Girls and Boys

Birthdays and Christmas

Addi became a teenager on Dec. 21st! Although she has guaranteed us that she will not have teenager attitude! We are really hoping that she will be true to her word!

13 candles!

Christmas was great this year. We spent it at home so it was very relaxing and enjoyable!

Jordan and cousin Bryson as Santa's helpers. They were not impressed with wearing my nylons, but they really did complete the elf ensemble!

New pj's on Christmas Eve!

It's "Gold" for the blue and gold!

The Chargers did it! This weekend we hosted the Bert Church Invitational. We had teams from Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Fort Mc Murray and Saskatoon, SK. It was a great weekend of basketball. Jordan got to play for the first time since his knee surgery this Spring. The Chargers won gold, beating a really good team from Saskatoon, SK!

One happy team!

3 pointer from the baseline!

Receiving the hardware!

Team captains, Joe Jennings and Jordan Prince.

Our girls ended up getting 4th place. Syd really enjoyed her first BCI as a varsity lady Charger!

Thanksgiving again... and Christmas comes early for Syd!

We feel very lucky to get to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving in October and U.S. Thanksgiving in November. Although it still isn't the same as sitting around the table with all my Yankee relatives! I miss you all very much!

The actual turkey for U.S. Thanksgiving, just to prove to my family that we do celebrate!

Syd just got the best news ever!!! Her braces came off about 8 months early!

Before...

...after.

Is it still 1982????

I have finally convinced Jordan that the mullet is not the most up to date hair style! He has been growing it all summer on a bet with his basketball team. Here are the last photos before it all came off!

Halloween

Of course Braxton wanted to be his favorite character in the world (the wizarding world that is), Harry Potter. He practiced his spells on all of us!

Addi makes a very cute Dorothy....but where is Toto? I think he found out that Addi's dad neuters dogs for a living!

Syd hard at work!

Jordan showing off the final product.

10 years old!

On October 19th Braxton turned 10. He was very excited to enter the double digits! The morning of his birthday I got up at about 6:00am and was walking by his bedroom. I heard him stir a little and then there was a "YES...It's my birthday"!

We started off the day with breakfast in bed.

Next was present time.

The finale of the big day was cake and ice-cream!

Happy birthday Braxton!