The McKenzie’s Blog…

Well it’s that time of the year again, already.  I was a single parent tonight with the kids, Yuki had to work.  So, I had to rush the kids around the neighbourhood, then come back to dish out candy to the others that came around to visit us.    It was a pretty cold tonight, only around 5 or 6C.. we did about 3/4 of our little area around here.. the kids got quite a bit of candy, so they’ll be all set.

Here’s a couple pics..

To see the rest of the pics just click on any one of them to see the full sized one and to go to the gallery where the rest of the pics are.

Well, Lisa had finally had her 5th birthday.  We’ve been hearing about this since her 4th party ended, and no doubt we’ll be spending the next year listening to how soon her 6th birthday party will be coming along.

The kids both had a great day today.  Lisa had to wait until about 1130 or so to open her gifts because we wanted to have the webcam on so Nana Shirley, Nana Carol and Grandpa Bob in Canada could watch the opening of the gifts.  The web cast went ok but next year I really must try something better, a proper Vlog sort of thing.

Some pics of the main gift opening from this morning

At around 5pm our friends all came around with their kids (Yang with Oliver and Olivia, followed by Stuart (her partner), plus Sam and Liz with their kids Tabbie, Ted and the as yet unborn baby to be ).  Yang and Stuart gave both Lisa and Emma a “Red Pack” a typical Chinese gift, a red pack with £10 for each of them.  Liz and Sam brought over a pair of Groovy Girls dolls.  We put Emma’s away until her birthday though.

Here are some pics from the party in the afternoon

You can see all the photos including a short video by going directly to the Flickr Photo Gallery.

Thanks to everyone that sent gifts for the kids.  Lisa really enjoyed them all and I’m sure Emma will when she gets to open hers too!  Watch this space for Emma’s birthday party results

Lisa turns 5 years old today!  Happy Birthday Lisa!

Love Emma, Mummy and Daddy

I’ve decided to change the theme on the site.   The old one was OK but there was just something I didn’t like about it.  I’ll try out this new theme for a while and see how it goes.  The new theme is quite cool in that it allows a lot of tweaking through the admin pages.  One of the things it can do is rotate header images.  I need to find a number of pictures and resize them to fit the theme requirements so they will rotate through as the site reloads.

Comments on the new look?

Since I’m now on a much less restrictive liquid diet and need to make sure I get all the vitamins and what not that I can, I’ve decided to forego selling our Juicing machine and put it back to work.

Fresh juices I’m told have the highest levels of everything possible from the fruit and veg used to make them.  They certainly are much more flavourful then what comes out of a carton or tin.

Today’s first juice used:

• 2 x Kiwi (very ripe)
• 4 x Apples
• 2 x Oranges

This made nearly 1 pint of juice.  It’s quite good, just an edge of tartness to it from the oranges I think.

For "dinner" I made a veg drink I found on juicingbook.com called Caesar Salad.  It’s very orange in colour, as expected from the carrots, but oddly enough it does have just a hint of Caesar Salad taste to it, very interesting.