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Ben and Aidan live up in Whitehorse now, and they played host to me up there for a week. It was a fantastic time, and we did all sorts of fun things. Let’s start off with a picture of Aidan, Ben and a Sombrero:

That was from the first day up in Whitehorse. We spent the day wandering around town, it was great fun. The next day, Ben had to work, so Aidan and I went ice fishing. And snowshoeing. And we shot potatoes out of a 5 foot PVC tube about 200 feet. And then we went home and met up with Ben, and went to play indoor soccer. And then we went and saw “The Twisters” - a live swing band. That was a great day. I know what you’re thinking - what would it look like if I hip held a 5 foot potato gun?

Okay, so that brings us to Friday. Friday was a nice relaxing day, had a great sushi meal at Mel’s place, and then we went and saw a great play called “Born Yesterday”. Saturday, we played some hockey, then went dog sledding! I know, it was very cool. I highly recommend it if you can - it’s very easy and really relaxing. Check out Ben pulling a “Look Mom, no hands!” move:

That wrapped up Saturday. Sunday we were going to ice climb, but there was a miscommunication and the place was closed, so we hung about until it was time for supper. Then we went and had a fantastic dinner at a friend of Ben and Aidan’s that they play soccer with. It was a really interesting dinner - fantastic food, a surprise wedding announcement by the hosts, a hilarious preview of a B-movie that the host was involved in, home videos of some moose hunting trips, and Aidan even got the host to give us a real moose call in the comfort of his basement. Yup, a full fledged moose call.

Then we moved on to Monday, where we went tobogganing on some awesome hills. Then we drove out to Braeburn lodge, which is about an hour north of Whitehorse. We had the biggest burgers I’ve ever seen there, and cinnamon buns the size of your head. Well, most people’s heads, anyway. Want proof? Okay - here you go:

So, there you go. And thus ended Monday, and I left early Tuesday. What’s the moral of the story? If you get a chance, definitely go up to Whitehorse and visit Ben and Aidan while they’re around. They’ve just decided to stay for another year, and it’s a lot of fun! There were some 400 pictures from that trip, and you can find them all here.

I think I’ll leave you with something a little unique that you can probably only see up in Whitehorse:

Ben gave Kylee a trip out to Calgary as a gift for Christmas, and she was out here the last week of February for a great little vacation.

We fit quite a bit into the trip, and it really went too quickly. I have a few pictures from the week: Our trip snowshoeing up to Chester Lake pics are here.
Finishing the 29000 feet in 29 days rock climbing competition pics are here.
Our trip down to Lethbridge, and other pictures are here.

Hopefully I’ll get the pics we took with Kylee’s camera on here too, as the week was very well documented!

Just wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas.  I hope to get some more pictures to throw up on the server soon!  In the meantime, here’s a nice recent pic of Jaden.  Click on it for an even bigger version (ridiculously high quality).

Uncle Bryan’s latest book “Legend of the Nahanni” has just come out.  So, he put together a new site that talks a bit about his other book, and his CD with Ed Brown.  You can check the site out at www.diamondhitch.ca

I recently got back from a 2 week canoe trip in northern BC.  Bowron Lakes is a fantastic 120Km canoe trek around a mountain range.  It spans some 7 lakes and the cariboo river.  It’s an amazing trip, and if you ever need to get away, I highly recommend going there.  2 weeks with your big choices being around things like “what should I eat” and … that’s about it.

I’ve uploaded my pics onto the site, and you can find them here.

Just a quick note to say I’ve got some more pics of Jaden! And a pic of Russ when he was a baby. And a movie of Jaden in the hospital on his first day! You can check them all out here.

I’m sure there’ll be lots more pics and movies up there as time goes on.

I am REALLY excited to announce that Russ and Sun Ja have had their kid! Jaden John Bryan Jensen was born today, September 5th!

Here’s a pic of the three of them from the hospital, just after birth. I’ll be updating the site with pics and (high definition) movies as I get them!

On August 18th, Shirley and Wally celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary.  It was a fantastic night, with many excellent speeches and performances, including some excellent poetry by Uncle Brian.

I’ve uploaded the pictures I have from the evening (and the next day, and the ride back to Calgary with Jamie) onto the picture website.  I hope to have some more pictures, and maybe the DVD that Joan and Rich presented, if I can get a copy of that ellusive masterpiece.

If anyone has any pictures from the evening, please send me an email, and I’ll arrange to get them on the site.

Mom made a fantastic DVD to bring out West to show Grandma Smith. The DVD has some great memories on it, and is fantastically choreographed.

The first part of the DVD is some pictures from the camping trip we went on in Gatineau park, QC. The second part is Ben and Aiden’s wedding, and the last section is a bunch of great pictures all put together. The DVD was made for Grandma, but it’s so well done, I thought I’d make a copy for everyone.

If you’d like a copy of the DVD, I’ve put an image of the DVD on the server, right here.

To get a copy of it for your very own, you’ll want to click on the link, download the image to your computer, then burn the image as a DVD. Be careful not to just burn the .iso file onto a DVD - your burning software will understand how to make a DVD from a .iso file, and that’s what you want to do.

I’ve uploaded a few more pics from around Kylee’s 26th Birthday here - there aren’t many as we celebrated her birthday during the camping trip.

Then there was a really fun backpack with Jamie and Candice in Kananaskis  country.

More to come!