Santa's Visit and Christmas Day

Jasmine received a tricycle for Christmas from Santa which was the highlight of the holiday.

Santa had fun with all the children at the kids party but he especially seemed to enjoy time with Jennifer's mom who took the opportunity to make a few wishes of her own.

Christmas Visiting and Fun

Wave after wave of family and friends blessed us with Christmas visits this season. First, a Korean family we had the opportunity to meet came for a Lasagna dinner a few days before Christmas. The Korean man, Yong gil is a Christian pastor who has moved his whole family to Canada to work with aboriginal people in Burns Lake.
Then Matt's sister Lisa and Jennifer's parents arrived for a week of Christmas fun: cross country skiing, ice skating, hottubbing, eating, and a kids party with all our new PG friends during which Santa made a surprise visit. To top off our Christmas in PG, my adventurous uncle Robert hitchhiked his way to our house on Christmas eve from Fort Nelson. It was so great to have him join in the fun and to listen to all his stories. Mom and Dad left on Dec. 28 but Lisa stayed on with us to enjoy a visit with Matt's other sister Carolyn, her boyfriend Dean and his daughter Casey. Casey is 4 and she and Jasmine got along famously. They brought their sleds with them and so we had a great day of Snow mobiling with them out on North Fraser Road.
To top off our Christmas in PG, my adventurous uncle Robert hitchhiked his way to our house on Christmas Eve from Fort Nelson. It was so great to have him join in the fun and to listen to all his stories.

Jasmine's First Hair Cut

Ric's Birthday Party-Superhero Style

Our friends Ric and Kimi hosted their annual birthday bash for I think it was close to the 18th year in a row. Every year is a different theme and this year was Super heros and villians. Matt went as the Fortune Man with a bag of fortune cookies that he gave out to people and I was the Super Sonic Gin and Tonic Desperate Housewife. We left at 1am out of consideration of our babysitter but this group partied until 3:30am. So much for boring parents...this group partied harder than anyone I've seen before-it was so much fun! Most of the pictures I can't post due to extreme content but here are a few of the mild ones.

Winter Wonderland

Dave, Andrea and the McCalls witnessed the big Christmas tree lighting event at Prince George civic plaza last week. It was about -20 degrees and we lasted about 10 minutes standing out in the cold to see the lights and Santa's visit on the sleigh. That hot chocolate and Baileys just didn't cut it at that temperature! We've had SO much snow in the last week, the photos here are from 4 days ago, we've had about another foot or so since then. We can't see any of the swings on the swing set and the snow is so high on either side of the drive way that it is higher than the tops of our heads so we aren't even able to shovel it anymore!