A Snowy Saturday

Our family has spent the last month or so adjusting to our new schedule since Murray has changed jobs.  One of Murray's main reasons for switching jobs was so he could spend more time with his family but lately between hunting and studying there hasn't been much time leftover.  This Saturday was different though, Murray was actually home all weekend!  After studying in the morning while Zachary and I cleaned and played, after lunch we headed out to a tobogganing hill just the three of us to give Zachary his first taste of sledding.  It was so much fun and the weather could not have been better!  Here are a few pics.

 

Taking a rest at the bottom of the hill.

About to go down the hill with Mommy.

One more sleep until Michael, Katie and Aisling get here!

Happy Tuesday!

I won I won I won!

Who would have thought that I would walk into a liquor store and come out with a winter coat?

Last Saturday, friends of ours hosted a Christmas party and where do you stop off before you head to a friend's party?  The liquor store of course.  While I was waiting for Murray to make his selection for the evening, I noticed a really nice white winter coat hanging from the roof.  The sales lady said it was a promotional item and that you didn't have to buy anything to enter, so I threw my name in...why not?  I also entered my name for the snowboard and the mini Christmas tree decorated with airplane sized bottles of alcohol because hey you never know right?

Yesterday I got the phone call that I actually won the coat!

I was so excited I was actually jumping up and down in my kitchen, the sales lady on the other end of the phone must have thought I was crazy!

So here it is.

(a little big, but it was free!)

 Merry Christmas to me!

Happy Saturday!

Christmas Cookies

What do you do when its -35 degrees celsius outside?  Spend the day baking cookies of course!

Zachary's latest thing is that he likes to 'cook'.  For a 20 month old he actually can be really helpful and has the attention span to almost see a project completely through.  Cookies are his favorite thing to 'cook,' I think this is only because he tries to eat as much batter as he can in the time it takes me to bake all the dough into cookies.  I love baking and one of my fondest childhood memories is baking in my Grandma's kitchen in our housecoats.  One of my joys this week was being able to share that with Zachary.

 

 

 

Of course we have to share a cookie with Teddy when we are done.

Happy Sunday! 

Christmas Comes Early...

Yeah its December!

The beginning of December means...

1. Hunting season is over! (although I thinks its important that my husband has hobbies and interests I am always thankful when hunting season ends and I get to see my husband again on the weekends).


2. Holiday season has begun!

Because hunting season has finished we had Murray home today and we were able to get a few things done around the house like put up the tree and the Christmas lights outside.  Yes we had the warmest November on record this year and we were out in the freezing cold and blowing snow today putting up xmas lights.  I know!  (I already expressed my feelings about this to Murray).

 

Zachary enjoying his first real snow day this year. 

Zachary loved helping decorate the tree ( and we didn't even break too many ornaments).  He was so excited.  Everything we pulled out o the box he would shout "a ho ho!" Ho Ho being the words Zachary uses to describe anything Christmas related.

I am fortunate enough to have a few friends who have boys a little older than Zachary and every couple of months I get a big bin of clothes that their sons have outgrown.  It's really great.  Today we were going through the latest bin and Zachary was having a blast trying on everything from Spiderman shorts, to mittens, to rubber boots, to rain coats.  Everything he put on he had to run out of the room to show his Dad.  He was having so much fun.  After we went through the bin I thought to myself maybe I should have saved this bin for Christmas morning, we could have saved money on presents!

 

Christmas came early to our house.

Happy Saturday!