Here are some pictures from the last month that has wizzed by!

We had a great Christmas and New Years. Christmas Day we had mom and dad and GG and Great Grandpa for Breakfast. Spent the day playing with new toys and then headed to Mom and dads for Dinner. It was a yummy feast!! Matt and Leanne, Hayley and Jessie were there, as well as, Marg and Ted, Rick and Jo.
The kids had a ball opening presents playing around the Christmas tree.

The week after Christmas was very quiet, and very much a winter wonderland of snow. On Dec 30 we all went to Butcharts Gardens with GG, Mom and Dad and Matt and Leanne and the girls. We took the kids skating - even Tayler had a go on her new Bob skates - the boys skated with us and my brother, they had so much fun. After we walked through the gardens and had Hot chocolate!

We were all happy to get back to school routines, Dylan couldn't wait to see his freinds again and I couldn't wait to get some space between every one for a couple hours a day. This month we have been finishing up our renovations and just rolling along.

Fun in the snow

We are all enjoying our winter wonderland. Dylan accomplished a 5 foot snow man with dads help. Shayleigh is having the time of her life, and yes she is wearing a coat - its keeping the snow from caking into her feathers on her front legs and chest. Dylan and I took her and Cody for a walk Sunday morning, they had so much fun, but they both spent 10 minutes in the tub melting the snow off their long hair. Cody is totally disgusted with the depth of the snow because it is belly deep for him, he is always on the look out for a patch of packed snow.

Last night we went to Mom and Dads for dinner, my brother picked us up in his 4x4 - he was in his element slipping and sliding all the way up the hill. Once we arrived, he was showing Dylan his sled, and decided the two of them would tobogon down the hill in front of Mom and Dads. As they were walking up Dylan said - " Have you ever tobogoned down here? Uncle Matt said "not on this sled" Dylan returned "If you have never done this before, why are we going to the top of the hill?" Matts answer was "Because that is the way Uncle Matt does it" They didn't get very far though, and bumped into a snow bank - but I found out later that in the Snow of '96 Matt took an inflatable boat to the top of the same hill and rode it down! Thats my brother for you!

After Dinner Mom and I took the boys for a walk and made a sledding hill beside the house - the boys rode cardboard and garbage bags they have a great time laughing all the way down!!

Christmas is two days away and looks like we will have a white christmas - so exciting! Right now I am decorating the kids room with some decorations to wake up too. Oh man I have so much to do!

Walking in a winter wonderland!!!

WOW snow and below zero temperatures for Victoria - no way! Yep we are having a great time - but now I have to get some boots these runners are NOT cutting it anymore!

Whistler sans kids - who knew!!!

Yes Ed and I enjoyed a wonderful weekend at Whistler without the kids. Thank you to the great people that I work for, they invited us to Whistler to join in the Christmas festivities for the entire staff of HES Home Energy Solutions. And every one had a blast. The only unfortunate thing was it rained so we didn't make it up to the top for the view. But we found lots to do, even headed out to Nairn Falls and Pemberton for lunch.
And the kids you ask, had a fabulous time with grandma and grandpa Mounce. Though by the end of the weekend mom and dad were due for a quiet evening alone. They had school, soccer, swimming and soccer photo retakes to taxi the boys too. And Tayler just went along for the ride as usual. What a get getaway!

My crazy animals

Here are some opictures of our three funny animals trying to get in on some of the fun the kids are having

Honey on top of our fort in the living

Shayleigh couldn't find anywhere to sit so the back of the lazy boy was as good a place as any, and she was still with Cody.

Thomas and Friends

Tayler and I went to Thomas and Friends at Save on Foods Arena today, with our friends, Erin and Dylan Pugh. We had a wonderful time and the kids loved it. It was a musical play about Thomas the Tank engine and his friends. Tayler kept pointing out Thomas, Percy and Diesel and dancing to the music. It was so much fun!

Getting ready for Halloween

We went to Mitchells farm a week before halloween and got some really great pumpkins. We carved them with Dylan and Sawyer (my daycare kids) the day before halloween. Sawyer wasn't much for sticking around for pictures. But Russell carved him a great pumpkin (with our kids knives of course)

And here are some pictures from Halloween. We all had a great time. I took the kids to the mall for a couple hours to trick or treat through the stores and see loads of other kids in costume. Then off we went to our friends, Erin and Allans, for a great spag dinner and out through the neighbourhood trick or treating. This was the first year we stayed in our neighbourhood, previous years we spent with Matt and Leanne and family - sad not to see them on the day but we all had a great Halloween stories to share.