A New Bone

Cam and Tara gave us a wonderful Christmas gift with something for everyone in the family; well Brutis got a HUGE bone. Huge for him - and he loves it. We laugh as he carries it everywhere with him and hopefully it will take him a long time to finish it.

Silly Moment...

I got a new Tupperware bowl on the weekend - needless to say; the hat scared Brutis...

Our Bet

Is Adam pregnant? No - and this is not how ne normally looks - he was pushing his stomach out to try and match me. But as a result of this photo and the increasing numbers on the scale, we have made a bet.

Starting now - Adam has 4 months to loose more weight than I will loose in one month. My month starts the day before the baby is born.

What is at stake? If I win - I will be treated to a spa massage while Adam babysits. If he wins - he get some extra money to play a poker tournament - and I will be on baby duty the whole time.

Any wagers on who will win??

Christmas Party Photos - part 2

Here are a few more photos Starr' took at our party.

Cam and Tara

Starr and Scarlett

Darren and Ace

The First Annual Hill Family Chistmas Open House

This past Saturday we had our First Annual Christmas Open House. We had a great time, lots of people, food and holiday cheer. Here are a few photos from the night.

Starr and Ace

Andrea and Brendan

David and Georgine Nadeau (Mom and Dad)


Cory, Scarlett and Starr Mercer

Ace and Brutis

Darren and Karen Routledge


Brendan Craig

Adam and I

Karen Nadaau and Judy Ward


Darcy, Paula, Lesley and Joe

Andrea and Ryan (borrowing Scarlett)

The night was a great sucess, Brutis had a great time - he learned that if you jump up and knock the bottom of someones paper plate, food falls and sometimes you get lucky and get shrimp - this works especially well with kids around the 2- 2 1/2 year old mark.

But we asked Cam and Tara to bring Jazz (their little dog - Brutis' girlfriend) along. This helped keep him occupied most of the night.

Adam and I had a wonderful time sharing the evening with friends and family. I did faily well (my feet were sore before the party started from all the kitchen time I had durring the day) but I made it until after 11:00 pm (not bad considering my normal bedtime is 9:00).

We are already looking forward to next year!

Winter Jokes

A few winter jokes I thought were funny.

This one below is dedicated to Brutis!!

The Hanson Family

Still in Red Deer we got a chance to see our friends Scott and Laurie Hansen and their 2 girls - Kate and Francis. We had a great visit, the girls were a blast and thankfully Laurie did not go into labour while we were there (she is 38 weeks and adding a boy to the family).

The Family

Laurie and the girls.

Adam lounging with Katie.

The Andrus Family

This weekend we went to Red Deer and had a chance to see our friends Karalee & Dave and their new baby boy Dawson.

How do we look? We stole a moment to practice the look...

Jenny and Dawson - he was such a good baby - slept almost the whole time.

Adam - practicing hands free - he wanted to see if he would be able to still play poker while being on baby duty.

Adam and Dawson - trying on the look.

And Mom... Karalee. Dave was stuck at work until just before we left, so we missed an opportunity to get a picture of the whole family - but we also held onto the little guy so much we missed a picture of him with Mom. Oops.