Elaine's BBQ

Another Post!!! Two in one day!! How can you all cope???

Elaine held a birthday party at our new house and invited approximately 50-60 people! Kindness knows no bounds here, as neighbours arrived with cakes, sweets, food and their good nature!!!!

Here is a picture of a cake below that our good neighbour Margret made for Elaine:

YUM!!!!

The BBQ in full swing, with our beautiful friend, Lorie stealing the limelight:

All the kids and neighbours tucking into the feast....more foooooooddddd!!

All of our friends and neighbours really thought we put on a good feast, and our good friend Bob provided some great music as well. A great day with great people and great food!! What else can we say but......

GREAT!!!

The Surprise

Well,

Another update for the Emery blog, and this time, it is not all about us (Brian & Elaine).

We surprised a good friend of ours, Bob, to a surprise makeover for his basement. Brian & Bob went to Niagara Falls for a boys weekend, while unknown to Bob, his whole family and lots of friends were fixing his basement and installing flat screen TVs, hardwood flooring, etc.

Checkout some of the pictures from Niagara below:

A shot of the Maid of the Mist, with a rainbow in the distance.......







Brian & Bob by the falls......











Brian the 'mad cyclist' in Niagara.......







All in all, a fantastic weekend and the look on Bob's face when we returned to his house when the makeover was completed was fantastic!!! We love ya Bob and you deserve it!!!

Spark Up The BBQ!!!

Well,

It's about that time here in Canada that BBQ season is here (we are lying)...it is BBQ season all year round!!!

We bought our first Canadian BBQ which cost about $800 CAD (about GBP 370). We have never BBQ'd (sorry about the grammar...just lazy!) before, but we got through the first one without any problems....

We have just finished our 3rd BBQ and check out the food...we mean....photos below:

Brian cooking up a storm....well...some meat anyway! Notice the beer in his hand...customary when cooking a BBQ!

'The Man' in action....careful Brian!!! Don't burn your sausage!

Gotta go...food to eat!

Stay tuned for more updates.

Good & Bad....

Folks,

This is a non-picture update (hoorah!!) as we thought we would share our thoughts since we have been here in Canada for just over a year.

Well, we cannot lie, we both love it here and would not trade it for the world...we have the house of our dreams, Elaine has changed careers and loving every minute of it, Brian has been prompted to a team leader position with his employer, we have both made fantastic friends....life is great!!!

But.....

Friends and family back in the UK (and some spread around the globe) we miss very much!
As much as Canada is our home now, we have not forgotten our friends and family back over 'the pond. We don't really miss anything from England apart from friends and family......

So, until the next time.....bye bye!

Brian's Birthday

Folks,

Well, as the title of this post states, Brian's birthday was on Sunday (12th April) and he had a really good time chilling out with very close friends.

Elaine and Brian were invited to their good friends, Bob & Lorie's home, for birthday celebrations and of course......FFFFFOOOOOOODDDDDD!!!!!!!!

After the big feast, we all decided to go on a walking trail, near Bob & Lorie's home...we also took some frisbees with us, and had an awesome time running around fields and acting like kids again....(Brian has never really grown up!!)

The gang is here below:

A bit arty here...a black and white picture next....

A picture of Elaine by the waters edge....

Happy birthday Brian!!

The Harlem Globetrotters

Hiya folks!

Well...it has been a long time for an update...nothing much to report....but the Emery's went to see the Harlem Globetrotters at the Kitchener Aud.

You know the drill....family fun....silly basketball stunts.....crazy antics....that's what the Harlem Globetrotters are about.

Well....as always, we have some photos to share with you, but they are not very good as neither of us are good photographers, and we do not own a good camera. As we do not have any good photos to show you all, we will keep this update brief.....

Here are the Globtrotters on the court:

Here they are perfoming some tricks.....

We'll be back soon!!!

The First Family Visit......

Hello folks!!

Another update from Brian & Elaine is here!


Well, here we are sitting in a hotel room, one block away from Niagara Falls with......Elaine's brother Clive and his daughter, Katherine!


They have traveled from England to visit us for two weeks, and they are nearly through their first week with us. Clive and Katherine have been skiing at Chicopee (a ski resort around the corner from where we live...), met a lot of our friends, including Bob and Lorie and several others, and now we have taken a long weekend to spend with our visitors to visit Niagara in the winter.


Of course, our blog updates would not be complete without pictures, so here are some more for your viewing pleasure:


A shot of the Niagara (or Horseshoe) Falls:






Elaine, Katherine and Clive with the American side of the falls in the distance....

Katherine has requested her picture below to be shown for all the world to see with Barnaby Bear at the Falls as well, so here goes.....

We just had to take this picture of a....well....see for yourself....

As you can see in the pictures above, the Canadian side of the falls is far superior to the Amercian side (we are just biased!!)

Until the next update, the Emerys are signing off......