The Anker Fam·i·ly

In 2002 – when Canada won double hockey gold (Women’s & Men’s), an impromptu party started on Yonge Street here in Toronto – I walked from Yonge & Bloor to Yonge & Front and back – giving High 5′s to about 1000 people (or so!).  I LOVE the Winter Olympic games and as we found [...]

Elina and I spent the day at the Canadian National Exhibition. We ran into Lori & Shawn (& Stella and Conner) and then Uma and her family.  We ate alot of junk food and I even went one one too many spinnnnney rides with Elina.  We saw the Superdogs Show and the kids enjoyed the [...]

I’ve deciced on a few vitamin supplements, not feeling as well as I should, so I’ve added … finally: A daily multivitamin (a good daily multivitamin/mineral supplement improves your overall bodily functioning and boosts both your physical  and mental health and well-being.) B12-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12 – I’ve been most recently anemic and iron deficient this helps with [...]

My husband is on his way to Frankfurt then to Oslo to be with his family.  Elina and I will be behind him, leaving tomorrow afternoon.  Its going to be a long flight across with Elina but I’m glad we will be there together!

Here are a few photos of the day: Elina and her friend Uma at the Easter Parade.  Elina with her new inline skates, the start of some new decorating and a cute golden lab at the Easter parade!

This week Elina had a special week of daycare.  She came home completely tired each day after having a special outing each day.  She’s excited to get back to her regular routine of school and daycare. Herman’s working today I’m relaxing and catching up on some laundry. I bought myself a new camera and have [...]

Spring has arrived and so has the spring cleaning,  Im trying to streamling my organic file system on my anker.ca website as well as incorporate my Stampin’ Up blogging site into the anker.ca domain. Tecky bla bla I know.  What it means for you is really nothing.  I’m going to give users the option to [...]

Elina and I were talking about our trip to Mexico yesterday. I asked her what her favorite vacation so far was and it was, hands-down, Panama. But we also started counting how many countries Elina has visited so here goes: Canada (Montreal, southern Ontario, etc) USA (NYC) Mexico (twice) Panama Bermuda St. Lucia Cuba Norway [...]

Elina has slept over at a few of her good friends place.  Last night she had her first sleep over at our place. We had a full night planned. We did manicures We did pedicures We watched a movie We baked cupcakes and they iced them with as much icing as they wanted (oddly, one [...]

So we’ve started (finally) to measure Elina and mark it on a kitchen wall. This past weekend she measured in at: 48.2 pounds 3′ 10″ tall According to Pediatrics in About.com Elina is in the 78th percentile for weight and 82nd percentile for height. (She’s 21.86 kilo’s and 117 cm tall). On that same website, [...]