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oliver connell | day eleven hundred & twenty-one

tcp — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:44:57 +0000

Wow – was Christmas day a lot of fun this year! We had Santa pay us a visit early Christmas morning and he spoiled us rotten. SPOILED. ROTTEN. We had a lot of fun opening all the gifts that were left under our tree. I then got to working on cooking the bird while Oliver played with all his new toys and Dana got the house ready for our guests. We then had both sets of Grand Parents over along with Oliver’s Aunt, Uncle and Cousin for an early afternoon visit and Christmas dinner. We had a fire going for most of the day and it was super cozy in our house, the way it should be over Christmas.

Not a lot of pictures taken but a lot of great memories from a wonderful day.

Cheers!
t.

oliver connell | day seven hundred & fifty-seven

tcp — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:05:49 +0000

Boxing day saw Grandma and Papa come for a visit to celebrate Christmas with us. They arrived in the early afternoon on Boxing Day, stayed for dinner and the night. Oliver loves his Grandma and Papa so much. He enjoys playing with Papa and when he is here, Oliver wants to do pretty much everything with him. And of course when he leaves, we have to field the questions: “where did Papa go?” and “Papa come back?” for a couple of days after the visit. It’s too cute!

Below are some photos we took of our time together along with some video of Oliver opening his Christmas presents.

Enjoy!
t.

and some video of Oliver with his Grand Parents:

oliver connell | day seven hundred & fifty-six

tcp — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:07:50 +0000

Another Christmas morning was upon us and Oliver didn’t get up until later in the morning. Not sure if he just didn’t understand we were going to open presents or if sleep was more important to him. Nonetheless, we were downstairs and opening presents at a decent hour, none of this 5am stuff that some families seem to go through.

What were weren’t expecting was for Oliver to not want to open any presents! He saw his stocking that was filled with goodies from Santa and he opened that. He got 4 or 5 toy cars in it from the movie Cars and that is all he wanted to play with. It even got to the point where Dana and I had opened most of our gifts and Oliver still didn’t want to open any more of his. It was quite humourous as you can see from the video below. That’s Oliver saying: “No Tank You” when we were asking him if he wanted to open another present.

Anyways, once our Christmas morning was all done, were were off to Dana’s Mom and Dad’s for Christmas Day dinner. We were joined by Alison, Arek and Julia. As usual, Oliver had a blast playing with his cousin.

We ate, drank, opened gifts and enjoyed each others company immensely. Christmas time is always such a busy time but when you get to stop and enjoy it for a second, it’s always a lot of fun. I’ve especially enjoyed these last couple of years because there really is nothing like Christmas when you have young kids in the household.

Enjoy the photos and the video below.

Cheers!
t.

here’s the video from Christmas morning opening presents:

and the video from our wonderful Christmas Day dinner and Nana and Grand Dad’s:

oliver connell | day six hundred & eighty-one

tcp — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:34:29 +0000

We spent Thanksgiving day at Nana and Grand Dad’s for turkey dinner. Nana makes a mean turkey so this was a happy event for all of us! Auntie Alison, Uncle Arek and cousin Julia were there as well which always makes for a fun time.

We laughed, we ate, we sang and danced and we gorged ourselves on a great feast. We even took a few pictures…LOL! The rest can be found on Flickr here.

Enjoy!
t.

and a little video of Oliver and Julia playing on the couch

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 & fifteen

tcp — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:11:53 +0000

On day 315, Oliver had gotten ready for Thanksgiving dinner and was looking quite handsome in his Thanksgiving sweater. So, being the good and responsible parent that I am, I took some photos of Oliver instead of getting ready myself! I mean, really, you would have done the same thing in my shoes right? RIGHT? LOL! There are a couple of portraits that came out of this quick session that have become my favourites! Oliver is so grown up now!

Anyways, the complete gallery is here.

Cheers!
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.