Our Adventures

We're going to have to find other ways to spend our weekends these days now that the Grey Cup has been won by the Riders. The last three weekends we have had some sort of football party. I guess there's still the NFL....

Before it gets too cold out we wanted some new pictures of us because the only pictures we have recently all involve Chris in a tuxedo and me as a wedding guest. So we headed out to Cultus on Saturday afternoon and took some shots to update our picture frames. It slightly hailed while we were there so maybe we're getting snow early this year, there's supposed to be real snow tonight. Anyways, onto the pictures, here's some of our favorites that we took at the lake.















Yup, so I think we got some good ones out of our photo shoot. The other thing we did on the weekend, was kicked my parents out of their house and watched the Grey Cup on their big screen. Everyone came over and we ate lots of nuts and chips and had some burgers for supper. And to make the evening worth it, the Riders won so all in all it was a good night.





Today is Chris' first basketball game with his grade 9 team so we'll see how they do, hopefully they don't get pummeled. I worked at MEI preschool today with an autistic boy, he was really cute, I'd spin him in circles and then tickle him and he'd always come back for more. I'm still waiting on the elementary school to get me hooked up for volunteering. I already know the teacher who I'll be working with because he lives next door to my parents so I just need to be told when I can come in and what I need to do. It seems like this process just gets dragged out much longer than it needs to and by the time I actually start volunteering it'll be Christmas. I was hoping to start last week and now the principal tells me, if he doesn't call me by Thursday then I should phone him. Anyways, it's sort of frustrating, how hard should it be to volunteer? Chris has parent-teacher interviews all day thursday so hopefully he won't have stubborn parents telling him that he's the reason their kid is failing. On friday I'm taking my dad into the Abbotsford hospital for a surgery on the leg he had surgery on before. They're putting a shunt in his arteries so the blood flows better so hopefully it will help and the surgery won't be too long or difficult. Then on Saturday, since it's December by then, we're going to start decorating to make this place festive. We unfortunately have to buy a fake tree because they're very paranoid about fires in our building so we'll have to survive without a real one for a while. I think that's about it for now, until next time...

Football, football, football. That pretty much sums up what we have been doing these past weekends and what we'll be doing next weekend. Two weekends ago we went out to Carmen and Eric's to watch the western semi-final between Saskatchewan and Calgary. After eating some delicious fondue and wings and the Riders winning the game, we booked tickets for the western final against BC. Before we get into that, here's a look at our new tree and pot from Ikea.

Our new tree

On friday night this weekend we had Mark and Jeremy over after about 4 months of not seeing them. We had a good time eating beef dip, going for a walk and playing some games. It was really good to see them, hopefully we won't wait another 4 months to see them again.

Mark and Jeremy finding Chris' weak spots

The Boys

This sunday we headed out to BC Place to watch the Riders vs the Lions. We took the sky train out which was a first for me. We had seats in the end zone on the upper deck in the second row. They were pretty good seats and it was definitely the most congested area of Riders fans in the stadium so that was fun. Except for the guys who had stuffed lions heads on a stick with fake blood, they were a little over the top. At times during the game it would get so loud that you could not hear anything. It was hard to make a difference cheering for the Riders against 40,000+ Lions fans. At the end though when it was for sure the Riders that were taking it, half the stadium cleared out and mostly Riders fans were left so then they could hear us cheer them on. Supposedly the Riders were lifting their arms at our section during that time but I missed it because I was trying to get some pictures. Anyways, it was a really great game and now we have one more big game next sunday. It won't be quite the same as being there but it should be good. After the game Carmen surprised Eric with Canucks vs Flames tickets that she had gotten him months ago. The game basically started right after the football game so they just walked across the street to GM Place to watch hockey, Eric was pretty surprised. The rest of us spent a good chunk of time getting on the sky train and then we went to Red Robin's for dinner in Langley.

Intense whacking of tubes

Josh and Cassie eating some expensive hot dogs

Here come the Riders!

Coming in for a touchdown

Proof that I was there too

Most of the gang in green

Bring on the Cup!

Other than watching football games, Chris has been busy with work because it was report card time. He's also coaching the grade nine boys basketball team and they have their first game next monday. I am hoping to hear back from the school I will be volunteering at soon and I have been working at MEI this past week for a few days and am for sure working one day a week there until Christmas break. After new years I'll hopefully find a decent job that I can work full-time at until school starts in September. I'm guessing once I start volunteering twice a week that the weeks will go by faster and Christmas will be here in no time. Only 5 more weeks! We're really looking forward to going out to Herbert during that time to spend with the fam. Until then, we'll keep watching football...

Time for an update. Well, now with the time change and the neverending rain it's definitely starting to feel like winter is coming. It gets dark here around 5pm these days which seems to make us eat supper earlier and go to bed earlier so I guess it's a good thing. Anyways, some events that have happened in the past little while... I don't have pictures from it but we went over to David and Karin's place last week and played some games and Chris even scored a free game of trivial pursuit because they're moving to Australia in the new year and won't be taking it with them. David was an LTS the year I was at Bible School and Karin was an LTS during Chris' year and they just got married in May and we hadn't seen them since last Christmas so it was good to catch up and hopefully we'll see them again before they move half way around the world.

On Halloween, which also happens to be my dad's birthday, we went over to my parents place and celebrated my dad's 75th. Chris and I were the hosts, bringing the food to the table, clearing the table and answering the 6 rings at our door of trick-or-treater's. At the party were all my parents Danish friends that they have known since they moved to Canada. So to go along with the Danishness of the evening, everything was decked out in Danish colors and flags. Except we had chinese food, which isn't Danish at all. My dad's cake was this Danish cake that my parents had at their wedding. Sort of like a big pyramid of cookies, it was pretty good. As for gifts, let's just say my dad can get very fat and very drunk on all the chocolate and alcohol that was given to him. Oh, and he might be able to read a few books in between all that eating and drinking. All in all it was a good evening except for one of my parents friends who had a little too much to drink and would not believe that Chris doesn't like raw beef or smoked eel because I guess she assumed everyone should and from there on decided she was against everything he said. It was pretty funny though. Here's a little glimpse at what the evening had in store...

The table all decked out

The birthday boy and his cake

A picture my mom took of us after trying to take one with the lens turned the wrong way

This past weekend we spent hanging out with friends, playing games, watching games, stuff like that. On Saturday we went and bought some new jeans and then headed over to Mike and Sarah's for a good round of guitar hero which I have to say, Chris and I were the worst at. After everyone had their fill of that we played quelf which is a game that pretty much makes you look like a fool. Here are some examples...

Eric had to keep his hand in a bowl of warm water for a round

Chris had to wrap his hand in foil for the rest of the game

The night ended with the boys playing hockey on the playstation

On sunday we were invited to Pam and Jeff's to watch the big Colts vs. Patriots game. Pam is Mike's sister and we've hung out with them a few times at Mikes and they live in Chilliwack so it all makes sense to go to their place and be their friends. Anyways, we watched the game with Chris being nervous but finally being able to calm down once his team won. We were then served three different dishes of pasta. Jeff is a really good cook and goes all out when company is over. It was pretty scrumptious.

This week I worked with the blind kids on monday and went to a local elementary school to tell them I wanted to volunteer a few days a week so I just need them to get my criminal record sheet and then I'll be able to do that soon. I may also get a call for some Teacher's Assistant jobs I applied for so we'll see. Chris is getting more into the groove of his job, kids are being less bratty but new ones are becoming bratty which is just the way things roll in junior high. He's also the coach of the grade nine boys basketball team so he'll have to make cuts soon and get them all up to shape for their big games. Other than that, there's not much else to say so I guess that's all for now, have a great long weekend!