Going out with a bang and a cough and an earache...

Good bye 2007, and good riddance to you!

This has not been the easiest year for us - Hey! Let's have a baby and then move to a new job and new town several thousand kilometers away three weeks later! (ahem). Yes, some of it was our own doing, but throw a major back injury and a miserable 3rd trimester on top of it as well as a few other curveballs that life decided to throw our way, and, well, we're glad to be (almost) done with the year.

On the plus side, we love Smithers, Laurel is a pretty good kid, Ben probably knows more about the human body than most people reading this, Darren has a PERMANENT new job, and Tisha has a nice little 7 hour per week job that does not involve teaching (and, more importantly, marking).

Look out 2008, we're ready for you!

Merry Christmas!

Laurel's tour of the house, or, ten minutes in the life of a busy baby

Sorry about the poor quality of some of the pictures (taken with the old digital camera, which is not the smartest when it comes to using its flash).

I literally did sit there and take pictures of her for ten minutes or so...one of the pluses of the baby on the go. One of the negatives - the trunk and playpen that can be seen in some of the pictures are a part of our beautiful Christmas tree protection system.

View from our front window

View from our front window, originally uploaded by tishdar.

'nuff said.

And she's off....

...crawling that is.

No pictures, because I'm busy sweeping the floors EVERYWHERE. Plus she's pulling up on things, so it's not just the floor.

Dec 1/07