Here's us, continuing to make amends for a bad April worth of blogging. I present to you a triptych of videos, entitled "Max vs. Chocolate Milk at Dusk". Enjoy.

Max at the park

We've been really enjoying this awesome spring weather to take Max to various parks in our neighbourhood. He absolutely loves being outside and especially going to the park. His favourite things are the swings and the slide.

It was in the mid-20s yesterday night (take that, Winnipeg!) so we had a great park visit after an early dinner at one of our favourite local restaurants, The Table. It was an awesome cap to a really great day. We spent the morning crazy busy doing the last minute cleaning and prepping for our first house showing but the rest of the day eating, relaxing, getting our first Dairy Queen of the season, playing a few games of Settlers of Catan (John and my mum were both crowned the Lords of Catan), and enjoying the sun. It was actually a nice treat to be forced out of the house for showings!

Here are a few photos of our park adventure:


Max enjoys the sand between his toes for the first time since we hit the beach in Orlando last July. He was a bit wary at first and kept picking his feet up but he got used to it and enjoyed digging his toes into the sand.


Max on the swings. I think he might just be asking for "More!" in this photo.


We call this one "Boy in the Bubble".


Max and Dad.

The house formerly known as Casa Stardom

Greetings bloggy friends and family! We've been horribly remiss in getting updates onto this blog as of late. We have a good reason! We have spent the last month or so in the throes of getting our house ready to put on the market. It sounds like a long time, but considering that seven weeks ago we were casually thinking of moving and we were out of town for almost a week in the middle, the timeline still seems a bit astonishing to us.

It has been a slog but I have to admit that the house looks great. It doesn't really look like our house anymore but it is definitely open and spacious. It looks like a blank canvas for someone else's things/life and that is the look we were aiming for.

We are heavily indebted to everyone that has helped us these last few weeks - loading the 16 foot storage container, doing yard work, waiting for repairmen, installing curtains, storing our stuff, lending us furniture, linens and accessories, hanging photos, arranging furniture, driving us to Home Depot, cleaning, playing with Max and much, much more. We couldn't have done it without all of your help. There will be many thank-you dinners when this is all over.

I really wish that we had taken some before photos to show you the difference but you will have to go on memory of what our house looked like. I think the biggest transformations were turning our storage room (packed to the gills with party supplies, camping equipment, Christmas decor, etc.) into a handy little office and our garage (also full of stuff) into a mini gym and hang out space. The living room is also really different. None of these transformations could really have been accomplished with all of our junk in the house so the off-site storage really came into play while setting up these spaces.

Here is the link to our MLS listing so you can see for yourself:

click here!

There is also a "virtual tour" you can take from this site with some panoramic shots and more still photos (click on multimedia near the top left of the screen, right under the MLS #).

Here are a few other photos related to house stuff:


Max gets in on the cleaning action with one of his favourite activities.


John leaving the house just before the first showing yesterday morning.


Max digs into one of the display granny smith apples in our new kitchen seating area. He has become quite the apple monster of late. He finished half that apple last night.

The house went on the market this past Friday. Prior to today's open house, we had four other showings, so a lot of eyes have already been through the house. We're very optimistic at this point that someone will fall in love with this house like we did five years ago. Fingers crossed...we'll keep you posted.

For Kerry

Yikes. I can't believe that this is our first post in April. There has been a LOT going on and I promise we will get some updates on here as soon as some of the craziness dies down around here.

For now, I wanted to post a few photos for our friend Kerry who is kicking some butt in Utah right now. Kerry has quite the collection of photos of me eating stuff so these photos are for her.


This delightful creation is called the "Super Dog". Aptly named for our very own Super Dog, no?


This nutritional powerhouse is known as the "Double Dog". Yum! This is a family blog so please keep your comments clean.


Max gets in on the hot dog action. I swear that we weren't force feeding him despite the look on his face in this photo. He was a little put off by the crunchiness of the hot dog skin but he enjoyed it once he got through the shell. He enjoyed the tabletop jukebox and the attached old school arcade as well.

All photos taken at the legendary Skinner's in Lockport, Manitoba. More Winnipeg adventures and photos to follow . . .