Early Memories October 2008 - Thanksgiving

I learned Calgarians were always willing to lend a hand (or at least a finger)

Our First Thanksgiving

Skipping back a few months from our first Valentine's Day, our first 'meet the family' trip was actually a road trip to Edmonton to spend Thanksgiving weekend with my brother Mike and his wife, Sonia. Mom and Wayne also drove out along with Wayne's son (and my stepbrother) Phil and his wife Shay. We were also meeting up with Wayne's other son (and my other stepbrother), Devon who had been living in Edmonton for a couple of years by then. 

Our first Valentine's Day

Our first Valentine's.  (2009) 

Jaime and I spent our first Valentine's Day traveling to Parry Sound, Ontario, I was her date to her brother Darren's marriage to Natalie. It was the first time I was meeting Jaime's Ontario family and luckily for me, she was already 4 months pregnant. I knew they just couldn't wait to see the father of her child being 12 years older than her with one bad marriage behind him. 

Early Memories...Aug 2008

My 'was-going-to-be' annual river float on my 27th...uh, 37th birthday on the SS 4400. Outraced a storm with our itty-bitty paddle only to overshoot the landing area, so i had to drag Jaime and the raft back up river only to find out Jaime left the keys to her car back where we launched from along with our cell phones.  Good times... rescued by a guy from Calgary who let us use his cell phone to call Jaime's roommate who picked us up and drove us back to get her keys, with me soaking wet.