Holly 2 - St Patrick 1400

There were never any snakes in post-glacial Ireland, so that was a pretty easy party-piece.....
Anyway, in honour of the snake-charlatan, Holly's second B'day and a rather belated house-warming, we had a splendid party on Saturday.
Panic from Mrs R re how many people might turn up, and a lack of training re portion control (Nif - I should have called you last week...) mean that we cooked enough chilli to feed Mexico - literally.
We spent Sunday tidying up, and then opened presents on Monday - Thomas the Tank Engine was a big hit - plenty of opportunity to start a new series of stupid voices to narrate Hols' story telling - and various items of new clothing, including her first knickers!
Thanks to all for presents and cards - it's amazing how Hols has changed in only a few months - she got a real kick out of opening presents and cards, vs Xmas, when she didn't have much of a clue what was going on.
We've been working too much lately and being a bit boring, so we don't really have any cool pictures from stuff we've done in the last month or so, but hopefully that'll change soon - Kev is over this week, so I'm sure he'll drag us out......

Squamish

Well, I'm sat here with my leg up and a bag of ice on my groin, so I must be post hernia-op....
Decided it was time to sort the little tinker out as it was starting to slow down my snowboarding - can't have that.
Mrs R is doing a splendid turn as Florence Nightingale, and I'm trying my hardest not to remind her too much of my old man as I melodramatically wince in pain and send her off running errands......

Here's a couple of photos from a trip to Squamish a few weeks ago - taken mostly by Sparky's fair hand - am looking forward to the spring, as I think there should be a good posse to go bouldering with.

Other news? We're looking forward to Kev coming over in a couple of weeks time, and it was good to see Dec and Jules last weekend.
Plus, we're having a combined Holly's 2nd birthday/house warming/Paddy's day party on the 17th - should be fun.

..and some more

These ones are mostly from when Liz was over to stay, and her and OD did the 60 km walk - fun times!

Backlog of photos

So, here's a bunch of other photos from the summer....

recent photos

Here's some general snowy shots from before xmas - our house with the first snows of 06, the ski hill approx 10 mins drive from our house, general shot of Deep Cove in the snow, plus OD and Hols sledging on Xmas Day!

more past summer shots

Here's a few shots from Tofino in the summer.....happy days......

restart

OK, so pressure is coming from the Drummonds and Roberts to kick start the blog again, so we'll have a go at keeping it a bit more up to date...
Here's a couple of recent photos of Hols wearing her new fairy outfit courtesy of the Mayfield branch...