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OSAKA: Sunday 8:55 am (JST) - - VICTORIA/VANCOUVER: Saturday 4:55 pm (PDT)
During daylight savings time the difference is 16 hours. During standard time the difference is 17 hours.
 
 
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The personal website of Craig & Kana Mercer. We lived in Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan (Kana's home town) from December 2004 to April 2007. We then moved back to Victoria, B.C. Canada (Craig's home town). We use this site to share our adventures with our family and friends.


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  Wyatt Haku Mercer's 1ST Birthday Cake
 

As many of you know we live in a two bedroom basement suite which is not quite big enough to throw a birthday party for our son Wyatt (Haku) in. After thinking about what would work best we decided on Beacon Hill Park as the venue as it was large enough and we might even have some sunshine. We then invited our Japanese and Canadian friends to come and join us for a picnic party and some Lighthouse Bakery birthday cake goodness. Then in true Mercer style we allowed Wyatt to eat his first birthday cake any way he wanted (which helped us make the wonderful video below). Happy Birthday Wyatt but next year you'll have to use a fork!

 

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"Wyatt Haku Mercer's 1ST Birthday"can be downloaded here:

Step 1 – RIGHT-HAND mouse click on the link above and select "Save Target As..." or "Save Link As..." depending on your browser.
Step 2 – Next, find where you downloaded the file on your computer and double-click it.
Step 3 – ENJOY!

- Craig Mercer

Posted on June 19th, 2010


  Becky's Birthday Surprise
 
We've been doing homegroup with Kathryn "Toad" Dunphy and Dan & Becky McGregor for a couple of years now and birthday's are always a great time to see if we can surprise each other. We were able to pull it off as shown in the video short we created "Becky’s Surprise Birthday".
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"Becky’s Surprise Birthday"can be downloaded here:

Step 1 – RIGHT-HAND mouse click on the link above and select "Save Target As..." or "Save Link As..." depending on your browser.
Step 2 – Next, find where you downloaded the file on your computer and double-click it.
Step 3 – ENJOY!

- Craig Mercer

Posted on April 18th, 2010


  A little something to tide us over till Christmas...
 
Christmas
Hey Puritch Family,

I know that the Christmas season is soon approaching and was going through some photos and video clips from our 2007 get together at George & Elaine's and threw a little something-something together to tide us over till this years' party.

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The little video is called 2007 A Puritch Family Christmas and you can download it here:

Step 1 – RIGHT-HAND mouse click on the link above and select "Save Target As..." or "Save Link As..." depending on your browser.
Step 2 – Next, find where you downloaded the file on your computer and double-click it.
Step 3 – ENJOY!

We look forward to seeing you all this holiday season.

- Craig, Kana, Grace (Yuki) and Wyatt (Haku) Mercer

Posted on November 1st, 2009


  Halloween 2009
 
Halloween
One of the funnest parts of being back in Canada is being able to celebrate Halloween. Grace Yuki loves to get dressed up in her lady bug costume and go "trick or treating". After a quick visit from Angie and Dave we headed over to the Simpsons (Travis, Chrissy and baby Elias) where we went "trick or treating" in their neighbourhood. Yuki really got into the swing of it this year and had a super good time going door to door with Kana.
Angie, Grace Yuki and the Davil
(Angie, Grace Yuki and the Davil)
Chrissy, Travis and Eli
(Chrissy, Travis and Eli)
Kana & Yuki
(Kana & Yuki)
Wyatt Haku Mercer
(Wyatt Haku Mercer)
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Step 1 – RIGHT-HAND mouse click on the link above and select "Save Target As..." or "Save Link As..." depending on your browser.
Step 2 – Next, find where you downloaded the file on your computer and double-click it.
Step 3 – ENJOY!

- Craig & Kana Mercer

Posted on October 31st, 2009


  Welcome to the family, Wyatt Haku Mercer
 
Wyatt Haku Mercer joined the human race Saturday, June 20th 2009 at 11:05AM Pacific Daylight Time weighing in at 3036 Grams (6 lbs 11 ounces for you non-metric types). Kana and Wyatt are doing very well and enjoying some much deserved rest at Victoria General Hospital.

Wyatt Haku Mercer

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"Wyatt Haku Mercer"can be downloaded here:

Step 1 – RIGHT-HAND mouse click on the link above and select "Save Target As..." or "Save Link As..." depending on your browser.
Step 2 – Next, find where you downloaded the file on your computer and double-click it.
Step 3 – ENJOY!

- Craig Mercer

Posted on June 20th, 2009



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