Thomas and Mama in Calgary!

Tom and Jane Ellen are both 4 years old and therefore are friends!

WWHHEEE!  Opa is so much fun!

Tante Elke and Oma sit down for a visit.

Unkle Darwin and Tom hang out.

Piovoso clan.

Helga and Michelle,(Island girls) , go for a run in Cochrane, Alberta!

Meagan, Darci and Tom with Spiderman. Thanks for the fun sleepover guys!  Sushi and wine was great too!!

Tom meets Harrison who is also 4 and therefore also his friend!!

Tara and Helga.

We had a great play at TommyKPlay, a huge indoor play place in Calgary!!  Thanks for showing us Tara and Lauren! 

Opa and Tom taking a break and watching some treehouse TV.  Life is good.

Pizza night at Oma's with the entire Calgary clan.  Thanks for coming guys, it was so fun to see everyone.

Bubble bath time!  

Penguins at the zoo.

Oma and Scott with the penguins.

Mama and JE with the penguins.

Looking at the fish and hippos.

Here Jane, try listening through here.

The slowest slide ever!

Shopping with Oma!!

Helga with Tara and Julie!  Again, thank you for the yummy supper and nice visit!

Science centre in Calgary.

Putting pipelines together!

Tante Heidi in her new house!! Gorgeous!  (I mean Heidi of course!)  So glad we got to see the house, it is pretty awesome.

Gingerbread houses before bed.

Watching bedtime movies on TV with the 2 friends.

Goodbye hug for Oma.

Jane Ellen and Tante Helga before bed and before the flight home. Thank you mom and dad for letting us barge in on this really busy time.  Heidi thank you for taking so much time despite moving etc.  Tom misses Jane already and I am so happy they got to meet and become friends.  Can't wait to see you all in the spring!! See you soon!  Helga

Matt turns 9!!

Happy Birthday Breakfast for Matt!! Bacon and waffles was the request!

Thanks for the fun presents!  Matt was so excited!

He made his own "cake".. he wanted a gingerbread train with blue ring candy for each brother!

He managed to get a present at Sebastien's birthday party !  Thanks guys.

Sunday (papa was off work) so we all went swimming and then to Pizza delight .  Of course we ended the evening with the gingerbread train!!  Happy Birthday Matthew.  We love you.  Mama and Papa .

Touched up and Potluck!

Ben 

Sam

Tom

Matt

The MacNeills

The Island Girls 2012

Potluck with friends and here are the oldest 5 boys.

Two girls and a little boy.

Adults eating... thanks everyone (Burts, Pendeltons and Campbells) for the great time and the yummy food.  

Family Pictures!

Family Picture time at Scales Pond. Thank you so much Sheila for taking so many fun pictures!!

 Gotta love playing "Guess Who?"

Sam takes hammering very seriously.

Tom testing out the equipment.

Gotta have the black ear defenders like Tom.

Darcy came over for a visit so Thomas took a cuddle!  Thanks for coming by Auntie Pam and Darcy!  The MacNeills

November with lots of leaves!

Can't believe how many leaves are still on the trees.  (5 days later they were mostly down)

Mama and the PJ boys.

Playdate for Matt.

Playdate for Ben.

Kite flying with papa on wednesday.  Why not? It was a bit cool but windy and all the boys had a great time.  Thanks papa for the great idea.

Halloween 2012

The 9 kids (Aiden Patrick, my boys, Audeane, Zach and Sam).

Ben on the run!

Tom and Aiden hold hands because "we are friends".

Meeting up with Curtis along the way!

Juanita gives out great treats!!

Candy time before bed.

Happy Halloween!!