Making Pasta with Martin and Hannah

There's nothing like homemade spaghetti from scratch....
even if our helpers take forever to get it all just right!!!

Best Cat in the World

He leaves for days at a time but always comes home for snuggles!

Geocaching anyone??

this may be the best choice with the recent incident in the Simcoe County Forests!

Yet another one...

Google Videos can keep me entertained for hours...this is another "laugh-out-loud" one!
Make Sure you turn up the volume for this one. This was just like our old dog...well-meaning but never quite able to complete the assigned task...

Mad Turkey

When I first saw this I laughed and laughed and laughed and then I called Joe to watch this ...then we laughed and laughed and laughed...I think I have to go and call the neighbours over now.....

Red Dye....I'm sorry it's no myth........

Anyone who believes that the hysteria over additives in our foods is just the hyper-active imaginations of granola-heads (like my mom) need only to see Hanna right now....HOLY COW!

Everytime we have anything processed that contains red dye....Zoodles, Cheezies, Ketchup....or god forbid we have Strawberry Jello....it is only a matter of minutes before Hannah turns from herself (a normal three year old, who will eventually succumb to my logic or my devious tricks and lies about sugar monsters living in her teeth) to this.......

Haloween Princess

For all those who actually follow this blog, you will remember that Labour Day weekend saw an unused costume that was going to be great for Haloween. I was certain that my job as costume developer for Hannah was complete......then Hannah started a new daycare

One day she came home from her new daycare talking about Haloween. She also came home talking about wanting to be a Princess for Haloween. I thought that agreement for the moment was the best response. I also, naively, thought that by agreeing quietly to the princess costume she would eventually forget about it and we could still bring out the worker bee costume one more time...

Last Friday Night at 1.00 am I put the final touches on the princess costume. The next morning Hannah tried the new dress with pearl eyelets and lacing. She then asked for it in blue.........**sigh**

Sylvia and Richard had a boy!!!!!!

Carson Noel Richard Norton-Sutherland was born on Friday, October 27th, 2006 9.39 pm at Orillia's Soldier's Memorial Hospital. He was 7lbs 2 oz and 19 inches long.

Sylvia had a good delivery and is doing really well.

Geocaching Weekend Part 2

We all set out after lunch on Sunday afternoon to try and conquer Offroader's Dream. . It was rainy and miserable but we thought we would try it anyway. Just as we started into the last 5.5 km of the trip, which was where the regualr road ended and the off roading began, our smallest geocacher fell asleep in the back seat. She slept all through the road trip in to no man's land and all theway an and through the actual find itself as well. We left big brother in the "car" while the intrepid mother wandered out through the swamp and rocks to find the cache. The find was relatively easy. Signed the log book and left again quickly. It was a funny thing to meet up with other people along the road. Makes you wonder what all goes on back there in no-man's land......

And we forgot to mention....

This last geocache marks the 30th successful geocache! Not necessarily the 30th time we have gone out to find a geocache though.....there have been many snow-covered days that had Allegro Mouse's Mom digging through 3 feet of snow only to give up with frost-bitten toes and paws....

That's what we get for starting this sport in winter!