New Year's Eve 2012

For the past couple of years D and I head to our local community New Year's Eve Bash.  It is a family event and even has fireworks at 8pm.  It is a lot of fun.  Unfortunately, Dawson is a little to old for the activities and next year we will have to look for a new activity for us to do.  But this year I snapped some quick photos for us to enjoy.  

Human Bowling

Ice Slide with Madagascar Ice Carving

This slide is D's favourite thing at the event. 

This lion was carved out of snow & ice.  It was so amazing. 

Fire pit/ Warming station.  These line the walkway to keep the people warms. 

Or course free skating at the local arena.  Usually they go on the lake but it was closed this year for fireworks.

Well that is all for 2012 folks.!

Oh- How True!

Sometime you just find the perfect post for your blog!

I agree!

Hoping all my family and friends who read this have a Happy New Year. 

Gingerbread House 2012

On Saturday K & D attempted to make a gingerbread house!  And it turned out wonderful!  The 3 of us each had jobs.  K- She was the "icer"  she put the icing on the house,  D- he put the candy and grass on the on the house/lawn, and  J- she was the "massager" - she massaged the icing so the icing was ready for the "icer".  We all added candies and helped with the decorating!  And Santa even came to this house! Happy Holiday everyone!

This Gave Me A Good Laugh!

I had a good laugh when I read this today.  I can see someone I know saying this.  

Re Surfaced!

After a short break I am back by request!   Okay, so things you should know:

D's volleyball team won the City Championships- look at that trophy!  I would have posted more photos of volleyball however every time I took out the camera the team started losing.  The goodness was that D's team not only won the gold medal they were also undefeated all season (that would be all 12 games) But hooray for them eh?
Until later peeps.  (Off to Costco now for dinner - talk about 5 star meal!)

Baseball is Over

Well The A's placed 4th at the Western Championship this year. And ball is now officially over till Winter Camp in November. Here is a young man that came to our team as a pick up for Western's. He is 13 years old -5"11, & 180lbs of muscle. He won the home run derby contest at Western's. He is projected to go to the far in the baseball world, in the future. (He has lightning speed.) But most importantly- he was such an overall nice young man. And of course in front of him, our own heavy weight- D!! 11 years old -- 4"8, 80lbs !!! This age group can have the most difference in height and weight. It was so funny to look at the two boys together.

Favorite Wineries

While in the Oliver area and my son was busy at camp during the day, Brent and I had some time to ourselves to go and sample some of the wine from the region. Here are two wineries that I enjoyed. The first was burrowing owl- it's wines were ok, I liked the place because in D's grade one class- we adopted a burrowing owl, as a class. But what was more astonishing was the resort you could stay at here. (For approx.$300/night.) It would be so tranquil, relaxing and not crowded as you can imagine. Oh, to be rich.

Now for my new favourite wine. Gehringer Brothers Wines. May I recommend (being the wine connoisseur I am) the Auxerrois (white wine.) Tasty, tasty !!! Brent and I debated on whether to get one or two bottles, it was that appealing to us.
While waiting for Brent and Dawson to arrive in Kelowna, I went to the Grey Monk Winery and picked up some average inexpensive red wine too. Now, I just need some good company to come and enjoy a glass of wine with us!