Monthly Archives: January 2015

 

2Today was a ski day for most of us – at least for some of the day.  But it was cold so the younger one’s stayed home and got to have a little movie-time.  Inevitably that also mean’s finger sucking time.  Geesh this habit is hard to break!

 

1Happy New Year!!  Here I am, back at it again, for another 365 Project.  Yeeha.  Love it.  Such a great way for me to be intentional about capturing our life.

So today we celebrated the beginning of a new year at Fort Steele with our good friends, who are visiting us from Calgary. I have a bazillion photo’s to choose from, and had no idea how I was going to choose just one.  Eventually I settled on this.  I love photo’s that show genuine joy and happiness, and I have noticed that I don’t have many pictures that show that.  And I have gotten to wondering why?  Our kids have a tonne of fun……they are just always moving and they never pause long enough for me to get the shot.  So this year, I am hoping to get better at ‘joy’ shots.  Not look at the camera and cheese, but genuine love and laughter.  Wish me luck 🙂

Maybe Fort Steele is our New Years tradition?!  We came here last year with my sis and her family, and since we had such a good time then, we decided to come back this year with our friends who are visiting from Calgary.  It is a historical village.  Both years there has hardly been anyone there!

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The kids love looking at the animals – horses, pigs, turkeys, chickens, sheep…..20150101FtSteele-36

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At Lambie House, one of the old family residence, they serve hot apple cider and cookies, fresh baked out of the wood-burning stove. 20150101FtSteele-82

The bakery had cookie decorating.  Of course the kids were right into that!20150101FtSteele-9720150101FtSteele-9920150101FtSteele-11020150101FtSteele-11120150101FtSteele-11220150101FtSteele-123

Poor wee girl.  Life is hard in the winter for this age!!20150101FtSteele-13520150101FtSteele-15320150101FtSteele-15920150101FtSteele-162

Wagon ride!
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This is Malakai’s ‘best friend’.  They are pretty cute together!

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Then a little skating/hockey action at the end, on the outdoor rink.
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We bought food for a wiener roast on the fire to finish the day, but they kicked us out at 4 🙁  20150101FtSteele-233

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