Less Wordy Wednesday, Introducing...

     Here he is, the newest little great grandchild, born on my grandmother's actual birthday yesterday, Reid Gardiner. Jacob, Mindy's nephew was all pleased, now we're even , three boys, three girls. The balance of power restored.

Reid Gardiner,

Born March 13, 2012

8 pounds, 2 ounces

21 inches long and breach

(he'll pay for that eventually)

      Mindy and new son are both fine and will be out of hospital by Friday. Can't wait until I meet the newest cousin. Kriket, you called it being a boy. Mindy and Doug never opened the envelope so the sex of the baby was a surprise.

     Few pics from the weekend.

Old point and shoot

Madison, My cousin Jeff and Heather's little girl looking sweet

Does not like me much

Did not want a picture taken

Piper and Maeve

My cousin Kriket and Ian's two youngest

Sugar and Spice

with a generous splash of Snips and Snails thrown in

Don't let those adorable faces fool you.

A repeat of Mindy and Doug,

the proud new parents

My grandmother again,

surrounded by her children

My grandfather was under the weather so is absent

Now for the new DSLR.

First actual picture,

As opposed to all the auto focusing I did

My aunt Karen,

Thanks for the  camera rescue

My cousin Janet,

She hasn't changed much since highschool

Her maiden name is Darling, so she has always been, Janet, big pause, Darling to me LOL

My aunt Aileen, Leenie, the new grandma off to the side

My cousin Adam and Laurie's two, Katie and Curtis

Meah, my cousin Chrystal and Jimmy

Didn't realize I had the whole family there

Kendall and Holly,

Kriket's oldest and Jenny's middle daughter

My cousin Rodney's wife, Samantha and their youngest Ryler

Kade and Theron, their other sons were having none of me taking pictures

Theron was only to happy to show me he had lost a tooth though

     As you can see I missed most of the family, between thinking the new camera wasn't working and running out of battery power for the old one, arghhhhhh. Amazing the difference between the two though and I have the new one all on auto settings still.

     Back to my parents farm for a few more shots.

Horses all shaggy in their winter coats

The new lambs

It's that time again

Gathering sap and making maple syrup

Everyone gets involved

that's my uncle Doug, Mindy's dad, the new grandpa in the red

Dad drills the holes,

After replacing the drill bit he broke

There may have been cursing

Then the crew follows with spigots, lids and buckets

Katy, aka the Beib, showing me some love

She's all kinds of funny

The Canadian geese are returning

And I finally got a half decent shot of the red headed woodpecker

It only took about 30 shots

And another.

I should have been manually focusing but got a great hi def picture of the leaves in the forefront.

     I've been having lots of fun with my new toy and the new software to edit my photos. One more thing on the list to keep me perpetually behind with everything. Hope you're all having a great Wednesday.



Posting in the new year Pictures, pictures, pictures

     Well I survived the holiday season and my New Year's day dinner intact and am back on the blog. Over the holidays, I raided a couple of people's albums so have enough pictures to start some of the promised family pages.

     Over the next week or so I will be posting pages for both sets of grandparents and a page for each of the four individuals as well. It is easy to forget that our parents, grandparents etc are people too with their own interests and families before they had ones of their own so that is why the pages together and separate, to show a little of who they are. I have tried to identify as many people in the pictures as possible, if you catch any mistakes or can fill in names let me know.

    No recipe pages for a bit. I ate and ate and ate and ate over the holidays, so I don't even want to think about food for a bit. LOL I was also lucky enough to sample some of the recipes people made from the blog posts, it was brilliant.

      I also got a bunch of new kitchen wares so I can't wait to test everything out.

  
My new pressure canner ( I got two and had to return one, I guess those subtle hints paid off) and carving knife. Salsa recipes to test this fall and my own tomato sauces, and no botulism, Hurray. The carving knife is brilliant but does take a little of the fun out of my gatherings. It is a tradition at my house that the newest guest has to carve the "whatever". I have had some memorably carved turkeys and roasts and by carved I mean massacred. This just makes it all too easy. You got off easy Rauri LOL. I also got some nifty other things from my aunt, that de-odourizer thing really works and using that pot gripper would have saved me some singed fingers yesterday, oh well.

     A little more about the pictures. It isn't my intention to embarrass anyone, I picked pictures that I like for a bunch of different reasons. I have pictures that span about 150 years of our family history, styles change. We were suave in the 50's, hip in the 60's, swinging in the 70's and all big hair and shoulder pads in the 80's, just like everyone else. Before you laugh too hard about some of the pictures, stop and think what your potential children will say in thirty years about what you are wearing today, low rider jeans and tramp stamps??? Will they survive as smart fashion choices in the years to come? Pants with the crotch to your knees and your butt hanging out? Only time will tell.

     If you are a family member or friend feel free to copy any of the pictures, that's why they are here, to share. If not feel free to browse but please don't use any pictures without permission. They are our memories so please respect that.

    Finally one more picture of Mom, Dad and myself.

LMAO, I have no idea why Mom kept this, not my most shining moment. I look like I'm about to lose consciousness. Thanks Mom LOL