Only 6 more Friday's until Christmas Day!!! It feels like as soon as Remembrance Day long weekend has passed, Christmas sneaks up on us! In the past, even before kids, we never decorated until December 1st and now with Reese's birthday on November 19th, we find that still works well. We have time to celebrate her birthday, take a week or so 'off' and then into Christmas!! Full swing ... letters to Santa, a visit to Santa at the mall (or one of his helpers!!), baking, gift buying and of course decorating!! Last year I was lucky enough to get some awesome hand-me-down Christmas decorations from my Mom and I LOVED the way our house looked last year ... I'm so excited to decorate this year!!
The beginning of November has been great. We've been blessed with really great weather and continue to play at the park after school whenever we can!
On Friday morning we headed to Tisdale, SK for my cousin Dallas' wedding. Emerson had preschool photo's that morning so I quickly ran her into the school for her photo's and then we were off! The roads weren't the greatest and were absolutely terrible from Saskatoon to Tisdale (approx. 200 km). But we made it and I am so glad that Cal was behind the wheel!! The kids are unbelievable on these long road trips. I can't believe how well-behaved they are. We're very thankful! Only 1 stop each way, on an approx. 1600 km round road trip! The wedding was nice and it was great to see my SK family. The kids love spending time with their cousins (2nd/3rd/4th??). They get a long great and have so much fun, especially this weekend while sitting at the guest book table at the wedding and dancing the night away :) They were also glad they got to go to the Austin, Ryann and Alex' house to play! We all had a great visit with my grandparents. Emerson was sooo excited to see Great Grandma Marg. It was very sweet, she kept saying, "I can't wait to see Great Grandma, she gives the best hugs!" And they were all excited to stay at the condo again!!
We have an exciting few weeks coming up with my birthday tomorrow, a 'Smith' family dinner on Friday evening, KC St. Matthew's I2 (a mixture of all I2 teams) playing during the intermission at the Oil Kings game on Saturday evening (Blake is sooooo excited!!), Reese's birthday on the 19th and Reese's birthday party on the 23rd!
It has rained off and on here alllll day. The roads may be interesting tomorrow morning ... drive safe everyone in and around E-town!
xo
Tracy
