Birthdays

We celebrated Alexander and Benjamin's sixth birthday in August and Hannah and Jacob's fourth birthday just yesterday.....Hard to believe they are getting so old since I am still so young! :)
So here are some photos for those of you who still check out the blog:

Alexander and Benjamin got new wallets from a friend for their birthday so Jacob was very happy (although you can't tell by the picture) to get his own for his birthday too!

These are from Alexander and Benjamin's birthday. Shawn is still working away at his second career of pinata making in case this whole PhD thing doesn't work out!

So the yellow one is the team logos of all the Canadian hockey teams, the black one is a goalie mask (Anaheim ducks who had beaten the Ottawa Senators, so they wanted to hit them with the bat instead of their favorite team! Ha Ha), and the third, green one is of the Celtic football club from here in the UK.

Here is Benjamin with his hockey birthday cake

And Alexander with his football birthday cake

Here is Hannah playing the piano in her birthday, fairy, princess dress

Jacob with his football cake

Hannah with her "pink" cake

Hannah and Jacob with their pinatas from the movie CARS (Sally and Chick Hicks)

Hannah at Pizza Hut on the night of their birthday opening up her princess dress. We went out to eat on their actual birth day and had a party a few days later. They chose Pizza Hut because they have an all you can eat, self-serve ice cream bar!

We are all doing well and enjoying life here in Edinburgh although we are quite home sick at times...it has been over 2 years since we have been on Canadian soil! As you can tell by the pinatas and cakes, however, we are still Canadian at heart and keep a close eye on NHL.com for all the scores and highlights as well as enjoying games from our very own Edinburgh Capitals Ice Hockey team (who have half their players from Canada!). Hope you are all well, drop us a line when you get a chance.