I don't know why I have such beautiful children. They must get their looks from Mary. They did, however, inherit many of their father's more neurotic behavioral traits.





This is Marit. She is 11 and is the apple of my eye. Marit can code HTML better than I can. As the oldest she will stop at nothing in her insatiable quest for power. What Marit wants, Marit gets. "I hear and must obey".


Marit has started running. In fact, she medalled in the provincial cross country championship after just a few weeks of training. I always sucked at provincials. Mind you, the competition was alot stiffer back then and we had to run through at least 3 feet of snow, etc. Kids these days...


This is Erik Gunnar (never, NEVER name children when the winter olympics are on TV). This first picture is Erik as Uncle Fester on his first halloween.




Here is Erik with his brother and sister humiliating a harmless bear in upstate New York. Erik is now 9 and is an honor student, wonderful at math, and has no social skills…..I wonder where he gets this from?


This picture shows Erik in the middle hugging his cousin on the left and his younger brother on the right. Although Erik is smiling, don't be fooled. Erik has never forgiven his parents for having a younger brother.


This is Anders. We also call him Stuey. If you recall the TV cartoon “Family Guy” and the baby with the large head bent on world domination, you will understand completely. At 7 he is the youngest and exerts his influence on his parents and siblings using all of the less subtler means of persuasion at his disposal. We are afraid of him. Here he is at a his birthday party with bad hockey hair.


Here he is with Erik and his first fish. This is a proud moment in every Canadian boy’s life ranking right up there with a first puck in the head. Let's not beat around the bush. Anders has a big head.


I love this picture. I call it, “Gee Anders, what are going to do tonight?” “The same thing we do every night, Erik, try to take over the world.” I wasn't kidding about the big head.