Welcome to our new house

Yes, this is new/old news and sorry we haven’t posted anything about this yet.  After searching for half a year we finally found the house we wanted in the neighbourhood we wanted.  I was threatening to start passing around flyers with a picture of sad Zoya, with the caption “Our daughter is sad because she wants to live in your neighbourhood but we can’t find a house for her.  Can you help?”  My brother, ever the helpful one, suggested we start looking at obituaries for people that lived in the neighbourhood…Thankfully it didn’t come to that!

Front

Street view

 

Livingroom

Living Room Before We Moved In

Living Rm After

Living Room After

Kitcheng Before

Kitchen Before

Kitchen After

Kitchen After

Zoya's

Zoya's Room Before

Zoya's After

Zoya's Room After

Master Before

Master Bedroom Before

Master Bedroom After

Master Bedroom After (still working on getting a ceiling fan!)

 

We hope to add to your Christmas cheer!

We are happy to announce that we are expecting a baby in April!

Big Sister

Future Big Sister

 

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Zoya and Verena

Easter

From left to right: "I can do a fake smile!"; "Take the pictures already!"; "I can throw those, no problem!"

From left to right: "I can do a fake smile!"; "Take the pictures already!"; "I can throw those, no problem!"

More Winter’s End Pictures

Zoya doing Verena's nails

Zoya doing Verena's nails

Call to make your appointment with Zoya now!  Operators are standing by!

Call to make your appointment with Zoya now! Operators are standing by!

Lilly's Birthday Party

Lilly's Birthday Party

Zoya likes to pretend she is a mouse, our haus maus

Zoya likes to pretend she is a mouse, our haus maus

Zoya riding Franky at the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival

Zoya riding Franky at the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival

We talked a lot about Zoya riding a pony beforehand because we were worried she would be too scared, but she was a champ.

February Update

Some updates from “Hotel Enns:”

Brian got a promotion and is focusing more on project coordination/management.  As an added bonus he will be cutting his commute in half and he’ll be close to a Timmies again!

Zoya is doing lots of practicing.  Practicing ballet.  Practicing hopping on one leg. Practicing running. Practicing winking:

Zoya Winking (Photo Credit: Auntie M)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Verena is having fun cruising eBay for Gymboree clothes for Zoya and leather bags for herself.  She is still working at a local college library and over Christmas did a great job of fundraising for MCC with the staff and students.

Christmas Photos

Zoya's cast (teasing her about trying to touch her ear)

Zoya's cast (teasing her about trying to touch her ear)

Making cookies

Making cookies

Going down the slide

Going down the slide

Between the slats

Between the slats

Christmas with family

Christmas with family

Zoya got nail polish

Zoya got nail polish

Out for a ride on the sled

Out for a ride on the sled

Down she goes

Down she goes

Snow angel

Snow angel

Winter’s a Comin’!

It’s getting cold out, but that hasn’t stopped Zoya from going out on our balcony:

Cold Zoya on the Balcony

Cold Zoya on the Balcony

Her preschool is having a date night as a fundraiser.  All the kids and teachers will be in their pajamas for a few hours one evening while the parents can have a night for themselves.  We will appreciate the time for the two of us and Zoya is very excited about the “pajama party” she’ll be having.

Halloween Pictures

Zoya had a great time for her first Halloween.  We didn’t do a good job of explaining what she had to do, so she never actually said the “trick or treat” and was always asking where we were going after each house.  Also, not being able to eat all the candy was a sad revelation.  But she had a great time with her cousins and the neighbour kids.

Thanks to Auntie M for taking the great pictures.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all the Canuckstanians out there!

We had a great weekend taking in some of the Oktoberfest events, going to a wedding, and enjoying time with just the 3 of us.

Some highlights:

Verena setting of the smoke detector twice (morning and evening)
Zoya convincing me to eat a kale chip (yes, she loves them)
Verena having to tell Zoya she can’t eat any more kale chips
Free breakfast with all the other Oktoberfest participants
Cold and rainy, but fun, Oktoberfest parade

 

Oktoberfest line

Waiting for our free Oktoberfest breakfast, Uptown Waterloo

 

 

Loving her sausage and pancakes

Loving her sausage and pancakes

 

 

Oktoberfest band

Taking in some Oktoberfest music while we eat

 

 

Fred Ewaniuk, parade marshall

Oktoberfest Parade Grand Marshal, Fred Ewanuick of Corner Gas and Dan for Mayor

 

Decided to Change Our Website

We don’t update our site as often, so I stopped paying for webhosting and now we’re on WordPress.

Here’s a recent photo, as a kind of apology for not updating our website as often as we should.

Family Photo

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