Archive for ‘Emma Claire’

Emma with her Kindergarten and the Grade 1s singing at the Blue Mountain Christmas Concert!  

First we went to church and rang the protest bells for Kyoto, 350 times! (Ring 350 for Copenhagen) Then off to play in the snow at friends: Then to the Haney Seahorse swim team meet! Emma swam in 4 25m races, backstroke, freestyle, breaststroke and butterfly!

Emma rode Darginka (and Daniel for a bit) and Erin rode Pagoda during the Maple Ridge Christmas Parade with the Haney Horsemen. It was a great time but very cold!

Emma is on the Haney Seahorse Swim Team and is amazing! She went in her first swim meet and had a great time. The grandparents are the timers! Thanks!! Emma is also riding independently now! Daniel is all over the place and Emma calls him the “Maniac”!

Today was the pet blessing at the Church of the Holy Spirit: this bunny just had stillborn babies so Emma thought it was important to bring her to church! I think Daniel’s pet chicken is a cockerel but I think we will be keeping it anyways: Little Diva getting her blessing: and Akpai’s new owner …

We have caught the feral rabbits and Emma is working on taming them. We love the chickens and can’t wait until all the pullets are finally laying. We were originally going to raise a set of turkeys in the spring for next year but we really don’t like Mr. Tom Easter so he is on …

We were lucky enough to have the Famille à vélo stay here for a night. Here is their blurb from their website, familleavelo.uuuq.com: Nous avons 9 enfants, et voyageons avec eux. Ils sont âgés de 4 à 20 ans. Les uns sont à l’université, d’autres sont à l’école. En voyage, ils sont autonomes dans leur …

I want to learn how to do use photoshop so I did a practice piece using Emma’s head and when she saw it she was very excited to be a warrior. Emma picked the background, she had to be in Boundary Bay! Here is what I did and below is the original piece from the …

Emma, mom and I went to Calgary to visit our cousins and to see the new foal. Mom made a new friend:   and this is Dazyrdi: