grammy's

eating salmon for dinner....
J: I don't like this fish, I like how grammy makes it
me: well why don't you just go live with grammy then!
J: but I can't drive yet....

double-u

J: "oh nooooooo..."
Daddy: "what's wrong?"
J: "I keep twying to draw a W, but it's always an M...."

case of fire

J: momma
me: yes
J: you can go outside.... if there's a case of fire

your tummy

J dancing around in his pull-ups...

me: nice bum, where you from?
j: your tummy.... I'm not from the store - I'm from your tummy

[private flight]

Reading the recent Ottawa Citizen story Melnyk Deflects Hurricane Slapshot reminded me of a similar situation my husband and I had when meeting Melnyk over 3 years ago on our honeymoon.

We chose Barbados as our honeymoon destination since we are huge Senator fans and wanted to visit Bert's Bar. We had dinner reservations at the bar for the last night of our trip to watch the season opener game, Sens vs Leafs. While watching the game we noticed Melnyk sitting at his favourite seat at the bar, and by the time the game was done my husband had decided we needed to have our photo taken with him. What we got was a lot more.

He was happy to take a photo with us, and started asking us where we were from and why we were in Barbados. After finding out that it was the last night of our honeymoon he inquired as to what flight we were taking home - and then offered us a flight home on his private jet. After a few moments of astonishment on our part, we accepted the offer. What followed was a whirlwind of making plans with the pilot to be at the airport early the next morning.

We woke up early, and made sure to have a cab get us to the charter airport on time. While waiting in the lounge with Bert, we learned that Melnyk is never on time for his flights! Getting on the jet and having our own seats near the front of the plane left us awestruck. Melnyk, his wife, and Bert made sure to chat with us throughout the flight and made us feel more then welcome. We were offered movies and drinks, but the one rule was that you weren't allowed to use the washroom for anything but number one. Melnyk has a great sense of humour.

Once we landed, Melnyk insisted we posed for some photos in front of the jet.

After he arranged for a private town car to drive us home, we returned from our honeymoon with a great story to tell our family and friends. It was the perfect ending to our trip and something we'll remember forever.

[wordless wednesday]

no hands!

[family photos]

We made a trip to Home Sense last night to find an oversized mirror for the dinning room - we found one and put it on hold, but came home with a bag full of photo frames. Now to create a family photo wall in our front hall. I started searching for layout ideas, and this caught my eye - I like the line up of frame on the top half:

House to Home

I really like things in a straight line - so this might be a challenge for me. Off to create some Photoshop mock-ups before I commit to putting nails in the wall.