Hotting up...

Well, it's just after five in the afternoon here, and we've had a great day for Hols' 3rd Birthday - many pink outfits, glitter sparkles and a new doll's house - sooper exciting!
I'll post photos a bit later.
Main news is that Mrs R is reporting that things are 'getting going', so we've packed Hols off to the Zawadzkis for the evening - we'll see what happens - I'll keep those people informed who would want to be kept informed of such things.......

Smith Rocks!

The weekend after OD went off for her 3 days of pampering and luxury, I decided to sit in a car with Colin for 7 hours whilst I bombarded him with melancholic singer songwriters from my ipod - serves him right for only bringing the 100 greatest handbag house tracks on his fancy music phone.

Drive down was fun actually - been a long while since I was down in deepest Seattle and central Oregon.


Portland has a lot of people who really rate god as "an all round good chap" - maybe he'll sort out their sub-prime mortgage mess for them.

Portlanders do appreciate the finer things in life though...... not bad for a corner shop.


On the way down we went boarding on Mt Hood - makes you realise just how lucky we are to have Whistler just up the road. As you can see, we were stoked. This was pre-shredding.



Post shredding on lumpy icy snow, we were a little less syked.

Col did manage a little off-piste bouldering though.....


We then spent a couple of days climbing at Smith Rocks - good to be back - it'd been nearly 10 years since I was last there - it was still fingery. Most entertaining couple of days with a bunch of reprobate vancouver climbing types.
Really cool place though - be a good spot to go back en famille in the autumn and do some camping, climbing, paddling, snake bothering etc.

OD goes to spa

OD went off with the girls for a well earned spa break to the Island - I took the Friday off work, and me and Hols spent all weekend drinking beer and eating burgers.




We also managed to hit a couple of parks, get some snowshoeing in and meet Colin and the gang up at The Bluffs - spring hit with a vengeance, and it was t-shirts all round.


Hols likes lollipops......


- still lots of snow up high though.

Kats

By the way, the cats are absolutely bonkers. Just caught them eating a tube of cold-sore ointment.
They have nice lips though.

Walk on beach

Last weekend we met Col to go snowboard helmet shopping (for JACR - I've bumped my head so many times - my short term memory loss is so acute that I can't remember how painful it is....), went for lunch in a place where he has the hots for one of the waitresses, and then Family R headed off to White Rock to pick up some secondhand baby paraphernalia - we also stopped off at the beach to catch the sunset. We tried to fly the kite and failed - lack of daylight.

Bump

OK - so here's a picture of the bump - T minus about 5 weeks give or take.
As was Holly, the bump is called 'Bob'. If it's a girl, it'll be Andrewetta, obviously Black if it's a boy - OD may have slightly different views on the naming.......


Hols is also insistent that she has a baby inside her named 'Skippy' - attempts to have sensible discussions about how 'Skippy' is really pretend have been poo-poohed by Hols - she's started picking out outfits and toys for the Skipster.
Should be fun.

Bump

Yes, I know we haven't posted a pic of the bump - we'll take one this week and stick it up.
It looks bumpy, and like there's an alien in there. Maybe I should take a video clip instead.