Hello all,
We're definitely sporadic with this blogging thing. Oh well - better than nothing right??

The first pictures are of a baby shower that my (Charlene's) previous co-workers from the lower mainland put on. We had such a good time. There were 8 of them and they came up on Saturday around lunch and then stayed until Sunday around noon. Tamy and Alice were the organizers of the games and we had lots of laughs. This first picture is of Ben trying to figure out what kind of chocolate bar is melted into the baby diaper. Good preparation for him as I think I remember that he has volunteered to change all the brown looking diapers (or nappies as he would call them). Well maybe my memory is failing but... I think there were about 8 to figure out and I won the game which tells you that I really like chocolate bars. Sometimes people ask if I have had any special craving during pregnancy and I definitely feel strong chocolate cravings and yet I have to admit that that is really not different than any other non-pregnant day.

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Another game where one person wore a garbage bag while their blind folded partner fed them applesauce. Here is Gary looking very classy.

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And here we all are. Not the best quality picture I know but you have to take what you get with timers. Thanks to our "Orion" friends for a very thoughtful shower and visit.

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SNOW, SNOW, SNOW, and more SNOW - mid December 2008
These pictures are self explanatory. It is good that Ben hasn't had too much experience with snow because the shovelling is still a bit of a novelty:) This amount of snow could be expected farther east but it is very rare to get this much in Nanaimo. It was truly a bit chaotic as the infrastructure (plows, salting) is just not adequate. Our Subaru was incredibly competent with it's all wheel drive and snow tires. There was more than one occassion when we were stopped at a stop light and everyone around us was spinning but the Subaru just powered right though.

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This gives a good idea of the amount of snow...our outdoor table and chairs buried!

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The snow view of our house. Our street was not plowed for a few weeks after the snow but when it was it ended up just making a big snow barrier beside all the cars so then people actually had to dig their cars out after the plow went through.

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And some just didn't dig theirs out:)

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