2 days after Christmas...

It's 2 days after Christmas, hard to believe it's come and gone so fast for another year! Luke and Nolan were over today (and tomorrow) because their regular day home was not open today and Laurie had to work. Here are some pics of the day.... At lunch time they BOTH wanted to sit right beside Becca, so I had to move over to the other side of the table :-) That's ok, it gave me a chance to get some cute photos of them with Sweetie.

Sweetie & Pooh

Sweetie and Pooh

Presents!

Opening presents....

More pics....the kids!

Here are some pics of all the kids that were over last night.

From L -> R: Rebecca, Luke holding Timmy, Madison, Nolan, Jacob.

Last night . . . Christmas Eve

We had a get-together last night after church with some of our friends. Here are some pictures of the evening:

David, Anne & Madison

Laurie, Luke & Nolan

The Henry's

Colleen & Mark

O Holy Night

Calvin played 'O Holy Night' in church last night on his trumpet.

Merry Christmas!

From our house to your's, we wish you a Merry Christmas!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

I set up our Christmas tree and decorations last week....and now I feel more like Christmas is not that far away... I still think it will sneak up on us faster than expected though. The first collage is some winter pictures I took about 2 weeks ago.

Our front yard this morning....

This is what Calvin discovered in our front yard this morning. Some ptarmigans camaflouged in the snow. I had seen these footprints in our yard a few days earlier, and assumed it was some cat that had wandered through our yard. By the look of the trail these ptarmigans left behind, it looks like it was them and they were back for a visit.

On another note, the northern lights were amazing last night!!! I tried to take some pictures but did not suceed, I don't have the proper camera for that...

Edited to say: I added one picture that I tried to take last night of the Aurora Borealis....Dave & Michelle , I wish I had your camera for this... and a tripod, you need really long exposures to take pictures of the northern lights.

Good night, Sweetie & Pooh

Becky got this glow in the dark Winnie the Pooh from Santa yesterday at the respite Christmas party. It plays music and the face lights up when you squeeze him. Very fitting for her, since her bedroom has lots of Winnie the Pooh stuff already.

Eeyore...then and now.

Here is a picture of our little Sweetie as Eeyore from 1 year ago....and now. What a difference a year makes!

EEYORE THEN:

EEYORE NOW:

Becky got her bangs cut...

So I decided to go ahead and give Rebecca a haircut last night. This was the first time I've ever cut someone else's hair (well, besides using the clippers for Calvin), but I thought 'how hard can it be'? Just trim the bangs a bit and that's it. So I sat her in the Kimba chair, divided her hair into front and back sections, wet it, and got to work ..... snip .... snip .... oh oh, that looks crooked now .... snip snip .... still crooked? Snip chop chop snip....well before I knew it, her bangs were WAY shorter than I had wanted! And they were still not totally even!! Grrr!! Thank goodness I didn't go into hairdressing. Poor lil Sweetie has super short, uneven bangs now. It didn't turn out exactly as I had hoped, but at least I know that it's only hair and in a few weeks it should look better.

BEFORE:

DURING:

AFTER!!

To cut or not to cut, that is the question...

Let's take a vote....who thinks I should cut Sweetie's hair and give her bangs, and who thinks I should let her hair grow out?

Brrr....

Winter has definitely arrived in Yellowknife, we have lots of snow now and it's cold! At the moment it is -28 C and who knows how much colder it will get during the night. Calvin's taken the snowmobile out already a few times, and I'm looking forward to going out on the sled again this year, as I haven't gone at all in 2 years. This may be our last full winter in Yellowknife, so I better make the most of it!
Here are some pictures from yesterday...Mich, the first 2 are for you again :-) Still waiting for you to post some pictures are your blog.

Here you go, Michelle Z.....

Michelle, this first picture is for you! I had someone take a picture of us 3 today when we were at a birthday party. So there you go, a picture of me instead of just Rebecca and Calvin...but of course I had to add some more of just Rebecca and some of her with Daddy.

Sweetie playing Scrabble...

These are a few pictures that were taken last night as we were playing Scrabble. Sweetie joined in on the fun....