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oliver connell | day three hundred & ninety-three

tcp — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:42:07 +0000

The day after the day after Christmas was supposed to be our Christmas with Oliver’s Nana and Grand Dad. Unfortunately, Nana got sick over the holidays and in the interest of keeping Oliver healthy, Nana stayed back from the festivities. So, Grand Dad came over and celebrated with us for the afternoon. We opened some gifts and had a grand ‘ol time.

Here are a couple of portraits taken of Oliver and his Grand Dad.

Cheers!
t.

oliver connell | day three hundred & ninety-one

tcp — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:46:04 +0000

Today is Oliver’s second Christmas. Santa has visited our house yet again and left some wonderful gifts for us all. Oliver’s favourite gift: a bag of Apple Crisps he got in his stocking. Clearly Santa knew what Oliver would like! Mum and Dad spent the rest of the morning opening the other gifts while Oliver ran around the living room with his crinkly bag of Apple Crisps. Ah, all in good fun.

Below are a couple of videos of Oliver enjoying his Christmas morning.

Then it was off to Grandma and Grandpaw’s for more presents and a Christmas dinner. Mom (Grandma) outdid herself once again. We had probably one the juiciest turkey I’ve ever tasted. We had a surprise visitor, my Auntie Karen for dinner and a visit. It was wonderful to see her again.

Below are some pictures of the day. The full set of pictures can be found on my Flickr site here.

Enjoy!
t.

oliver connell | day three hundred & seventy-five

tcp — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:39:32 +0000

Last year Oliver was only 26 days old when Christmas came around and that didn’t leave us a heck of a lot of time to introduce him to Santa beforehand. So, this year we made a point of checking his schedule and going and meeting with Saint Nick at the Bramalea City Centre when he was there.

As suspected, Oliver had no problem with the Big Guy in Red, smiling and looking curiously at Santa’s full white beard.

We were also lucky enough to get a couple of family photos done with Santa which was a really nice keepsake. I can’t remember the last time I had my photo taken with Santa Claus, but it’s been a really long time!

Enjoy the photos!
t.

oliver connell | day twenty-six

tcp — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:01:31 +0000

Three words: Oliver’s First Christmas! What a blast we had! We thought the easiest thing to do would be to host both the Connell and the Ruprecht families at our house for Christmas Day dinner. Mom Ruprecht was kind enough to take the pressure off of me and bring the bird for dinner. Oliver, who was only twenty-six days at this point, didn’t really know what hit him. We managed to sneak in a couple portraits, but the rest of the time was for playing, laughing, and enjoying each others company.

The full set of images from Oliver’s first Christmas can be found in the Flickr gallery here.

Enjoy!
t.