Mother's Day Brunch and a Bike Ride

For Mother's Day, I headed down to Calgary to spend some time with this bundle of trouble.

We played...

and shared secrets.

The next day, my dad took me on a bike tour to show me a new "high tech bathroom."  

How could I say no.

We biked from our house to downtown.

Here's mini downtown, still veeeery far away...

On the way, we stopped off at the bird sanctuary

Checked out the new man made white water course where the old weir used to be

Watched downtown get bigger!

Rode past Fort Calgary and the haunted restaurant!

And.... finally made it to the high tech bathroom.

In order to use the toilet, you press a button, and the washroom actually cleans and dries a toilet seat for you before you use it.  When you enter, you're told you have 10 minutes to use the facilities.  

I wonder what happens when you're 10 minutes is up?

After gazing at the toilet, we rode past downtown to check out the Peace Bridge

Then stopped for lunch...shake and bake chicken and peanut butter sandwiches, red peppers, cucumber and 6 grapes.

Thankfully I was saved by Angel's!  

Ice Cream!  

I had to fight my dad for that second cone.

Home at last.  61km

After recovering, the next day we headed out to Mother's Day Brunch.

sticky toffee pudding

Birthdays X 2

For my birthday this year, Roger made me a delicious supper of spicy spaghetti, a green onion cake and DQ ice cream cake of course!  

I got some lovely presents.

A stunning portrait from Erin:

An intricate, but perhaps not entirely birthday appropriate, drawing from Brendan:

A composter!

And.... a 400 litre collapsible rain barrel! 

For Roger's birthday, he asked for the usual...

Smörgås torta

I must say, I think this is my nicest smörgås torta yet.  I was inspired by all the food magazines Mamma G had shown me from Sweden.

He also got some lovely gifts:

A handmade Chu Totoro

I had a little trouble with his eyes!

Another lovely portrait by Erin

Look at all those teeth!

We were also lucky to have Hans and Dianne visit--especially because Handy Hans helped us set up the rain barrel and composter (even though it may look like Roger's doing most of the work in the photos).

Easter 2012

For Easter, Roger and I headed down to Camrose to celebrate with Mama G. 

When we arrived we found these 4 little bunnies on our bed.  Despite how pretty they looked... they didn't last very long at all.

The wizardress in the kitchen.

We were also lucky enough to catch up with some other family members

And got to visit with Baby Pebbles.

Some other Spring photos from around Mama G's House