Carlene Paquette - Life

This page was last changed:  June 18, 2003

I am still happily married to a Computer Engineer named Andre.  We will soon be celebrating our 11th wedding anniversary (Sept 12, 2003) and are amazed by how quickly time flies.  We don't have any kids but we are still hopeful.  In the meantime we try to be adoring Auntie and Uncle (we have 5 nieces and one nephew plus our friends kids to spoil).  That is fun in itself.

May/June 2003

Andre and I are buying a new house.  We are very excited about the whole thing.  The house is on a 2.3 acre lot and is post and beam construction.  Our realtor Carole Evans has photos of the house on her website.  Once we get the house we are once again going to hire Moneca Kaiser to help us fix things up.  With her help I'm sure we'll have new flooring and a beautiful new deck in no time.  Hopefully we will be able to sell our current house (although we will miss our basement) and move in before fall.  Here are a couple of quick photos of the house.  For more photo's see Carole's web pages.

   

June 2002

This has turned out to be a BUSY month.

June 1st - We traded in our first car (1993 Maxda 323 with 142,000 km on it) and bought a beautiful new blue Protege 5.

June 2nd we became godparents to Devon Spencer Williams.

June 7-16th we visited London to attend the baptism of our twin nieces Alexa and Jenna on June 9th.  We also spent some time visiting with our friends and Andre's family, including baby Pierre.  As usual, it was a whirlwind tour of London but we had a great time.  Carlene even managed to participate in a 5K race (I have a report here).

June 16 - Lillian visited with Jack, Hanna, Dora and Alena and sent us some photos of the family.

June 7-16th - We also visited Mark in his London apartment for the last time.  Soon Mark will be here in Ottawa attending Carleton University for PhD studies.  WOO HOO!  While were were there Mark was busy photographing his apartment.  Here are some photos of Mark (what a cutie) and Carlene getting an internet fix.


 

Old photo

Here is a photo of us from the Newbridge Christmas party in 1998.  I keep this photo around because I like it.  We had a great time at that party and I enjoyed wearing that sexy dress.  Since then I have lost a bit of weight (see my health journal for details) and passed the dress on to Julia.

Our House

We have a little house out in Kanata Ontario (near Ottawa the capital of Canada) which used to look out on a nice field with a stream and some trees.  A few years ago they blasted our paradise and now we have neighbours.  However, we have adjusted :)

During the winter of 1997-98 we had our basement finished by Blom Design and Associates.  The architect for our project was Chuck Mills (architect).  Chuck and Donna Smeaton worked with Andre and I to create a basement that incorporated all our needs: space to entertain and relax, storage, a bathroom and a laundry room customized to support my new Stained Glass hobby.  The basement construction was contracted out and overseen by Moneca Kaiser (who did an AWESOME job!). Our basement was entered in the 1998 Fall Home Builder Awards (associated with the Fall home show and Ottawa-Carleton Home Builders Association) and won the basement renovation category.  Here are some photos of our basement.  We particularly like the fireplace and the beautiful woodworking done by Karhu Woodworking of Carleton Place.  (Thanks Eric for doing such a great job!)
 


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