Hockey Cards

Look who has his own Hockey Card.  If you ask him nice, he will autograph one for you.

Highland Dancer

My beautiful girl.  We had our pictures taken a few weeks ago and I got this kilt ready for her to get her pictures taken.  Ok, maybe my mom did, she hemmed the kilt, I just took it to the cleaners to get it pressed.  And she also made the blouse, I just put the buttons on her vest.  Well anyway, I think that she looks so awesome!  It sure brings back memories, this kilt, dance shoes, getting hair done, nervous energy.  I forgot how much I loved this!

Isla is so excited, tomorrow she gets to dance at the Festival of Trees.  She is going to have quite the entourage, Grandma and Grandpa, and our friends and us will all be there to watch her.  She is dancing with a Teddy Bear and gets to yell Merry Christmas.  She is thrilled!

Here is my group picture!  We are all having a great time dancing together and I may even be getting a bit fitter in the process.

Grandpa’s 65th

After the skate-arama we were off to my mom and dad’s for my Dad’s birthday.  My mom really wanted Dad to have 65 candles for his cake, we were worried that we would need a fire extinguisher.  But we got them lit.

There was quite a bit of heat coming off that cake!

And Grandpa needed help from everyone to get the candles blown out.

It was delicious!
After this party it was the hockey teams parent party.  I was worn out and just really wanted to get in to my pj's and have an early night.  I hadn’t looked too hard for a babysitter and it was a perfect excuse to stay home.  Ed went and had a great time! 

Skate-arama

The next stop on Saturday was for the hockey team to get together to get their picture taken for sponsorship.  Yes, at 7 they have sponsors!  They are Dodge Caravan kids and got their picture taken in front of a Caravan.

Then this is after the skate-arama where a hot and sweaty little boy is eating his hot dog.  He did 100 laps and he was tired!

First Reconcilitation

We started out Saturday morning with a hockey game and then we went to church for Adam’s First Reconciliation.  He was very nervous but the priest that he went to talk to was Father Adam so that made it a bit easier. 

 

 

He is getting so grown up.  I bought that sweater last year but thought it was plenty big enough.  We just put his clothes in his hockey bag and he changed quickly after hockey to get to the church on time.  Ooops, the arms a looking a little short.  I gave them a really good pull when we were waiting our turn which helped a little.  The boy has taken a growth spurt and I am off this morning to get some pants for him.

 

Look at this mini-me picture.  I didn’t dress them but I did buy both sweaters last year.  I guess I was going through a stripe phase.

And this is what you do if you are the little sisters!

Skating with the Rebels

Adam gets to do really cool things!  Last Sunday he got to do a practice with the Rebels.  There were 6 Rebels on the ice with about 30 kids and Adam was so excited and had a great time!

 

And here we are his biggest fans!

 

There he is getting roughed up a bit by one of the Rebels!

 

 

They all got these very cool jersey’s.  They were all the same which made it a bit hard to tell them apart, hee hee.

Then he got to have his jersey signed by the rest of the Rebels team.

Isla was so excited to see and get a hug from Wooly Bully.

Adam even got an autograph from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, one day it may be worth some money.  He is an amazing hockey player!

Canmore

We all had a great time in Canmore, and we were sorry it was so short!  Ok well a bit glad to be going home too.  The condo we stayed in was a hotel room with a kitchenette and was beautiful with a fireplace and balcony with a bbq.  But, that is a small place for all 4 of us to sleep, it wouldn’t really matter if I wasn’t such a light sleeper but I am and I was happy to come home so we could all have our own beds again!

On the way home we stopped for a picnic and a walk around this little lake.  We had a great time throwing rocks, the lake had a thin layer of ice on it and the rocks skipped a long the top.  For me it was the perfect end to the trip.