Blair's Blog

Best wishes to you all as we begin the new year. We are all back to our regular routines as of yesterday – at school or work or around the house. We had a great holiday with lots of full days of activity and visiting. We celebrated my brother-in-law Barry’s 40th birthday with a big LAN party on the 22nd with a bunch of guys and played some silly racing games on the computers, a little Carcassonne, watched a movie and ate a lot! On the 23rd, we followed up with a family party for Barry with all of the Langendoen side in attendance. We had a day to prepare for Christmas and then had my side of the family over on Christmas Day for turkey dinner.

After Christmas day, there was still lots going on, including taking the family to see a play, having folks over and going out too. New Year’s Eve was over at my folks place for dinner and a night of game playing including favourites like Boggle, Pit and Dutch Blitz. We had a mini LAN party on New Year’s Day and then a couple of down days to relax, just in time for me to catch a cold!

ps. I’ve built a little weather widget over on the sidebar so that those of you who are wondering what the weather is like at our place can wonder no more!

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The Christmas season is upon us once again! For the kids, the wait has been interminable, yet for us adults it seems that December has returned all too soon. The months roll by quickly and the final days of 2007 are at hand. We hope that the year past has been a good one for you and wish you all the best this Christmas and for the New Year ahead.

2007 was a busy year, as they all are with a growing family. The biggest event of our year was the basement development at the beginning of the year. We managed to go from ill-organized storage space into a place for the family to really enjoy. We’ve got lots of room for entertaining and playing games and have even joined the 90’s with a home theater! Continue Reading »

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Well, that hurt!

After a week of monkeying around with a server upgrade (thanks Mom & Dad), a WordPress upgrade and an inadequately thought out (in hindsight) decision to move the blog URL, this blog is back running! I’m positive that you’d be deeply impressed by the quantity of geekish knowledge that I’ve gained in the past few days. Next time I’ll maybe try to to do just one thing at at time – or not…

Thanks for your patience, now I need to get busy and do up the annual Christmas letter which will, of course, be a blog post (with pictures)!

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We just got back from a great little family getaway in the mountains. All of Brenda’s side of the family gathered together at a wonderful resort out near Dead Man’s Flats for the family Christmas gathering.

We decided, this year, to find a place where all of the cousins (12 of ’em), aunts, uncles and Opa and Oma could gather together and have lots of things to do and room to play. In previous year’s, we’ve held the family Christmas get-together on Christmas Eve at one of our homes, but the crowd is getting fairly large. Ronny and Carla knew about this resort in the mountains and said that it would be perfect for this year. They were right!
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