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School Track Meet!

Daniel and Emma participated in the school track meet at Minoru today. Our quick Emma did two relays and Daniel…

Happy Halloween 2015

Darginka and the kids

Happy Halloween!

Beavers & Brownies

the goats!

This year we had ten baby goats. The first two were just sold and we have eight left! We are…

Hands Across the Fraser Meet

Emma did great at the swim meet and had fun as well! She is on the Haney Neptunes swim team.…

Jacek Kochan with Seamus Blake

Michael and I enjoyed a rare date and we went to the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival to listen to…

Goats

All the goats are sold, thanks! Three month old kids: Four males (La Mancha/Saanan x Alpine) one female (La Mancha/Saanan…

Alec – swimming

Congratulations to Alec for such an excellent year of swimming. They did great at Regionals! Thanks so much to the…

Cycling Steveston

We did a nice little cycle explore today where we headed out east of our Steveston condo. We traveled along…

Trick or Treat!

Happy Hallowe’en from the Stewart Clan!

Steveston EcoTour

  Michael’s mom treated us to a very nice boat tour by Steveston EcoTours around the mouth of the Fraser…

Christmas morning

Merry Christmas!!! Alec was up at 2am but managed to wait until 4am to open their stocking. Daniel got up…

Christmas Day

Daniel & the goats

Alec’s birthday!

Gran came out for both Alec’s and her birthday. Happy 80th!! Can you believe Alec is six years old?!! Here…

babies goats and more!

What a great spring it has been! Lots of sunshine now and green grass. We had two pretty doelings born…

Tandem 10,000

Huw and Carolyn Thomas are a couple of journalists from Cornwall who are embarking on their Tandem 10,000 journey, to…

swimming!

the Haney Neptunes Synchronized Swimming team performing at the Regional Swimming Championships. Our little Alec did a routine to Dora:…

Shooting Gold

Check out my new book! It’s a coffee table book filled with photographs of some beautiful and interesting horses. It’s…

winter visit to Calgary

Alec, mom and I went to Calgary to visit our cousins and to see the new foal. Mom made a…

Alec, the dragon slayer!

I want to learn how to use photoshop so I did a practice piece using Alec’s head and when they…

Seussical the Musical

Halfmoon Bay & our Skookumchuk hike

the glorious Sunshine Coast!

Springtime

Summer in our new place!

We were lucky enough to have the Famille à vélo stay here for a night. Here is their blurb from…

summer on our acreage!

We have caught the feral rabbits and Alec is working on taming them. We love the chickens and can’t wait…

the pet blessing

Today was the pet blessing at the Church of the Holy Spirit:

November!

Alec is on the Haney Seahorse Swim Team and is amazing! They went in their first swim meet and had…

the Christmas Parade

Alec rode Darginka (and Daniel for a bit) and Erin rode Pagoda during the Maple Ridge Christmas Parade with the…

one fine December Sunday

First we went to church and rang the protest bells for Kyoto, 350 times! (Ring 350 for Copenhagen) Then off…

Christmas Concert

Alec with their Kindergarten and the Grade 1s singing at the Blue Mountain Christmas Concert!

Christmas Day

Christmas morning: Christmas dinner at Nana & Papa’s:

Snow Day

Halfmoon Bay

at the Laurel Point Inn in Victoria

Happy Birthday Alec!

Pony lessons

There is nothing like a child and a pony, no matter how old or dirty! They are precious. Alec is…

At the beach on Mother’s Day

Kids at Boundary Bay

around home

Father’s Day at Papa’s beach

Pony Lessons

ITA party

Canada Day!

Ben Sunburner

Calgary cousins

summer and ponies

Abbotsford Agrifair

and yes, Michael did win the blueberry pie eating contest and got a family pass to the zoo!

Southlands Pony Camp

our new baby!

Congratulations to Akpay for her first baby! A very typey golden filly who is also Habib’s first baby Yupekli:

Happy Birthday #2!!

It’s time to see what’s going down, now

Usually I just put up these on my KJ’s Ramblings site but this song is exactly what I feel, it…

Around town

Katherine Louise Hatlen

Kathy passed away a few days ago. Please read their blog (ed. the web site longer exists) and support Hannah’s…

Halloween

family visit and around town

December!

Alec sang wonderfully in Oliver and we will put up videos on YouTube! Enjoy the snow!!

Alec at Nana and Papa’s

Alec is snowed in at Nana and Papa’s on Christmas Eve. We will have to get Santa to fly them…

Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Day 2008

over the holidays…

So we all were ill over the holidays. We had to bring Daniel to the hospital as he was having…

a family walk

Alec goes to school!

The first day of preschool Alec wanted to get dressed up but when we got outside they changed their mind…

Web Stuff

I have been working on various web stuff to publicize my photography and Akhal-Teke horses. Check them out and let…

Alec, “the first cowgirl”!

Alec is an amazing rider and Darginka takes good care of them. I put in a couple images of bald…

Natasha’s birthday party

Some family pics

At the farm

What’s in a name?

So, what is the baby’s name anyways? Daniel, Alex? What happened to James? Well, let me tell you. This is…

Some Island Animals

Lambs being born

Alec, Daniel & Nana

Happy Birthday Alec! 3 yrs old!!

Alec’s bowling party!

The kids this week…

Rachel’s pictures from the park!

Thanks for taking the photos Rachel and letting me put them up here!

Laughing buddha

Our boy is beautiful and big. He laughs and laughs and it’s kind of wonderful to listen to, so for…

Enderby’s Easter Egg Hunt!

Our Easter Walk

How lucky we are…

So as my greatest problem at the moment is that my PhotoShop has stopped working so I cannot fix my…

Happy Birthday Cailey!

Alec & Darginka

our spring garden

the May Day Parade

The Boys and Girls Club sponsors a lot of programs for young children, many of which we have attended. We…

our garden

Updates!

Summer flowers

Thunderbird Show Park

Horse’N Around Days in Mount Vernon

Dance, Monkeys, Dance

This is a great page called “Dance, Monkeys, Dance”; Check out the video.  Here is another page called “Images that…

Update – moving to Whonnock!

Here is an overview of the area where our new farm is going to be. Maybe we can entice you…

Summer and fun at the beach

some cousins

the wedding rehersal

Renos…

Entrance hall:     living room: Kitchen: Daniel’s room: Kid’s bath: Playroom:   Den: Master Bath:  Downstairs bath: Hard at…

Happy 1st birthday Daniel!!!

Around home

And there is light!!

Finally we got a visit from the “Blue Smurf”!! And now we can see daylight!          …

Really cool videos!

Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man This video is 18 minutes long but is totally worth…

Laity Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maize

The Mom Song

My camera has been in for repairs so there aren’t many photos, although I did use Michael’s phone for a…

the Pet Blessing

Here are some photos by Sue Elliot from Whonnock Anglican Church’s Pet Blessing ceremony. There were lots of dogs, some…

Photography by Emma Claire

Emma has posted a page of her photography taken with her daddy’s cell phone. Here are a few. Make sure…

Washington trip with Daddy’s phone!

Staying at Nana’s!

Thanks for these photos mom:

A sunny day in the rain forest!

So much for greenery, it’s time for Santa!

Merry Christmas from Mary and the gang…

Christmas dinner

grandma & grandpa Spencer

All these pictures are courtesy of Terry and Joyce Spencer – I presumed that it was ok to go ahead…

Happy Birthday Riley!

Link here to see pictures of Emma at grandma and grandpa Spencer!

The aquarium

Link here to see pictures of Riley’s birthday party!

along the dyke

Link here to see last week’s aquarium pictures. Link here to see pictures of Riley’s birthday party! Or link here…

Mount Washington

Link here to see last week’s pictures of our bird walk along the dyke.

January flowers and birds

Link here to see our visit to Mt. Washington. Link here to see pictures of our bird walk along the…

Happy Chinese New Year!

Link here to see our garden in January.

Our flood

Link here to see pictures of Chinese New Year!

Happy 2nd birthday Emma!

Link here to see pictures of the flood in Beach Grove!

Aquarium & dancing

Link here to see pictures of Emma’s 2nd birthday!

Easter egg hunt

    Link here to see pictures from the aquarium and our little dancer!

Birds & Flowers

  Link here to see pictures from the community’s Easter Egg hunt!

Lure Coursing (hounds)

Afghans: Basenji: Borzoi: Greyhounds: Ibizan: Whippets: Watching: Link here to see KJ’s flowers and bird pictures from last week. Link…

Happy Easter!

Link here to see the big Easter egg hunt. Or link here to see our dogs go lure coursing. You…

Spring garden

I have a few threads running so choose from below which you’d like to go to next: Link here to…

More garden pictures

Link here to see more flower pictures from our garden. Link here to see Emma at Easter party. Or link…

Swimming!

Link here to see the kids at Easter. Or link here to see some pictures of flowers in my garden.

Horses & flowers

Link here to see Alec & the cousins swimming. Or link here to see more pictures of flowers from my…

May garden

Link here to see Alec at the barn & more flowers from my garden.

new blog software

New and Improved, it's stewartclan.ca on WordPress. See the shiny new look, be amazed by the incredible new functionality you…

Multiday River Ride I

Link here to see more pictures from the Nicola multiday river ride.

Multiday River Ride II

Link here to see more pictures from the Nicola multiday river ride.

Alec at Nicola

Nicola wildflowers

June garden

playing at low tide

This is Alec playing with a neighbor and friend Brienne. They spent a fun afternoon playing together on the beach,…

Another Beach Day!

A nice day on the beach. Angel and Lilliana came out to the beach with Marco (4) and Diego (14mos).…

Happy Birthday Brienne!

Brienne the neighbor had a birthday party this Sunday. It was quite the event.

July flowers

dinner at the beach and horses

3 events in 1 post, . Picnics at the ocean are a great way to have summer dinners – especially…

very soon now…

At least that’s how it feels right now. For those not aware, we’re pregnant again, or rather, Kerri Jo is…

Papa’s and Sammy’s birthday

Sam, another neighbor, had a birthday party this past Sunday afternoon. Fun was had by all running around the backyard…

kayaking

Yay, finally got the Kayak wet (3rd time since we got out here). Found a lifejacket for Alec and took…

Baby Alex escapes!

Today was a big day. Alexander James arrived and we’re very excited. For posterity I am recording the experience of…

a family Thanksgiving

Everyone had a great family weekend and Alex was introduced to all. We were especially blessed to have Aunty Joan…

Daddy and Daniel

Halloween!

  Note RE: Hannah As we are celebrating our joy in our healthy children there has been a terrible tragedy…

Sweater pictures!

Thank you Joyce for these gorgeous sweaters! Both Alec and Daniel love them.

Happy Birthday Sassy!

Our Golden Dreams!

Darginka is coming up next weekend and we have created a blog about Akhal-Tekes at (ed. I’m sorry to say…

Snow, snow, and more snow!

some birds near us, and a horse!

Parties!

Connel’s birthday! Holly & Sassy’s Christmas party!

Cailey and Dominik’s visit

Christmas decorating & the horse of course!

Christmas Eve!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Greetings from the Stewarts and the best in the coming year!

Renos – great room and railing!

To see our previously posted renos – click here! And the original house – click here!

Alec -Week 43

To see more pictures of Alec on New Years Eve – click here!

Week 44 (10 months!)

Alec’s first steps:     To see more pictures of Alec on New Years Eve – click here!

Alec – Week 45

SNOW! To see pictures of alec in 2004 – click here!

Alec – Week 46

Brigitte’s Birthday! To see more pictures of alec at week 45 – click here!

Alec -Week 47

To see more pictures of Alec at at Brigitte’s birthday – click here!

Alec – Week 48

To see more pictures of Alec – click here!

Alec – Week 49

Ottawa! Mike took a couple pictures to show why we didn’t have the page updated, pretty pathetic ‘eh. To see…

new photos – from film

Week 49: Ottawa! More from Brigitte’s birthday! To see more pictures of Alec – click here!

Alec – Week 50

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Alec – Week 51

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Alec – Week 52

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Happy 1st birthday!

To see more pictures of Alec – click here!

Nana and Papa visit!

To see pictures of Alec’s first birthday – click here!

On our own again!

Playgroup! To see more pictures of Alec – click here!

Our favorite things…

    To see more pictures of Alec – click here!

Happy Easter!

To see more pictures of Alec – click here!

Jazz and Nina

Saturday: This was day 1 of the spring lure coursing trial. Both Jazz and Nina had a great time and…

Victoria’s party

The gang at Monika’s – we didn’t do it! (Monika’s photo) To see more pictures of Alec at Easter –…

Alec feeding…

This is getting a bit ridiculous! To see pictures of Alec at Victoria’s birthday party – click here!

spring time at the feeder

For more pictures of animals click here!

Here we come Vancouver!

Hi everyone – it is official- we are moving to Vancouver. Michael starts mid May at BCIT! To see pictures…

Playgroup

Link to a video of Alec feeding here!

yard work

Link to more pictures of Alec here!

Transition

Link to a video of Alec doing yard work!

fun in the sun

Link to pictures of Alec and their playgroup!

Vancouver!

Moving! the gang Well, we made it! Boy did we get sick as we left – everyone was throwing up…

Playing at Low Tide

Link to pictures of our move!

Devon’s birthday!

Devon’s picture of Sara: Link to pictures of playing in the park with Cailey!

at the park with Cailey

Link to playing at low tide!

Chased in by the tide

Link to pictures of Devon’s birthday party!

Family Fun

Link to more pictures of Alec playing in the ocean!

Dog racing

Link to pictures of Alec and clan hanging out at the beach! Or link to more lure coursing pictures!

Tsawwassen’s Sunshine Festival

Link to pictures of Alec and clan hanging out at the beach! Link to pictures of dog racing!

Gotta love my new helmet!

Link to pictures of Alec at the Sunshine Festival!

Riverside Endurance Ride, FEI*** 160km

Link to more horse pictures! Link to pictures of Alec!

Gardening

Link to pictures from the Drayton Valley 100 mile FEI endurance ride! Link to pictures of Alec! Or link to…

dinner at the beach

Link to pictures from the Drayton Valley 100 mile FEI endurance ride! Link to pictures of our new front yard!

hangin’ out at home

Link to pictures of our dinner on the beach!

hard at play

Link to pictures of Alec hangin’ out at home!

Labour Day

Link to pictures of Alec and Cailey at the beach! Or link here to see more pictures of birds at…

cousins

Link to pictures of our wonderful Labour Day!

Streets are for cars?

Link to pictures of Alec and the cousins!

Sunset during Burns Bog fire

Link to pictures of our street party! Or link here to more pictures of birds at our beach!

visitors (new bird feeders)

See pictures of migratory sea birds

September garden

See pictures of birds in our garden And link here to see pictures of us putting in our garden

Sarah’s first soccer game!

Be sure to check out the cutest kid of the month at Kids in BC! See pictures of our garden…

Nana is 65!

Link here to see pictures of Sarah’s first soccer game!

Thanksgiving!

Link here to see pictures of Nana turing 65!

October garden & birds

Link here to see pictures of our Thanksgiving! or link here to see pictures of our backyard feeder in Oct.

Migration

Link here to see pictures of our garden in september and birds around our yard. Link here to see pictures…

Gymnastics

Link here to see pictures of migrating birds. Link here to see pictures of our Thanksgiving!

Scarrry Halloween!

Link here to see pictures of Alec at gymnastics!

Around Town

Link here to see pictures of Alec at Halloween!

Characters

OK, Joyce – We just had to do it too!! Just click on a character to find out which one…

sick at home

(roll over image) Link here to see the characters! Or link here to see more bird pictures!

friends

Link here to see pictures of Alec at home!

Christmas time!

Link here to see pictures of Alec and Cailey!

more holiday fun

Note: I added two prints that I just got developed. I put them into the friends entry. Link here to…

Christmas presents!

Christmas Eve: Christmas morning: Link here to see pictures of more holiday fun! For fun link here to see pictures…

Alec – Day 0

Alec Stewart, 8lb 6oz, 21 in. 6:58am after only 7 hours of labour! They’re finally here, Yay!! Mom and everyone…

Alec – Week 0

See more pictures from day 0!

Alec’s Birth (story)

This is a the story of Alec’s Birth as I experienced it. I include it here to satisfy the curious…

Alec – Week 1

And we made it through another week! Alec has regained their birthweight and is gaining well. See more pictures from…

Alec: Week 2

And another week done! My parents are starting to act normal… And I’m just so adorable… See more pictures from…

Jazz – Lure Coursing – Dalmation Farm Apr 04

We can’t neglect our other child! Jazz had fun on the lure coursing fun day. Mike being Huntmaster Jazz loves…

Alec – Week 3

Happy Easter! See more pictures from week 2!

Emma Claire – Week 4

A trip to Toronto’s Distillery District: Bath time! See more pictures from week 3!

Alec – Week 5

Finally everybody gets some sleep! See Nana, I do sleep in my crib sometimes! And I’m so happy when I…

Jazz – Lure Coursing – Flamborough Apr 04

Check out the mpg videos to see Jazz run! The hard working crew – not quite like Sunday! Proud father…

Vancouver visit (week 6)

It will take me a few days to get them all up! We sure had fun visiting all my relatives!…

Week 7 – Shopping!

Alec likes shopping as much as I do – but we sure got some cool clothes! See more pictures from…

#8 Shadybrook

Check out the house we’ve put in an offer on: #8 Shadybrook Cres. … We have now bought it and…

Alec – week 8

We think our dads let us play together just so they can have an excuse to drink! See more pictures…

Our new backyard

And look how cool our new backyard is! (Yes we got the house!!) And how much fun Jazz can have!…

Alec – Week 9

See more pictures from week 8!

Our garden

Alec – Week 10

See more pictures from week 9!

Alec – Week 11

See more pictures from week 10!

Alec – Week 12

I’m 3 months old!! Here’s my pretty birthday dress! See more pictures from week 11!

Alec – Week 13

See more pictures from week 12!

Graduation!

Congrats on your MSc Kerri! Before: Waiting: The Procession: First row: The Ceremony: And convocated!

Alec – Week 14

Happy Fathers Day! See more pictures from week 13!

Alec – Week 15

Teething already: Weekend at the cottage! And of course Jazz had to go swimming too: To see the week 14…

Alec – Week 16

Finally we have peace in the car: To see the week 15 photos of Alec at the cottage – click…

the cottage in bloom

to see more photos of the cottage – click here.

Alec – Week 17

To see the week 16 photos of Alec – click here

Alec – Week 18

Swimming with Brigitte! To see the week 17 photos of Alec – click here

Alec – Week 19

Boy is moving tiring! To see the week 18 photos of Alec – click here

Alec – Week 20

To see the week 19 photos of Alec – click here

Alec – week 21

Sailin’ away… To see the week 20 photos of Alec – click here

Alec – Week 22

**More new photos – check them out!** To see the week 21 photos of Alec – click here

Cottage life

Jazz has his own page now: http://www.dogster.com/?66471 (ed. sorry this site is now purely advertising and the page is long…

Alec: Week 23

To see the week 22 photos of Alec – click here

Alec: Week 24

To see the week 23 photos of Alec – click here

Alec: Week 25

To see the week 24 photos of Alec – click here

Jazz – Lure Coursing – Lewiston Sept 04

Just Playin’ Lure coursing (greyhounds) 108kb Video of Jazz starting the run (New video coming soon) Whippets: Ibezians Italian Greyhound…

Alec – Week 26

To see the week 25 photos of Alec – click here

Alec – Week 27

To see the week 26 photos of Alec – click here

Alec – Week 28

To see the week 27 photos of Alec – click here

Fall at the cottage

To see more photos at the cottage – click here

Alec – Week 29

To see the week 28 photos of Alec – click here And To see more photos at the cottage –…

Our new house – renos:

Here is where we are at with our new house! We are getting there – all the indoor trim has…

Fall

To see more photos of this fall – click here . You can also see season pictures here. (currently broken……

Alec – Week 30

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Alec – Week 31

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Alec – Week 32

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Alec – week 33

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Robyn in China!!

My cousin is teaching in China for a year. She is such a cool kid! I bet you never realized…

Alec – Week 34

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Alec – week 35

Henry’s birthday! To see more photos of Alec – click here

Alec – Week 36

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Jazz and Nina

To see Jazz lure coursing – click here

Alec – Week 37

At the cottage! To see more photos of Alec – click here

Alec – Week 38

Our visit to Boundary Bay! To see more photos of Alec – click here (fall at the cottage).

Alec – Week 38 (cont.)

To see more photos of Alec in Vancouver – click here!

Shadybook renos

I’ve put in some new pics to show where we are with the renos – click here.

Alec – Week 38 (#2)

A satisfied West Jet customer To see more photos of Alec in Vancouver – click here!

Alec’s first Christmas!

Christmas Eve: Christmas morning! To see more photos of Alec in Vancouver – click here!

Christmas Day

To see photos of Alec on Christmas Eve – click here!

Christmas Holidays!

To see photos of Alec on Christmas day – click here!

Videos

Alec:   (Note: Large video formats – OK, everyone who has flash should be able to see the videos now…

Happy New Year!

To see videos of Alec – click here! Note: There are 3 now and visible on-screen to you mac users…

The San Diego Zoo

  And a couple local characters:    

Jazz!

We have just adopted Jazz (Pretty Angel Boy), who is a retired racing greyhound from New Hampshire. What a cool…

22 weeks – Baby or Alien

As you can see, it’s definitely an alien. The cross-hairs in the eyes prove it conclusively ;-) 14 weeks later,…