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Here are some pics we took today at Ross Bay and Beacon Hill Park. We’re here in Victoria for a few reasons, starting with the Shawnigan Lake half-marathon tomorrow, and ending with us leaving our children with my folks while we head off to San Francisco for an emergency medicine conference. We’re excited about both, […]

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After a bit of a lukewarm start with her balance bike (translated as we were caught in a standoff in which she refused to wear her helmet, and we refused to let her ride it without one) Belle has suddenly taken to riding it everyday! (With her helmet!). We’re pretty excited about this milestone

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So back in April, we went to a wedding in Barbados. Our very good friends, Kris and Shanna, were the stars of the proceedings, and we had an incredible time with them and their families. We spent a total of 10 days on the island, and in between the good times spent at wedding related […]

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I feel really fortunate that I have such an incredible man for a father. But even more special than that is that my kids have one of the kindest, most compassionate and most fun guys I know as dad PLUS get my dad as grand-papa, Gary as pop pop and two great-grandpas to spoil them […]

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Aw! Aren’t we cute!? Running with kids. I have to admit I quite like the smiles we get as jog along the river valley as a family. Maybe I also delude myself into thinking we help people dig a little deeper as they pass us with our ridiculously huge running stroller. But, I thought i […]

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We’re a little behind on blog posts so while we sort through all the travel pictures we thought we’d post about what we are up to right now: COOKING! Those of you who’ve been able to visit over the past 2 years have likely noticed that Pat is developing mad skills in the kitchen! Ahi […]

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For Easter we decided to get out of town and head into the mountains. We booked at the Jasper Park Lodge because we’d heard they put on fantastic family events, and they had a whole program of family-oriented Easter events advertised for the weekend. We were not disappointed. Whether it was the live band for […]

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So, we had kind of hoped that winter in Edmonton was done, then there was another 15cm dump, so we decided to make the best of it. Here are few pics from around the house, and snowshoeing at Victoria Golf Course.