We had a jam-packed weekend of celebrations, starting off with Sal’s 40th birthday. Sal is really a testament to the phrase: “age is just a number”. He is still such a fun loving big kid! We also took the opportunity to celebrate mother’s day with the six moms and Mo and Beebs announced their fresh engagement!

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Mo and Beebs are finally engaged. For those of you who are keeping track, they’ve been dating for 10 years! After Mo let her get away in kindergarten, he chased her to the opposite end of the GTA and worked his magic… slowly and patiently! We’re all very excited for them and can’t wait until the big day, May 11, 2013!

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We enjoyed several family gatherings this Easter. Elaine and Jay came up for a week, so we were able to spend a lot of time with them, which was really nice. There were plenty of laughs and fantastic food, including a Greek dinner!

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Yes, this album is long overdue. Life just gets in the way :p This album includes pics from yiayia’s birthday, uncle Mo’s birthday, cousin Caleb’s visit, fun in the snow, and a lot of monkey business.

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We celebrated Hailey’s second birthday with two SpongeBob themed parties over the family day weekend. It was nice to see her reactions this year, as she really understood the concept of presents, especially so soon after Christmas. A special thank you to Habeebah, who once again decorated a cute SpongeBob cake for the Ahuja party! Eric free handed a very impressive SpongeBob cake for the Strohm party as well.

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As usual, the holidays were busy, but fun! While a dusting a snow would have made things more magical, the warmer weather did make it very easy to get around and visit with family. Hailey had a blast this year, because she really understood the concept and the fact that she was being showered with gifts. She was still not sold on Santa though.

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October was a solid month. Nisha and Dinesh came to visit and we had a blast cramming a ton of activities into the month. We went to Mexico, celebrated Halloween, visited a pumpkin patch, and spent lots of time with family!

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Halloween was a blast this year, because Hailey not only understood the concept, but was super excited by it! After the second house, she started running through the neighbourhood, squealing in delight. Once we got home, she refused to share her loot, even though she doesn’t eat sweets and thus wasn’t aware of what she was hoarding. What she did know is that she worked long and hard for her treats and no one was going to take them from her… not while she was awake anyway :p  It was also really entertaining to watch her help us carve the pumpkins.

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A few pictures from Diwali. It’s not a big celebration at our house, but Hailey really enjoyed it.

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For our latest family reunion, we spent a week at the Iberostar Paraiso Beach resort in the Mayan Riviera. It was a very low key vacation, despite the group size of 17, including 2 toddlers. This was Hailey’s first international and longest trip and she did remarkably well on the flight and at the resort. We were all pleasantly surprised! Hailey really enjoyed herself and truly made the most of her vacation… she swam twice a day, ate more than she ever has at home, took long naps during the day, and danced the evenings away.

As for us, Eric enjoyed a lot of down time in preparation for his conference the following week and I finally got a chance to go scuba diving - what a thrill!

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