Our Snow Adventures

Church was not cancelled on Sunday, though normally our church is quick to cancel due to the steep driveways down to the parking lot. And of course, during church it kept on snowing lots! So most of the cars that dared drive down the driveway to park for the service, had to get pushes UP the driveway out. I think it should have just been cancelled!
(but you Prairie-dwellers will like this too: schools have been cancelled so far this week due to the weather!)

"What's all that white stuff falling down?" Samuel's first snowfall (well, maybe that's not true, I can't remember if we had snow earlier this year or not)

After nap time we went out to enjoy some snow time...
Face plant for Elijah... ahh cold!!Samuel likes it! Probably because he can take it in from his cozy seat in the stroller!Jason basically shoveled a lot of our complex surface area... what a crazy guy! He loves to get out and shovel... he even had the thought last night to go and dig up some sand, fill up our wheelbarrow and bring it to the nearest intersection where we saw car after car spinning and spinning. Hope that sand helped many visitors to that traffic light last evening!!

It sure is cold out though! Yesterday was minus 17 with the windchill and today minus 10. Brrrr... but who can stay in? We still went for a walk last night as a family. We have to take it all in... afterall Life is an Adventure!

Are you serious? It's snowing?!!

I guess it's going to become a new tradition for our area to have snow at the end of November! Last year too, we had a good snowfall. Glad it happened when it did last year because that same week my (new) fridge was on the fritz and a new part took that long to come in... but outside was cold enough for everything! Let's hope the fridge fritz is not a new tradition... I think I can handle the snow on it's own.so I believe there is a heavy snowfall warning for our area. All my Eastern Friends are laughing at us... because even in the morning our church may be cancelled due to a slippery driveway!! Yes, it's common for us. You can laugh all you want!

Finally, a new post! (I've been waiting to do this one)

A few weeks back we went to the Dollar Store and saw a display of ribbons (perfect, I thought!) and so we searched the rack for one that would be appropriate for Elijah."I'm a Big Brother" (okay? you ask)

Then we thougt, well let's get one for Samuel too. But what should his read? Take a look:

... in June!

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner - What do you call it?

Ok, everyone out there... I want representation from the Province or State you live in... I have been emailing back and forth with 2 girlfriends, both from Saskatchewan (one Northern and one on the border of Alberta) about mealtime names.

Ok, so the girlfriend in the Northern part of Saskatchewan starts talking about making dinner...blah, blah, blah. Fine, but what she was meaning was at LUNCH time. Then she started talking about making LUNCH for an evening Home Party she was hosting on the weekend. I was so confused... we all got quite a kick out of our differences in what we call each meal and what each meal really means! Unreal, we are all from Canada and still 'talk' differently.

So what do you call each meal of the day? I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU and these 2 girlfriends do too (Jamie and Laurie).

In Northern Saskatchewan, they call it Breakfast, Dinner and Supper. And for like a Tupperware Party or such they serve a 'lunch'. :) Yet where Laurie lives on the border of Alberta, she calls it what I do: Breakfast, Lunch and Supper or Dinner. And lunch for her and for I doesn't ever refer to some snacks at a Home Party!! ;)


TELL US PLEASE!! AND ALSO LEAVE WHICH PART OF THE COUNTRY YOU ARE FROM!
Thanks, I hope to hear from LOTS of you!

Happy 30th Anniversary!

Yesterday my parent's celebrated their 30th anniversary! Wow! That's really, a long time. How cool. Congratulations!
They are off to Hawaii (again this year) later this week for a nice get-a-way. Enjoy!
Then we'll have as many of my Mom's Family come up as we can get to drive up to Canada for a little celebration in early December. :)

Happy Anniversary! (I can't find a picture of the two of them. This isn't a great one really, but it will have to do)

Here are the kids on Halloween!

Jayden the puppy and Elijah the Pirate (he really wanted to be a pirate this year because of one of the Backyardigan episodes...)And a pirate says ARRRRRR...! He did that really well.
And Samuel the Elephant!I couldn't get a great shot of him b/c he likes to crawl towards me with the camera in my hand... oh and since you're going to ask what he has in his mouth (!), it's a pencil with 2 pumpkin erasers on the top (covered) that our neighbour boys just dropped off for Elijah as a Trick or Treat gift. (I took it away from him as soon as I was finished snapping these 2 shots... otherwise maybe not a happy Elephant to take pictures of!)

We had our fun in the morning as you'll read in the post below. Then after dinner we quickly headed over to Grandma's house to start some Trick or Treating! She had a special treat for all of us aside. Then we trick or treated in her neighbourhood for a bit. Until we were freezing cold, poor Samuel. After this we went to Darrell, Marlene, Elizabeth and Alex's house for a Halloween Party. They had a big bon fire going for roasting hotdogs. We had apple cider, and play time for the kids all in costume... and headed in after awhile for more playtime and pie. It was fun! I wish I took more pictures last night overall, but having Samuel in my arms most of the time doesn't work too well for snapping them. Oh well, you get the idea and I have enough for scrapbooking a page!

Thanks Marlene, for a fun time!