Jessie shrine

We miss the hollering while from the steps as Stefan or I work on the house, we miss the giggles, we miss the gooble-de-gook chatter...

We love you heaps little Jessie...and it's almost your second birthday!

Christmas Tree is up!

Here is my Christmas elf doing the dishes..check out the Jessie shrine on the fridge as well as the magazine in the foreground!

We put up our Christmas tree already. We bought it at a thrift store for 15 bucks, what a deal. We thought of buying a new one, but it would've been more than 70 bucks...

Buck vs buck

Coffee Obsession

Stefan has a new obsession--coffee making...I guess that's what happens when you don't have fun cars to drive.

Life in Calgary

So it's November, getting colder, and we're enjoying life in Calgary..and we're still trying to bike to school. This particular day was -4C, hence the snazzy outfit for Stefan.

Halloween

Stefan has never experienced Halloween in its glorious North American style...so I made sure we went with my nieces and nephew. Despite the ghoulish nature of the evening, we managed to find one lovely lawn specimen to pose with and did get some candy too!

SALTS trip

I was a chaperone on my grade 9 class SALTS trip. We sailed through the Pacific Islands on a big ship. It was better than expected, not much rain, plenty of sunshine, great food, good laughs, and PORPOISES! We had a porpoise show for 30 minutes...ah bliss. I'll see if I can find a video...

Joey Tomato

So I bought a tomato plant from the Farmer's Market in July. I was VERY happy to find one that wasn't diseased. I quickly named him Joey and he grew rapidly and into a bush...but no tomatoes...The fruit showed up in September before the frosts and soon Joey moved in with us. He struggled but somehow produced a few tomatoes that I savoured....

the Banff Gondola

David and Ruth treated us to a ride up the Banff Gondola. It was great! Stefan realized, after about 30 seconds that he actually dislikes gondolas--A LOT, hence the funny facial expression. He held my hand really tight, especially over the "bumps" at the gondola towers.

Check out how far we were from Wellington, New Zealand, pretty far eh?

Lake Louise with Ruth and David

This is why people travel to Canada, just so they can stand and weep at the beauty of this place. That's what Ruth and David did.

It was a beautiful day, and once we waded through the bus loads of Japanese tourists with megaphones, we had a peaceful walk around. Sitting amongst the flowers, we enjoyed morning tea (still hot in the thermos from home) and soaked in the lovely Louise.

IF you come, we'll take you...

Next time we'll do the teahouse hike...

show and shine

We went to a Show and Shine...

Stefan found some cars that made him smile and covet.

I am sure he misses his Mustang.