Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a lovely long Thanksgiving weekend full of turkey and family.  As always, the weekend was over way too quickly.

Here's some of Leif's family get together.

Having fun with grandpa.

The cutest guest couple.

Five out of six siblings.

Turkey cutting takes many experts.

The highest piled plate.

The spread.

The girls playing together.

The boys playing.

A game we all played.  The object of the game was to unwrap the gift with oven mitts and other interesting articles of clothing and a plastic knife and fork.

Family photo in the October sun.

The kids on the trampoline.

Soccer.

A creative way to kill the wasps.

My family Thanksgiving included birthday celebrations for these two.

A post is not complete without a self portrait.  Someone else really should be taking pictures of us!  These kind of photos are weird.

My beautiful sister once she found out I was taking pictures of her.

Later that evening we rejoined Leif's family.

Now I'm off to study all day and then work overtime all evening.  Thank goodness for Starbucks this morning and two hockey games to listen to tonight while I work!  Have a lovely weekend!

Birthdays and Cute Kids

Our nephew and I both had birthdays last month.  Here are some pictures of the cuties from my birthday party.

Enjoying the yummy tiramisu.

And then some from a little guy's first birthday!

He did not like the icing!

Opening presents.

He got so many trucks on wheels!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I'm sure I'll have more pictures after this weekend.

Sports

This post is long overdue, but in September Calgary Corporate Challenge was on.  A whole bunch of companies form teams and compete in events like volleyball, softball, basketball, laser tag, curling, darts, pool, trivia, and lots more.  I was really busy with basketball referee training so I only had time to play on the basketball team.  It was so much fun!  I hurt my shoulder, sprained my ankle, and skinned my elbow, but it was all worth it!  Here are some pictures from our games that one of our managers took for me.

Then last Saturday Leif asked me to go to Saturday morning hockey with him.  He didn't think I would come, but I did!  My dad got a whole bunch of old equipment together for me and I got all decked out.

Before:

After:

A lovely girl on the bench took these photos for me too.  Boy o boy, do I ever NOT look like a hockey player!  I'll take pictures at Leif's next game and you can see what a real one looks like.

Hooray for the hockey season starting tonight!  Go Flames Go!