Halloween

Halloween was a huge hit again this year on Sierra Morena Close. We took a break from selling our

house and had the usual suspects over.

Our first trick or treaters rang the bell at 5:15. This prompted our kids to want to go out early.

They were really restless, so I was able to take a bunch of shots of them before we finally let them start at 5:45.

Jake's house is always decorated well.

Let's see.. we have a race car driver ( third year in a row I think?), army guy, a knight, a ninja, a ninja turtle and a swat team officer (also third year in a row, but different kid).

Sarah was explaining to the kids what happens if you incorrectly use a garden shovel.

At the house above, I had a good laugh. Mads said " hey guys, lets get out of here - there's only cats inside!" and sure enough.... we have come across the neighbourhood cat lady. Her sign says Siamese Cat Security.

These photos are a bit out of order because I was busy using two cameras!

We had a dance party with the WiiU entertainment system and game Just Dance that Bobs was thrilled to share with his friends.

We forgot to buy pumpkins and by thursday, this end of town was all out of supply. Fortunately KK had some extras.

Mads Comes to Work with Me

There was a community event put on by the local city councillor and my office was invited. I brought Mads along and he was in heaven learning dance moves.

He even tried out some breakdancing.

It was really fun being at an event with Mads and getting to know people in the neighbourhood.

Thanksgiving and Getting the Cabin Ready for Winter

We had a lot of leaves to collect this weekend

Daddy tried out the leaf blower.

Mads and Bobs took turns burying each other.

We experimented with the photo options on the iphone. We did a bunch of slo-mo leaf throwing videos. They won't work properly on this blog.

We had a simple thanksgiving meal of chicken, gravy, green beans, yam-nut-apple casserole, pull apart rosemary bread, and three deserts - birthday cake, apple spice cake and pumpkin pie.

Then we put leaves in 23 bags. 

There was a huge wind storm and a large tree fell in the path on the way to the beach.

Bobs interrupted Mormor's book.

Happy Thanksgiving.

It's Been Awhile

 

We went to the cabin this weekend and stopped midway at a road side diner car.

 

 

We also had Sushi on the way home and Mads learned to eat with chopsticks.

None of the kids would try sushi though. Mads even said out loud " that sushi looks like a butt!!! What is that horrible smell?" Embarassing.

They were thrilled to have their usual friends at the cabin, this time with plastic guns.

We tried to go to the Lacombe Corn Maze, but it wasn't open on a sunday. We had coffee and played at a playground in Lacombe. What a cute little city.

 

It was quite cold, at around 0 degrees both days. Next weekend should be much nicer for thanksgiving.