Ben's first haircut..............

hey guys, sorry it's been so long. Since i've been back at work it seems i don't even have as much time to take pictures, let alone post them!!! Last Friday, Kim was good enough to come over and give us both haircuts, mine first. No pics, of course, but she did a wicked job!! very short, which is what i wanted! Here, we put Ben in his highchair in front of the TV with his fav tunes on, and he was pretty good. Kim wet his hair down and spiked it, so cute! The first snip, which of course we kept..........
she's spritzing him here, hence the eyes........

Kim, Dad and Ben..............trying to get the back without impaling him.......... and finally Kim and Ben.
It turned out really well, thanks again Kim for coming over and doing such a great job. If you want to check out a few videos of Ben's first haircut, click here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4FhTGG0Xv8 and herehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2c1ouz9MCk

Kaizer

Jan 25th 2004 - Feb 13th 2007

Our Best Friend

Kaizer had been sick since before Christmas, and the vet believed it was Bronchitis. After being on numerous different pills which didn't make him feel better, he was finally diagnosed as having leukemia. We'll miss ya Kaiz!

Benjamin's Birthday Party

I can't believe Benjamin is finally a year old!!! We had his birthday party Saturday, Feb 3rd. Mom and Dad came up, and Betty was here too. I think Ben had a blast!!

Here he is with his cake, chocolate of course with chocolate icing, for ultimate messiness!!!He actually licked all the icing first, then started to eat the cake.............

Of course this is the best pic of the day!! But what's a picture when you can see the video? check it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxCAhrKz7rg I love this pic of him with mom and dad, they hadn't seen him for about 6 weeks, so they saw quite a difference in him...................

Grammie and Ben playing with streamers............ And Ben opening his gifts........
The slide Grammie and Poppie Richardson got him.......And both grammies with Ben.

It was a good day, even though the rest of the family couldn't make it. Ang and Andrew and Sam were down with the flu, and Joe and Jason couldn't make it either, but Ben had a great visit with his grandparents.

Christmas in Miramichi

Christmas morning, we put poor Benjamin in this outfit - he'll kill us in a few years when he sees this, but he was so cute!! Of course, he wasn't really into opening gifts, but it was still fun.

This is the animal train that Santa brought
And here he is having his Christmas dinner. I think he likes turkey!

Christmas in Miramichi.......part 2

Later in the day, we went to Betty and Joe's for a visit. Here's a picture of their almost 30 pound turkey, we had to get a picture side by side cause Ben's almost as heavy!! Betty had 6 for Christmas dinner, and there wasn't even a dent in the breast and leg on the other side. All kids like boxes, right? Here's Ben in the box his new wagon came in

and here's his new wagon. It's pretty cool, wheels can be switched to skis

so it can be used year round.

All in all, it was a wonderful Christmas, though pretty quiet. Joey and Kelly came for a short visit Christmas night, and we visited Gramps the next day. New Years Eve was great too, thanks again to Darcy, Melissa and Mitch for watching Ben, we had our first night out "since Ben". I'm sure Ben had fun, and it was nice to visit with friends...Happy New Year!

Christmas in McAdam

I know, i'm always slow about doing posts, but i'll make up for it today.

Ben had his picture taken December 10th with Santa, he wasn't too impressed!! This was taken about 2 seconds before he started crying!


We went to McAdam to spend a few days with my family on December 13th, Mom and Dad found a big difference in him, especially with him walking now~ they hadn't seen him since the baptism. Here's my Mom and Ben in front of their christmas tree, waving to the camera.
I think there's no better feeling than when a baby falls asleep on you, and he looks so peaceful here with Grammie!
It's always play time with Poppie, here's a picture of them together in St Andrews.
We stopped for a visit with Great Grammie and Great Grampie in St. Stephen, they got quite a kick out of him.
Okay, this blog is really starting to bother me. I can't add any more pictures here, so this entry will have a couple of different parts. Stay tuned..........