Hockey tourny, first day back to school & work

This weekend Thursday to Saturday Nick had a hockey tournament, we had 50/50 draws and Hospitality room to look after.  Every time an Atom team was on the ice we could do a 50/50 draw.  Our team made the most money on our 50/50 draws and Dana even one of the draws.  She was super excited.  Our team had to bring juice boxes, water and veggie trays.  It was a very busy weekend.

Nick was in net Thursday and we won our game.  7 to 3.  The team played really good and Nick made some awesome saves.  I don't know how he does it, he loves being in net and saving the goals.

Friday we played at 8:15am and I don't think the kids were used to waking up that early, they didn't play so good and we lost.  Our other goalie did his best but the players just were not there helping him.

Saturday we played at 10:45, the kids played a bit better but not much.  Nick of course gave it his all but we still lost.  He saved 32/39 shots.  The end of the game the kids all lined and Nick got the player of the game award.  Nicks at the top of the picture standing by his coach in the black helmet.

We finally put our train together.  Nick had fun decorating it.  For some reason Dana was not in the mood.  But we all had fun eating it.

This morning the kids did great at getting ready, they were all ready when Dex and I had to leave for work.  We drove to the corner and Nick walked across the road with me, I walked to my new spot and Dana stayed in the van with Dex.  I have way more kids crossing at my new spot.  Dex said it went OK, not too many kids.  So it should be interesting as the days go on.  We both have to do the lunch hour, then he has to get back to school.  Thank goodness he only has a couple of weeks left of school.



Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year everybody,  It has been nice break from school, work and hockey.

Christmas Eve we went to our friends house for our traditional Christmas Eve get together of food and carolling.  The kids opened up PJ's and we had good food, laughter and went carolling.  A very fun time.

Christmas morning the kids slept in till 7:30am, we got up turned on the fireplace (TV channel has a roaring fireplace and Christmas music) and opened presents.  Dana had gotten Paul a present and could not wait for him to open it.

Dana remembered Paul used to have a hot pink wig and would wear it around the house sometimes so she thought he needed a new one, blue this time.
Here is what Nick got.

He got a mini sticks hockey set, Lego, hockey cards, shower gel, jeans and some treats.

Dana got some jeans, books, little pet shops, zoobles, shower gel and some treats.

Here is what Dex got. Angel series, books, magic cards and Halo Lego's.

Nick got me some earrings with his reward points from school. Cute little Santa's.

The kids played with there stuff and I made omelets.

As I was making breakfast Dex says to me that I missed a couple presents.  I kept thinking I was missing something but never figured it out until Dex said something.  So he went and wrapped it up.  (I am sure he remembered it because one of the things was his) He wrapped the little pet shop toy in tons of bags.  Dana was a good sport.

Paul and Nick built his city Lego's and I put together Nick's mini sticks hockey nets.

For Christmas dinner we decided to have Hawaiian haystacks, it had been a long time since we had eaten that.  It was so yummy.

New Years we just had goodies and watched a couple of movies and hung out.  One of the movies was Cars 2.  It was really good.  We all liked it.  This dip we found at Costco, so yummy.

Happy New Year! Here we are in 2012

Tree up

Last night Nick wanted to put the tree up so I moved stuff around and Paul and Nick went down to find the tree and decorations.  Nick and Dana organised the tree branches then they put it together.

Dana and I put up the garland around the banister.

Paul and Nick putting the lights on the tree.

There is our tree.  I need to get one with everyone in the next day or two.

Nick has a hockey game tonight, it is snowing out and I had to pick him up early from school because in gym class he got knocked into the wall and has a goose egg on the side of his head.  He says he is fine to play, his turn to be in net.

Fake Jake, work and hockey jackets

Dexter is taking this class Family Living and he got the chose of writing a 20 000 word essay or taking a fake baby for 4 days and three nights.  He chose to take the baby.  So he brought it home yesterday and was already stressed out about it. He hated how when it cried at school everybody would stare at him.  He didn't do too bad at home, he got frustrated a couple of times.  He would go from bottle, diaper and back again if it didn't stop crying.  So I would take him and just bounce him and he would stop crying.  He was not impressed that I could get him to stop crying.

I posted on face book about it and had a really good laugh.  Dex is wishing he would have taken the essay instead.  I told him babies were work.  He just does not like to stop doing what he wants to do because he starts crying.

I have tried to upload the video I took at Nick's Christmas concert but it won't work so I will have to put it on a CD and send it out.

Last Thursday we get a call that Nick's hockey jacket and toque was in so we go over to Ron's (Brody's Dad) and had Nick come but didn't tell him where we were going.  They are really nice jackets.  I don't think Nick has taken it off either.

Work is going good.  Last week was really nice but this week has been a bit colder.  We got a little snow but it will be gone because the sun is shinning.  We don't even have our tree up yet.  Dexter hates it up before his birthday so we wait and then we had hockey and Christmas concerts, after school stuff and we just have not had the time.  Nobody has even said anything either.  Maybe we will just skip it.  If there was snow outside that would make it seem like Christmas but we don't have any.  Funny how that goes together.





Hockey, work

Things have been so crazy here.  We have been crazy with hockey games and practises.  Nick's team have had some hard games, they have played good and stuck together.  Nick had a game which he saved 34 shots.  The game got ruff and Nick stood his ground and pushed some kids out of his way.  I had to leave and walk around the rink.  The kids from the other team had hurt two of our players and never got called for it, they were taking cheap shots  at our kids and by the third period were taking there sticks and whacking Nick with them.  I get it that he will get some sticks on him but not like this.  You can barely see Nick behind the player in front of.

Last week as I was meeting the kids after school I was talking to my friend who is the crossing guard asked me if I would like a job I said sure you are not leaving are you? She said no but she had to have surgery.  So I am filling in for her.  A day or two later she asked me if I wanted a full time job.  I said you bet, the other crossing guard is moving so I can take her spot.  I am excited about it. I start full time in January. I work 3.15 hours a day and it is only 5 minutes from my house.  It will give me some extra cash, not a whole ton but more than I have right now.  It will defiantly help out having some extra money.  So I have worked a couple of days already and it is fun to see the kids, I have already got almost hit by a car so it is all good.  The stupid idiot was turning right where I was stopping cars.  I put my sign out and looked right at him, he stopped then I went out into the road and the guy pulled out and went right by me.  I am glad it was not a kid that was crossing, it was a military guy who stopped.  He was not impressed either. 

Nick had his Christmas concert and I took the video camera to film his class.  Part of his song was in french.  It was fun to watch.  I will upload it then put it on.  Sorry not a very good picture it was really dark in there.  Nick is wearing a white shirt in the middle row he is looking at the camera. I hope the video works.

Dex had his birthday we had Chinese food and he had a muffin for his birthday cake.  He didn't want a cake or ice cream (that was weird and Dana was not happy about it at all) so I put a candle in a muffin and we sang to him.





Dex also had to make the brownie cookies again.  I hope for the last time.  He said his exit project went good and he got a good mark so that is good.

Well I have to get ready for work and it is snowing out, oh goody standing in the snow what fun.

Colds, Hockey and scrapbooking

The winter cold has been at our house, we have all except Dexter (so far) had a cough, Dana and Nick were home from school and one of the days we got some snow and Nick was mad because he was sick and could not go out and play in it.

We have been super busy with Hockey and hockey related things.  Last saturday Nick's team had a bottle drive then a hockey game.  We all met at 8:30am and then headed out in trucks.  It was a slow start but in the end we almost made $600.  The kids split up into groups and Riley, Brock and Nick went together.

After the bottle drive the kids had their hockey game against the #1 ranked team in their division.  I was worried about the game and thinking it would be bad.  But the team played good and Nick was awesome in net. Our team was really good in the first period but then by the third had given up or was tired.  We do have a good team but our defence really needs to pull up there socks.  He saved some pretty wicked shots.  We lost 6 to 1.  After the game I had a couple of the parents from the other team tell me how good Nick was.  One of the parents said that if Nick was their goalie they would be unstoppable.  There team is really good because they have good defence, there goalie is good but Nick is way better.  It was good to hear the good things from other people about Nick.

Paul also had a hockey game so after Nick's game we went over to watch Paul play hockey.  Wow what a game that was. Pushing and shoving.  Paul almost scored two goals too.  Then after Paul's game was another military game so Nick wanted to stay and watch that too.   Nothing like staying at the rink all day and getting nothing done at home.

A bit ago I started working on a little project and got it finished today.  I took a book I got at the dollar store and painted the edges and glued pattern paper on the front and back.

I made these cards and scrapbook pages at Club.