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Nov 30 2023

Ryan’s Hockey Team (H2)

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Ryan had a great year of hockey. He really improved his skating – had a chance to play as goalie and worked on his aggressiveness. Here are a few photos of his friends after one of the games. Also, I’ve included 2 videos:

Hockey Goals

Hockey Saves

May 24 2014

Ryan’s all-boy Star Wars party

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This year we decided to throw Ryan an all-boys Star Wars themed party. Grace was her typical self and organized one of the world’s greatest birthday party a six-year old boy will ever see. She built light sabre’s for each of the kids, dressed up Ryan as Annakin Skywalker and Madeline as Princess Leia (yes, Madeline was the only girl) and had organzied games (pin the lightsabre on Yoda, pass the death star,and even a death star piñata). We’ll start off with the invite. Check that out!

The party was a huge hit and lots of fun. We have a video of the Piñata being broken. When daddy made the piñata he wasn’t sure how ‘hard’ to make it. I think in the end it was too tough for the kids to break so after a long serious round with the plastic bat we brought out the aluminium bat. It really hit with a ‘thunk’. To top things off Ryan’s kindergarten teacher made an appearance as darth vader. Even after the party the kids met and hung out with a local fire fighter unit who were hanging out for a coffee break at the park. All in all it was the party of the year and one that we won’t forget. Check out the photos and videos.

: pass the death star

: Daddy trying out his moves

: daddy being destroyed

: pin the lightsabre on yoda

: the battle royale at the park

: hanging out

: …attack!

: the cake

: ..the grand entrance

: Roland was a hit at the party

: Ryan and Darth Roland

Pinata Video

Birthday cake / Battle of Geonosis video

May 03 2014

Jennifer’s wedding

Filed under 3 years, 5 Years, Uncategorized

One of Madeline’s daycare teachers at Chuva, Jennifer got married and asked Madeline to be her flower girl. When she asked back in November 2013, we didn’t even hesitate to say yes. Jennifer has always adored Madeline and Madeline love her so much that it wasn’t even a question. Madeline was so excited to finally wear the beautiful princess dress on the day of the wedding. Mommy took Madeline to the rehearsal the before the wedding and was worried that she wasn’t going to walk down the aisle. However, when the actual day came, Madeline did a great job and looked absolutely adorable. We did a whole routine of pampering getting ready for the big day. Madeline got her hair brushed, styled, and sparkled by mommy and looked like the most precious doll! Of course, mommy had very high expectations and wanted everything to go perfect and was very disappointed when Madeline refused to take photos with the wedding party. However, all in all, mommy and daddy were proud of Madeline for looking so adorable walking down the aisle.

After the ceremony, we went to the reception at a Chinese restaurant. What a fun night that was. It was a 10 course meal which involved non-stop eating for mommy and daddy (although we had to leave early to put the kiddies to sleep). The MC’s were so funny and Jennifer had about 5 outfit changes which got Madeline really interested. The cake pop they had incredibly yummy and although the MC’s said that we could each have only one, mommy, daddy, Ryan and Madeline for sure had at least two each. So yummy!