Hoping for a Win – Go Riders!
While we watch the last quarter of the Grey Cup game, and hope for a Roughrider victory, I’ll update you on our weekend.
Friday night, Jose and I went to a Galbraith staff party. It was kind of a celebration of making it through parent/teacher interviews. We got a babysitter, and had a great time. There was tons of good food, and we had lots of laughs. We had one game of pool, tried to play a name that tune game, but the disc didn’t work, and mostly sat around sharing stories, and laughing our faces off.
Yesterday, Jose’s company held a kids’ Christmas party in the morning, so we went to that, and just like last year, the kids had a blast. Once again, they’d rented a great big Astro Jump, and James got all sweaty jumping around, and Julia’s braid was much more untidy than when we started. They had all sorts of stations set up to entertain the kids: tattoos, cookie decorating, ornament-making, colouring (I’d like to pause for a moment to say, “TOUCHDOWN!!!!!”), and snacks. Santa came for a visit too, and both kids were eager to sit on his knee and receive their gift. They got really nice little gift bags with a colouring book, a pencil, a sheet of stickers, and some chocolates.
From the party, we went home to throw some clothes in a suitcase, grab Sam, and take off for Medicine Hat so I could go to Natalia’s baby shower. Jose’s mum put a ton of work into the shower, and it was really nice. Lots of food, games, prizes, and a really good turnout made for a memorable event. Natalia got lots of beautiful gifts with no repeats! Considering the number of people, that was quite a surprise.
We stayed overnight at Natalia’s house, and then we came home today. I thought it would be fun to go and get pictures with Santa taken, but apparently Santa goes back to the North Pole at 4:00, so we missed him. We wandered down to Winners and I got a few ideas for Christmas ideas for the kids.
That brings us to the present moment where we are hoping that the Saskatchewan Roughriders can hold onto their lead! Go Riders!