The week before Thanksgiving was beautiful so we spent allot of time at the park. It was so nice that Auntie Susan came home from Nova Scotia. She spent a couple hours at Rotary park with me, Des and the kids. Ally, Joe and Keiran all LOVE their Grama-Auntie, as Alex calls her lol.
The is one of Ally's favourite things at the park, the first time she went on it she fell pretty hard but has since mastered the intracacies of this device.
The weekend after was Thanksgiving and as usual it was VERY busy. Saturday we spent with our family in Camrose. We love going up there and visiting Linda, Robyn, Nolan, Connor & Charlie. It is always so relaxing and comfortable. And the kids have the best of times. Ally and Connor play together so well, they are best friends. We just send them off to their room at the back of the house and every once and a while we hear a scream or a yell but for the most part they are happy to play by themselves. Charlie is walking like a mad man! And he LOVED baby Joe. Joe loves that Charlie can walk and spends allot of time watching him, as if to study just how its done.
Sunday we spent with the West family. Ally and her 3rd cousin Jacob have a great time whenever they get together. They are only 15 days apart in age so they have allot in common. Joe had a good time staring at Jacobs younger brother Issac, who is 5 days older than Joe. I find it really funny that Jennifer and I had all of our children so close to the same time. Poor Pat had to work on Sunday so he couldn't make it to the West supper.
Monday we went to my Auntie Patty's and spent the day with the Bridges. Now that is the place for LOTS of kids. Our other family functions usually only has a couple of kids and a bunch of adults, but not the Bridges. In total there were 12 children under the age of 10. It was a very loud and wonderful day but oh I missed my Grandparents and my Uncle Brian who unfortunately passed away at the beginning of September.
We didn't get much of a break in between Thanksgiving and Pats birthday. On the 15th Pat turned 30!! And he got such a surprise on Saturday the 16th when we stopped to give my "cousin" a baby shower present. What he thought was a baby shower turned out to be a surprise party thrown by Linda and me. Linda and I had been working on this party since the beginning of September and I was so happy it all went off without a hitch and no one let the cat out of the bag. The best part was when Pats cousins from Vancouver came walking into the room and Pat looked at them and said "hey man." like it was no big thing that they were there, turned away for a split second then turned back to them in shock "What are you doing here???" It was a great moment and although I was a little nervous that he would be kinda pissed at me, he was really happy and grateful. It was a great night. I'm having a hard time believing that Pat is 30. When we met he was 22 1/2 and we were so young! Now he is 30 and *gulp* I will be 30 in less than 7 months!
Pat had been SO busy at work. Well Pat is always busy at work but this past month has been even worse. It is not weird for him to work until 7 or 8 at least twice a week and Saturdays are supposed to be a half day but nope not for Pat. On a really great point he got a great raise at work and there is some really awesome opportunities coming up this spring.
This weekend is of course Halloween and Ally is going to be a (try to follow this one) Princess-Ballerina-Fairy-Witch... It started out as a Princess-Fairy but she has since added the other two. I'm still trying to work out how I'm going to make it possible, She has a really beautiful red and gold princess dress, so I'm trying to find gold wings and gold tiara and a gold witches hat. I'm almost tempted to tell her the witch part isn't logical or practical but I don't think I can lol. And Joe is going as a little Monster! I can't wait for Sunday, it is supposed to be sunny and 8* so cross your fingers. On Friday Pat is going to a Rebels game with Colin, the tickets were a birthday present from Robyn, Nolan and the boys. And Joe and I are going to the craft show with Lisa and Kaden. And on Saturday we are getting family pictures done! We are really excited to get these done, we haven't had any done since well before Joe was born so we need some pics on the wall of him lol. And we are also getting some with our furry son Bruce. I'm really happy about this because he is getting old and well he is apart of our family and I want to have pictures for the kids to remember him by. German Shepherds usually only live 8-10 years because they are so big, and Bruce is actually about 3-4 inches taller than the average and is about 20 lbs heavier.
So we have a full weekend ahead of us, but I will post some Halloween pictures on Monday or Tuesday.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Halloween!
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