happy happy birthday!

It was somebody's birthday today!!!!!

After spending the day picking up their BRAND NEW CAR!!!! mom and dad headed to our place and then we all went out to dinner to celebrate dad's birthday.

As if getting a car on your birthday was not good enough, Florence treated us all to an amazingly delicious dinner at Moxie's (I can still taste the honey roasted sirloin now...yum!) and then... Dad could not get over his delight upon being presented with a pink tissue-wrapped gift in a disney princess bag. I mean, what on earth could be more exciting?

Well, one of those newfangled GPS units for that sparkly new vehicle, of course!

From the whole clan - Mississauga AND San Francisco branches.

Cassidy was just delighted to have pasta

and her most favourite dessert of all time - chocolate mousse.

A great day for a great man.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAD AND PAPA!!!

And I'll end this post with a pic of Bryanna taken at dinner...just because it is so cool...it seems as if little fairies are dancing around her. Hey sweetpea, do you think they could be visiting from Ireland?

wheeeeeee!

March Break concluded with a fun couple of days visiting friends Anne Marie and Julia. We saw the Peking Acrobats on Friday (wow wow wow) and then Saturday's big adventure was a trip to Snow Valley for tubing.

Haven't been there for 25 years or so when my dad and sister and I went skiing there...the addition of the fancy HIGH hills and tows for tubing are FANTASTIC. Despite no snow in the areas around the hills (none at home!) there was a deep base at Snow Valley and the cold, windy day under bright skies made for a perfect afternoon. This mom had the only mishap as I lost my hat on the first run down the slopes... retrieved by tubing staff after an hour or so, I then promptly lost it again on our last run of the afternoon - oh well, all worth it for our zippy adventures.

Thanks to AM for the following shots as I forgot my camers and all my photos are currently locked up in my camera phone.

Waiting for the tow...

So fun to relax on the way up...

Wow - look at the hill behind our friends!

What a great day!!!!!

Our carriage awaits

To all of the friends and family who have been waiting to see our new vehicle - the wait is over!

Meet the Mazda5!

After our accident a few weeks ago in which we lost our wonderful CRV, we have all been a little down. Even the purchase of a new Mazda5 last weekend didn't perk us right up because we loved our last car so much. This week I kept thinking... right choice? right choice?

But we picked up our shiny new vehicle tonight (my dad even made them go back and wash the engine block...as it was not up to snuff apparently!) and it IS cool. And wonder of wonders, the dynamic duo really like it too! 

The Mazda5 is considered a mini mini van - smaller than a full size van, bigger than some cars, not quite the space of an SUV, but with sliding doors and a third row of seats that can collapse for almost the amount of storage found in our old Honda. And because it is a little smaller than the SUV and has the sliding rear doors - we now have more space in the garage!

So there we are - our new black charger ...soon to ride into a town near you soon!