Halloween '09 in the West End

Halloween in Vancouver was awesome this year. Unlike a forecast earlier that week calling for rain, the skies were clear with a near full moon. We met up with friends and walked around the West End (east of Denman). People in homes and apartment buildings really went out of their way to dress up their entrances the enterain the kids and adults alike. One guy dressed up as bushes scared lots of kids. One guy even scared the heck out of me. I thought he was a statue until he lurched out at me. It was fun for all.

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Emily's new web site at Casting Workshop

Emily performs at grade school talent show

Emily reherses "Can I have this Dance"

Future Brittany Spears???

Emily sing "Walk Away"

Emily Sings "My Lord and Master" in Musical; "King and I"

PNE Flume Ride

PNE 2009 Mini Hellevator ride Em Screams

PNE we find LaLa and Peter

Picture Phil took of us last time in town

Shooting pelet gun at Paul's property

Ernie takes Em for ride on motorcycle

Emily fearlessly holds poisonous snakes!

Taken after a big soccer field tournament in June.

Swimming at Alice Lake

Emily and I dive together into the deep end.

Emily pets marmouts

Taken at Manning Park BC on the way home from our camping trip.

Swimming at Alice Lake

Emily beats her dad in a swimming race!

Fun at Alice Lake wrestling with Em

Ernie brings Em back alive...

It's easy to spot Em, she's the smallest person out there...

The potatoe gun is Ernie's invention. It shoots potatoes with propane and has a hell of a kick.

Showing the hurricane damage from the storm in 2006. The screaming in the background is a group of Japanese folks having a field day. Later we played baseball with them.

Night 3 Celebration of Light Finale

Night 3 - Celebration of Light

Notice Emily's cool flourecent earings at the beginning of the clip.

Emily sings "Can I have this dance"

Taken at her grade school talent show...just in case anyone happened to miss this one when we posted it earlier at another site.

Celebration of Light - Vancouver 2009 South Africa Finale

From Jacqueline's Facebook

Alexis in Europe (from her Facebook)

Celebration of Light Vancouver 2009 - Wild Pre Fireworks Party

LaLa and Peter are our close neighbours from the other end of the block with children Emily plays almost every day.

Emily at the new Vancouver Convention centre in June

Emily at the Abbotsford Airshow last August

Boblo reunion brings back memories - Windsor Star

Tim Trayner, centre, and his girlfriend Cody Gregory, right, laugh as they look through old pictures of Trayner and his former Boblo Island coworkers Saturday. Trayner worked as a Second Mate from 1980 to 1991 and now lives in Chicago. Frank Smith, left, also looks through memorabila as former Boblo Island employees gathered on the island Saturday August 1, 2009 for a reunion.

Gallery: Memories of BobLo Island - Windsor Star

About 100 former employees of the Boblo Island amusement park, which for decades served as a popular summer playground to Windsor and Detroit area families, gathered Saturday for a reunion to remember past glory days.