(Unfortunately, without a camera to record our lives in photos, it doesn't seem quite so interesting! We will try to keep you up-to-date nonetheless...until we have a new camera up and running that is!! )
This weekend, Dave played in a hockey tournament in Banff. The boys had a great time, but he is exhausted after lots of activity, lots of beer, and very little sleep or wholesome food!
My weekend was quite the opposite: Claire and I had a quiet night on Friday--stayed in with movies and pizza, then headed out to her family's ranch on Saturday. The "Bar Eleven" ranch is on hwy 22 near Chain Lakes Provincial Park, on the road to Fernie. Saturday was beautiful and sunny, about 24c, but very windy. Most of the leaves are gone already in the valley with all the wind, but it is still so beautiful to be in the foothills with the mountains all around. The drive out there was amazing: it truly is "big sky" country, where you can see for miles and miles! The ranch itself is an old log cabin. The inside reminds me of my Grandpa's old Ancaster house: so many memories and neat old photographs, books and magazines from the 1940-50s. Unfortunately this time of year, there was a thick layer of flies (living and dead!) throughout most of the house: apparently they like to live and breed in the wooden log walls. It didn't take long to sweep and vacuum most of them up, but on a sunny day like yesterday, there was a constant buzzing at the windows! A little disconcerting...
As far as life and work updates go, I spent last week in "IPP" meetings: our Individual Program Plan meetings where we meet with parents to discuss their children's goals for the year. It was an exhausting week: it seems more draining to be answering questions and reassuring parents than to be chasing around after their kids! Things should slow down a bit now that I am more comfortable with my role, and have gotten to know my colleagues and the kids a bit better.
Dave is still busy with the ED (Emergency Department) project, and travels from hospital to hospital through the week. Fortunately, he is still always in the same city, so we are enjoying having more time outside of work to spend together and to enjoy our home and the city. (Dave used to travel a lot more when he was with GE). We continue to go to the Talisman centre to work out and swim at least a few times a week.
Our biggest recent excitement was the purchase of a 42" flat screen LCD TV. Dave has been shopping around for a few months now, and finally made the decision last week when Mom and Dad were here. Next on the list is a new digital camera to replace our old one that seems to have given up working after the Shuswap weekend.
We are looking forward to coming home to Ontario for the holidays, and have booked our flights into Toronto on Thursday December 21st, returning to Calgary on Tuesday January 2nd. Hopefully we will be able to see many of our friends and family when we are back in town!
Have a great Thanksgiving weekend. We will be thinking of all of you, and wishing we could share our "thanks" with you...So in that spirit: thanks to all of you who have supported us over the years in our various adventures. We appreciate the love of our families and the great times shared with our friends, and hope that you realize that we never take this for granted: we are always thinking of you!!
Lots of love...xoxoxo
(this photo is one Mom and Dad took when they were down: it gives a good idea of the "Big Sky" we saw on the way to the ranch, and I thought it was a nice Thanksgiving photo!)
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