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Christmas Tree

We headed out this afternoon to buy our Christmas Tree. We went to our usual place on Ninth Line in Oakville to cut down our tree. The trees are hanging from the rafters, this allows you to spin the trees to see it from all sides. Once you pick a tree, one of the guys will “cut” it down for you.

With the rain today, it wasn’t that busy, I’m sure they were working overtime to replace all the trees sold on Saturday.

Angela making her way through the maze of trees.


Happy 16th Birthday Gillian!

Gillian had her birthday party Saturday night, it started with dinner at home for her friends followed by skating at the Meadowvale Four Rinks.

A round of “Happy Birthday” from her friends.

Blowing out the candles on her cupcake cake.

We had the ice rented from 9:30 to 11:00 PM.

The birthday girl!

We had a few hockey sticks. Everyone enjoyed taking turns shooting the puck around.

Gillian and Marcus.

Angela taking a rest.

Alex checking on Angela.

Gillian had a great time with her friends.

Carolyn and Alex came for a skate.

There were a few spills.

Gillian and her friends.

Gillian and her friends and family.


16 Years Ago…

Hard to believe that 16 years have passed since Gillian arrived. This morning we are at the DriveTest office in Brampton. Gillian is writing her G1 test, she has been processed and is waiting to write the test.

Gillian passed her test and is now a licensed G1 driver. She drove home from the corner store.


Timing is Everything: Part 2

I was in the Regina area this past week for work. I had some instrument repairs at our site near Rouleau, SK.

This time I lucked out with the weather, temperatures were hovering around 1 degree C and on the Tuesday there was very little wind. The week before they had -20 temperatures.

I had to make a stop at the post office in Wilcox, SK. I had never been to Wilcox, not quite what I’d imagined. Wilcox is home to Notre Dame College, home of the Junior A hockey Hounds. Notre Dame is a Catholic residential and coeducational College founded by Father James Athol Murray. The town is made up of primarily the college buildings, residences and arena.

Notre Dame is most famous for it’s hockey program alumni, many of which have gone on to long, productive NHL careers. The Toronto Maple Leafs Hound line of Wendel Clark, Russ Courtnall and Gary Leeman are all alumni. Current alumni include the Maple Leafs Keith Aulie and current NHLer’s Brad Richards, Vincent Lecavalier and Jordan Eberle.

Some barns along Highway 6 towards Regina.

I stopped to take a picture of these two trees that were standing on their own. Not often you see trees on the prairies unless they are near a house.


Gillian’s Curling Begins

Gillian started her curling season with a bonspiel at the Brampton Curling Club. She will be playing on the senior mixed team this year. The bonspiel was for the girls only, so her and another team mate were paired up with a couple of girls from another school. Gillian is the one with the hat.

Gillian was playing third rocks.

A short video of Gillian throwing a rock.


The Muppets!

We went to see the new Muppet movie today. It’s good to see them back on the big screen, it has been 11 years since their last theatre release movie. It was a good movie, funny and lots of unexpected cameo appearances by current stars. Looking forward to the DVD release.


Great Uncle Richie!

Congratulations to Sara and Brent on the birth of their daughter Lily Kiyomi who was born this morning at 6:00 AM. She was 7lbs, 10 ozs.


Timing is Everything…

Unfortunately mine wasn’t so good this week. I managed to time my trip to Nova Scotia this week with their first snow storm of the season. We were able to land okay but the highway conditions from Halifax to Bridgewater were poor. Passed numerous vehicles and watched vehicles slide off the road into the ditch. Many areas of the province set snowfall records for the day. Halifax received 34 cm.

I was heading to Kejimkujik National Park, near Caledonia,NS , but only got as far as Bridgewater due to the storm.

By Thursday morning the storm had cleared out and the sun was shining. Kejimkujik got about 23 cm of snow on the ground. They were forecasting plus 10 deg C this weekend, so this will all disappear.


Fun Skate

It has been awhile since we have gone skating as a family. We found some time today to catch the fun skate at Meadowvale 4 Rinks.


Hip Hop Claudia

Claudia has been learning Hip Hop at school, once a week for about 8 weeks, they have had a lesson. It all culminated on November 8th when they had a dance off between the two grade 5/6 classes.

Claudia’s group placed second among the four groups, and her class won the dance off between the two classes. She and her classmates did a great job.

Angela’s grade was learning Ballroom Dancing from the same school. Unfortunately I was in Alberta the day her competition was held, so we have no video to show.