February Update

Hello ,

We have been busy in the last few weeks. With Kaleb now on a more predictable schedule, we now have the courage and confidence to do different activities. Kaleb went skiing last weekend and for a jog with papa. The weekend previous we all went to Grotto Canyon and hiked to the frozen waterfalls. This weekend he and mom went to a trade fair and then went for lunch with friends. Its been wonderful to watch him grow and develop in the last two weeks. He now grabs stuff, he smiles a lot, sucks on his hands and holds his head very well.

As usual there is photos on our Picassa web site.

Sky Skiing in Kananaskis

Well she is finally breaking out of her shell. After 10 days of having her around the house she has finally made two impromptu trips to the bathroom indoor and is now being a bit more stuborn. She has basically become acostumed to our habits, routine and tolerance level. We have also started a bit more stern ways with her and we are not being pushed around by this savage dog. I think I was succesful at "lay down" today.



These are pictures of our weekend jaunt X-C skiing in Kananaskis country. She was awesome, she followed us all the way and even tolerated having giant snowballs on her feet.

Fun fact about Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers: They have webbed feet which ball up with snow quite easily.

Bark count: 3

Jasper New Years

Skiing Near Athabasca Falls


Self Portrait at Athabasca Falls


Exploring the bottom of Maligne Canyon


Going back down the Canyon after encountering some scary open pools of water.


Maligne Canyon is a spectacular place in winter.


Yeah!! Ice climbing. Amazing fact #4321 Mathieu likes to Ice climb.


So for New Years we decided to spend a few days in Jasper, we haven't been there in winter so we figured we could find fun stuff to do. I guess we were right cause we had non stop fun. We drove down on Saturday and stopped by Tangle Falls which is an ice climb that is literally 5 steps from the parking lot. We met a nice dog there. Then we went up to Jasper and checking in our hotel room where we sneaked in a third guest, George Foreman. We cooked 2 nice suppers on George. The following day we went cross country skiing at Athabasca falls which was fun despite the 2 km of walking due to insufficient snow. The day after that we went to explore the small and narrow Maligne Canyon and spent the afternoon climbing . We had dinner reservcation for the 31st and had a wonderfull meal as we watched people put on a firework display on the top of Signal Mtn. On the last day Mat did some reminising of days gone by when we X-country skied in the Whistler campground, he found his old home where he had spent a few weeks back in the summer of '97 living in a van down by the river.

Good times
Mathieu