Not fading away yet..

Wow. It's been a year since I posted anything here. My bad. Will get back on it.

For now, here are a couple of videos I did of Emily in the past little while:

Third Time's a Charm from Richard Querin on Vimeo.

No Lack of Hustle from Richard Querin on Vimeo.

Word up!!!

Oh no.. Emily is in da house!! Our little homey is now taking Hip-Hop classes. To say she loves it would be a severe understatement! Check it out:

Hip Hop Short from Richard Querin on Vimeo.

Emily and Cashew

Emily sure enjoyed horseback riding camp this summer. She rode Cashew again this year. Here's a quick video of her last day:

Riding Camp - August 2009 from Richard Querin on Vimeo.

Goooaaaalll !

Now here's something worth celebrating.. Emily scored her first goal of the 09 soccer season on the first night!

You can check out a few good soccer pics right here.

The 2008 Holiday Season (and a maple dip donut)

Okay, enough of the torture for David and Margy. :) Onward and upward for 2009. I've uploaded a few new photos from recent holiday events. Hope everyone is doing well:

Emily's First Piano Recital
Emily's Visit with Santa
2008 Christmas Concert
Xmas 2008 Photos from Nonno's and Ruthe and Howies
Photos from the winter trek to Lockport to celebrate Emily's 7th Birthday

ps. Sorry for the tease Margy, but dang that was one fresh donut!. You would have really enjoyed it. :)

Astronomy Trumps Dinosaurs and Sharks

This one's just for posterity. A week or so ago, Emily completed her first ever school project. Her subject of choice was the origin of the universe. Needless to say there was not one right answer, but she's darn interested in explaining to us that our sun is one of billions of other stars, and that we live in the Milky Way galaxy. Sadly, that was news to my Mom. ;)

Personally I spent my elementary years doing projects on basically two things: sharks and dinosaurs. But hey, astronomy is a-ok with me too. :)

One Tough Cookie

Okay.. it's been another 3 months of neglect. But there are some new pics (with others on the way in the next little while). All of these ones were from July 2008:

Visit to Ruthes

Visit with Ev

Horseback Riding Camp

Visit to Luciana's

Paul and Sandy's Pool


Hope you enjoy them!

You want photos? Boy do I have photos...

Now I could tell you that my computer was stolen, I'd forgotten my login password, or that I was busy fostering world peace, but I'm an honest guy. I just kept looking at the hundreds (literally) of photos sitting on my computer and thinking "getting those up on the net will be a royal pain.. there's just got to be something else I could be doing". But no more. They're up. At least up until the beginning of April. Here's the rundown:

We went to Disneyworld in Florida. Jen, Em and I flew down to Myrtle and drove from there with Howie and Ruthe down to Orlando to meet up with my Mom and Dad (who had driven down). We spent about 5 or 6 days in Fla, two of which were spent at Disney itself. We had an awesome time and Emily (along with all of us) really enjoyed it. We'll definitely try to go back when Em's a bit older. The set of Disney photos can be had right here.

Midway through our week down in Florida, the boys decided we'd take a day to head over to Kennedy Space Center which was only about an hour's drive away. The weather was great and we had a good time there. Lots of neat stuff to see. You can just tell by the picture on the left that the two elders enjoyed themselves. Here's the photo set.


Our Disney trip was bookended by short stays with Howie and Ruthe at their condo in Myrtle Beach. Nice weather for beach walks and plenty of time to rest and relax (and shop of course). The condo was very nice and having a nice big LCD tv in the living room didn't hurt either. Click here for some great photos of Myrtle Beach 08.







I've also got some good photos from a visit to Ruthe and Howie's place. The girls enjoyed dressing up in feather boas and masks. Check them out here.

Some more nice photos of Emily and Sarah (no big shortage of those!) from a visit to Sandy and Paul's place in March are right here as well.

Meredith, Sam and Steve came across the pond for a visit as well. I managed to get some nice photos from dinner and a few during our Father-Daughter walk through the woods. We should really do that more often. :)





So that brings me up to the beginning of April. I've got photos from May and June to post as well, but I haven't quite finished getting them ready. Expect another blog post in a week or so. I don't want to fall of this horse after going thorough all the effort of climbing back on. :)

Ninja Girl and New Photos

Any complaints for the delay in posting new photos will be met by force. As you can see above, Emily has become a ninja for hire. Her rates are reasonable (chocolate and pancakes suffice). :)

I've got a bunch of new photos uploaded. The new photos start a little bit before Christmas and finish up quite recently. The links are shown below.

I hope everyone is doing ok!!

Showing off the Gingerbread House

Santa Clause Parade 2007

Christmas Photos 2007

New Years 2007

Ev and Em's Birthday Supper at Sarah's

Ninja Girl

A new site, but the same weblog

I've spent the last little while building a new website at: rfquerin.org. I've moved my other blog to a new platform but for the time being, this one will remain as is. I may change this one over in the near future if I ever find the time.

So you don't have to change a thing, I'll still be posting here bi-monthly as usual. ;)

But check out the new site, there's nothing earth-shattering over there but some info on other stuff I've been working on.

Hope everyone is keeping well!

Thank you.. thankyouverymuch

Thank you.. thankyouverymuch

I know I know. Don't say it. It's been a month and half. I know.

If you've got any complaints you can talk to the big boss. The one with the sideburns and glasses pictured above.

There are about 50 new pics up on the Flickr site. I haven't organized them too much. But there is the Hot Tub Set, the Nature Walk Set and a few Halloween shots. That only covers about 30 shots. You can view all of those plus about 20 other new ones on the main photo stream.

Winter has come early it seems so expect lots of snowball fights and sledding shots as the season progresses.

Hope everyone enjoys the photos!

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Big Arse Pumpkin

Big Arse Pumpkin

I don't use my cameraphone too often (the quality sucks) but I was glad to have it when I noticed this guy in front of me on my way into Newmarket!  You'd need a chainsaw to carve it!

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Weddings, Hummingbirds and Las Vegas Baby!

As unbelievable as it may sound, I've managed to get off my duff and actually post some more photos. We had a great time at Crystal and Derek's wedding and at the open house up at Paul and Wandy's place. I managed to get a few nice shots. You can check the set of photos out by clicking here. And don't forget that you can view it as a slideshow once you get there (look for a 'view as slideshow' link on the upper right when you get there.)

We also had a great trip out to Vegas. I got a decent round of golf in with Howie and the scenery was just superb. We didn't lose a lot of money (hard to do when you're playing the nickel slots) and had a wonderful time. The Vegas set of photos is right here.

I even managed to get a few decent photos of the flowers and the hummingbirds at Ruthe and Howie's. For that set of photos click here.

Well whatta ya know... finally a blog update!

As always, it took a threatening email from a close relative (in this case Aunty Sandy) before I got off my duff and uploaded new pics.

I've uploaded a few new soccer pics. Em got her first GOAL on her last day of soccer. Of course Daddy was too busy clapping and cheering to have taken any pictures of that moment!

A heaping helping of pics from our recent week off in Haliburton makes up the rest of it. There are loads of great shots from that week.

We had Sarah doing her best Jerry Lewis impression with Uncle's dollar store reading glasses, we had Emily doing her utmost to be both fashionable and beautiful and then to our surprise we had the UFO sighting pic. Emily seems to have loved Grandma's expression on that one! While not a great photo by any means, I don't think it will be forgotten.

And Grandma... the 'sumo' pic didn't get uploaded and will remain in my possession for safe-keeping. Unless of course someone is willing to pay me a hefty sum for it! It's currently locked away in the 'warm-a-tron'. :)

Fiddling with photos and the new Ride!

As you may or may not have noticed, I am fooling around with the header at the top of this blog. I'm not sure I like it the way it is. I may fiddle some more... In the meantime, here's a couple of photos of my new ride!! It's a 2007 Kia Rio Ex-Sport. It drives quite nicely, eases the pain at the gas station and most importantly Emily likes it! :)

Playing Catch-Up

Believe it or not, there are now almost 250 new photos up on the Flickr site as of this morning. I won't go into what they all are, but I'll point you to the various photo sets for you to check out at your leisure. Hopefully it won't be another 3 month dry spell before posting new ones! Here are the sets:

Myrtle Beach 2007 vacation shots

Various Em and Sarah photos from February 2007

Various Em and Sarah photos from March 2007

The Combo birthday party in March in Gilford

Various Em and Sarah photos from April 2007 (this one has the darling hat and bandana pics!)

Easter egg painting pics from April 2007

Mark's visit from April 2007

Shots of our recent Niagara Falls mini-trip

Some more of Emily's skating pics


Phew!

No new pics, but learn something useful instead!

Click To Play

There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don't. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don't know where to start.

While I haven't uploaded any new pics in quite a while, I do have quite a few sitting on my home PC just waiting for me to get off my butt and post. It'll happen soon. But in the meantime, here's a little education for you:

Right now, the vast majority of internet users go around to their favourite websites (blogs, news sites, whatever) every once in a while to see if anything new has been posted. If you're checking this one every once in a while you must be getting pretty P.O'd that nothing new has been posted. ;)

Wouldn't it be good if all those websites automatically provided any updated posts and content to you, instead of you having to check them all every once in a while?

Every time one of those sites (like this blog) puts up a new post, or article, or news story, the info would be forwarded for you to read (or ignore). You wouldn't have to visit those sites to see the updated info unless you wanted to.

That's exactly what RSS is for. Rather than me wasting time trying to explain it, you should watch the above video.

And I'll try to get more Emily and Sarah pics up on the site soon enough.

The three of us are off to Niagara Falls for a mini-mini vacation this weekend. Let's hope the weather holds up and Emily can properly enjoy the sights.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Before I get in any more trouble....

[Click here to go to the photo set]

Before I get smacked down again by the currently flu-ridden Aunty Sandy, I thought I'd better get crackin' and post some more photos. I've got lots of them but going through them and posting them hasn't been as high up my to-do list as it should've been. So here we go with the first of a few new posts over the next week or so.

Two weeks into the new year we had Emily's 5th birthday party for her friends. We had it at a play place down in Concord. There was an abundance of bouncing, running, climbing and pizza-eating. All in all, a great success. After the party, Paul, Sandy, Sarah, Steve, Sam, Meridith, Jen, Emily and I (phew!) headed over to a brand new (and hence happily quiet) Tim Horton's for some Timbits, coffee and tea. It was good fun and I managed to get a few more good shots of the kids before we headed into the big-arse Vaughan Mills Mall for a little shopping.

We had a great time with Sam, Steve and Meredith during their visit. Hopefully it won't be too long before we get to see them (and more precisely Meredith) again. ;)

And Sandy, take care of yourself and that little one. Hopefully you can pull yourself out of bed and/or away from the toilet long enough to enjoy the pictures. :)

Paul - Get Back Home!

Holidays, Birthdays and Celebrations!

It's been a busy holiday season with Christmas, Emily's 5th birthday, New Years, Ev's 100th birthday and the visitors from England to top it all off. Needless to say I snapped lots of pics. I finally managed to upload some of them so you can check them out here:

Ev's 100th Birthday Photos
New Years in Lockport
Dinner at Ruthies

There are a few more still to do, most notably Ev's dinner at the Quaint House and Emily's first foray into skating. But those will have to wait for now...

Another Beautiful Camera Magnet...

Under intense pressure from an unnamed person [cough..cough..Jen..cough], I managed to get some new photos up to the blog in record time (record time for me anyway!). I've just posted 28 odd photos of our beautiful little niece. There really isn't a heck of a lot to say except she's beautiful and as you might tell from the photo above, definitely not camera shy! You can click here to see the photos (and don't forget you might want to click the 'view as slideshow' at the upper right when you get there). Enjoy.