Merry Christmas

We spent Christmas in Kelowna at my sister's place.  Mattias had a great time especially playing with my nephews pug, Bean.  They became best friends both looking for each other when one was not around.  More pictures can be viewed here.

"Daddy, you did not get me enough Thomas!!!"

Winter is here

This first picture was taken earlier in the week, Mattias chomping at the bit to get out in the snow.

Vancouver does not get a lot of snow and I think the last white Christmas was over 10 years ago.  We got a ton of snow in the last few days. Mattias loves it, he can't wait to get out to play in it.  Today we went tobogganing and he had a blast.   I just took some photos of the snow tonight outside the house, tomorrow may be a snow day but I left my laptop at work...

The following photos were taken tonight.  You can see my useful car with summer performance tires covered in this white stuff.  I'll be busing it tomorrow. 

Phew!

It is amazing to see Mattias language skills starting to develop.  Today he said "1, 2, 3.."  and farted.  I know it is toilet humour but I sure thought it was funny.  

The poser

A cute photo.

Preparing fior Christmas

Last week Mattias enjoyed the company Children's Party at a jungle gym.  He was going so hard, having so much fun.  We left at 11am and in 4 minutes was fast asleep in his car seat.  It is unusual for him to nap that early.  Later we decorated the tree.

Breaking in a horse

Last weekend I went up north of Barriere to do some hunting. The hunting was a bust but I saw the breaking of a horse which was pretty cool. This horse was never trained and about 7 years old. When he was two he got loose and was in the wild for 5 years and one day he showed up at the gate of the farm he left. Darrell (the cowboy in these pictures) got the horse and within a few hours was able to have the horse follow him around, got him moving in the ring following his body signals, got a halter on him and got him comfortable with him touching his legs. It was amazing to watch.