Well, it is December 29th, Corey and I are back to work, and New Years is just around the corner.Christmas, of course, has been very busy, but also a lot of fun! In anticipation for Christmas getting ready for the churches cantata, which was beautiful, doing lots of shopping and attending a bunch of Christmas parties…here is a pic from the station party.

Christmas day, Corey and I woke in our home to the beautiful sun shining through our windows. We stoked the fire, and opened our stockings. Then we hit the road for a full day. We first traveled to PapaT’s house in East Royalty, where we opened presents, and had the biggest brunch ever. It certainly was a different Christmas without Corey’s mom this year, but you could definitely feel her spirit in the room, as Jayne and Steph did an amazing job filling the house with all her lovely Christmas decorations.

Taylor with her new DS, I think it was probably her favorite present.

We then traveled to Brackley, where Mom, Dad, Amanda, Justin and the kids were all waiting for us to arrive. We had great afternoon, with more presents, (lots of surprises,) playing with the kids, and an incredible turkey dinner with all the fix’ns. We also had a games evening, where we pulled out Corey’s new Christmas game called ImaginIf… it was really really fun.


Boxing day was a relaxing day at home and then on the 27th we headed out county to visit our Granny and Grampy Kenny.


Here are all the girls!

And here are all the guys!

mmm... Granny had homemade bread baking in the oven! It smelled so good!

Then we traveled over to Jayne and Jordan's house for more Christmas presents and more yummy food! Here is her beautiful tree.

The girls had fun playing their new snakes and ladders game.

And on the 28th I had the pleasure of hosting our annual girls party. Every year my girl friends from high school still get together for a Christmas party, and this year we had a new addition, little Johanna Gill. The newest addition to the gang! (Sorry, Lisa and Sara, that you couldn't be there. Hopefully next year!)

Well, that is a summary of our Christmas, lots of food, family, friends and fun! New Years is only a few days away, so hope you all have a fun and safe New Years Eve.

Blessings….love autumn

Christmas is just around the corner

It's hard to believe that the last time I blogged with the election week... especially considering the political situation in Canada right now...but enough about that, if you want a political commentary, I'm sure you can find many of them across the web.

This week in my life the focus hasn't been on politics as much as it has been getting ready for Christmas. Mom and went to Home-hardware and bought a bunch of new LED Christmas lights. It was fantastic, they did a light exchange with Maritime electric where if you brought in two sets of old, less energy efficient lights, they would give you one free set of LED lights, plus they had a bunch of coupons for LED lights! I'm so excited to put them up!

Talking about lights, on Friday night mom and I joined friends Linda, Marjorie and Glenn for the Lights Across Canada event. This is when we dress up from the 1800's and lead a candle lit walk up historical Great George Street, at the top of the street we meet Santa, and after a short ceremony he lights up the big Christmas Tree at the Provincial Building. It is always a really fun night!

Then on Saturday the City was a buzz of people watching and waiting for Santa to arrive at the annual Santa Claus Parade. Here are a few pics of us watching and waiting for the parade to begin. Unfortunately my battery ran out before the parade began... so I didn't get any pics of Santa, or Corey onthe Ocean 100 float.

Well, over the next few weeks we will be busy rehearsing for the Christmas Cantata at Church (Dec 21 at 10:45 if anyone wants to come), buying presents, decorating and just getting ready for the celebration of Christs birth! I love Christmas!