12/31/2013

Kiandra and I had fun at the mall using our new Starbucks giftcards.

12/30/2013

The day began with quite a view today when I took Kezia out for lunch at the newly opened revolving restaurant...




...and ended with a view of Kaden's 3rd place medal in the Christmas Challenge hockey tournament.

12/29/2013

One more family gathering today with Conrad's side of the family....

12/28/2013

Kaden's team is participating in a Christmas Challenge tournament. Game 1 this morning ended in a 5-3 loss.

12/27/2013

The weather granted a brief reprieve and Kezia begged to go skating outside.

12/26/2013

Everyone home, jammies all day, and games. Awesome.

12/25/2013

Our first Christmas in the basement

12/24/2013

Pizza tradition on Christmas Eve:

12/23/2013

My gift wrapping helper...

12/22/2013

I love how cozy and festive our house looks decorated in lights and garland...

12/21/2013

Today Kezia decided she was going to wear these tights tomorrow for church but they had a small area where the seam was coming apart and so she used her sewing skills to fix it by herself.

12/20/2013

Soccer game to end a busy day for Kezia. Too bad they lost 1-0.

12/19/2013

I've been doing the "Truth in the Tinsel" advent devotional with my students this year and I have let them colour an ornament for each day's lesson. We have attached our ornaments to a long story ribbon and they will go home tomorrow so the students can share them with their families. Today was "gift" and tomorrow we will add the final one to our story.

12/18/2013

School Christmas concert and Kaden played the euphonium in the Grade 7&8 band.

12/17/2013

Christmas Shopping with Kezia while Kaden was at hockey practice. We avoided the theatre area where Kiandra was out with her friend Chase to see the movie Frozen so that they wouldn't think we had followed them there. :)

12/16/2013

Soccer practice for Kezia this evening.

12/15/2013

Hockey game for Kaden this afternoon...against a team they are usually slaughtered by. Today, they were tied until the last 8 minutes and then the other team snuck in a sneaky goal to make the score 2-1. A close score against this team is nearly impossible so it still felt pretty good.

12/14/2013

I was up anyway and so I decided to start my do to list early...not too many people grocery shopping at 7:30 in the morning. :)

This jump start on my day helped it to be pretty productive because I had crossed three shopping stops off my list by 9:15!

12/13/2013

Breakfast by candlelight put on by our school's Parent Association this morning. The perfect fuel for a morning field trip to Bethlehem Live living Nativity and an afternoon of Christmas concert practices.

12/12/2013

I work with amazingly talented kids.

12/11/2013

A little "third world farmer" after school for this guy and he ended up with 6 kids! Maybe a sign of what his future holds???

12/10/2013

I tried out some "finger cooking" by texting Kezia some ideas of what could be made for supper and she chose homemade potato wedges and burgers (patties were premade in the freezer). It was awesome to come home to supper that was ready to go on the table!

12/9/2013

Yikes! It was a LONG day of indoor recess and the look ahead says it could be a LONG week of it!

12/8/2013

Watching the Amazing Race finale

12/7/2013

Kaden holding a copy of the score sheet from today's game. He scored the only goal for his team!

12/6/2013

Staff Christmas Party. I love this guy. I love my job. I love my coworkers. Life is so good.

12/5/2013

Band Concert groupie meeting his favourite performers after the concert.

12/4/2013

Getting a morning boost after the power door of the van was left open all night.

12/3/2013

Fresh off their volleyball win, basketball practices began after school today.

12/2/2013

Volleyball Champions!

12/1/2013

Working in my footsie pajamas and trying desperately to finish this year's Grade 1 book before the Black Friday coupon code expires at midnight! This year we were inspired by Canadian author, Melanie Watt and her Scaredy Squirrel series.

11/30/2013

Picked up this tired boy this morning from an all-nighter at church with Jr High youth. Last night's event included swimming, bowling, pizza party, movies, gym time, and video games.

11/29/2013

At home date night watching PVR'd Survivor by the fireplace and eating Papa Murphy's Pizza. Awesome.

11/28/2013

Just in time for parent/teacher interviews...a sneak peek at our Grade 1 book inspired by Melanie Watt's "Scaredy Squirrel" series.

11/27/2013

It's not often the whole family comes out to cheer at a game....and it was a win 3-1.

11/26/2013

Touching up my roots before parent teacher interviews...

11/25/2013

I'm happy that Kiandra put so much time and effort into this assignment....but disappointed at how much colouring "homework" my kids have in high school. (Seriously...my grade 1 friends don't colour as much as they do!)

11/24/2013

11/23/2013

Movie Date Night with my two favourite guys.

11/22/2013

50th day of school today!

11/21/2013

Date night at the play Kiandra performed in:

In the audience today: our family, Kiandra's friends from church (Kara, Ally, Jana, Signey) and family friends (Layne, Bryson, Braydon).

11/20/2013

School pictures finally arrived today...almost a month after Kiandra and Kezia got theirs back. I'm not entirely sure why the company gives teachers a free pack of photos??

11/19/2013

The play that Kiandra has been practicing for opens today! In the next 4 days, they will perform 4 matinees and 4 evening shows. Instead of a bouquet of flowers, we got her a bouquet of fruit....the cat won't eat these AND it will promote healthy snacking over a period of grab and go suppers.

11/18/2013

 Shorts in the snow...Kezia's signature indoor soccer practice look.

11/17/2013

First snowfall today... and made me a little nervous to let Kiandra take the van out by herself but she made it to school and back safely. This is a new scary stage to be in.

11/16/2013

Kiandra and the rest of the cast heading into the school for the last Saturday practice before the play performances begin next week. She was there from 10:00 until almost 6:00.

11/15/2013

More fuel for report card writing...but it worked.... I'm done! We'll see how many fixes I have when they are read over by the principal this weekend.

11/14/2013

I was working on report cards at school until almost 10:00 PM. I was especially thankful for the parent who brought me a Tall Grass Prairie cinnamon bun after school. It was a perfect snack to eat while I was working.

11/13/2013

Hat fundraiser at school to raise money for the Philippines Typhoon disaster survivors. My Grade 1 class raised $65.47.