Fun in the snow in the Coch Town.


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Walter and his friend Grayson having fun at soccer.


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One of the volunteer coaches helping Walter figure out this game.


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Walter working to keep the ball away from kids. You almost can't tell that I lied about his
age so that we could do a soccer program the same time as Henry's karate.


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Walter likes to ride his brother like a donkey.


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Walter at the Goodnight Moon exhibit at the Telus Spark centre.


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Walter and Kristina playing on the bubble piano.


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Emily crushing the water table.


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Walter being Walter.


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Having fun with compressed air.


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The boys making water runs.


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Kristina in the kids' play area.


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George checking out a metal ball.


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The boys having fun outside the Telus Spark centre.


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And playing on the climbing structures too.


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And the netting too.


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And the swings.


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Chilling and being relaxed as we wait for the Dome movie to start.


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Today's movie was about being in the ISS.


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And they got giant ice cream cones to celebrate.


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Chopping up electronic components to learn what's going on inside.


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Walter and I riding the magic carpet at Nak.


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Walter and I on the Bronze chair.


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Henry and Ty skiing off the Olympic chair.


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And then tucking and chasing each other.


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Walter and his ridiculous assortment of stuffies.


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I don't know what this face is but it's weird.

Henry running his new helicopter RC


Ice walking


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I took Walter and Grayson for an ice walk along Jumping Pound Creek which they thought was cool
since they got to use their 'tiger claws'. Here's Walter showing off his poles.


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Walter and Grayson being too cool for school.


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Walter wanted photos for his Mom for some reason of this outing.


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Walking around on Jumping Pound Creek.


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Walter playing on ice cracks.


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Walter and Grayson on Jumping Pound Creek.


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Seeing some of the cliff side.


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The boys having snacks on the rocks.


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And then making faces.


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Walter and the home to many cliff swallows.


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Walter wanted to have his little stuffy on the playground at the 'red park'.
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Trying to make our way down the ice at Tri schools.


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Kind of silly.


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We took the boys for some bowling fun on a random Friday, which they loved.


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I'm not totally sure why this is funny but Walter made this mask and I think it's hilarious. I
think it needs to be changed into a Mexican wrestling mask.


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Walter with his mask shooting his brother.


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We went out to Water Valley for Ty's birthday, but first had to clear the rink from the only
snow we've had in a month.


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Proving that Grayson actually skated on this day.


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Walter and Grayson enjoying hanging out in the net.


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Having hot dogs.


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Walter playing more soccer.

Skiing with no kids


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Once again we were able to have some time with no kids (thanks Mom!) and Natalia and I went to
Sunshine Mountain Lodge. We were going to go to Whitefish but apparently our friends can't get the same time that we can, so we took it.


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Natalia and I and the Bourgeau ice fall.


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Natalia's sister Maria came up to join us up at Sunshine. While it wasn't warm, it was definitely
clear and pretty up here.


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Yeah, so John's mustache shows the temps we're dealing with here. A bit nippy to say the least.


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Natalia and I and Mount Assiniboine.


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Natalia and Mount Assiniboine.


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Natalia and Maria were able to hang out and spend time together and even have some hot tub time
at the hotel. They wound up overnighting with us, which allowed us to learn what a 'trundle' bed is.


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A very brisk start to the day.


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Natalia on the slopes in the morning.


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Natalia at Sunshine Village in the actual Sunshine.


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Natalia and I trying to stay warm while skiing.

Walter playing soccer



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Natalia's gloriuos pistachio chicken


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Henry got to have a birthday party with 12 friends. Here he is with his friend Everett and Walter.


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In the movie theatre.


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Chilling out in their private theatre.


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Henry wanted a cat theme and to Natalia's credit, she pulled it off.


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Playing pin the tail on the cat.


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Showing Natalia's cute cat poster she made.


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Henry and Walter and one of Henry's friends from the bus - Sophie.


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All of the cat kids.


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Yup, it was a hoot.


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At least it wasn't a 'cat'-astrophe!


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Henry showing the cupcakes his Mom made.


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Playing duck/duck/goose or meow/meow/hiss or something.


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The boys with their puzzle from Christmas.


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Henry holding his puzzle up.

Paul fun in Cochrane in Jan 2023


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Alf and I went to a Flames game and 'upgraded' our seats - aka, we went down and stole them.


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Good seats. The secret is grab them before the 2nd period starts.


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Decent seats with Hubie and Naz chilling out saying hi.


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Marki too.


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Flames win! The secret is if I upgrade seats, the Flames win. Maybe I should just buy tickets
in the lower bowl and call it done.


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Alf says anyone in a Stone jersey is a donkey.


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My buddy Andrew and I enjoying the sunshine at Nak.


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Going for a fat bike rip on the top of the big hill. Not the worst view here.


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Going for a hike with Teddy in Burnaby, we found this cool creek.


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With giant trees.


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Some nice fence usage to block people from checking out what's below.


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Ted showing his mean side throwing axes.


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We'd call this a bullseye.

Teddy throwing a solid axe





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I say that I wound up with too many splinters.

Rage Paul with the axe



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My first bulls eye.

Teddy firing knives



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This is Teddy's new avatar. I love it.


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And blammo - a huge plate full of BBQ.


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Big surface hoar at West Bragg.


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We took my buddy Matt to Sunshine for a ski outing for work. Here he is showing us his skills.


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I took he and Crazy Carl up to Paradise Bowl for a gut check. The snow wasn't amazing but they
still did pretty well, all things considered.


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Fighting through Paradise Bowl.


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Matt says he's a rockstar on skis.


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Crazy Carl at lunch at the Temple Lodge.


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No lunch is complete without a marshmallow apparently.


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And a shotski! I LOVE Matt's face here - 'What the blue F? am I doing here?'


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And blammo!


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And finish the job.


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Matt working his way down the shoulder.


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We made our way down low for an Avs game too.


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My buddy Jacob and I, he with a busted wing again.


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And again, who likes Michael Stone?


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Crazy Carl enjoying some Afghani food.

A trip up Taylor Lake


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After getting home from Sunshine, my buddy Simon and I decided to go for a walk up to Taylor
Lake and see how bad the snowpack actually was. This is right out from the car.


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Simon showing off some of the rocks in the uptrack. Yup, it's shallow snowpack this season.


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While the snow was terrible, this area always makes my soul smile as it's absolutely stunning up here
and only takes about 2 hours from the car up to the lake.


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The challenging headwall to find path through in a low snow year.


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Simon put an uptrack in here.


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Me working to hold an edge coming across some challenging terrain at Taylor Lake.


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This couloir WILL be skied at some point, just maybe not this season.


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I think it's rad.


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Better look at the terrain with the frozen seeps as well.


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Simon making his way up the uptrack.


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Looking back down the valley.

Simon chopping his way through some snow, but mostly crap



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Me on skis.


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At Taylor Lake skiing, kind of.


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Looking at some cool frozen water along the lake side.

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