Gingerbread House!

The first of our Christmas decorations: we spent some time today working on Dave's "Birthday" Gingerbread house...looks pretty good--if I do say so myself! :)

Happy 31st Birthday Dave!

Happy Birthday Dave! We celebrated last night in true Calgary style, at "Ranchman's" cowboy bar, where Dave got to try his hand at bullriding.

Welcome Charlie Bailey!

I can't believe I'm a few weeks late in welcoming our newest little babe to the world, but here he is: all 10lb 9oz of him...Charles Giuseppe Bailey was born on October 29th, as a welcome addition to our good friends Jim and Andrea's family. Congratulations and welcome--we are so looking forward to meeting this not-so-little guy!!

More from Malcolm's visit

Drumheller with the Jackson/Fuchs clan...

Joel and Janet are here to visit this week with baby Malcolm. We took Mal on his first trip to see the Dinosaur museum in Drumheller: I'm not sure he will remember much of it in years to come, but hopefully he will be back again at some point when he's a bit older. Janet's brother Brian and his wife Kris have recently moved here to Calgary, so they joined us for the day, as well as a few evenings back at our place. It's been great having company, and especially our smiley little chubby-cheeked nephew! :)

A few random photos...

Dave Harman's birthday at the "Broken Plate" Greek Restaurant...
A weekend retreat to Canmore with PJ and Greg: lots of "Christmassy" snow--so pretty!


My book club was reading "A Thousand Splendid Suns": which takes place in Afghanistan. One of our ladies, Leah, spent some time there as an OT, and brought along her burqua for us to try on: can you tell who's underneath?