Grampy's Visiting!

 Grampy arrived a bit late on Monday night and we've been having a great time visiting and preparing for Christmas with him.  We've seen Santa, built a gingerbread house, been to the zoo and to zoolights!  Also watched Christmas movies and read stories!  And we're not done yet!

Here are some pictures of some of our activities so far.

 We got a hippopotamus for Christmas!!!!!

(we keep her at the zoo)

Zoolights and the zoo were fun.  The whole zoo is finally open again and it was great to see our animal friends again during the day then go back that night for the lights.

Grampy is here until Monday!

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas!

 On Friday we started to put up the tree!

Gwen helped fluff the branches.

 Cara helped check the lights!

 Saturday the girls put on the decorations in the morning.

 And Saturday afternoon we went to Nana & Grampa Howie's for some cookie decorating and stew.

 Gwen hard at work.

 She enjoyed the cookies!

 A Lot!

 Cara had a very fun and sticky time too!

 A great Christmasy afternoon before Nana, Grampa Howie and Pepper headed to NB for Christmas.

 Sunday we went to the annual General Dynamics Christmas Bowling Party and pizza too!

 The girls really had fun with the shoes, the pizza and the bowling.

 Gwen loves to bowl!

 Cara did awesome!

 Bowling sisters!

Even a meeting with Santa!

Cara wasn't afraid at all this year and Gwen is never afraid of Santa.

The giant shark and freaky Nemo painting is quite disturbing though!

Now we are waiting for the visit from Grampy and lots more Christmas fun!

Finished Gymnastics

 We finished gymnastics last week.  For the last class I brought the camera into Gwen's class for some action shots.

She had fun on the parallel bars!

 Bear crawl on the practice bars.

 Crawling through the foam pit!

 Going for a bum drop on the trampoline!

Gwen did great this term!

 For Cara's class I had to take pictures from the door.

She was doing twist jumps on the trampoline.

 On the balance beam she had to pick up the toy, spin around then put the toy back down.

 Log roll into the foam pit!

 Hand stand!

A backwards fast roll!

Cara did awesome this term too!

Sickies

 So there was a picture from last week!

Jamie came by for a visit and took the kids shopping for their birthdays!

What a great uncle :)

 We installed a new toilet this week!

Who needs to walk upstairs anymore? Not us!

 Seriously though, the girls got colds this week.  Then they both got so bad we had two trips to the doctor (one each) and they both got put on antibiotics for sinus infections and eye infection (for Gwen).

Look how sad and sick Gwen is.

By the end of the weekend Daddy had it too.

Or are they faking?!?

More like two sick girls stuck inside all weekend made them go stir crazy!

We are looking forward to everyone getting healthy and fun December stuff starting!

A Week In November

This week was cold and snowy and wintery.

We didn't take any pictures!

We did our normal things and had a good time but memories are all we have now.

Here are some blasts from the past of our sweeties - such babies!

 

A Visit From Nanny & Papa And Gwen Turns 3!

 We had more snow just after Halloween.  The kids had a lot of fun building out first snowman of the season!

 And Cara can pull Gwen on the sled now so Daddy got a break!

 Just as the snow was stopping Nanny & Papa arrived in Calgary.

Gwen fed Papa a snack while Cara was at kindergarten!

 Nanny brought a hidden picture book for Cara and everyone loved it.

 Some pictures were hard to find so Papa had to help too!

 Tuesday was a bit warmer so we stuck with our plan of going to the zoo.

 Most of the zoo is still closed but Cara's favourite part (the Dinosaur Park) is open.

Cara had fun pretending to be each species - here she is the T Rex behind her.

 The Penguin exhibit was practically empty and we walked in as the keeper was feeding the penguins!

Very active and noisy penguins that day.

 Penguin.

 The other section open is the Canadian Wild animals.

We got a close look at a couple of Grey Owls.

 Hoot.

 And a Snow Owl

 The reindeer were happy with the snow.

 Family shot with the penguin statue!

A fun walk around the zoo and we had a fun visit with Nanny & Papa too.

Miss you guys!

 Saturday was Gwen's Birthday!

She started off with a candle in her toast!

 She was a very happy Birthday Girl.

Cara was a good big sister and helped Gwen with the present opening.

 Gwen had so much fun and she loves all her new toys!

 After Gwen's choice supper (pizza) it was cake time!

 She got a candle out on her own!

Pretty sure she spit it out with a raspberry!

Now our little baby is 3!  Growing up so fast!