We spent a week in St Margarets Bay just outside Halifax visiting The Martins. We had not seen our cousins in a long time and boy did we have a blast. We narrowed down the 1200 photos down to 170+ here for you in our Trip Slideshow!

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Erika and Justin are both lucky enough to have a Great GrandMother on their mother’s side of the family. She turned 100 years old in April and we got to attend her birthday party. Wow.

Justin and Erika went up north and stayed at a lodge with Pepere & ma tante Lise. Mommy and Daddy stayed home and just opened up Erika’s Camera to see some nice photos…showing off St Patty’s Day, Riding on the Lake on the Snowmobile and of course making some serious cookies.

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Justin and Erika went for a sleepover at great-uncle Paul’s this past weekend. Tricks with Maggie, Hockey, Golf followed by and amazing dinner… magic meat, smashed potatoes and secret pies…. and they got to see Gramma plus play some Rock Band !!!

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Who doesn’t remember sliding down a little or big snowhill when they were a kid? Just having some fun in Papere’s backyard. Garson.

What a great weekend for Justin and Erika. We went to see Papere and some of our cousins almost 5 hours from home. We had tons of fun with fireworks, bonfires, swimming and boatrides. Justin drove the boat and Erika caught some fish. We all had a big fish fry and enjoyed the trees and water….but those mosquito’s wouldn’t leave us alone! Oh ya and Papere took us for a ride on his 4 wheeler bike.

Here is a short Video Clip of Justin cruising in the boat with Papere

Justin and I took a trip to Huntsville to visit uncle Paul. There was tons of snow and Justin got his first ride on a Snowmobile. Justin just loved the family dog… Maggie. You’ll see below them hanging out together. We got to see cousin Jacob play some Hockey and also got to see gramma!!!

Some Photos from the trip!

Some Videos of Maggie sharing her bed with Justin and then bundled up outside on the Sled!

Erika and Justin did a roadtrip this weekend to see their cool cousins in Waterloo. It was Keegans birthday so aside from the pizza and cake there was the usual… dress up, video gaming, magnet dropping, piano playing, puzzle doing, yelling, screaming, laughing and of course the slot-machine on full tilt in the basement !! Best part… we all slept over. Justin loved hang’in in the bunk beds.

Keegan has been playing piano now for 4 years and he gave us a little show with some great tunes of course with his sister Taryn on vocals…. you can see little Aislin in this video too… she is anxious to get on the keys too. Erika has only been in her piano lessons now for about 5 weeks or so and was a little shy after hearing Keegan bounce out his “Beaver Town Boogie” - we’ll keep practicing and get her up here soon playing for Christmas maybe. Speaking of holidays… we will all be together again as the Martin family comes to visit Erika and Justin.

Joel Plaskett live in Rochester, New York on November 2, 2007 opening for the Tragically Hip at the Auditorium Theater… comes out afterwards to say “hello” to Erika and Justin… see below ! While working the Tragically Hip concert in Rochester I got to meet Joel Plaskett after his opening set. He came out to sign some of his CD’s for fans… so I grabbed one and asked for an autograph for Erika and Justin after explaining how we all enjoy his music..with our favourite tune off the new CD being “snowed in/Cruisin’” the song above.I followed that up by asking him to say “hello” to both Justin and Erika on camera. Check Joel out…

We headed north this month. Our first stop was at Uncle Paul’s in Huntsville. Here we got to hang out in Jacob’s pool, hit some golf balls and bounce around on the trampoline next door at Ed & Julie’s. We finished off the day with a big barbeque. Donna came home to join us and Gramma came over along with Uncle Ed, Aunt Julie and Cooper. We celebrated mommy’s Birthday with an ice cream cake from DQ

We headed out the next morning to River Valley to our Cabin at the Blue Demon Lodge. Here we got do all kinds of things. Erika, gramma, pepere and daddy went fishing and gramma caught 2 fish.

We also got to ride on a 4 wheeler, roast marshmallows and go swimming in the lake. Matante Lyse & Mononcle Eloie have a wicked spot. We are going back at Christmas. Fun in the Snow….. erika xo