tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-158168692024-11-28T05:29:00.263-07:00I occasionally get complacent in communicating with friends and family. To battle this, and for giggles when I am old, I am blogging the goings on of my life. Share, comment, enjoy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger340125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15816869.post-60633795206666935482024-04-01T23:32:00.001-06:002024-04-01T23:32:45.923-06:00

Previous Germany 2023 PostsPart 1 - Cologne / KolnPart 2 - TrierPart 3 - KoblenzPart 4 - Kehrig History PilgrimageThe majority of our trip we stayed in bigger cities where once we arrived we would just walk through it sight seeing. However, there were some attractions that we really wanted to see and fit in either on special day trips or along the way between our bigger destinations. Quick hits

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Previous Germany 2023 PostsPart 1 - Cologne / KolnPart 2 - TrierPart 3 - KoblenzA big impetus of joining Chrissy on her work trip was to show Sophia and Josie some of their family history. My grandparents on my Fathers side emigrated to Canada from the Eifel area of Germany in 1926. In 1993 I was fortunate to join my parents and two older brothers to see first hand some of our family history and

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Previous Germany 2023 PostsPart 1 - Cologne / KolnPart 2 - TrierAfter staying in hotels for a week plus it was nice to get into our Koblenz AirBnB that had our own kitchen and laundry. Our condo for the next few days became our home base for site seeing in the region and also a bit of a re-tracing of a family trip from 1993 with my parents and two eldest brothers.   But first off

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Part 1 - Cologne / KolnWith Cologne as the primary work destination we wanted to find another nearby stop that could offer the kids a cool experience. After some reviewing Rick Steeves and Lonely Planet books I selected Trier to get a taste of Roman and Germanic history. Considered the oldest City in Germany, a shrine of the Treveri, a Germanic tribe, existed at the site (c. 400 BCE) with

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My wife, Chrissy, travels for work. She usually travels with a colleague or on her own and I stay home with the kids. However, for a conference to Cologne Germany in November we decided that we would leverage her work covered airfare and hotel to do a family trip. We had a lot of hesitations. Our girls don't like to eat anything, they fight us on leaving the house and then often when at a

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I haven't posted anything in forever and so to potentially ease my way back into writing more I have decided to do my patriotic duty and create my own Canada150 playlist. But not a typical Canada 150 playlist of favorite songs or a pointed commentary on Canadian art. No this is a personal list of favorite Canadian musicians and their most impactful songs on me.  Not even my favorites, just

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Today was a big day for Sophia as she got her first taste of solid food. We decided to go with something nice and easy and selected a Gerber Rice Cereal. What's in that bowl? For me!? Hey you! Give me more! Sophia took the food like a champ but it was really more obvious that me and Chrissy were more excited than her. If you are up to it - the full first 3 minutes of her

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Chrissy wanted to start Sophia early with swimming lessons. One of the early lessons I have learned is that if "Mom" wants to do something it is in everybody's best interest to do that....so, Sophia is in swimming lessons. I thought she was a little young but according to the course offering through the Edmonton rec-facilities she was capable, "Starfish is the entry level with a focus on

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It was a slow spring for hockey this year. Our team took a year off on hosting our charity hockey tournament and I decided against traveling to Ottawa for our annual rec hockey trip to instead spend more time with Christina and Sophia. In attempt to get my "hockey fix" in I participated in a fun tournament at work - The City Managers Cup. Our team from last year did alright, losing out in the

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As good Roman Catholics, or at least raised by good Roman Catholics, it was inevitable that our daughter Sophia would be baptised.  Earlier this month, our heathen child was made part of the flock. When deciding on Godparents it really wasn't too difficult - Chrissy's only sibling Alex, and my closest in age and proximity sibling, Monica. However, in choosing Monica to be the Godmother we

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This year my birthday happened to occur on the same weekend as Easter, which is pretty sweet. Extra long gluttonous weekend! I think Chrissy sensed that I was having issues living with a set schedule (needed for Sophia) so for my birthday she chose to wake up early (on little sleep) and take me out to the Farmers Market for the first time with Sophia. We arrived early before it got too nuts, or

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As the winter was unseasonably warm Chrissy and I have been itching to get outside with Sophia. However, as first time parents were are still timid on excursions due to length of time between feedings, catching a cool breeze, and the need for Sophia to be in near constant motion to be content. Finally, we decided that it was time for a quick sojourn to one of our favorite spots: The Edmonton

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With some apprehension to how a 3 month old would do in the car we packed ourselves up and headed to see my mother and family in Saskatoon for Family Day weekend. Much to our surprise and glee, Sophia was excellent for the 5 hour car ride sleeping the whole way with the exception of a bottle break in Lloydminster. Grandma was a great host and many of my siblings, neices and nephews got to meet

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I have been back to work now for almost a month and we are starting to develop a routine with Sophia....until it falls back in on itself due to gassiness. A good night for Chrissy and Sophia usually means that I don't see them when I wake up in the morning so Christina will often times leave me a note of how the night went. Should be read with affection :) Some of the favorite

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Winter in Edmonton means a proper amount of bundling up and picking your shots to get out of the house when the weather permits. For the first few weeks of her life all Sophia knew of the outside world was blurriness through a window or cold air experienced briefly in transit between the car and someones house. With both mother and father getting stir crazy in the house it was time to take

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Miller, Edmonton, AB, Canada53.612692 -113.413413853.5938505 -113.4537543 53.6315335 -113.3730733tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15816869.post-71492344870776753152016-01-17T20:15:00.000-07:002016-01-17T20:15:11.062-07:00

Everything was new to Chrissy and I this Holiday season. Everything that we usually do like gift shopping, wrapping presents, Christmas cooking or heading to a family members home needed to be planned to a nap time and took double the usual time. And as the keeper of a newborn we were popular! That's new - People actually wanted to visit us :) Us, being Sophia, but Chrissy and I will take it.

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Sophia is now 3 weeks old and Mother and Daughter are doing well. I have been home from work (holidays and a great boss/colleagues) and we are now setting into a routine, at least until the routine abruptly changes. Start with noon as we have to start somewhere.... Noon-3:30pm - Nursing and naps by Sophia 3:30-6:00pm - Sophia and Chrissy nap time 6:00-8:00PM - Nursing and play time 8:00-10:00PM

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Christina and myself are now parents! On December 6th at 2:38 am Sophia Frances Kehrig was born.  In the short time so far getting to know each other she has been extremely cute, maddening (the midnight witching hour...shudder), confusing (hungry, gassy, cold, all of the above?) and an absolute joy for her two happy parents.   Ever since it was confirmed that Chrissy was

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In September, I was fortunate enough to travel to California with work to do a best practise review and educational visit with San Francisco's famous Chinatown and other BRZ / BID / CBD's in the area. With Chrissy at the end of her 2nd trimester it was still safe for her to travel so she accompanied me on the trip as our 'last honeymoon'. The work meetings were excellent and I got a lot of

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I just finished shoveling snow/ So,  I guess this as good as any time to look back in pictures on the summer and fall of 2015. As it should, summer starts with the garden...and includes a pirate party when the leaves turn brown!? The start Early days Thriving late season The in-laws garden being handled with care 3 generations of women making relish Who

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Arriving back from vacation we took the opportunity of being close to the airport to visit the Devonian Botanic Garden to see Chrissy's friend Oksanas' exhibit at the "Rooted" art-show. In Oksana Atwood’s interactive installation passersby will be given a crafted mushroom and invited to place it touching other matching mushrooms in the Garden, and will collaborate in the creation of an organic

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This year Christina insisted that we use our summer vacation time to visit her "happy" vacation spot - Naramata, BC. As a good ol' Saskie boy who grew around prairie lakes the whole idea of vacationing in BC's interior seemed exotic so I gladly acquiesced. We made a quick inquiry to my brother Geoff to their availability to visit them in Port Coquitlam and soon ended up with his family as a

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Chrissy is pregnant. You may notice her growing larger in subsequent posts as I backtrack through the summer to the present. Recently we got pictures done to celebrate the occasion by Monica Kehrig Photography. We are extremely happy with the results that can be found here. Posing for pictures is not my favorite thing to do so occasionally I would force our photographer to take goofy

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My nephew Liam is pretty wicked little soccer player. As he lives a province away I don't get to see him as much as I would like but everytime I do we kick a ball around. It used to be that I could dominate him one-on-one in the backyard but those days are now gone. The kid has got skills...thankfully(?) I still have an enormous weight advantage to 'lean in' on him and keep the games relatively

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Earlier this year (in late May) I was invited by the City of Yellowknife to come talk to some local businesses and City Administration on Business Improvement Areas. With the weather unseasonably warm and the days extra long I took the opportunity to explore a bit between meetings.

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