux, to install new programs you don't surf online, find the .zip installer program and download it. On Linux, you start the package manager program and it connects to a public library of all the free software you can download. Package management (program management) on Linux is fantastic.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Klompen Dancer


A friend from Holland sent me my first pair of wooden shoes!
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Family visit w/Jenna


My cousins came for a visit...I pulled Paige's hair...hee hee
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Monday, October 06, 2008

Update from Jenna


I'm a bug.

My shirt says "mandarine", but i'm a Peach.


Baby got back.


"ooo"
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