Obligatory Hallowe'en Pictures

Just of Dan and pumpkins though, serious lack of sexy witches so you weirdos carry on :)

Well the costume Dan was given two years ago now fits, yay hoarding! And I spent two hours carving pumpkins which were appreciated by several male visitors, which was nice.

That was sudden

Apparently Jacqui left him a sweet note and a pick me up on his 5th birthday.

Life is hard at 5

Just look at his smug, happy little face.  Makes me jealous, sick and angry all at the same time.  When did I lose that?  Well the answer to that is about 30 years ago.......  Luckily I got some of it back 5 years ago when Dan joined us on this spinning lump of rock.

Biased? Yes, definitely.  But he is objectively perfect, assuming I ignore his defects.  He makes my life so much netter and I would not give him up for the world.  (Given a large enough percentage of the world I may negotiate.)

The other, less important, children in this picture are Brendan and Chloe :)

SOCCERBALLPLAYER in Glorious Technicolor

The boy done good. He listened, tried and didn't get upset. Can't ask much more than that.

What starts today??

SOCCERBALL!

Yes I am trying to alienate both my English and Canadian friends all at once.

Today Dan starts his first indoor football season and he's a bit nervous. Luckily he has friends on his team, that should make up for his parents shouting abuse from the stands.

And apparently ripping your shirt off and challenging other parents/coaches/referees/children to a bare knuckle fight, is frowned upon in this so-called civilized country.

Hopefully at least one us enjoys it :)

Couple more good pictures

Going through getting rid of the suspect ones and found these. Hope you enjoy them.

Annual Horse Riding Excursion

A farm very near our new house has a couple of open days every year, and Dan has been once a year for the past three.

He gets to ride a horse, visit a petting zoo, wagon ride and a coach ride. The weather was cold and crappy but that just meant we didn't have to queue.

Open Day at the Fire Hall

We had a pleasant trip to the local fire station yesterday. Dan got to try out the driver's seat in a number of vehicles, as well as bouncy castles, snacks and competitions.

Jacqui and I demolished hotdogs and ice cream :)