Fun photos from skiing and Christmas 2025


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Walter and Grayson doing wheelchair basketball at their multisport activity.


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Having a party.


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The boys and their cousins from Red Deer crushing pizza.


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Natalia had two of her girlfriends over for floral arrangement time. Here are their results.


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Henry at the piano for his recital.


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Walter at the piano for his recital.

Henry got first dibs to play first


Then Walter


Then me



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Grandma G came to visit us and look after the boys when we were in Europe. She wound up with a bout
of gout and I had to take her to the airplane with a wheelchari.


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Henry putting a rock in play in Airdrie in league action.

Henry checking out the cool abominable snowman at Canadian Tire



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Amazing Saskatoon berry pie that Natalia made for a delicious dinner. I picked the berries near our campsite
at Old Macdonald Resort.


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Henry and his buddy Martin trying to get down the sticky chickens they shot onto the ceiling in Airdrie.


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Stretching with their team in their new Rocky Mountain Goats sweaters.


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Owen, Henry, Emerson, and Martin


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Checking out the sweet prizes that Krista and her team pulled together for the funspiel.


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Making gingerbread houses for Christmas.


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Grandma G made Walter a new blanket that he LOVES!


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Walter working on his gingerbread house.


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Henry working on his house.


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Being serious about icing.


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Their St Nicholas Day shoes full of treats and coins.


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On St Nicholas Day.


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Walter and I skipping school and skiing at Nak. He had a lesson on this afternoon.


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Walter throwing darts at his buddy Jett's house.


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Henry volunteering at the Mount St Francis Breccio Christmas pageant with his cousin Char.


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Henry and Char.

Henry's band recital 1


Henry band recital song 2



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Henry and his friend Evan. Natalia had even gotten Henry a fresh haircut, but he decided to
wear a toque instead.


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Henry and Evan.


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With trumpets up.

Henry band recital song 3



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Zoomed in Evan and Henry.


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Henry and I skipped school one day and went to Nak for a lesson and some laps in the powder.
Henry liked the glades on this day.


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Henry and Evan had their first sleepover and chose to stay in the bonus room.


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Evan trying a pancake with whipped cream.


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Henry and Evan riding a chair at Nakiska.


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Riding with no adults or little kids.


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Having hot dogs and mac and cheese for lunch.


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Up on silver chair.


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Nice view from the top of Silver.


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Skiing in the glades.


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They skied so hard they needed a break. They actually liked chasing each other in the glades
and then finding the 'fluffy stuff' to take a break in.


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More 'fluffy stuff'.


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Skiing a steeper chute line in the glades. Evan did great on this day!


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Henry on his birthday with a grumpy cat napkin.


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Henry with his new game for his bday from Janet and Rick.


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Henry asked to go to Olive Garden for his birthday. Seriously.


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His sweet cake Natalia had made. He wanted a chocolate cake.


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Hot dog and cake, how can you go wrong?


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And with grumpy cat too?


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Henry and his friend Jack at curling for their curling holiday wrap up.


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The little crazies upstairs having a holiday gathering and eating snacks.


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Henry won a raffle at school and won Hitmen tickets in the Sportsnet club seats.


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Henry having his first pocket dog.


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And ice cream.


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And a pretzel!


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We took the boys' cousins Atti and Char to the Village Square Leisure Centre one day. Char likes trying
to find money under vending machines with her big magnet. She got more from the lockers than the
vending machines on this day.


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Then we hit up Boogie's for dinner and arcade machines. It was Atticus' first time.


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He liked Street Fighter.


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Char liked the pinball machine.


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Trying out original Donkey Kong.


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Having milkshakes.


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Being hooligans and giving siblings bunny ears in photos.


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Fun times at Boogie's.


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Red onion pickled eggs.


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Robocop pinball is pretty rad.


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We took a quick weekend away in Banff and Henry's friend Evan and Charlie came too.


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Henry and Evan at Sunshine Village.


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Nice snow at the top of Wolverine.


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Tater tots for brunch


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Fresh snow on the Wolverine chair.


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Henry found lots of snow off Wawa.

Skiing at Wawa



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Evan wanted to check out 'souvenirs' in Banff. Here, both of them feel how smooth the rocks are at the
extremely overpriced rock shops.


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Henry and Evan having fancy drinks at Social.


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Walter crushing KD at the hotel since he wasn't feeling very good and took a ski day off.


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Walter's cotton candy.


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The whole fam at Lake Louise on the Juniper chair.


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Henry skiing on Rock Garden off Larch chair.


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Even Natalia did a run through Rock Garden.


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Crushing sour patch kids.


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We got to ski the new chair on Richardson's Ridge in the sun.


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Henry and Mt Temple from the top of the gondola.


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Henry and the ice skier at Lake Louise.


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Us sitting on the ice bench at Lake Louise.


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Walter with the ice moose.


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And an ice polar bear cub.


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Natalia and Walter at Lake Louise.


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Henry built his Crunch labs squirrel puncher using hydraulics and springs. It's pretty sweet.

Video of the punching squirrels in action



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Decorating sugar cookies with his cousins for Christmas.


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Cousin-by-marriage (cousin-in-law I think) Leah with her beautiful cookies.


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Henry with his super star.

Christmas morning

Henry opening his Ninja air fryer


Walter opening his slushy machine



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Walter with his new slushy machine.


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Walter likes the new foot massager.


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And his secret massage kid from Janet and Rick.


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New games from Aunty Adrienne and uncle Eric.


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Playing with his Galaxy Cube.

Playing with his Galaxy Cube



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Walter playing with his magic science kit.

Playing with the Ninja slushi machine


More Ninja slushi machine



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Walter's new slushy machine.


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Slushies all day long.


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Our family for Christmas by the tree.


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Better family photo.


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Christmas dinner is yummy!

Paul photos


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The Flames beat up on the lowly Canucks in Vancouver.


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A great fortune in Vancouver.


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Sweet bathroom door at the Tiki place in Vancouver.


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Their matches.


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Huge Christmas trees at the Calgary aiport.


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Out for a fat bike ride in Cochrane.


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Riding with Graham and Ryan.


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Graham and I and his buddy Ryan at West Bragg on fatties.


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A record of my 100th donation!


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Proof of my 100th donation.


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Dennis and Andrew enjoying 'Christmas dinner in a plate' at the Half Hitch Brewery.


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And later at the Bavarian in Bragg Creek.


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He had the big beer and I had the little one so he's chirping me.


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A work dinner at Flores and Pine where we got the seafood plate.


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Half the team


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The other half minus AL.


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A sweet ram on the road to Sunshine.


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Nice snow on Bye Bye Bowl.


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Better powder on the protected south aspect near Standish.


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Nice day in the sun.


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Looking out from Divide.


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Fat biking on a cold morning in West Bragg.

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