California Dreamin'

We have burned a couple of CD's with all the photos we took during the cruise and posted them off today to Bev and Pete & Paul as promised. Lots of silly pix of course but very importantly, Felix's first encounter with the ocean!

Here's a few pix of life after the cruise...The San Diego Chargers game; Pip and Chip climbing in Joshua Tree National Park desert; Tim beside one of the weird Joshua trees; and hiking in the snow at nearly 9000 feet in the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument...We felt quite at home up there! Today in Toronto it's snowing with the temperature due to fall to minus 24...Oh for those balmy sea breezes... Love C, D, P & T

THE DUDES!!

Forget about California 'babes' what about these 'dudes'!!! looking good boys:-)

Many Many pics to go through but knew this one had to go on the blog!!

Hope you are all settling in to life again, Jamie is in Louisville and me and the kiddos trying

to get back into the school routine. Thanks to you all for a great time, just a shame we don't do

it more often really!! Love Heidi and the gang x

Photos

Didn't I do well - I got EVERYONE in my photo-collage?!! My On-The-Steps photo is different to Chip's - good we didn't choose the same one.

On-the -steps

Don't forget to double-click on my collage ones to get them big enough to see.

Cruise

Good to be home......NOT!!!!! Can't seem to get warm (OK,Toronto, I know you're colder, but we're not used to it here). Will have to put my Cruise pic. up on a separate post - it should have come up with these but hasn't (I've never blogged direct from Picassa before - has anyone else?). Love and shivers to you all - it was so wonderful seeing everyone - love, Bev xxxxxx

Welcome home everyone!

Welcome home all - it was wonderful to see everyone and spend Christmas together...Here is the family photo on the stairs that we promised to send...If you would like a copy as an attachment to an email (it may be better quality that way), just let me know. It will take a while to sort all the other pics from the trip, but we will try to burn them on a CD and post them off to interested parties. We have come back to minus ten and snow here...California dreamin' already seems like a distant memory! Love, Chip, Dara, Pip and Tim

Pre-school concert

Spot the Finn (Spiderman with tinsel, back row!)

RUBY WEDDING SURPRISE.......

RUBY WEDDING SURPRISE...IN THE NEW FOREST. 11/12/2008

We've moved!

Just to let you know the Woods have moved into their new house - they are currently without an internet connection so I'm doing it for them. Their new address is:

Fivewoods,

Nortoft,

Guilsborough,

Northampton NN6 8QB

Tel: 01604 740646

Happy Birthday, Pip, and Happy Ruby Pete and Paul!!! Lots of love to you all, Bev XXXXXXXXX

Happy 19th Birthday Pip!!

My how you are grown! And you've turned out just perfect. Happy Birthday and good luck in all those exams next week....and keep the (now legal) drinking till they are over!!
Much love
Mum Dad & Timbo

the big 40!!

MUM AND DAD

******CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 'RUBY' WEDDING ANNIVERSARY***************

A WHOLE 40 YEARS TOGETHER WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED I THOUGHT IT WAS YOUR 25TH!!! CAN'T WAIT TO CELEBRATE ALL TOGETHER ON THE CRUISE :-) ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND GETAWAY I AM SURE YOU WILL !! WE WILL RAISE OUR GLASSES TO YOU BOTH ON YOUR SPECIAL DAY, ALL OUR LOVE HEIDI JAMIE TYLER AND MADDIE XXXXXXXXOOOOOOOOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Two Moments Ago...

Two years, two moments...yes, time is blurred.

Some pics to add to those blurry times on the farm, including a rare sight of Pop Jim gardening...

Love and thoughts today, as always, Chip Dara Pip and Tim

TWO YEARS TODAY....

CAN YOU BELIEVE ITS TWO YEARS SINCE JIM WENT 'FISHING' .......

IT JUST SEEMS A BLUR.......

SOME PIX OF HAPPY TIMES..

LOVE YOU FOREVER PETE AND PAUL.. X X X

WHERE IN THE WORLD ?

THE FIRST CORRECT ANSWER WINS A XMAS CRUISE FOR YOUR WHOLE FAMILY .....OUT OF L.A.

GET GUESSING ! ! !

PETE AND PAUL PROMOTIONS LTD.

6 TODAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAX! Can't wait to see you next month! Much love, Bev

3 Cities in 3 Countries - but where were we?

3 Cities and 3 Countries in 3 Days...... but where in the world are we?

Love from Chip and Dara

Hallow...scream.........

Here's the grusome twosome better later than never right?.......Hope all is well, we are looking forward to the cruise and catching up with you all, the weeks just seem to go faster and faster nowadays:-) Life is still the same here, still looking for a job and still haven't got one yet!!

Lets hope we'll be employed again by Christmas. Love to one and all see you all real soon

Heidi Jamie Tyler and Maddie xxxx

Portugal update

Jessie making sure that Max has been totally washed, if only DYSON had patented the Booger sucker !!!!!!

Halloween in Vilamoura, with Portuguese friends of ours. Max was "devilled" but was struggling not to look Angelic. Burgers, Blubber, Burritos and Blood what more could you want in late October. (JS..Before you start.. yes Beer also begins with "B")

The grim reaper also paid us a visit in the "Halloween Carnival"....slight mistranslation if you ask me. Fire eaters, horror floats and plenty of sweets (Candy to the other side of the pond!) to keep Max interested until way past his bed time.

And to finish a busy weekend, Sunday we were off the the World Super Bikes Finale, at our new Algarvian racetrack (Donkey´s ´an all). Troy Bayliss won both races on his retirement jaunt. We had it all... F16 flybys, F1 cars and an air "show" that would have been banned by Health and safety in the U.K. Waaaaaay too low, Waaaaaay too near and Waaaayy too older planes !!!!

Pop Jim would have loved every second, you could smell the fuel as they went by !!!!

Trick or Treat

Happy Hallowe'en

Guess which one's the pumpkin!

What - Christmas before Halloween????

And its only just past Thanksgiving? And these pictures are from last year?? Has Dara got her calendar in a twist??? No - quite the contrary, for the first time EVER she has has got her act together in time......... So attention parents of all underage Robinsons - Christmas presents have been despatched by molusc mail to the four corners of the planet. Hopefully the postman will stand and deliver sometime in the next two months, after consulting the appropriate astrological charts and last posting date tables........

And Happy Halloween to all pint sized phantoms and Robinson renegades on Friday!

Love from Canada

D,C,P,T

Happy Thanksgiving

It was Canadian Thanksgiving last weekend, so all four of us were up at the cottage for the last time this year - perfect fall colours and even more perfect weather...Top pic is from across the bay in the kayak and you can just see the cottage in the centre in the trees...

This weekend we went to see Pip receive his second year scholarship award in London...Bottom pic is Pip in his new apartment...the 'after' pic following the earlier 'before' pic. He's having a wonderful time, of course.

And today was the Binscarth Street Party, where we all get together for one last time before the winter chills send everyone to hibernation. The middle pic is Tim performing in the Binscarth Band as lead vocals and acoustic & electric guitar. Such a shy boy...

Love and Thanksgiving greetings from all in Canada.

Happy Birthday, Tim!

Have a great birthday, Tim - sorry about the photo; perhaps someone can send me a more up-to-date one!

PETER'S PIPER PICKED ...HIS FISHING HUT! ! !

HOWS ABOUT THAT THEN.... YOUR OWN PERSONAL PIPER FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS.... IN THE FISHING HUT ON THE BOLESIDE FISHINGS ON TWEED...COMPLETE WITH JAMIE .. BRIAN .. ( AND JIM IN SPIRIT )AND A GREAT FISHING PARTY.. CAN LIFE GET ANY BETTER ? HOPE YOUR ALL WELL...WILL SEE YOU SOON..

PETE.

October Sunshine!

October, on the beach, in your underpants.........life doesn't get any better!!!!

Love to All.......Jamie, Clare & Max xxxxxxxx