McFarlane Christmas

We celebrated Christmas on the McFarlane side on Boxing Day. We hosted brunch with barely awake children and did the stocking exchange. The funniest moment was when my Uncle Don asked if Jeremiah was our oldest daughter. Mike and Jen hosted dinner and the gift opening at their house. Interesting how people without kids buy the loud presents but that smile is priceless.

Wildeboer Christmas

Almost everyone was home for Christmas in the Wildeboer family. Great Grandpa DeKorte (93) came up from Florida. Rob and Christine from Chicago. Then everyone else arrived from the GTA. It made for 21 in attendance, 11 adults and 10 kids. Barb called from France to wish everyone a Merry Christmas from across the Atlantic Ocean. We were so busy visiting with everyone we neglected to take more pictures so we look forward to seeing everyone else's pictures of the day.

Christmas Eve at home

We started our Christmas celebrations with our immediate family on Christmas Eve. We enjoyed a quiet night together before our travels began.

Green to White - Rink Time

Well finally we have a picture of snow. Which our exchange student from Mexico had requested some time ago. Here you go Ivan. It was a green Christmas but now we have some snow. This will hopefully help with the giant ice rink Doug and Jeremiah set up. They got some forms from a job Doug was working at with an arena. So again it fits with Doug's mentality of go big. We will post pictures of the ice rink once it has some ice on it.

Bowmanville Parade

We joined in with some other families at the Bowmanville parade. It seems all the other men were busy. Doug wondered why he didn't get the memo. Best floats were the cars float, the live animals from the Bowmanville Zoo and a Narnia float that I forgot to take a picture of as I was admiring it. Not bad for little Bowmanville.

Halloween and a picture in between

sdjee-wildlife

Fall fun with trips to farms and corn mazes and of course Halloween. We had Jeremiah as an alien who went out with his friend Dylan from school. Elizabeth the little pig went out trick or treating too. Emma our medevial dragon went with her friend Alison to a party at her friends church. Everyone got lots of candy and had fun. Favourite neighbourhood sighting was a man who had modified a chain saw scaring all the kids with the motor and fake cardboard blade.

Thankful for Thanksgiving

Thankful for beautiful weather, creation, food, family, food, football and more food. Vehicles to travel and safety on our travels. Did I mention food. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

Go big or Go home!

Doug came up with a new slogan this summer go big or go home. In this case he went big at home. I call it our Bonaza swingset.

perma smile

After much asking I am finally getting around to posting these pictures for Jeremiah. Many of you know Jeremiah is working hard on a program called Discovery to help him at school. The prize at the end of his three years is much learning and a dirt bike. He got a taste of the dirt bike life this summer with the Gabourie family. His smile seriously lasted for about an hour or longer.

Emma's horsey birthday

For Emma's 8th birthday it was all about horses. She had a great time with her friend Julianna from Brampton. They went horse back riding, watched a horse movie, had a horse pinata and of course had a horse cake.