Over The Holidays

Well Christmas has come and passed... Here is the update on what was up for Christmas :)

I guess the festivities started with Avery and Jordan's Christmas Concert. The boys sang their hearts out and we were also able to tour the art gallary and see what they have been upto in art.
This is Jordan's fish...

and Avery made this jug out of paper mache...

A few days later I returned to the Distress Centre to help Robyn and a few other volunteers take Christmas to Langdon House. This year the volunteers decided to adopt Langdon House which is a housing unit in Calgary that is home to many of the older men with mental illnesses in Calgary. They are really forgotten at Christmas and the volunteers ended up raising more money than we ever imagined. Each resident of the home recieved a huge Christmas parcel filled with presents.

We also prepared Turkey sandwiches and a really nice lunch for them to enjoy on December 24th. It kind of turned into a bit of a family project for me and the family as well since my sister offered to donate two huge turkeys, my mom ended up cooking the turkey's for me and my dad did an awesome job carving them all up for us!

A few of us took all the presents and food down to the home and saw the residents enjoying their gifts and lunch... it was really nice to be able to bring Christmas to them this year.

On Christmas Eve I headed over to my mom to visit with my with family.

The boys were happy as it was the beginning of gift opening!

Christmas Day was spend at home with Mom, Dad, Genittta and Tavis (I forgot to take pictures!) and then on Boxing Day we met up with the extended family again at Melissa and James for the second annual Boxing Day Shrimp Fest!

Oh yes and there was also more gifts for the kids!

And to end off the holidays me and the boys had a sleepover party.

In The Hood

Well look who I ran into at the gas station this morning... Time to get back to work :)

The Long Awaited Update

Merry Christmas! I know I know (and have been reminded regularily) that I've been neglecting the blog a bit lately so I thought I better put up an update :)

We had both our staff and volunteer Christmas parties at work since I last updated so there has been lots of opportunities to hang out with everyone and get updates about what everyone is up to AND to eat lots of great food!

We really have a fun group of staff and the best volunteers who I have not seen as much of since I started my new position so it really was great to see everyone.

We even had a special guest appear for the volunteer Christmas party accompanied by two little reindeers :)

I've also been trying to spend as much time as possible with the boys since they are planning on moving out of the neighborhood and it's not going to be as easy to see them soon...

I've been playing quite a bit of fuseball and airhockey lately... my fuseball game is definitely getting better but I'm still no good at the airhockey... I'm always afraid the puck is going to fly up and hit me in the nose!

I've been busy with cadets, had another trip up to Edmonton (I missed the plane for the first time in my life.... that was an experience) and am trying to get myself motivated for Christmas... It should get pretty busy around here so there should be more updates to come!

Computer Attack!

I spend a lot of time on the computer... Ben likes to sit and watch me play... The thing is I think he thinks that the people in the games are real and he is really trying to find a way into the computer so that he can EAT them!

Jaike & Benji

I had a request for a picture of my cat in the snow...

Ben is way too little to go outside, and I'm actually planning on making him pretty much an indoor cat except for the pen. Jaike did head outside for a bit this weekend so I went out and snapped a picture of him in the snow :)

I also got a picture of my boys actually sleeping together... I think they have finally decided to be friends!

An Uneventful Week

It's been a pretty uneventful week....

It finally slowed down at work so I did get to spend a few days in the office to get caught up :)

One of our volunteers passed on a receipe for artichoke dip so I actually made some and it turned out really good!

And other than that I just hung out with the cats and played around on the computer... like usual...