This new blogger sure seems familiar.

Lets see how the new blogger affects my blogging. Maybe it'll make me funny, or more vulgar. Who knows. Anyways, there ya go fournie. Quit whining. And if you can guess what's on Terry's head, I'll tell you where he got it .

Not another baby post...

It's been a while I guess. I'll blame it on being completely frazzled with the new addition, although, he's been really good to us thus far and I'm just lazy. Either way, my parental leave has come and gone... 4 weeks felt like 1, probably due to the whirlwind Christmas season. Anyways, here's some pictures.

Matt thinks Silas is one okay dude. Look at that tan. It can't be natural. Not bad for a freaky-deaky dutchman.
Silas has developed a very good eminem impression. This is eminem in 8-mile. Pretty good.
I coaxed a smile out of him the other day. I told him it snows in wintertime. He thought that was funny. Joke's on you. Winter appears to be here.
Monday night, Silas met his Mother from a different brother. Mother Alward that is. We went to the Duke of Wellington and he got in without his fake id.

It all started with a nap...

The father and son nap, no better way to start the Leafs turnaround and set them up on the winning path once again. I love the chair in the babies room. I wish I had a few. It's real kushy. Thanks mom and dad.
Once done our nap, Silas and I got all gussied up in our leafs junk and pondered where it all went wrong. Silas had the idea to gather up a posse from the "east side", consisting of me, Silas and Matt. Turns out it worked as the Leafs pulled somewhat of a victory our of their collective rearends, complete with an extrememly foul mouthed tongue lashing from coach Paul Maurice in the second period. It was bad enough that the Sports shows showed the lecture and blurred out his mouth for most of it.
Long story short, the leafs won because their newest fan stepped up his game. Booyah.

I'm getting old...

Now I'm a dad and apparently, sleep deprevation gives me flu like symptoms. who knew. We made it through the night though. sleep... how I'll miss your warm embrace.

maybe this will fix my blog.

Carrying on the Family Name...

Hey, we had a baby boy. Silas John Francis Grace.
Born: December 6th, 2006 @ 11:00pm
Weight: 9 lbs, 4 oz
Length: 21 inches.
He's already got his sights on the pope's job and wardrobe and has really good taste in sports teams.

Maybe Baby

Not yet, but contractions are here and we have an appointment at 1:00.
Booyah

No baby yet...

but thanks for calling. You're all nosey, but we love you.

What would you say if I told you I heard the ocean?

A colleague of ours recently came over to shoot some photos of Faith's prego belly for her portfolio. I must say I'm for sure cut out to be a model. look at that face.

Weird how a lot of women like telling their "war stories" of when they had babies and what went horribly awry. Nobody wants to hear those stories, especially people who are about to go through the 'experience'.

Tim beat me at poker on Sunday. I had him on the ropes and he came back real good. Ah well, I moved into 1st in the career money list of the TPTP. Dave passed Matt in the career standings aswell. Booyah

Good Fortune

Here's a picture of the fortune that Julie got today at the Mandarin. It was our work breakaway day today. We went to the Waterloo Hospice and helped them get ready to move their office. After we finished there, we had a date with the Mandarin. Good eats. We spent almost 2 hours there. I really like their waffles. Anyways, the fortune was pretty goofy. I threw mine out, it said something about good fortune awaits you or some crap like that.

It's like dejavu

So I find myself being drawn to a song that I swore was a cool remake of some older song. I was in the mall I think and I heard "Easy" by the barenaked ladies. I picked it up on iTunes and can't get enough of it, which is weird for me. I don't usually enjoy the BNL. Anyways, I look into it tonight to see if it was infact a remake and found that it was a highly touted original.

Strange. The only logical explanation is that I dreamed this song long before BNL released it and they found some cyber-method of tapping my brain for my dream lyrics and tasty guitar licks. I tried playing it tonight on the guitar from memory and it cam very easy. Eerily easy, as if I had in fact been the first one to write the song. Maybe I'm the one who deserves a hidden character in the EA NHL games. That'd be cool.

By the way, NHL 07 for Ps2 is fairly enjoyable, the controls are strange to get used to, but I find it pretty fun. A big shift from the old direction pad and 2 button system. Anyways, that's my story.

D'ya know what I really don't like to do?

paint.

Stupid Baseball

Well, due to the stupid baseball playoffs - aka the "World Series" (of america), I was forced to watch the Leaf game on the Ottawa channel. Man, I hate ottawa. I hate their sports teams, theirnews reporters and especially their commentators. It's a tough call between the Ottawa play by play guys and the ones on any given American Network.

I thought the officiating in the New NHL was tough on players, but these losers wasting my ear cells whined and complained every time a Leaf player crossed pathes with a sen. Every play was dirty in their eyes and they would have called 500 penalties had they had the whistles. Pierre McGuire and Jim Hugson have just moved up a few notches in my books. Stupid Ottawa.

Note: Sportsnet HD chose to air the Baseball game rather than the Leaf game, however I still would be complaining if I did want to pay for sportsnet as it would have only been in regular definition... *spit*

The Trees are Beautiful Up North

Well, we went to Cochrane for the Thanksgiving weekend, indulged in turkey for 6 straight meals and even spotted a UFO just outside North Bay


Below is a picture of a Tamarack tree (aka a Larch tree) in amongst the evergreens. They are the only Evergreen , in the pine family, which is not evergreen. Every fall, the needles turn golden and fall off. They are really quite nice to look at, especially considering that the rest of the trees had lost their leaves by the time we got there.

Bob Cole and Cassie Campbell?

So I turned on HNIC tonight to find Bob talking an awful lot and a female voice butting in a lot. Harry Neale isn't on tonight and it's tough to follow. Bob is scrambling a lot with the extra talking and Cassie is trying too hard. At least the video is in HD.. yummy HD.

Leafs are looking good, despite all the injuries to the D. Peca seems to not be playing tonight. That's not good.

Wednesday is gonna be big!

LOST and the Leafs season Opener against Ottawa. What more could you ask for in a night? I could do without attending the Prenatal course that night, but what do you do... breathe, he - he - he - hoo!

Predictions... LOST... I know the 6 episodes starting this week are going to catch us up with Jack, Sawyer and Kate with the Others. I believe Eko, Locke and Desmond are all ok, but I don't reckon we'll find out until February... Oh, and the others are just imaginary friends of the dog.

Predictions... Leafs... I'm picking the Leafs to win in OT. Because they stink in shootouts and I can't pick a team other than the Leafs. and the Sens Suck.

i-Tunes = i-Gay

So I upgrade to the new itunes this week and not only do I have to get used to a newer look, but I bought some songs and they played back choppy... itunes screwed up my audio drivers and I had to re-install them. Gay.

It was my first venture into online music purchasing. I've been burned buying whole cds that were mostly crap besides the 2 songs tha t I liked. We'll see if I sick with it.

H is for Hockey.

My Newfie boss has me messed up. Whenever I read the letter "H" on it's own, I hear her say it like this... "Haich"... incredibly silly newfies. Anyways, church hockey started up again tonight. Fortunately and unfortunately we moved down a division due to our last place finish. Although we did win the "B-Cup" last season. On the upside, I consider it an upgrade to shoot for loftier goals and the "C-cup" this season. And, if we do really lousy, we can try for the "D-cup", although I find that unmanageable.

We started off with a bang and a shutout. This division seems a bit more near my pace, so I can keep up. I'm excited about maybe scoring more this time around.

I ordered leafs tv, and in true fashion, I can catch all the leafs pre-season games looped over and over due to lack of any other worthwhile content. I don't mind. I didn't manage to get tickets to any of the pre-season games and it's pretty impossible to get regular season tickets, so this is as close as I get. I believe they will make the playoffs this season. Mark my words.

Busy weeks. Lazy Me.

Well, it's been a few weeks, busy times. We finished the baby's room a couple weekends ago. It features laminate flooring, bought for about $25 total at RONA. That was a steal. The walls feature a light blue paint with weird looking tree-type thingy's all around. The closet doors are the same pattern but with inverted colours. We got the crib, aka the "Baby Cage" at Ikea on the 24th, aka "Our 4th Anniversary".

We spent most of our anniversary at the Christian Horizons Breakaway day, getting paid for 4 hours to enjoy the waterslides and free BBQ lunch at Wild Water Kingdom in TO. Even better, we helped provide the music for the event and landed a Babies R Us gift card for our efforts. Score!

The next pic is of the 3 guys from Czech Republic that came over for hockey training. Left to right, Daniel, Zdenek (our translator from our trip in Feb) and Jan (pronounced Honsa). Zdenek is staying with us right now. He's a lot of fun. Daniel is here to train for the upcoming hockey season. Honsa is here to try to make a team, and it looks like he's gonna stick with the Kitchener Dutchmen Junior B team. I got to watch some of his tryout scrimmages. Good fun. I've spent the past week and a half learning as many goofy Czech phrases as I can, adding to my repetoire such phrases as "Help, Help, call an ambulance!", "My bum is on fire", and "give me your money or I'll punch you in the mouth". I'll be fluent in no time. This picture was taken at The Meeting House in Oakville, a church for people who don't like church. They had a good band there, and I ran into some old EBC folks. (Jamie Sanfilipo and fam, and April) Despite this picture, none of those guys are gay ("teple" in Czech (teh-play)). I learned that one from my Lonely Planet Czech phrasebook. Seem Teple (sem teh-play) means "I'm gay". I can also say "I have a methadone addiction" and ask if there are any gay clubs around. Useful book.

Rounding things out, on Monday Faith and I went to Toronto in search of a djembe stand for my birthday (September 3rd, Sunday). We drove to Yorkdale and took the TTC to Queen st to visit Steve's Music store. We walked past the Condom Shack and City TV/Much Music, where the Olson Twins were drawing a crowd. Faith wanted to wait for a picture, but realized that they probably wouldn't show up on film, the anorexic zombies they are. We found a djembe stand for the right price and hauled it back on the TTC. We spent some time in Yorkdale shopping, I spent time waiting on the benches outside stores and managed to make a friend with an old guy. I was outside old navy, we started talking about watches, when he got distracted by a woman, and tried to draw my attention to a "nice ass". "Just look at it and take it in" he says as I laugh at his remarks and Faith walks out of the store. "Your not dead, you can look" he says as Faith arrives and we move on. Next stop, H&M where my old friend catches up with me and alerts me to a "foxy black chick" just as Faith walks out of the store. That was good for a few laughs. Good day.

Well, that's about enough, only 2 weeks til NHL preseason, booyah! I start teaching music on Tuesday. meh. 33 days til the puck drops.

Must have been something I drank.

We go on wacation long time

Well, it's been almost a month since our vacation, and I tried to post, but it froze whilst uploading pics and I gave up. We drove up to Rawdon, QC to the cottage for a week. We went into Montreal for an overnight at a hotel the day after we got there. The Just for Laughs comedy festival was going on, so we took in some of their attractions. Since we are cheap, we just went to the Street Arts Festival in the heart of Old Montreal. There were a few streets blocked off and they had a bunch of different street performers from around the world. One performer we particularly enjoyed was Alakazam from Australia. The start of his show included him squeezing his body through a tennis racquet.This guy was pretty funny too. He made a lot of fun of anyone who walked in late or walked through the show... This old couple, a man and a woman, walked in behind him during the show. He explained that they were his bikini girls and pointed them towards their dressing room. They were oblivious. Anyways, he was good. We also saw a guy playing buckets like a drumset and a bunch of artsy entertainment.

We took a couple walks through old Montreal, hitting all the shops and being amazed at the bi-lingual skills of the beggars, and the incredibly weak stories they all seemed to have. We ate dinner at the original Montreal Keg Steakhouse, mmmmmm... and we shopped in the biggest underground mall I've ever heard of.

On Tuesday, we went to the flea market in LaChute(or Marche au Puces en francais). We found some crap, but it was mostly a waste of energy. LaChute's market is pretty big, but we didn't find much of any use.

Dave and Kyla Cassidy came to visit us at the cottage later in the week. The were fresh off the tail end of their honeymoon. We went to Dorwin Falls in Rawdon and basked in nature... anyways, that was our vacation. Maybe next time I'll post earlier so I don't forget wha happen'd...

We returned home to find our pool full of algae and the ball hockey team forfeited for playoffs... gay... pure gay. Now I'm gonna get fat(ter) again. That's about it.