Karate competition

This morning, Sabrina and Suzanne are at an inter-school karate competition. Sabrina practiced hard so I can't wait to see how it goes. Mathieu was supposed to participate but got sick yesterday afternoon and it went on throughout the night, ending around 5:30 this morning. He's still sleeping as I write this.

And she wins a medal. We're so proud of her. Mathieu woke up crying 'cause he couldn't go. I told him there would be plenty of medals for him too.

Skateboards...

Mathieu wants a skateboard as an "Excellent School Year" reward. Today I wanted to go check the new Apple store and we all went. Mathieu and I had the opportunity to visit a real skateboard store. Mathieu even got to try one.

There was something about him and skateboards. It just fits.

PED Day

Today we decided to do something fun for PED day. The kids and I went to visit two museum: McGill's Redpath Museum and the Pointe A Calliere Museum. The kids and I actually had a great time. We even saw a bit of what maman's company, Moment Factory, does. Here are some pictures of the day:

Entering the second floor

Hello you friendly guy

Smaller, but as deadlier

We assume they were big softies 

Sabrina and a real mummy 

Mathieu and a mummy (a real one, again)

That's a big anaconda snake

Friendly giant dinosaur who would gladly use you as a snack, from above.

We left the Redpath museum to go to Musee Pointe a Calliere. While a lot of it was interesting, I really enjoyed the Beatle's exhibit, especially the real guitars they used.

Quite a cool day we had.... We ended it with some McDo for the kids (a real treat, it doesn't happen often) and sushi for the parents.

New office space

This is where I now work on onehappykid and simplifia. We cleaned up the entire place yesterday. We even got rid of the old desk and the old couch. Tonight we've ordered a new couch for the family room.

I like a desk with almost nothing on it, though some kid's work (Sabrina's painting, Mathieu's body and Max's heart) I cannot be without. And the first cash I ever made on the Internet.

Oh and the sofa that's going to go in there... In about 6-8 weeks.

New belts

Today both Sabrina and Mathieu went up a level in Karate. Mathieu is now blue with a yellow stripe, and Sabrina yellow with a green stripe. I saw them go up a level and was quite proud to see them do their moves amazingly well for 9 and 6 years old. Really cool.

Practicing Katas

Sabrina, higher level then Mathieu, must do more katas

Mathieu got to spar... He loves it

Now blue with yellow stripe

Now yellow with green stripe (with Sempai Marie-Josee)

Cooking with a glass of wine

A nice quiet Saturday ends with some cooking and wine. Suzanne makes this really good rosé sauce... Hmmm. And mom, as you can see, some spices were mixed and crushed.

Another course ends

And the kids are getting better and better at karate. Sabrina's it's been four years. Mathieu two.

Nice lazy Sunday

We got to sleep in (look at these two, they look so comfy). Then we spent some of it outside.

Paper planes and the snow storm

Today we're getting a lot of snow, perhaps the last storm of the 12-13 winter season. We end up having a snow day.

Suzanne and Mathieu making paper planes

Winter is coming!

Doesn't stop me from having a wine dinner with the boys at Chez Bazz Jazz in St-Lambert. Here are few wines I had the pleasure of having (I brought an excellent Chambly Chateau Grenouilles Grand Cru 2008).

A new look

Sabrina was playing with Mathieu's hair in the bath...

Talent Show

I've had a lot of work to do for a an old employer today but that didn't stop me from going to school in time to see the talent show. Mathieu was a participant as a ninja spinning his nunchucks while the glee club did "My Inner Ninja".

It was an amazingly nice production and Mathieu was pretty good. Here'sa doctored image (I can't put real images on the Web)

With his blue belt

My new baby

Gotit at Apple's refurb store. It's fast. Super fast. An amazing 13" retina Macbook Pro with a dual core i7 2.9Ghz (4 threads) with 8Gb RAM and 512GB SSD. Just wow! AndI saved a lot of $$$!

Breakfast -- Granite Spice Grinder -- Pictures

Sabrina woke us up with the table set and breakfast ready this morning. It was really amazing. Our girl is incredible and I really like those very special breakfasts we have together as a family. She's really good at organizing things...

The table is set

I had a new addition to our kitchen utensils. A beautiful Granite Spice Mortar from Ikea. I got one for mom too. I've done a few of my spices (Thanks mom for the birthday spice bag) and they taste great.

Looks good in our kitchen

Today we got  some pictures made to renew our passports. It's the first time I like one of mine.