Christmas 2007

Allan & Uncle Pete
Tom showing off his new South Park Police Department T-shirt
Mom as she takes a minute away from preparing the feast

Gran and her boys

Tom with gran

Christmas eve ribs and potato casserole
Gran hiding behind the Amarula...trying to show Devyn's little chocolate mice...and her other cookies

The crib games on Tom's new Oilers crib board...a gift from Dev's gran

Spencers

What a nice evening with the Spencers...It was so good to see Rosa, Clara and Leon. Bruce and Jenny put on a wonderful spread of nibblies ...mom loved the punch and I enjoyed a couple glasses of beer...

Check out the kitchen...wow... it is gorgeous.

Irish Coffee - the last one 2007

Irish coffee afternoon...

Must be holding court...or telling stories
Great shot..poor aim Cory


Pete's place...

Pancake breakfast entertainment.. the "Value Village People" from left to right...Max, Ben Siemers, Klein, Brian Gurnham, Rod Carleton (SRO) and Billy Turnham....to funny.

random shots from home..Yick, Judy Crosby and two aides...Mark Samuel, Lu Anderson, Dennis Wright and Max...Noble and Bliss behind the bar.

Christmas Lights 2007

This house is on the corner of 97th St and 144th Ave...it is the intersection that we used to turn on to go to Dickensfield..













Each window has a box built inside ...in this one Santa is dancing











It is very difficult to describe the yard...lights, music, colour...





This is house is the old Mansion on Ada Blvd...we took gran for a drive last evening...

Saskatoon with the Peters Clan

Gran with Jody and her mom Ethel















Mom with cousins Ethel and Eva (Salmon Arm B.C.)














Gran getting whipped at cribbage by Robert

Lawrence's wife - left (from Kelowna) and Kaye is Ruben's wife...Ruben below...Lawrence never got in camera shot

Ruben who is with Ali -left and Megan -right (his daughters)

John...looks just like Santa

Lynn and her son Matt and Judy, John's wife.

Lynn is Leonard's twin and he missed the camera as well.

Julianne - Lynn & Rod's youngest daughter

And two shots of the beautiful hoarfrost outside the church...a block away from Auntie Martha's

Gran's Christmas Cookies

Gran at the end of the day...she can hardly stand it that Sarah will not be home for Christmas...that's three years in a row...But gran she was just home this summer...but it is Christmas...

This is the beginning of round three...peanut butter cookies...

Cutting out the sugar cookies....

Mom in charge of piling the goodies as they come out of the oven....ginger snaps

The assembly line in action...

Gran adding the sprinkles to the sugar cookies...

S-U-G-A-R...C-O-O-K-I-E-S

Peanutbutter cookies

Christmas Tree 2007

Mom's tree is much prettier than the pictures...so she tells me.

Seattle - gran & mom

Uncle Wally's 1967 Jaguar















Megan & Chris cooking Mexican food.














Relaxing ...watching the Riders win the Grey Cup

Chris made the coffee table...















Megan & Olive(r)...they think that Olive may be a male. Chinchilla...not a rabbit













Gran with Elise...Jennifer's sweetheart two year old...Jennifer is a cousin of the girls...

Gran & Megan @ Caroline's...ready for a nap while mom and Caroline had an afternoon coffee..

the gang @ Caroline's... stupid little dog - Chihuahua Samson

Uncle Wally at the ballet..Nutcracker

the stage

@ the ballet

crib after supper @ uncle Wally's...Joe a sailing buddy and Bonnie in the corner

Bonnie, gran & Chris...notice that gran's glass is the empty one...

@ Uncle Wally's

What could be finer...gran in the warmth of the sun...having a wee nap.

@ Caroline's...Wally making the stuffing for the turkey