JackFrost

It was a busy weekend in Charlottetown with the JackFrost Festival

Corey and I started the day volunteering at the IWK pancake breakfast....which raised almost $10,000!

That's alot of pancakes

Corey and Colin then had the pleasure of introducing Toopy and Binoo and the Spiderman superheros show

There were tons of characters meeting and greeting kids (and Corey) all over the grounds.
We also visited the amazing Aliant Snow Kingdom.

Inside the Snow Kingdome there were a ton of ice sculptures and snow designes
In the afternoon we met up with mom, Ezabella and Penelope
Penelope decided to be a kitten for the day

She said that Toopy and Binoo were the best part of the festival!
Ezabella loved meeting all the characters
and both girls enjoyed the ice slide!
All in all it was a very fun, and very full weekend at the Jack Frost Festival!

Housewarming

So, I don't have any pics...but this weekend Corey's and my parents hosted us a family housewarming party. We had a ton of our relatives and a few other family friends fill our new home.

Thank you all so much for filling our new home with lots of love (and bodies!).

And a specialy thank you to our mothers who did most of the organizing and cooking. You are very special women and we love you oh so much!

Curling

Our friend Rebecca is having a birthday this week, so to celebrate, a bunch of us went curling on Friday night.

Corey and I had never curled before... but we certainly had alot of fun!

One of the guys was an experience curler, he became our coach. He even showed us what all the arm signals met, and how to actually 'curl' the rock. It's alot harder than it looks...but it's alot of fun!

The only piece of advise we were given before going to the rink was

"don't fall"

and we are happy to report that our bottoms stayed completely dry :)

Have a great week all!

Ice Storm

What a week!
Thank you all for your prayers, calls and emails.

As you probably already know, an ice storm hit PEI this week, and over 22,000 households were without power for a few days. There was actually about 3 hours on Wednesday where 90% of PEI had no power.

Corey and I lost our power on Monday, and it just came back late last night. No power means no heat, no water and no electricity…..so we’ve been crashing at my parents house most of the week.

The power lines and poles are down in a lot of places, and tons of trees have been damaged. When we got up on Tuesday, there was a power line across our front yard, one across our back yard, and a power line hanging over the Darlington road!

Here are a few pics from this week.


I can’t take credit for taking these pictures, but a big thanks to our island photographers. Also a big thanks to Maritime Electric for all their hard work this week!