Day 12 - January 12

Back to reality. Church program is back on again and our bible study has started up. We drop the kids off to their clubs and then have our bible study upstairs. Both kids love it... well this week, Eva wouldn't go. This is the 2nd time since september that she wouldn't go and stay downstairs... and well, we've figured out why. One of the young moms was there helping out for the 2nd time... and well, not a coincidence that eva wouldn't go down. This mom is as sweet as they get, so kind and nice. She is from a different nationality than ours and her complexion is a little darker... and well, i fear my daugher may be a racist... oh glory... one more thing to work on with the diva.

Day 11 - Faith the Bully

So Sunday, tanya was in the nursery and she watched faithy with the other younger kids. She said Faith was stealing toys from all the other kids. Great, faithy is a bully.
Today i was watching our 3 kids playing together and i now know where she gets it from. She'll go and pick something up she's not supposed to have and either isaac or eva will fly over and wisk it out of her hands. She's being taught to steel from #1 and #2... great

Day 10

Ater Church today, we had Steve & Lisa and Laney & Davin over. We really don't have much of a hill but we ended up having a fun time. Packed down snow made them almost go all the way to the pond

Day 9 - January 9th

Home day around the mackay house. No hockey today which was a welcome change. We stayed in and cleaned up all of the christmas decorations, went outside for a slide and played outside. Afterwards, we came in for some hot chocolate

For the first time this season, our family went to the bulls game. They won 7-0... new guys seem to be gelling well together. Free Fries now tomorrow because they scored more than4 goals.

Day 8 - January 8

Well i guess its time to take the tree down... now we took pictures of the tree just so we could document how well it looked. We cut this tree down the last weekend of november and here we are into January....

Barely any needles have fallen off at all

and still green. Can't believe how good this tree looked... Spend the extra $5 and buy a frazier fur

Faithy proud she can climb the automan

Day 7 - Thurdsday Jan 7

Fun night in the mackay house... did a spiderman puzzle which isaac got for christmas

Eva Fell yet again... how man blows to the chin can this kid take

Faithy all smiles

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Day 6 -January 66

So the boy has been coming home every day from school and felt compelled to shovel the driveway. I didn't ask him, he just likes doing it. Mind you, it's not that great of a job but he does it and as you can see below, he's tuckered right out

Sad day today, Bulls made a big trade yesterday by trading Philipp Grubauer, Marc Cantin and our Friend Stephen Johnston to the Windsor Spitfires for 4 players. Steve has been over to our house on several occasions. He will be missed.

Went for the 2nd and third period of the game tonight... saw the new fellas after the game. OT Loss to Oshawa

Day 5 - January 5th

So I fell off the rails a little with my daily blogging, so much catch up. Watched the world jrs. and was excited that canada caught up but sad when they lost in ot. Reminded me of when I was at the world jrs in 1999 in winnipeg. same fate.

Day 4 continued....

Every year I make new years resolutions and break them right away. Always the same ones... read my bible more, pray more, eat better and excercise more. This year I made a resolution not to make a resolution... and i've broken that I guess too because i know it's only been 5 days, but i've kept to all the resolutions that i've broken in years past.

One helpful tool i have is the website, http://www.oneyearbibleonline.com/

and

http://www.oneyearbibleonline.com/readingplan/oneyearbiblereadingplan.pdf

I'm on track right now and have found this tool really helpful

Day 4 - January 4

First day back to work today... not a whole lot to blog about. Nice to be off the whole holidays, wished it were a little more enjoyable but it was good. I realized that I hadn't blogged yet about our new year eve and so I'll do that today

We got together with our friends Reed & Delores, Steve & Lisa & Derk & Roxanne. The others from our home group had other plans or were sick. We had a great time, rang in the new year at 8:00 which we think was new years somewhere around iceland. Finished up just after 10 and got the kids home to bed. A real fun night

After the kids were put to bed, ended up heading back to the mall to return some things that I had gotten for christmas. My wife had given me pj bottoms XXL. She grabbed them in error. I held them up to me and it came just below my chin. They were ginormous. Oh well, took them back and got other ones for less than half the cost. Always good.

Day 3 - January 3rd

I wasn't feeling the greatest saturday and when I woke up on Sunday AM, I was out of it and feeling sick so I ended up having to stay home. Tanya got the 3 kids dressed and trecked in to church. The above picture doesn't really display the cuteness of the girls outfits (just goes to show that big brother is threatening them with a captains hook) Eva told her mother and brother that she wanted to stay home and look after daddy. Made my heart melt, until i realized there was no jr. church so I think it was her way of avoiding staying up in big church. Regardless, it was a nice thought

By Afternoon, i was feeling a lot better. Spent some time in front of the fire with the kids watching a movie and then the world jrs.
Mustered up enough energy and blew out the driveway

And finished the day with our Games Night. it is a lot of work, and fighting usually but something that I'm determined to keep going and just have fun together as a family. Below we played Hullabaloo which the kids just love

My one funny memory from yesterday was at lunch time... Eva had a pickle and it got into her ketchup from her hot dog by accident. She looked at it, gave me a puzzled look and went... "MMMmmmm" and ate it. Her next pickle, she dipped it in ketchup on purpose. Yeah, she's something.

Day 2 - January 2

After some shopping this morning, took the kids outside to do some sledding. It was very cold out and eva started complaining very quickly as her hands were too cold. Wouldn't expect anything differently. Came inside for lunch, took isaac to his hockey game where he lost 5-3 (they had played the team that beat them in the tournament 12-4 and they haven't lost all year) so we were happy even tho they lost. Isaac played a good game... Home for some cookies and bath time and then off to the bulls game.

Day 1 - January 1st

For about 25 straight years, the bulls had a new years day game. Shortly after arriving to ontario, our family started a new years day pot luck where we'd go to the bulls game and then back to my parents for supper and some games. A few years back, the bulls stopped having new years day games so we were kinda looking for a new tradition. Me and the boy have gotten into the outdoor winter classic. Isaacs hockey coach actually got tickets and was at this years game so it had a little extra umph as we watched it.

So rather than go rushing out, we had a nice quiet day in at home, did some chinese take-out and then had our annual christmas get together with our neighbors. All in all, a good day