The friends in my life
Posted by ahechtenns On January 25, 2008
I started of my birthday week-end extravaganze with an evening with the women in my life. That sounds a bit more sophisticated than “the girls”, cause we’re not really girls, especially when I’m looking to turn 35 in a few days. Anyways.  It was an awsome night.  Very good conversation was had (by all I believe). I think this will become a regular occurence. Thank you to all! Sorry, no picture!
Reading a book
Posted by ahechtenns On January 20, 2008
R can’t read, but she likes to tell the story.
I meet a celebrity…
Posted by ahechtenns On January 20, 2008
Yup, I met a celebrity today.  Well, I should qualify that. I met a Canadian celebrity. I should qualify that further, I met a Canadian kids CBC celebrity! Can you guess who?
We were fine dining after churhc with our friend Elinor (at Wendy’s).  A woman and her daughter came into the restaurant. I recalled having worked with the woman years ago in the mapping department.  She came in to sit beside me as I mapped out the local trails on our digital airphoto, as she regularily walked them with her daughter (who was about 2 at the time).  I remember meeting her daughter years ago during one of our meetings. We were trying to get some mapping done, and her daughter had a good time running around our meeting room.! Anyways. The celebrity was her daughter, Emily Yeung! Ok for those of you who have not been priviledged enough to see the show, check it out here.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_is_Emily_Yeung  The show is still on TV even though it only lasted one season.  It was neat to catch up with her mom.
Antics in the tub
Posted by ahechtenns On January 19, 2008
We had a nice day today. We went shopping in TO and had a nice time.  Later we just spent the time together at home, making tacos and listening to music.  Afterwards R wanted a bath, so she had a good time, and i had a good time playing with my camera. Here are the results.
Mmmmm
Posted by ahechtenns On January 18, 2008
R and i baked cookies today.  I’m trying to do more baking with her, she delights in it.  I must say these cookies were great. I also had a mini-photo shoot with R today, I’ll have to re-size a bunch of those pictures. They are pretty cute. Sorry, won’t get that done tonight!
Update…here are the pre-cookie poses
Posted by ahechtenns On January 18, 2008
Check these out in the gallery.
Trying to improve
Posted by ahechtenns On January 14, 2008
I’m trying to improve my picture taking skills. It seem easiest to try on things that are stationary. If you have met my daughter, you’ll know why. Even with my digital SLR, I have a very very hard time of getting a nice picture of her! Most are blurry, or of the side or back of her! Anyways.  Here’s a picture of my new stained glass, up close.
3 Years ago today
Posted by ahechtenns On January 14, 2008
Well, I have nothing interesting to write about today, so I thought I’d flip through some old photos. Here is our darling daughter at 10 months.  What a cutie.Â
Overalls…
Posted by ahechtenns On January 11, 2008
So I finally found these jean overalls for R. I had been on the lookout for them for about a year or so.  I was just delighted when I found them. I eagerly showed them to my daughter, and she refused to wear them, on the grounds that “they are not pretty enough”. Well.  I was determined to get her to wear them. So last night I sat up sewing on pink rick rack.  In the morning I found out they were “acceptable”. I think they are just darling. Thoughts? (oh, and I updated the site to include more of our early January happenings)
Warm drinks, cold days
Posted by ahechtenns On January 8, 2008
I found R the other day sitting on the coffee table, with her little mug of tea drinking it and reading. It made me chuckle. She seems to have a thing now for herbal tea. Whenever I make some, she excitedly asks if she can have some too.  Hers is a watered down version, with a large ice cube inside.