This week's event @ the house

We thought it was about time we did some more construction.... the entire house is now full of dust from the jackhammering.

Christmas and other Christmas-related events

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A message from Santa came for Cooper!

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Ready for Christmas

We had a smallish Christmas party a couple of weeks ago. It started with Cooper's library friends and their families and expanded just a little, so about 25-30 people. We had Qdoba Mexican bring most of the food and then watched the Grinch movie upstairs on the big screen. Jamie took these photos of the Christmas-ified house before everyone arrived.

Farmer's market

Last year I wrote about the vege box we get from the Farmer's market (see here). The pic to the left is of a few of the things that came in our box today plus the oat bread I bought. The going-organic business was part of the 'fertility project' we embarked upon last year (with success so far- see info below....).

Well, this year we decided to also buy a Winter share as well as a Summer share as the farm is now offering that too. I asked Jean ("The Farmer-Lady" as Cooper calls her) if we could be the 'drop-off' point for everyone's boxes for Bay City and she agreed as she was looking for a central point to deliver people's orders to over Winter. Well, as with many things in our life, it has evolved to rather more than the initial plan and now we have a full-on Farmer's Market every 2nd Thursday in our garage!!!!

Here are some photos of the last couple of times.... as well as all the organic veges & herbs, they sell organic/free-range eggs, various different kinds of meat, home-made breads, cookies & pasta and more. It has been quite fun so far!


Here are some of friends from the gym I go to, Jodee and Emily loving their Brussels sprouts!

Cooper's 4th Birthday

Although he says that his favourite present was "Rocky the Crane-Train", the scooter from Nonna & Poppa is the most played-with present!

Here are the photos from the big day....