Sunday Pictures

Asher – 8.5 years

Chancery – 6 years

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Chancery: “Look at the book that Asher has!”

 

Asher: “Look at all of the minions that we have, Chancery!”

 

Chancery: “So funny, Asher!  Really?”

 

Asher: “Yes, look at this next one.”

 

Chancery: “Woah, that’s awesome & scary at the same time, Asher!”

 

Asher: “I know, Chancery.  Look the photos are done now!”

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Captions by Asher

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 8.5 years

Chancery – 6 years

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Chancery: “Ooh, you have a dog!”

 

Asher: “You’d better be careful, or my dog will attack you!”

 

Chancery: “If by attack, you mean lick, then I totally agree with you!”

 

Asher: “That’s exactly what I mean, Chancery!”

Snowflake Factory

We’ve been busy making snowflakes here.  Some are being mailed to the Grandparents, but we’re just having a lot of fun figuring out how to make different shapes & designs.  Here Asher demonstrates how to make a snowflake…

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 8.5 years

Chancery – 6 years

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Asher: “Daddy has been building Lego with us, & he built this cool truck!”

 

Asher: “And also this cool truck!”

 

Asher: “I’ll put the trucks behind me so that Digby doesn’t try to eat them.”

 

Chancery: “He doesn’t want to eat them, Asher.  He just wants to play with them!”

 

Digby: “They never let me have any fun!”

“Pulling A Sherilyn”

When PChad & I lived in London, we lived with Geoff & Margaret, an older couple that we met at church.  They invited us to live with them since they had a big house & money was tight for us.  We gratefully accepted, & became part of the family.

At the time, I was working in a Solicitor’s office & I would get home from work around 8pm.  Since I had a work uniform, I’d often go upstairs & change into my pyjamas before supper, so Geoff & Margaret became accustomed to seeing me in my PJs relatively early in the evening.

One night, as PChad & I were watching TV after supper, Geoff popped his head in the TV room, & asked if it would be ok for him to put his pyjamas on.  “Of course!” we replied.  He came downstairs a few minutes later wearing a nightshirt, nightcap, & slippers…


We still stay in contact with Geoff & Margaret, & from time to time they let us know that Geoff still likes to ‘pull a Sherilyn’, meaning he gets his PJs on early.

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 8.5 years

Chancery – 6 years

**********************************************  Asher: “Christmas is not over yet, but our tree is gone!”

 

Chancery: “The wisemen came at Epiphany, which is Jan 6th, but our tree was getting pretty dead!”

 

Asher: “I suppose we don’t need our tree to celebrate Epiphany…”

 

Chancery: “Since the wisemen brought Jesus gifts, do you think we’ll get presents too?”

The Gift

Since my brothers & I all live far from where our parents live, my mom sent us a few presents for Christmas.  My mom has a tradition of buying the same/similar things for us (to keep it even so we don’t fight!), & after she sent our packages, she wanted to make sure they had arrived.  She sent us a group email…

 

Mom:

Hi Everyone,

Did everyone get their book we sent?

Love to all.

Dad and Mom

 

Me:

It's a book? Well now you've ruined the surprise!

 

Brian:

We have received the present but have not opened it yet.  Isn't one of the best parts of Christmas the anticipation? :)

 

Me:

Oh for sure!  I felt the present & had a few guesses...  Something from Ikea, a ream of paper, a package of cookies, I can't WAIT to find out what's really in there!

 

Kurt:

I thought maybe it was a book but it was wrapped so I put it under the tree since there was nothing else there yet.

I guess I could have smelled it, maybe it is a box of chocolates. (life is like that)

Love Kurt and family.

 

Mom:

Well you might be surprised!  I was asking because I sent it media rate, which was a lot cheaper, but I didn't know how long it would take to get to you.  They also told me they could open the package to check if it really was media and I better not have anything else in there!

 

The anticipation was killing us, but we held off opening until Christmas.  It WAS a book after all!  My uncle had recently written his memoir, & my Mom got us all signed copies!  (She had also included him on the email thread, so he could see all the excitement building for the big reveal!)

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 8.5 years

Chancery – 6 years

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Chancery: “Oh Digby, where’s Asher?”

 

Asher: “I’m here, I’m here.  I was just making some coffee!”

 

Chancery: “You’re too young to drink coffee!”

 

Asher: “It wasn’t for me!  I made a pot of coffee, then I poured a cup for Mummy!”

 

Chancery: “That’s so nice of you, Asher!”

Merry Christmas!

Asher: “Really?  Only one picture?”

Chancery: “Make sure they can see that my nails match my dress!”

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS from our family to yours!

Bye-bye Braids!

I have a tradition of growing my hair long, then getting tired of all the tangles, & cutting it all off.

My hair is really thick, so even after we cut the purple hair off, I had enough to make it worthwhile to donate to Locks of Love.

 

Eleven inches gone!

It’s always fun to start fresh with short hair & grow it out again, until the next time, 3 years down the road when I choose to cut it all off again!

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 8 years

Chancery – 6 years

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Chancery: “Asher, come on, let’s get a nice picture!”

 

Chancery: “You’re not cooperating very well, Asher.”

 

Asher: “Let’s get Digby in the picture better.”

 

Chancery: “Ok, I think we’re ready!”

 

Asher: “We did it!”

Playing Old School

I was looking through my unfinished, unpublished posts, & found this one from last January…

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It was a quiet day so PChad decided to bring the old Atari out of storage & hook it up for the kids.

 

It took a bit of finagling, but we got it working.  The power switch has always been touchy!

 

Asher enjoyed it for awhile, but he said the games were boring!

 

Chancery just likes to watch…

 

Three happy kiddos!

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 8 years

Chancery – 6 years

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Asher: “Daddy’s music is really loud!”

 

Asher: “But it’s ok, because he is playing an awesome song!”

 

Chancery: “What song is it, Asher?”

 

Asher: “It’s ‘Remember me for Centuries’ by Fall Out Boy!”

 

Chancery: “It is a pretty awesome song, Asher.  I love it too!”

Sunday Pictures

Asher – 8 years

Chancery – 6 years

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Today we were off to Halifax to pick PChad up after his trip to Oxford, England.

It was a long day of driving which led to tired kids…

 

…and lots of video games, ‘til the batteries died!

 

We were VERY happy to see PChad again & have him back home!

Asher’s Pictures

Asher decided to have some pictures of just himself so he could caption them & share them with you…

 

Asher: “Guess what I have behind my back!”

 

  Asher: “I have…”

 

Asher: “From #1, The Bad Beginning…”

 

Asher: “…to The End #13…”

 

Asher: “…by Lemony Sniket!  I LOVE these books!”