This last weekend, Jose and I turned our city slicker Rav4 into a true SUV. I now feel fully justified driving a larger vehicle! Friends of ours had invited us a few weeks ago to come along on a canoe trip and we figured, why not? So Friday found us strapping a bright red canoe [...]
This evening I fed my half Spanish-half white kids some Vietnamese food. It’s our favourite these days, and tonight I tried my hand at making my own. To be perfectly, brutally honest, it was delicious! Jose stuffed himself with two helpings and James and Julia really enjoyed it too. Julia dipped bits of hers (mainly [...]
The Samayoa family has been fairly busy lately! Right now, the kids are participating swimming lessons. Julia is doing the parent and tot class, and James is in on his own with a teacher. Both of them love the water, so I’m grateful that they inherited their fish-like qualities from their father, and not any [...]
Christmas 2009 was, in a word, fabulous. It was pretty much everything I wanted it to be. Leading up to Christmas, we has an Advent calendar routine every night where we’d use a book and calendar set that’s been in use since I was very young. The book follows the journey of Mary and Joseph [...]
While we watch the last quarter of the Grey Cup game, and hope for a Roughrider victory, I’ll update you on our weekend. Friday night, Jose and I went to a Galbraith staff party. It was kind of a celebration of making it through parent/teacher interviews. We got a babysitter, and had a great time. [...]
The Saturday of our mini vacation began with a visit to Reptile World in Drumheller. It’s really cool, but I started to feel a little creepy after awhile. They have (according to their website) over 200 amphibians and reptiles. There were snakes that were wider around that James and Julia put together. Ew! A 600lb [...]
We were in the Toyota dealership yesterday taking a look at the Rav4′s. Jose and I are considering trading in the lease on the Matrix for one. We were waiting for the sales guy, and James and I took a little stroll around the show room looking at the various vehicles. We came to a [...]
Sorry, I didn’t get right back to the Drumheller post like I wanted to. I had started describing the Royal Tyrrell Museum, but started to fall asleep and was unable to continue. The museum was fabulous, and the kids thought the dinosaurs were very cool. When you first walk in, there’s a family of Albertosaurus [...]
All right. I’m feeling much more awake right now, so hopefully I’ll finish telling about Halloween tonight. I gave myself a good giggle rereading the last paragraph of last night’s entry. Inserting random words has happened to me before, usually with spoken words though. I was reading James a story one time and suddenly became [...]
Another Halloween is over leaving behind more fond memories. I believe this was one of the best Halloweens ever despite its rough beginnings. Since James’ first Halloween, Jose and I have co-planned a Halloween party with our friends Jess and Ryan. This year it was to be held at our house, and the theme was [...]