Seasonal Paradise

Mum In Malta

 

Mum and Irena

 

Winetasting In Valletta

 

Mum With Dr Dre

Headed to Malta. A tough flight for her bad back. Dr Dre helped a little.

Leaving Canada

 

A very very tough farewell for mum, leaving Canada. Headed to Malta.

Nephew n Niece

 

Nephews and Bro - John, Mark, Mike, Ed

Mums Moving Day, In The Van

 

Mum moved out of her independent living apartment in Victoria Canada, and moved to Malta.

Mark, Mum and Mike. 

Park Play

 

Primary Colors

 

Hug n Tussle

Sasha and Vicki are either hugging or tussling these days. All within any two minute period.

Nephew Richard

 

Nephew Richard. We celebrated his 30th birthday at Tiffanys champagne and cigar bar in Portomaso.

Carnival Day

On this day and weekend in Malta all the kids dress up. Victoria is delectable in this Dumbo outfit.

Alla

Alla, our new home help.

Valentines Day Message From Sasha

I got this delightful message from Irena and Sasha on Valentines day while I was at work.

Mark & Irenas Dad For NYE

Grandad

 

Sashas First Haircut

Marc Navarro is a master hairdresser and hairstylist teacher in Malta and was very skillful in cutting Sashas hair without upaetting her. She liked the attention and sat on my knee without any fuss.

Maltese Santa

Cat

Birthday Girl

Light Travellers

 

Blue

I'm on a two week, seven city tour, and I miss my girls. I just came across this pic from May 2009. Sasha has really changed and both Victoria and Sasha are sprouting characters. I'm back on Saturday.  

Mothers Sewing Machine

While we were in Victoria, mum mentioned she missed sewing, so we picked up this all singing, all dancing sewing machine for her.  Mum has a hard time with computers and can't understand how we find them so easy to work with.  We haven't got the slightest clue how to operate her sewing machine.  Within a couple of days she had this machine dancing.

Dad, Hi To Sasha

Its taken a long while to be quite able to post this.  This is one of the few videos I have of my dad.  This was taken September 28th, 2008, three months before he passed away.  Sasha was born the month prior.  He did get to meet her, but had a hard time holding her because his heart was quite fragile by January.

 

He had a quadruple heart bypass ten years prior, after years of smoking.  Dad was a navigator in the Air Force on Vulcan jet bombers, and then went on to work as an air traffic controller, and then lived in Abu Dhabi and became a wealth planner for expatriates.  He did a generally sucky job of bring up his 3 daughters and son (that's me), but still managed to garner our love and admiration for his perfect charm, gentlemanly composure and rather unflappable temperament.   

Play-Doh

We left Sasha alone for half an hour, and were impressed with her handywork.

Irena, Monika and Victoria, at Tigne

Sasha, Playing With Fountains At Tigne Point, Malta

 

Birthday Party At Cioconat in Malta

 

Happy 2nd Birthday! Alexandra Anita Brooks

 

Irena and Monika (sister)

 

Birthday Sasha - Doll

Sasha's takes to her new baby, and feeds her. We're betting she'll make a great momma one day.  

Martin, Monika and Victoria

Monika, Martin, and Martin jr visited Malta for Sasha's birthday.

Blue Eyes

 

Kung Fu Training

Stretching before we start our kung fu training lessons. Sasha is 2. Its never too early to kick some ass.