I’m a little nervous about finally sharing this, but I want to introduce our latest ongoing family project… Geekling Comic: the webcomic adventures of a geekling and his schnauzer. Yup, Liam has his own comic strip now. Yup, I’m officially crazy. I prefer the term creative, though.
For those of you that really know me, you know I love creative projects. And our kid. I collect creative projects like some women collect shoes. I don’t have a lot of shoes, but I do have a lot of creative projects. It may be a bit of an obsession.

Happy October!
It seems like if you blink, several months can just fly right by before you even notice!  Here it is October, and our last post was back in July.  You’ve not missed too much, though there are a few new things going on in the Karpiuk family.
Oliver is still Oliver, and Winston is still Winston.  Oliver has turned six years old today, can you believe it?  Also today happy anniversary wishes go out to my little brother and his wife as well as our friends Joe and Jeri.  Congratulations on your first year of marriage!
Lucas recently switched jobs completely and is now working happily at Shell in web development at their big Shell Canada …

Weeeee’re back!  We’ve returned from our family road trip to beautiful Penticton, BC this past weekend and we had a blast!  We spent most of the day Friday soaking up the sun at Okanagan Lake in the newly fenced in and designated off-leash doggie beach with Oliver and Winston.  Oliver was happy to be free to swim without the burden of his leash and really enjoyed fetching his floating orange chew toy.  It was Winston’s first beach experience and we weren’t sure what to expect.  He was quick to chase after Ollie, even into the water, until he realized he could no longer touch the bottom.  Though his rear end sank like a brick, his doggie instincts prompted …

As you all know, Lucas and I just returned home from our wedding weekend in Las Vegas!  Some of you were there and some of you watched from home even!  No matter who you are, we thank you for your love and support.  This post is to let everyone know that we have updated our wedding website to reflect our return and share details about our wonderful weekend.  We also have uploaded a big bundle of photos (and even a little video clip or two), accessible from links on the updated wedding website.
In case you’ve forgotten the link:
http://wedding.lookatusgo.net
The photos can be accessed directly at this link:
http://www.lookatusgo.net/gallery/index2.php?d=content/Lucas%20and%20Lesley/Our%20Wedding/
Note that the photos you’ll see initially are the ones …

he only smells a little bit and i’m selling him real cheap!
mom and dad came home last week with a new toy for me in the form of a puppy.  an 8 week old white miniature schnauzer puppy to be exact.  they think he’s cute (i hate to admit he kinda is) and they fawn all over him and try to get us to play all the time.  mom has been going camera crazy and it seems like in every other picture she’s trying to somehow get me involved, too.  don’t get me wrong, i love posing for the camera, but doesn’t she know that means i’d actually have to sit next to the little monster?  …

As Lucas mentioned in his recent post, we have moved! We lucked out and found a gorgeous new house that was just recently built in a newly developed neighbourhood. The house was finished being built a week before Christmas, and thanks to the help of Michelle, Jeff, and Jeremy, we successfully moved in last Saturday. It took two full UHAUL trips and a lot of blood, sweat and tears… but we’re finally mostly settled in. The house is so new that it doesn’t even have grass yet, much to Oliver’s disappointment; the builders plan to lay the sod for our yard in the spring. It has hardwood floors throughout the …

Happy New Year!  Hopefully everyone had a relaxing holiday and got to spend plenty of time with family and friends.  As previously mentioned, Lucas and I spent Christmas in Indiana with the Means family.  We had a very nice Christmas and a good time in the Hoosier state with them.  I picked up some sweet new scrapbook software and put together a 13 page album of our adventures over the holidays here in our gallery.  We’d like to do more scrapbook pages and eventually get a digital scrapbook up for easier browsing, but that will require Lucas’ coding genius.  Maybe after he finishes another programming project he’s currently working on we can pull something like that together.
When …

Today Lucas and I took a day trip out into the Canadian Rockies to see how pretty they are now that more snow has fallen. We wanted to see something new, so we went to Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park. It was a really quiet, beautiful lake in the mountains with a small hiking trail and signs everywhere warning us not to feed the mountain goats. We pulled into the parking area and a little family of mountain goats greeted us. We pulled over and got out, and they walked right over to us and started licking the Neon — apparently they love the salt the car has collected from the …